NY Gen Mun L § 244-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. 244-D - Joint Recreation Commission.

§  244-d.  Joint  recreation commission. 1. Two or more municipalities   which have established recreation commissions, as  provided  in  section   two  hundred  forty-three of the general municipal law, may join for the   purpose of establishing a joint recreation commission.2.  The  board  of  municipalities  desiring  to  establish  a   joint   recreation  commission  shall informally agree on the use of facilities,   personnel, and the distribution of  financial  support.  After  informal   agreement  has  been  reached,  the  common  council  or  board  of each   participating municipality shall pass an ordinance embodying  the  terms   of  the agreement, before the agreement becomes final. Failure of one of   the municipalities to pass the ordinance within ninety  days  after  the   informal agreement has been reached shall void the arrangement as to all   parties; but the remaining parties may proceed with a new agreement.3.  A  joint  recreation commission shall be organized and function in   the same manner as a recreation commission and shall be composed of  all   the  members  of  the commissions of the participating municipalities. A   joint recreation commission, however, may create an executive  committee   from  its  membership  composed  of an equal number of members from each   participating municipality. Under the same limitations as the recreation   commission, the executive committee may exercise all of the authority of   the joint recreation commission, except  that  any  executive  committee   member  by  demand  may  require  an  issue to be submitted to the joint   recreation commission.4. The joint recreation commission shall determine  its  total  budget   request. The members of each participating municipality shall present to   their appropriating body the total budget and shall set forth the amount   chargeable  to  their  municipality  by  the  terms of the agreement and   ordinance. In case their appropriating  body  does  not  appropriate  an   amount  sufficient to meet its proportionate share, the joint recreation   commission may reduce the expenditures attributable to that municipality   or treat the reduced appropriation as a repudiation of the agreement and   terminate the relationship according to the  provisions  of  subdivision   six of this section.5. A fiscal officer of one such municipality shall be the custodian of   the  moneys made available for expenditure for such purposes by all such   municipalities and that such fiscal officer may make payments  therefrom   upon   audit  of  the  appropriate  auditing  body  or  officer  of  his   municipality.6. A municipality may withdraw from a recreation commission  board  at   the  close  of  a  fiscal  year  by repealing its adopting ordinance and   filing a copy of the  repeal  ordinance  with  the  other  participating   municipalities.  The  joint  recreation  commission  may  terminate  the   participation  of  a  municipality  when  it  does  not  contribute  its   proportion of the total budget agreed upon in the original agreement and   ordinance.  The  termination shall occur at the conclusion of the fiscal   year in which the joint recreation commission makes its finding.The joint recreation commission at the conclusion of a fiscal year  in   which  a discontinuance occurs, shall fairly and equitably distribute to   the participating municipalities all moneys remaining in the fund.