Title CNT, County

Section 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "County Law".

§ 100. Mandatory referendum. When a resolution of the board of supervisors is subject to a mandatory referendum, such board shall by resolution cause such resolution to be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the county for their approval or disapproval at a general …

§ 1000. Interpretation of chapter. 1. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes hereof, and the enumeration of specific powers in this chapter shall not operate to detract from the meaning of any general grant of power contained in th…

§ 1001. Saving clause. 1. Any act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred fifty which, in form, amends or repeals or purports to amend or repeal any provision or provisions of the former county law shall be legally effective notwithstanding the repeal of such former coun…

§ 1002. Laws repealed. 1. Chapter sixteen of the laws of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act in relation to counties constituting chapter eleven of the consolidated laws," and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, constituting the county law as heretofore in f…

§ 1003. Time of taking effect. 1. The provisions of sections three hundred fifty, three hundred fifty-one, three hundred fifty-two, three hundred fifty-three, three hundred fifty-four, three hundred fifty-five, three hundred fifty-six, three hundred fifty-seven, three hundred fi…

§ 101. Permissive referendum. 1. A resolution of the board of supervisors which is subject to a permissive referendum shall be subject to referendum on petition. Within ten days after the adoption by the board of supervisors of any resolution which is subject to a permissive ref…

§ 102. Procedure on mandatory and permissive referendum. 1. The resolution shall recite the form of the proposition, which shall contain a brief statement of the text of the resolution together with its number. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall transmit such propositio…

§ 103. Repeal of resolution by board. Not less than twenty days prior to the election at which a resolution is to be voted upon by the electors of the county for approval or disapproval, the board of supervisors may, except as otherwise expressly provided in subdivision four of …

§ 104. Submission of proposition or question. Except as provided by the municipal home rule law, a proposition or question required by or pursuant to law to be approved by the qualified electors of the county shall be submitted in the manner provided by section one hundred two o…

§ 105. Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions are submitted to all the voters of a county. The provisions of the election law or any other law relating to the submission of questions at general elections, so far as the same are applicable and not incons…

§ 150. Board of supervisors constituted. The supervisors of the several cities and towns in each county, when lawfully convened, shall constitute the board of supervisors of the county.

§ 150-a. County legislative body, other than board of supervisors. 1. All the functions, powers, obligations and duties which by law are possessed by or vested in the board of supervisors of a county may be exercised by an elected county legislative body, by whatsoever name desi…

§ 151. Organization of board. 1. The members of the board of supervisors shall organize the board and select a chairman on or before the eighth day of January in each year. The board shall annually, by resolution duly adopted during the month of December, fix the date, time and …

§ 152. Meetings of the board. 1. The board of supervisors shall, in addition to the meeting to organize the board, hold regular meetings at stated intervals. 2. Special meetings shall be held at the call of the clerk of the board upon direction of the chairman, or at the call of…

§ 153. Rules of procedure. 1. A power of the county, whether in terms vested in the county or in the board of supervisors shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, be exercised through a local law or resolution duly adopted by the board. 2. A majority of the whole number of…

§ 154. Committees. 1. The board of supervisors may create standing committees for the purpose of aiding and assisting the board in the transaction of its business. Any local law or resolution creating any such committee shall specify the powers, duties and number of its members.…

§ 2. Application of chapter. This chapter shall apply to all counties, except that: (a) It shall not apply to a county wholly contained within a city, unless specifically so provided; (b) The provisions of this chapter in so far as they are in conflict with or in limitation of a…

§ 200. Compensation of supervisors. 1. Notwithstanding the election of a supervisor for a fixed term, the board of supervisors of each county shall have power from time to time to fix the compensation of its members for services rendered to the county. Except as hereinafter prov…

§ 201. Compensation of officers. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general law other than this chapter or of any special law to the contrary, each board of supervisors shall fix the salary of all officers paid from county funds, except the members of the judiciary. Such sala…

§ 202. Publication of compensation and expenses of supervisors in certain counties. In those counties wherein the compensation of supervisors is fixed on a per diem basis, the clerk of the board of supervisors in the month of February of each year shall cause to be published in …

§ 203. Expenses incurred in the performance of official duty. 1. The actual and necessary expenses of all officers and employees, other than supervisors, paid from county funds incurred in the performance of their official duties, and the actual and necessary expenses of all sup…

§ 204. Positions of employment. In addition to those positions of employment specifically provided by law, the board of supervisors shall have power to establish positions of employment and may abolish the same. The establishment and abolition of such positions may be by local l…

§ 205. Compensation of employees. Subject to the constitution and the civil service law but notwithstanding the provisions of any other general law or of any special law to the contrary, the compensation of all employees paid from county funds shall be fixed by the board of supe…

§ 205-a. Certain pilot projects. Any county operating a county hospital employing physicians and dentists pursuant to a pilot project approved by the public health and health planning council, whereby such physicians and dentists may receive fees for private professional service…

