Title CNT, County

§ 224-a. Elimination of noxious weeds. The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem proper for the elimination of noxious weeds within the county. The moneys hereby authorized to be appropriated and spent may be expended in such mann…

§ 224-b. Cooperative extension area and statewide program specialist. 1. Agreements to employ and manage area program specialists. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision eight of section two hundred twenty-four of this article, two or more county cooperative extension ass…

§ 225. Optional appropriations for public benefit services administered by the board. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to appropriate county funds and to permit the use of county property of all kinds for the following public benefit, objects and purposes: (a) Propag…

§ 225-a. Fire training and mutual aid programs. 1. In order to develop and maintain programs for fire training, fire service-related activities and mutual aid in cases of fire and other emergencies in which the services of firefighters would be used and to cooperate with the off…

§ 225-b. Contracts for visiting nursing services. The board of supervisors of any county may, upon recommendation of the county board of health, contract with any nonprofit institution or agency, wholly or partly under private control, organized to furnish visiting nursing and p…

§ 226. Monuments and memorials. 1. The board of supervisors of any county may, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its total membership erect in the county, monuments and memorials in commemoration of the members of the armed forces of the United States in any of its wars o…

§ 226-a. Patriotic observances. The county legislature and/or board of supervisors, as the case may be, of any county or borough outside the city of New York, is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside each year such sums it may deem proper for the purpose of providing fo…

§ 226-b. Solid waste management; resource recovery. 1. The legislative body of any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem proper to provide for the separation, collection and management of solid waste in such county and for that purpose may acquire, construct…

* § 226-c. Waiver of fees for veterans' organizations. The Erie county legislature is hereby authorized to waive fees, including but not limited to building permit review fees and fees associated with capital improvements to any post or hall owned by a not-for-profit congression…

* § 226-c. Waiver of fees for veterans organizations. The county legislature of Nassau county or Suffolk county is hereby authorized to waive fees, including but not limited to building permit review fees and fees associated with capital improvements to any post or hall owned by…

* § 226-c. Waiver of fees for veterans' organizations. The board of supervisors of Washington county or Saratoga county is hereby authorized to waive fees, including but not limited to building permit review fees and fees associated with capital improvements to any post or hall …

§ 226-d. Waiver of fees for veterans' organizations. The Westchester county legislature is hereby authorized to waive fees by local law, including but not limited to building permit review fees and fees associated with capital improvements to any post or hall owned by a not-for-…

§ 226-e. Waiver of fees for veterans' organizations. The Niagara county legislature is hereby authorized to waive fees by local law, including but not limited to building permit review fees and fees associated with capital improvements to any post or hall owned by a not-for-prof…

§ 227. Legalizing acts. 1. Power to legalize. The board of supervisors of any county shall have power to legalize and validate any act had and taken in connection with a lawful municipal purpose or for a lawful municipal object or purpose, by the governing board or other local b…

§ 228. Disputed town boundaries. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the supreme court and the county court to hear and determine disputed town boundaries in an action brought by any town affected thereby. A certified copy of the judgment containing the courses, distances and …

§ 229. Erection and dissolution of towns. The board of supervisors shall perform the duties prescribed by the town law relating to the erection of new towns and the dissolution of towns.

§ 231. Expenses of police officer or peace officer injured in line of duty. The board of supervisors may, in its discretion, audit and pay the reasonable medical and hospital expenses of any police officer or peace officer of the county injured in the line of duty while executin…

§ 232. County officers' and county executives' associations. Power is granted each board of supervisors to appropriate and pay annually to the treasurer of the New York state association of counties, and/or to the treasurer of the county executives' association of the state of N…

§ 233. Procedure on tax limit increase. 1. In accordance with section ten of article eight of the constitution, the amount to be raised in any county by tax on real estate in any fiscal year for county purposes, in addition to providing for the interest on and the principal of a…

§ 233-a. Amounts to be included or excluded in computing constitutional taxing power. 1. For the purpose of computing the amount that may be raised in any county by tax on real estate in any fiscal year for county purposes in accordance with section ten of article eight of the c…

* § 233-b. Payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for park or recreational purposes. The county of Nassau 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…

§ 234. Additional powers granted under other laws. Nothing herein shall be deemed to affect or impair the provisions of any other act of the legislature granting additional powers to appropriate and expend county funds for county objects and purposes.

§ 234-a. Service of notice in relation to constitutionality of local law, ordinance, rule or regulation of a county. Whenever the constitutionality of any local law, ordinance, rule or regulation of a county is brought into issue upon a trial or hearing of any civil cause of act…

§ 235. The board of supervisors by resolution may appoint a committee of citizens of the county to act in an advisory capacity to any committee, department or office on any subject relating to county government. The members of such committee shall serve without compensation and …

§ 236. County plumbing licensing. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general city law or any other law to the contrary, the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to establish a Westchester county board of plumbing examiners and to empower such board to assume all lice…

§ 236-a. County master electrician licensing. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general city law or any other law to the contrary, the counties of Dutchess, Suffolk and Westchester are each hereby authorized to establish a county board of examiners for master electricians…

§ 236-b. County electrical inspector licensing. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent general, special, or local law to the contrary, the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to establish a Westchester county board of examiners for electrical inspectors and to empower such b…

§ 237. Alcoholic beverage control. Pursuant to section seventeen of the alcoholic beverage control law, the board of supervisors by resolution may request the state liquor authority to further restrict the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold at retail.

