NY Town L § 79-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws TWN - Town Article 5-A - Dissolution of Certain Towns 79-A - Dissolution of Certain Towns.

§  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 election in  the  town   proposed  to  be  dissolved  of a proposition, in the manner provided by   article six, for the dissolution of such town and the annexation of  the   territory  therein to a specified adjoining town in the same county, and   the approval of such proposition by a majority of  the  electors  voting   thereon at such election.b.  The  submission  at  a  special  or biennial town election in such   adjoining town, at the same time as the proposition provided for in  the   last  preceding  paragraph is submitted, of a proposition, in the manner   provided by article six, for the annexation of the territory of the town   proposed to be dissolved, and the approval  of  such  proposition  by  a   majority of the duly qualified electors voting at such election.2. If such proposition be so approved and adopted, the dissolution and   annexation therein provided for shall become effective at the expiration   of  the  thirty-first  day  of  December  of  the odd numbered year next   succeeding the year in which  such  propositions  are  so  approved  and   adopted  except  in  the  county  of  Broome  where such dissolution and   annexation  shall  become  effective  at  the  expiration  of  the  next   succeeding  even  numbered year. Provided, however that such dissolution   or annexation  shall  not  affect  a  fire  district  or  other  special   improvement district in the territory to be annexed. No election of town   officers  shall  be  held in the town so to be dissolved during the year   immediately preceding the time such dissolution  becomes  effective  but   voters of such town shall have the right to vote at the election in such   year  for  officers  of the town to which such town is to be annexed and   the board of elections shall make provision  for  the  holding  of  such   election  in such town. The terms of office of all town officers of such   town shall  expire  when  such  dissolution  becomes  effective,  except   justices  of the peace who shall continue in office until the expiration   of the term for which they were  elected  or  appointed  and  who  shall   exercise all the powers and duties of and be entitled to compensation as   a  justice  of  the  peace  of  the town to which such dissolved town is   annexed, provided that they shall not be members of the  town  board  of   such  town.  No  successors to such justices of the peace of the town so   dissolved shall be elected or appointed.3. All the property and assets,  real  and  personal,  of  a  town  so   dissolved,  shall become the property and assets of the town to which it   is annexed, and all debts and charges of a town so  dissolved  shall  be   the  liability  of  and  be paid by the town to which it is annexed. All   funds and sums of money held by such a town so dissolved or any  officer   thereof  to  the  credit of such town shall be paid to the supervisor of   the town to which such dissolved town is annexed. All the books, records   and documents of or on  file  with  the  town  officers  of  a  town  so   dissolved,  shall  be  turned  over  at the expiration of their terms of   office to appropriate officers of the town to which  such  territory  is   annexed.4.  In  case of dissolution and annexation as herein permitted, in the   year  at  the  end  of  which  the  dissolution  and  annexation  become   effective,  the retiring supervisor of the town to be so dissolved shall   present the assessment roll of such town, as completed by the  assessors   thereof,  to  the  board  of supervisors of the county and such board of   supervisors  shall  cause  each  of  the  assessments  thereon   to   be   transferred  and  added to the assessment roll of the town to which such   dissolved town is to be annexed, consolidated and  treated  as  one  tax    roll  and  each  of the pieces of property and all of the assessments so   transferred shall thenceforth, for tax purposes, be part of the  taxable   property  and assessments of the town to which such dissolved town is to   be annexed.5. In case of dissolution and annexation as herein permitted, the town   board  of  the  town  to  which  the  territory of the dissolved town is   annexed shall make a proper revision of the election districts  in  such   town.