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NY Cty L § 553 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 13 - County Treasurer 553 - Trustee of Cemetery Lots.

§  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 such   cemetery, the renewal or preservation of a tomb, monument, stone, fence,   railing or other erection or structure on or around any of such lots, or   the planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs, flowers or  plants  in  or   about the same, or for any of such purposes, by transferring, conveying,   devising  or  bequeathing to the county treasurer of the county in which   such cemetery is located, real or  personal  property,  and  designating   such  county treasurer as trustee in the instrument creating such trust.   Such instrument may direct that the income derived  from  such  property   shall  be  applied  to  one  or  more  of the purposes specified in this   section. A county treasurer  designated  as  trustee  pursuant  to  this   section  must  accept  the property so transferred and, within five days   after the receipt thereof, shall give notice by registered mail  to  the   cemetery  association or cemetery corporation or other entity owning the   cemetery that such property has been received pursuant to  this  section   for  the  purposes provided for in the instrument creating the trust and   such treasurer shall cause the same to be invested  in  accordance  with   the  terms  of  the  trust,  if  any are prescribed, and otherwise shall   invest and re-invest such property in securities in which savings  banks   are authorized to invest. The income derived from such property shall be   collected  by  the county treasurer who shall be entitled to receive and   deduct five per centum of such income for administering the  trust.  The   balance  of  such  income  shall  be paid by the county treasurer to the   cemetery association or cemetery corporation or other entity owning  the   cemetery, and such cemetery association or cemetery corporation or other   entity  shall accept the same and apply the money so received, so far as   the same may be applicable, in furtherance of the purpose for which such   trust  was  created.  In  case  the  cemetery  association  or  cemetery   corporation  should  become  extinct,  then  it shall be the duty of the   supervisor of the town in which the cemetery is located, or the mayor of   the  village  or  city,  if  it  is  located  in  a  village  or   city,   respectively,  to  receive  the income from such trust and expend it for   the purposes provided for in the instrument creating the trust.
NY Cty L § 575 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 14 - County Comptroller 575 - County Comptroller; Term; Vacancy.

§  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 create the office of county comptroller. Any  such  local  law   shall  be  subject  to  a mandatory referendum. A copy of such local law   duly certified by the clerk of the board shall be filed  forthwith  with   the  board  of elections of the county which shall cause the proposition   to be submitted at the next general election  occurring  not  less  than   sixty  days after the local law is filed with the board. Upon the filing   with the board of elections prior to September first in any  year  of  a   petition  duly  signed  and  acknowledged  or  authenticated in the same   manner as a primary petition, by electors of  the  county  equal  to  at   least  five per centum of the total vote cast for governor in the county   at the last general election at which a governor  was  elected,  praying   that  the  office  of  county  comptroller be created in the county, the   board of elections shall cause the proposition to be  submitted  to  the   electors of the county at the next general election following the filing   of the petition. The proposition shall be substantially in the following   form:  "Shall  the office of county comptroller be created in the county   of .......... ?" The proposition shall be submitted to the  electors  of   the  county in the manner provided by this chapter for the submission of   a mandatory or permissive referendum. If the vote be in the affirmative,   at the first general election held thereafter there shall be  elected  a   county  comptroller  whose  term shall be three years from and including   the first day of January following his election. Until  such  office  be   abolished  in  the  same  manner  as created, there shall continue to be   elected a county comptroller for the term of  three  years.  The  county   comptroller  shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take   the constitutional oath of office and execute to the county and file  an   official  undertaking  as  provided  in  section  eleven  of  the public   officers law. Any vacancy in the office of county comptroller  shall  be   filled  by  the  governor  in  the  same manner as other elective county   officers.
NY Cty L § 576 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 14 - County Comptroller 576 - Deputy County Comptroller.

§  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   shall perform such duties as may be assigned  by  the  comptroller,  and   during  the  temporary  absence  of  the comptroller he shall act as the   comptroller and in the event of  a  vacancy  in  the  office,  he  shall   continue  to  act  as  such  comptroller until a successor is elected or   appointed and has qualified.
NY Cty L § 600 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 15 - County Auditor 600 - County Auditor; Term; Duties.

