Title TWN, Town

§ 53-b. Deputy department heads. The town board may appoint such deputy department heads as may be authorized by act of the legislature or local law, with power to act generally for and in place of their principals, and the office of such a deputy shall be in the exempt class of…

§ 53-c. Terms of office. The head of a department and a deputy department head shall hold office until the first day of January next succeeding the first bi-annual town election held after his appointment, and thereafter, shall hold office for the term of two years and until his…

§ 54. Special improvements. 1. Definition and application. (a) The term "improvement" or "special improvement", as used in this section, shall mean any facility, service, function, activity or physical public betterment which may be provided by the establishment of an improvemen…

§ 55. General reserve fund. 1. The town board of a suburban town may establish a general reserve fund for the financing of all or part of the cost of town objects or purposes having periods of probable usefulness of at least five years pursuant to paragraph a of section 11.00 of…

§ 55-a. Reserve funds for improvement districts. 1. The town board of a suburban town, on behalf of any improvement district wholly located within the town, may establish one or more reserve funds for the financing of all or part of the cost of a "specific object or purpose" or …

§ 55-b. Reserve fund for judgments and claims. 1. The town board of a suburban town may establish a reserve fund for the financing of all or part of the cost of payment of: (a) Judgments or compromised or settled claims against the town; and (b) Awards or sums payable by the tow…

§ 55-c. Deposit and investment of and accounting for moneys in reserve funds. 1. The money in each reserve fund established pursuant to this article shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law. 2. The town board or the chief …

§ 56. Town-village cooperation. 1. Where a suburban town and a village or villages therein create one or more joint municipal survey committees pursuant to article twelve-C of the general municipal law and where such a committee makes a recommendation relating to the provision o…

§ 57. Dissolution of special improvement districts. 1. Whenever the town board of a suburban town shall determine after a public hearing as hereinafter provided that it is in the public interest to manage, maintain, operate and repair as a town function, pursuant to title five o…

§ 57-a. Special improvement district commissioners; abolition of office. 1. Except where the town board of a town shall by at least a three-fourths vote of the whole number of its members taken not later than July first in the year in which it adopts a resolution to become a sub…

§ 58. Town manager. Any town may, by local law, establish the office of town manager, provide for his appointment and delegate to such office such powers and duties as may be prescribed, modified or revoked from time to time by the town board.

§ 58-a. Powers and duties. The town manager shall be the chief administrative officer of the town and may be given such powers and duties by local law, as the town board in its discretion shall prescribe notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrar…

§ 60. Town board constituted. 1. In every town the supervisor and the town council members shall constitute the town board and shall be vested with all the powers of such a town and shall possess and exercise all the powers and be subject to all the duties now or hereafter impos…

§ 60-a. Removal of town justices from town board. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, in any town in which a town justice serves as a member of the town board, a vacancy shall be created and is hereby created on the town board upon …

§ 61. Commissions abolished. Every separate board of commissioners is hereby abolished, except fire district commissioners, and commissioners of districts created pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred twenty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred seventeen and chapte…

§ 62. Meetings of town board. 1. The town board of every town shall meet on or before the twentieth day of January in each year for the purpose of making the annual accounting by town officers and employees as required by section one hundred twenty-three of this chapter. The req…

§ 63. Presiding officer and rules of procedure. The supervisor, when present, shall preside at the meetings of the town board. In the absence of the supervisor, the other members shall designate one of their members to act as temporary chairman. A majority of the board shall con…

§ 64. General powers of town boards. Subject to law and the provisions of this chapter, the town board of every town: 1. Control of town finances. Shall have the general management and control of the finances of the town and shall designate in the manner provided by section ten …

* § 64-a. Payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for park or recreational purposes. The town of Hempstead having acquired certain property for park or recreational purposes in the Lido Beach-Point Lookout area shall have the power and authority with respect to such prope…

* § 64-b. Powers of town with respect to municipal deposits in national banks in liquidation. Whenever the depositors and other unsecured creditors of a national bank, representing at least sixty per centum in amount of its total net unsecured liabilities as shown by the books o…

* § 64-c. Payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for park and recreational purposes. The town of Hempstead, having acquired certain property for park and recreational purposes in Lido Beach known as the Lido Golf Club and the Lido Cabana Club shall have the power and aut…

§ 64-d. Payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for open space purposes. The town of Southampton, Suffolk county, shall have the power and authority with respect to property acquired for open space purposes to pay or transfer out of any town funds available to it, annual …

§ 64-e. Peconic Bay region community preservation funds. 1. As used\nin this section, the following words and terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Peconic Bay region" means the towns of East Hampton, Riverhead,\nShelter Island, Southampton and Southold.\n (b) "Commun…