§ 250. Purpose. The board of supervisors of each county may establish, consolidate, or extend county water, water quality treatment, sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage or refuse districts (hereinafter referred to in this article as the "district") in the manner hereinafter pro…

§ 251. County agency. The board of supervisors may appoint or establish an officer, board or body, or may designate an existing officer, board or body, or public authority which possesses the express power to act as such an agency, to act as a county water, water quality treatme…

§ 252. Powers of county agency. 1. The agency, as empowered by the board of supervisors, may assemble data relating to (1) the water resources available to the county, both within and without, (2) the number and location of private wells within the county, the contaminants prese…

§ 253. Preparation of maps and plans. 1. A petition may be presented to the board of supervisors requesting that a certain area or areas of the county be established as a county district. Such petition shall be executed and acknowledged on behalf of a municipality or district, a…

§ 253-a. Provision for excess sewer, drainage or water facilities. 1. The local legislative body, in causing maps and plans to be prepared or in approving the establishment or extension of a sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage or water district may provide by resolution that th…

§ 253-b. Amendment or modification of plans. When the board of supervisors or county legislature shall have established a district pursuant to this article and adopted a plan of a service or improvement for such district, such plan shall not be modified by the board of superviso…

§ 254. Public hearing; cost to typical property. 1. When the agency has caused such maps and plans to be prepared, it shall transmit them to the board of supervisors, together with a report of its proceedings and its recommendations, including a recommendation as to what officer…

§ 255. Representation by municipalities and district. At the public hearing on the establishment of a county district which includes the whole or any part of a city, village or such district furnishing a similar service as the proposed district, the inhabitants of such city, vil…

§ 256. Establishment of a county district. Upon the evidence presented at the public hearing, and after due consideration of the maps and plans, reports, recommendations and other data filed with it, the board of supervisors shall determine, by resolution, whether or not the pro…

§ 256-a. Consolidation of Suffolk county sewer district number two - Holbrook and Suffolk county sewer district number four - Birchwood North Shore. 1. The county legislature of Suffolk county is hereby authorized to consolidate Suffolk county sewer district number two Holbrook …

256-b. Suffolk county wastewater management district. 1. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law to the contrary, including this article, the county legislature of Suffolk county is hereby authorized to establish by resolution a Suffolk county was…

§ 257. Permissive referendum. 1. The provisions of sections one hundred one and one hundred two of this chapter and the applicable provisions of the election law as to conduct of elections and qualifications of voters shall apply to permissive referenda conducted hereunder, exce…

§ 258. Application to the department of audit and control. 1. Whenever a resolution approving the establishment of a county district shall have become effective, and it is proposed or required that the county in which such district is located shall finance the cost thereof by th…

§ 259. Recording and filing of determination. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall within ten days cause a certified copy of the order of the board of supervisors establishing or extending the district, consolidating two or more districts, or authorizing the increase and …

§ 260. Review. Any interested party, including a city or village, or a town board or board of commissioners on behalf of a district, aggrieved by the final determination or order made by the board of supervisors establishing the district or authorizing the increase and improveme…

§ 261. Administration of the county district. When a county district shall have been established, the board of supervisors shall appoint, designate or establish an officer, board or body as the administrative head or body of the district. All matters relating to the membership o…

§ 262. Performance of the work. After a district shall have been established, the administrative head or body shall cause to be prepared by the county engineer, or other county officer having equivalent qualifications, or a duly licensed engineer employed for that purpose, detai…

§ 263. Powers. The administrative head or body may acquire by gift, lease, purchase or condemnation, real estate and easements, rights of way or other interests therein necessary or proper for the purposes of the district. In Suffolk county it may acquire by gift, lease or purch…

§ 263-a. Powers with respect to lake protection and rehabilitation. The administrative head or body shall be responsible for: 1. Initiating and coordinating research and surveys for the purpose of gathering data on the lake, related shorelands, and the drainage basin; 2. Plannin…

§ 264. Rules and regulations. The board of supervisors shall have power to adopt, amend and repeal, from time to time, rules and regulations for the operation of a county district and the use of water in a water district including regulation of the manner of making connections a…

§ 265. Contracts. a. The administrative head or body, where applicable, may contract (1) for the purchase, from any legal entity having water available, of any quantity of water for resale within the water district on either a wholesale or retail basis, subject to the approval o…

§ 266. Water rates, water quality treatment, sewage, wastewater\ndisposal and refuse collection charges and revenues. 1. Subject to\nconfirmation by the board of supervisors, the administrative head or\nbody: (a) may establish, from time to time, wholesale and retail rate\nsched…