§ 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   claims,  accounts  and  demands which are made county charges by law and   which otherwise would be audited by the board of supervisors.  By  local   law  or  resolution,  the  board  of supervisors may limit such audit to   certain types  or  classes  of  claims,  may  fix  rules  governing  the   presentation  to and the audit by such auditor and such other matters as   may be deemed proper.  Within such authorization  the  county  treasurer   shall  pay  the  amounts audited and certified by such auditor as if the   same had been audited by the board  of  supervisors.  He  shall  not  be   removed  during  his term without written charges and the opportunity to   be heard. The board  may  provide  for  the  purchase  of  supplies  and   equipment  through  such  auditor  and  may  prohibit  such auditor from   auditing his own orders as purchasing agent and such  other  matters  as   shall be deemed advisable.2.   In   any  county  having  no  county  comptroller  the  board  of   supervisors, by local law or resolution may provide that it  shall  also   be  the  duty of the county auditor to examine and audit, at times to be   determined by the board of supervisors, the books, records, vouchers and   other papers pertaining to the money, funds and property of  any  county   officer  or  department  specified  in  such local law or resolution and   render a report thereon to the board of supervisors as to whether proper   books and records have been kept and all money  and  property  accounted   for.
NY Cty L § 625 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 16 - County Purchasing Agent 625 - County Purchasing Agent; Terms; Duties.

§   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,  he  shall  make  all  purchases and contracts for supplies for the   various county offices,  buildings,  institutions  and  grounds  of  the   county, and shall let to public advertisement and bid all purchases when   so  required  by section one hundred three of the general municipal law.   He shall prescribe  the  form  of  requisitions,  and  of  receipts  for   supplies  delivered  without  requisition. No claim shall be audited and   paid without the requisition or delivery receipt being attached thereto.   He shall be the custodian of all vouchers,  requisitions,  receipts  and   other   papers   pertaining  thereto  which  shall  be  open  to  public   inspection. He shall upon dates to be fixed by the  board  and  covering   periods to be specified by it furnish to the county treasurer and to the   clerk  of  the board of supervisors verified statements of all purchases   together with the quantity and price and shall furnish to the  board  of   supervisors such additional statements as the board may direct. He shall   perform  such  additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law   and directed by the board of supervisors.
NY Cty L § 626 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 16 - County Purchasing Agent 626 - Purchasing of Products for County Use.

§  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   products  is  reasonably  competitive, purchase such products.   For the   purpose  of  this  section  and  until  July  first,  nineteen   hundred   ninety-six,  "recycled  product"  shall  mean any product which has been   manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one  of   section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets   secondary material content requirements adopted by the office of general   services  under  subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of   the state finance law for products available to the county  under  state   contract  or,  if  no  such  contract for such product is available, any   product which meets the secondary material content requirements  adopted   by  the  county  with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the   county.  On and after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled   product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which   is manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision  one   of  section  two  hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and   which meets the requirements of subdivision two of  section  27-0717  of   the  environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant   thereto. For the purpose of this section, "reasonably competitive" shall   mean that the cost of the  recycled  product  does  not  exceed  a  cost   premium  of  ten  percent above the cost of a comparable product that is   not a recycled product or, if at least fifty percent  of  the  secondary   materials utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from   the  waste  stream  in  New York state, the cost of the recycled product   does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the  cost  of  a   comparable  product that is not a recycled product.  Whenever the county   purchasing agent shall purchase or cause the  purchase  of  printing  on   recycled  paper  pursuant  to  this section, he or she shall require the   printed  material  to  contain  the  official  state  recycling   emblem   established  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section  27-0717 of the   environmental conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated  pursuant   thereto   if   such  paper  has  been  approved  by  the  department  of   environmental  conservation  as  satisfying  the  requirements  of  such   statute  and  regulations,  or,  if such paper has not been so approved,   require the printed  material  to  include  a  printed  statement  which   indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled   material content of such paper.
NY Cty L § 650 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 650 - General Duties of Sheriff.

§  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   supervisors or the county legislature.2.  Upon  written  request  by  the issurer thereof, the sheriff shall   serve all civil process regardless of whether it has been issued by  the   court.
NY Cty L § 651 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 651 - Appointment of Person to Act as Sheriff in Certain Cases.

§ 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   duties  of  sheriff  until a new sheriff is elected or appointed and has   qualified. The designation shall be in writing and filed and recorded in   the office of the county clerk. The county clerk shall notify the person   so designated of such designation, and within ten  days  thereafter,  an   official  undertaking shall be furnished in the same amount and approved   in the same manner as that of the sheriff. If such  undertaking  be  not   furnished,  the  county judge shall designate another person in the same   manner.
NY Cty L § 652-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 652-A - Appointment and Promotion of Deputy Sheriffs.

§  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   personnel  within  the  office  of  the  sheriff may continue to be made   pursuant to that procedure through March thirty-first, nineteen  hundred   ninety-three, any other provision of law notwithstanding.2.  Nothing  contained  herein shall be construed to alter or restrict   the authority of a  county  to  change  the  method  of  appointment  or   promotion  of  deputy  sheriffs  by  a duly adopted local law, nor shall   anything contained herein be construed to alter any existing  collective   bargaining  agreement  between  a  county  and  an employee organization   representing deputy sheriffs, nor to alter or restrict the power of  any   county or employee organization to contract with respect to an alternate   method of appointment or promotion of deputy sheriffs.
NY Cty L § 653 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 653 - Part Time Deputy Sheriffs.

