Title CNT, County

§ 408. Supplies and equipment. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law and when the office of county purchasing agent has not been created, each officer paid compensation from county funds shall have power, subject to rules of the board, to purchase necessary supplies and equipme…

§ 408-a. Advertising for bids; letting of contracts. 1. Every officer, board or agency of the county shall let all contracts for public work and all purchase contracts to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement for bids where so required by section one hundred three of…

§ 409. Actions and proceedings in official capacity. 1. No officer whose compensation is paid from county funds shall employ an attorney-at-law to appear and prosecute or defend any civil action or proceeding brought by or against him in an official capacity whenever under the p…

§ 410. Cost of removal proceedings before the governor. The reasonable costs and expenses in proceedings before the governor for the removal of any county judge, surrogate, family court judge, district attorney, sheriff, county clerk or any elective county officer removable by t…

§ 411. Holding more than one elective office. No county judge, family court judge, surrogate, district attorney, sheriff, county clerk or any elective county officer shall be eligible to hold at the same time any other elective county or town office, or that of city supervisor. …

§ 450. Chairman of the board; powers and duties. 1. The chairman of the board of supervisors shall, at the time of his selection and throughout the term of his office, be a member of the board of supervisors and shall within twenty days after his selection take and file in the o…

§ 475. Clerk of the board; term; duties. 1. The board of supervisors shall appoint a clerk who shall serve during the pleasure of the board and until his successor is appointed and has qualified. 2. The clerk shall keep a record of all acts and proceedings of the board and be th…

§ 50. When county divided or boundaries altered. Whenever the legislature divides a county or alters its boundaries, the act shall provide the method and manner of the disposition of assets and apportionment of liabilities of such county or counties.

§ 500. County attorney; term. 1. The board of supervisors of each county shall appoint a resident attorney-at-law as county attorney for the term of office for which the then members of such board were elected. In any county having no resident attorney-at-law available, the boar…

§ 501. Duties. 1. The county attorney shall be the legal advisor to the board of supervisors and every officer whose compensation is paid from county funds in all matters involving an official act of a civil nature. The county attorney shall prosecute and defend all civil action…

§ 502. Assistant county attorneys. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to authorize the county attorney to appoint one or more assistant county attorneys. Every appointment of an assistant county attorney shall be in a writing filed and recorded in the office of the cou…

§ 51. Actions by or against a county. Actions or proceedings by or against a county shall be in the name of the county.

§ 52. Presentation of claims for torts; commencement of actions. 1. Any claim or notice of claim against a county for damage, injury or death, or for invasion of personal or property rights, of every name and nature, and whether casual or continuing trespass or nuisance and any …

§ 525. County clerk; duties. 1. The county clerk shall perform the duties prescribed by law as register, and be the clerk of the supreme court and clerk of the county court within his county. He shall perform such additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and dir…

§ 526. Deputy county clerk. 1. Within ten days after assuming the duties of the office, each county clerk shall appoint a deputy county clerk by an instrument in writing filed and recorded in his office. The deputy county clerk shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the…

§ 527. Special court clerks. The board of supervisors shall authorize the appointment by the county clerk of such special court clerks including naturalization clerks as may be necessary for the courts of record sitting in the county to function properly. Special court clerks sh…

§ 528. Photo recording. In any county in which documents to be recorded in the county clerk's office are copies by use of a photo copying process, such county clerk may cause the parts of such a document to be separated temporarily to facilitate such process, provided the docume…

§ 529. Consolidated lien index. 1. In counties having a population of less than five hundred thousand, the county clerk may install and maintain a single consolidated index, in lieu of all other indices required by law, for the purpose of indexing alphabetically all liens or enc…

§ 53. Liability of county for torts. 1. Upon compliance with section fifty-two each county shall be liable under the same rules of law applicable to the state, for damage or injury, or death, to person or property sustained by reason of the torts of its officers, agents, servant…

§ 530. Court and trust fund register. Each county clerk shall keep a book to be known as a court and trust fund register to be used solely as a record of moneys and securities paid, transferred, or deposited, or ordered to be so paid, transferred, or deposited into the courts of…

§ 532. Retention and destruction of certain recorded instruments. After twenty years have elapsed from the date of recording a deed, lease, contract, agreement, mortgage or a release of part of mortgaged premises any such instrument so recorded which has not been returned to the…

§ 533. Liability of county for negligence of county clerk and employees of county clerk's office. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, a county may by local law assume the liability to save harmless and protect its county clerk and employ…

§ 534. County clerk; appointment of notaries public. Each county clerk shall designate from among the members of his or her staff at least one notary public to be available to notarize documents for the public in each county clerk's office during normal business hours free of ch…

§ 54. Personal liability of heads of agencies. No head of any agency, department, bureau, or office of a county shall be liable to respond in damages to the county or to any other person for any act or omission of any employee of the county employed within the agency, department…

§ 55. County websites. Any county which maintains a website shall use a ".gov" domain name for such website.