§ 206. Hours of work and office hours. 1. Subject to the constitution and general laws of this state and to the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto, the board of supervisors may fix the number of hours constituting a legal day's work for all classes of employees of the c…

§ 206-a. Business in county offices on holidays and Saturdays. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, holidays and Saturdays shall be considered as Sunday for all purposes relating to the transaction of business in county offices in every county of the …

§ 207. Vacations; sick leaves; leaves of absence. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general law other than this chapter or of any special law to the contrary, the board of supervisors shall have power to fix and regulate the granting with or without pay of vacations, sick…

§ 208. Books and records. 1. Whenever any public record, book, map or paper has become obliterated or unfit for further public inspection and use, the board of supervisors, upon a certificate of the county judge or a supreme court justice of the judicial district to the effect t…

§ 209. Investigations. The board of supervisors is empowered to conduct an investigation into any subject matter within its jurisdiction, including the conduct and performance of official duties of any officer or employee paid from county funds and the accounting for all money o…

§ 210. Examination and post audit. The board of supervisors may at any time cause an examination and post audit to be made of the books, records and papers pertaining to the money, funds or other property belonging to the county, or over which the county shall have control. Such…

§ 211. Printed and electronically recorded proceedings of the board. 1. The board of supervisors of each county, as soon after the close of each calendar year as practicable, shall cause to be printed in bound volume or recorded by electronic means, or both, copies of its procee…

§ 212. Designation of depositaries. All moneys received by the county treasurer shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the power of a court of competent jurisdiction or of the sta…

§ 214. Designation of newspapers; official publications. 1. Concurrent resolutions, election notices and official canvass. The members of the county legislative body, whether such body be denominated board of supervisors, county legislature or otherwise, or, in the city of New Y…

§ 215. County property; general provisions. 1. The board of supervisors shall have the general care and control of the corporate real and personal property of the county. 2. All contracts and conveyances made by or to the county, or on its behalf, shall be made in the name of th…

§ 216. Location of county offices. The board of supervisors shall have power to select and change the site of any county office or building within the county except as hereinafter provided. No site or location for any county jail shall be selected or acquired by such board of su…

§ 217. County jail. Each county shall continue to maintain a county jail as prescribed by law.

§ 217-a. Qualification for employment as a county correction officer. A county may adopt the provisions contained in section twenty-two-a of the correction law relating to qualifications of its officials who may thereafter be appointed in a law enforcement capacity in any of its…

§ 218. Courthouses and judicial expenditures. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, each board of supervisors shall provide suitable rooms for courts of record within the county including rooms for holding court, grand and trial jurors, witnesses and attorneys during such term…

§ 218-a. County detention facilities for juvenile delinquents and persons in need of supervision. A. To assure that suitable and conveniently accessible accommodations and proper and adequate detention in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as defined in section five hun…

§ 218-b. Prisoner furlough program in county jails and penitentiaries. The county legislative body shall have power to elect to have the provisions of article twenty-two-A of the correction law concerning prisoner furloughs apply to jails and penitentiaries under its jurisdictio…

§ 219. Reforested lands. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to purchase, acquire, or accept by gift lands for purposes of reforestation and/or lease for the purpose of aiding in discovering and removing oil and/or gas from such reforested land and adequately plant, fen…

§ 220. County planning board. The board of supervisors is empowered to establish a county planning board pursuant to article twelve-b of the general municipal law and to make the necessary appropriations therefor.

§ 220-a. Water quality management agency. The board of supervisors or county legislature, shall have the power to designate a water quality management agency for the purposes of water quality management program oversight. Such agency may, in the discretion of the board of superv…

§ 221. County park commission. The board of supervisors shall have power to create a county park commission to consist of not less than five or more than seven members who shall be residents of the county. The members of such commission shall be appointed by the board of supervi…

§ 222. Cemeteries. 1. The board of supervisors may acquire by condemnation, purchase, gift or devise burial plots outside a city or village within the county, for the burial of indigent persons. Such burial plots shall be under the general care and supervision of the county comm…

§ 223. Flood control and soil conservation. 1. The board of supervisors shall have power to, and may, appropriate and pay out for the general improvement of agriculture and the soil such sums as it may deem proper for the expense of creating and maintaining soil conservation dis…

* § 223-a. The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate such sums as it may deem proper, not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year, to carry out the provisions of the forest practice act as defined in section sixty-d of the conservation law, within such coun…

§ 223-b. EMS training and mutual aid programs. 1. In order to develop and maintain programs for EMS training, EMS-related activities and mutual aid emergencies in which the services of EMS providers would be used and to cooperate with appropriate state agencies in furthering suc…

§ 224. Optional appropriations and contracts for public benefit services. The board of supervisors shall have power to contract with non-profit organizations and other corporations, associations and agencies within the county formed for the purposes hereinafter enumerated; and t…