§   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   appointed in the same manner as regular deputies and shall perform  only   those  duties  and  powers  authorized  by such sheriff. Whenever deemed   necessary, a sheriff may deputize persons to  serve  civil  process  and   execute civil mandates.
NY Cty L § 654 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 654 - Deputizing Local Police Officers or Peace Officers.

§ 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, for   the purpose of authorizing an  arrest  without  a  warrant  outside  the   territorial limits of such city, town, village or special district, when   such crime or infraction was committed within such territorial limits in   the  presence  of  such  officer.  Such  officer  shall not be deemed an   officer, agent, servant or employee of the county.
NY Cty L § 655 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 655 - Emergency Special Deputies.

§  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  without  compensation, he may pay the compensation of any such   special deputies  in  such  amount  as  the  board  of  supervisors  may   determine  for  each  day any such special deputy is actually engaged in   assisting him in the performance of his  duties,  or  in  assisting  any   other sheriff who has declared a state of special emergency, pursuant to   the  provisions  of  section two hundred nine-f of the general municipal   law, with the permission of the sheriff who deputized him. If the  board   of  supervisors  shall  fail  to  fix  the  compensation of such special   deputies, the sheriff may fix such compensation at not  exceeding  three   dollars  per  hour for each such special deputy. The compensation of any   special deputy so appointed shall be  a  county  charge.  The  board  of   supervisors  may  direct  the manner of payment including a direction of   approval for such payment by the chairman of a designated  committee  of   the board.
NY Cty L § 656 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 656 - Emergency Equipment and Apparatus.

§  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   reasonable charge therefor. The same shall be  audited  and  paid  as  a   county  charge in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, and   in the discretion of such board, there  may  be  a  direction  that  the   further  hiring  and payment be approved by the chairman of the board or   of a designated committee of such board.
NY Cty L § 657 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 657 - Emergency Fund.

§  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   equipment  and  apparatus  and  the  operator  thereof.  The  board  may   authorize  the  sheriff  to issue orders on the county treasurer for the   payment thereof and may require a countersignature of the chairman of  a   designated  committee of such board. It may further direct the rendering   of an  accounting  of  such  expenditures  with  verified  or  certified   vouchers  attached  and such other conditions and rules as the board may   deem proper. The claimant and the sheriff shall be jointly and severally   liable for any item of  expenditure  for  other  than  a  lawful  county   purpose  disallowed  upon  a  final  audit  to be recovered in an action   brought by the board of supervisors in the name of the county.
NY Cty L § 657-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 657-A - Fund for Expenses of Sheriff in Transporting Prisoners.

§  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 the   transportation of prisoners, and, by resolution,  authorize  the  county   treasurer to apply said fund in payment of such bills on the approval of   the  sheriff  endorsed  thereon; said bills so paid to be transmitted to   the clerk of the board of supervisors and audited  by  it  at  its  next   regular  session  held  subsequent to their payment. The sheriff and any   claimant receiving payment as aforesaid shall be jointly  and  severally   liable  for  any item or items contained in a bill so paid in advance of   audit which shall be disallowed and rejected by the board of supervisors   upon final audit, to be recovered in an action brought by the  board  of   supervisors in the name of the county.
NY Cty L § 658 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 658 - Verification of Informations.

§  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 any member of his staff any necessary oath  in  connection  with  the   laying  of  such information to be presented to the court by such member   of his staff in prosecution of the offense.
NY Cty L § 659 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 659 - Jail Records.

§  659.  Jail records. The sheriff shall cause such records to be kept   at the jail as may be required by law.
NY Cty L § 660 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 660 - Services on Behalf of the State.

§  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   the county. All disbursements incurred in connection with  such  service   when  not  a  proper  county  charge  shall  be  audited  by  the  state   comptroller and paid to the sheriff of the county.
NY Cty L § 661 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 17 - Sheriff 661 - When Sheriff Party to an Action or Proceeding.

§  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 power   to arrest under civil  process  and  to  accept  undertakings  for  jail   liberties, and shall be subject to the same liability as the sheriff for   escape.  The place of confinement of such sheriff shall be a house other   than the jail or the home of the sheriff situate within  the  limits  of   jail  liberties,  and such house shall be deemed the county jail for all   purposes of confinement and liability for escape.  Such clerk shall have   power to prosecute such undertaking the same as a sheriff and may assign   the undertaking  to  the  party  at  whose  instance  such  sheriff  was   arrested.2.  When  the  sheriff  is  the  plaintiff  in  an  action  or special   proceeding and another person is arrested under  civil  process  at  the   instance  of  the sheriff, the county clerk shall confine such person in   the county jail. The county clerk shall be liable in the same manner  as   the  sheriff,  except  that  he  shall not be liable while the person is   confined in the jail and in the custody of the sheriff.