§ 550. County treasurer; duties. 1. The county treasurer shall perform the duties prescribed by law as the chief fiscal officer of the county. Such county treasurer shall perform such additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed by the board of supervis…

§ 551. Court and trust funds. 1. Upon demand being made in writing by any person interested therein either as beneficiary or as guardian, committee, conservator, next of kin or personal representative of any beneficiary, the county treasurer shall within ten days after the first…

§ 552. Liability of county for loss of court and trust funds. Each county shall be responsible for all property or moneys deposited with the county treasurer of the county by virtue of any judgment, decree or order of a court of record in this state provided, however, that no co…

§ 553. Trustee of cemetery lots. Any person, persons or corporation owning or interested in a lot or lots in any cemetery in this state may create a trust in perpetuity for the maintenance of such cemetery lot or lots, the preservation of a building, structure, fence or walk in …

§ 575. County comptroller; term; vacancy. The office of county comptroller may be created in any county upon the adoption of a proposition submitted at a general election. The board of supervisors of its own motion by local law adopted prior to September first in any year, may c…

§ 576. Deputy county comptroller. The county comptroller within ten days after entering upon the duties of his office shall appoint a deputy comptroller. Such appointment shall be in writing under his hand and seal and be filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk. He …

§ 577. Powers and duties. 1. The county comptroller shall: (a) have general superintendence over the fiscal affairs of the county; (b) audit all claims, accounts and demands that are lawful county charges with the same effect as if audited and directed to be paid by the board of…

§ 600. County auditor; term; duties. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to create the office of county auditor, who shall be appointed for the term for which the membership of such board appointing him was elected. Except as hereinafter provided, he shall audit all cla…

§ 625. County purchasing agent; terms; duties. The board of supervisors shall have power to create the office of county purchasing agent, who shall be appointed for the term for which the membership of such board appointing him was elected. Except as otherwise provided by law, h…

§ 626. Purchasing of products for county use. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law, when purchasing products, the county purchasing agent may, wherever recycled products meet contract specifications and the price of such produc…

§ 650. General duties of sheriff. 1. The sheriff shall perform the duties prescribed by law as an officer of the court and conservator of the peace within the county. He shall perform such additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed by the board of sup…

§ 651. Appointment of person to act as sheriff in certain cases. When a vacancy shall occur in the office of sheriff, and there be no undersheriff to perform the duties, the county judge shall designate and appoint some suitable and proper resident of the county to perform the d…

§ 652. Undersheriff and staff of sheriff. 1. Within ten days after entering upon the duties of the office, the sheriff shall appoint an undersheriff to serve during his pleasure. During the absence or inability of the sheriff to act or when a vacancy shall occur in the office of…

§ 652-a. Appointment and promotion of deputy sheriffs. 1. In any county outside the city of New York where heretofore there has been established a procedure for the appointment and promotion of personnel within the office of the sheriff, the appointment and promotion of personne…

§ 653. Part time deputy sheriffs. Within the limits of the appropriation, the sheriff may employ such number of part time deputies, as he may deem necessary, who shall be paid a salary or on a per diem basis as the board of supervisors may determine. Such deputies shall be appoi…

§ 654. Deputizing local police officers or peace officers. The sheriff may in his discretion deputize the police officers or peace officers of cities, towns, villages and special districts and agents of societies incorporated for the purpose of prevention of cruelty to animals, …

§ 655. Emergency special deputies. For the protection of human life and property during an emergency, the sheriff may deputize orally or in writing such number of additional special deputies as he deems necessary. If he is unable to continue the services of such special deputies…

§ 656. Emergency equipment and apparatus. If, in the protection of human life and property, the sheriff shall deem it necessary to hire any equipment or apparatus together with the operator thereof, he may hire the same during the period of an emergency or catastrophe at a reaso…

§ 657. Emergency fund. The board of supervisors shall have power to appropriate and set aside a fund for the purpose of paying in advance of audit expenditures of a sheriff in an emergency or catastrophe for services and expenses of special deputies and for the hiring of equipme…

§ 657-a. Fund for expenses of sheriff in transporting prisoners. The board of supervisors shall have power to, and may, provide a fund for the payment in advance of audit of properly itemized and verified bills for the expenses of the sheriff lawfully and necessarily incurred in…

§ 658. Verification of informations. Where a summons has been served by a sheriff or one of his staff, in lieu of arrest, in cases of violations of the vehicle and traffic law or of ordinances and orders enacted pursuant to that law, any sheriff or undersheriff may administer to…

§ 659. Jail records. The sheriff shall cause such records to be kept at the jail as may be required by law.

§ 660. Services on behalf of the state. All fees or other form of compensation audited and paid by the state comptroller for services rendered to the people of the state including a reasonable allowance for removing persons from state and Indian lands, shall be the property of t…

§ 661. When sheriff party to an action or proceeding. 1. In an action or special proceeding to which the sheriff is a party, all mandates shall be directed to the county clerk of the county, who shall execute the same with all the powers and duties of a sheriff including the pow…

§ 662. Appointment of private college campus security officers at independent non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the sheriff of any county, any part or all of which falls outside the limits of a city having a population of one mil…