NY Cty L § 101 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 3 - Referendum 101 - Permissive Referendum.

§  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   referendum, the clerk of the board of supervisors, in the same manner as   provided for notice of a special election, shall cause a  notice  to  be   published  at  least  once  in the official newspapers and in such other   newspapers as the board may designate. Such  notice  shall  contain  the   number,  date of adoption, a true copy of the resolution and a statement   that such resolution is subject to a permissive referendum.2. A resolution of the board of supervisors  which  is  subject  to  a   permissive  referendum shall not take effect until forty-five days after   its adoption; nor unless it is approved by the  affirmative  vote  of  a   majority of the qualified electors of the county voting on a proposition   therefor,  if  within  forty-five days after its adoption there be filed   with the clerk  of  the  board  of  supervisors  a  petition  signed  by   qualified  electors  of  the  county  in number of not less than ten per   centum of the total vote cast for governor in said county  at  the  last   general  election held for the election of state officers. Such petition   shall state that a referendum vote  is  requested  on  such  resolution,   describing  the  same  by  its  number  and  date of adoption, and shall   contain an abstract of the text. The petition may  consist  of  separate   sheets  and  the  signatures to each sheet shall be authenticated in the   manner provided  by  the  election  law  for  the  authentication  of  a   designating  petition.  The  several  sheets so signed and authenticated   when fastened together  and  offered  for  filing  shall  be  deemed  to   constitute  one  petition.  The  clerk  of  the county legislature shall   examine each such petition so filed with him and shall  not  later  than   thirty  days  after  the  date  of  its  filing transmit to the board of   supervisors a certificate that he has examined it and has found that  it   complies  or  does  not  comply,  as  the  case  may  be,  with  all the   requirements of law.3. Proceedings  may  be  instituted  and  maintained  to  contest  the   sufficiency  and  validity of any petition provided for in this article,   in the manner provided by the election law, as though such petition were   a designating petition. If the  petition  be  sufficient  and  valid,  a   proposition for the approval of such resolution shall be submitted at an   election pursuant to subdivision four of this section.4.  Within  thirty  days  after  the adoption of a resolution which is   subject to a permissive referendum, the board of supervisors may of  its   own  motion by resolution provide that such resolution be submitted to a   vote of the qualified electors of the county to be held at a general  or   special election held not less than sixty days after the adoption of the   resolution  providing for such special or general election. A resolution   adopted pursuant  to  the  preceding  sentence  may  not  thereafter  be   rescinded.   Any  proposition  required  to  be  submitted  pursuant  to   subdivision three of this section shall be submitted at the next general   election of state or county government officers held in such county  not   less  than  sixty  days  after the filing of the petition requesting the   referendum, unless the petition requests and the  board  of  supervisors   adopts  a  resolution  submitting such proposition at a special election   held not less than sixty days  after  the  adoption  of  the  resolution   providing for such special election.