§ 64-ee. Peconic Bay region septic system replacement loan program. 1.\nAs used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the\nfollowing meanings:\n (a) "Peconic Bay region" means the towns of East Hampton, Riverhead,\nShelter Island, Southampton and Southold.\n …

§ 64-f. Town of Brookhaven community preservation fund. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Brookhaven in the county of Suffolk. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the p…

§ 64-g. Town of Warwick preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Warwick. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision four of …

§ 64-h. Town of Red Hook preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Red Hook. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision five o…

* § 64-i. Town of Chatham preservation funds. 1. As used in this\nsection, the following words and terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Town" means the town of Chatham.\n (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the\npurposes outlined in subdivision…

* § 64-i. Town of Fishkill preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Fishkill. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision five…

§ 64-j. Town of Northeast preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Northeast. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision five…

§ 64-k. Peconic Bay region community housing fund. 1. Definitions. As\nused in this section, the following words and terms shall have the\nfollowing meanings:\n (a) "Peconic Bay region" means the towns of East Hampton, Riverhead,\nShelter Island, Southampton, and Southold.\n (b)…

* § 64-l. Town of Chester preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Chester. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision five o…

* § 64-l. Town of Orangetown preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Orangetown. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision …

* § 64-l. Town of Copake preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Copake. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision five of …

§ 64-m. Town of Clarkstown preservation funds. 1. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Town" means the town of Clarkstown. (b) "Community preservation" shall mean and include any of the purposes outlined in subdivision fi…

§ 65. Actions and proceedings by and against towns. 1. Any action or special proceeding for or against a town, or for its benefit, and upon a contract lawfully made with it, or with any of its officers or agents authorized to contract in its behalf, or to enforce any liability c…

§ 65-a. Liability of towns and town superintendents of highways in certain actions. 1. No civil action shall be maintained against any town or town superintendent of highways for damages or injuries to person or property sustained by reason of any highway, bridge or culvert bein…

§ 66. Place of trial of actions and proceedings against towns; inhabitants not incompetent to act thereat. 1. The place of trial of all actions and proceedings against a town or any of its officers or boards shall be the county in which the town is situated. 2. Upon the trial of…

§ 67. Presentation of claims for torts: actions against towns. 1. Any claim including a claim specified in section sixty-five-a of this chapter which may be made against the town or town superintendent of highways for damages for wrong or injury to person or property or for the …

§ 68. Compromise of actions, proceedings or claims. 1. The town board of any town may compromise or settle: a. An action or proceeding against the town, with the approval of the court in which such action or proceeding is pending. b. Any claim presented pursuant to section sixty…

§ 69. Duties of town board with respect to justice courts. Each town board shall provide for each justice of the peace such statutes, manuals, books, forms and supplies as may be necessary for the proper administration of his office. The expenses incurred in complying with the f…

* § 73. Alteration of town boundaries. 1. A petition signed, and acknowledged or proved, or authenticated in the manner provided in article six for the purpose of altering the boundary lines or the division of a town may be filed as herein provided. The petition shall describe t…

* § 74. Effective date of alteration or division. 1. When only the boundary lines are altered between two towns, the same shall be effective on the first of July next succeeding the adoption of the proposition. The town board of the respective towns shall prior thereto make all …

§ 75. Disposition of town property on alteration of boundaries. When the boundaries of a town owning real or personal property shall be altered, either by a division of a town into two or more towns or by the annexation of a part of its territory to another town or towns, the to…

§ 76. Apportionment of debts on division of towns. Debts owed by a town so divided or altered shall be apportioned in the same manner as the personal property of a town, and each town shall be charged with its share of the debts, according to the apportionment, and the amount of…

§ 77. Meetings of town boards on alteration of boundaries. Whenever a meeting of the town boards of two or more towns shall be required, in order to carry into effect the provisions of this article, such meeting may be called by either of the supervisors of such towns, by giving…

§ 78. Right of action upon failure of towns whose boundaries are altered to agree upon disposition of assets and debts. Whenever said town boards shall fail to carry into effect the provisions of this article and agree upon the amount of assets to which each town is entitled, an…

§ 79. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall apply to towns heretofore and hereafter divided or altered.

§ 79-a Dissolution of certain towns. 1. Any town having no bonded indebtedness may be dissolved and may be annexed to and become a part of an adjoining town in the same county, upon compliance with the following conditions: a. The submission at a special or biennial town electio…

§ 80. Biennial town elections. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation to the contrary, a biennial town election for the election of town officers, other than town justices or any town office wi…