NY Town L § 41 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TWN - Town Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation 41 - Additional Supervisors in Certain Towns.

§  41.  Additional supervisors in certain towns. 1. Resolution of town   board. Any town having a population of  more  than  one-half  the  total   population of the county in which such town is located, according to the   latest federal or state census or enumeration, shall have one additional   supervisor.  No such additional supervisor, however, shall be elected or   appointed in any such town which has but one supervisor at the time this   chapter takes effect, until  the  town  board  of  such  town  shall  by   resolution  adopted  by  a  majority  vote  determine to provide for the   election of an additional supervisor.2. Election of supervisors in such town. At a town  election  held  in   November  following  the  adoption of the resolution provided for in the   preceding section, the electors of such town shall elect one  additional   supervisor  who shall hold office until January first following the next   biennial town election,  at  which  time,  and  at  each  biennial  town   election  thereafter, two supervisors shall be elected under the general   and special laws relating to the election of supervisors  applicable  to   such  town,  except  that  one  of  such supervisors shall be elected as   presiding supervisor of such town.3. Powers and duties of presiding supervisor. The presiding supervisor   shall exercise all the powers and be charged with all the duties imposed   upon or  required  of  town  supervisors,  except  as  herein  otherwise   provided.4.  Powers  and  duties  of  additional  supervisor.  Such  additional   supervisor shall be a member of the town board and shall have  one  vote   therein.  Whenever  by  reason of sickness or absence from the state the   presiding supervisor shall be prevented from attending to the duties  of   his  office,  and  whenever  a vacancy occurs in the office of presiding   supervisor, the town board may by resolution authorize  such  additional   supervisor  to  act  as  presiding  supervisor  during  such disability,   absence from the state or vacancy, as the case may be, and  during  such   time  said  supervisor  shall  possess  all the rights and powers of the   presiding supervisor. No such additional supervisor  shall  perform  any   act  as  presiding  supervisor  until  he has qualified by the filing of   bonds and otherwise as required by law in  the  case  of  the  presiding   supervisor.  Such additional supervisor shall exercise such other powers   and perform such other duties not inconsistent with law as may from time   to time be authorized or required by the town board.5. Temporary appointment; vacancies. At the meeting of the town  board   immediately  following  the  adoption  of a resolution providing for the   election of an additional supervisor, the town  board  may  appoint  the   additional  supervisor  to  which  such  town is entitled who shall be a   resident tax payer of such town and who  shall  hold  office  until  his   successor  is  elected  at  the election first held thereafter as herein   provided. From and after the appointment  by  the  town  board  of  such   additional  supervisor and until the election of a presiding supervisor,   the supervisor  in  office  at  the  time  of  such  appointment  of  an   additional supervisor shall be the presiding supervisor. Upon the death,   disability  or  removal of either supervisor of such town, his successor   shall be elected or appointed as provided by law in the case of  a  town   supervisor.6.  Salary  of additional supervisor. Such additional supervisor shall   receive from the town a salary to be fixed by the town board.7. Powers and duties  of  supervisors  as  members  of  the  board  of   supervisors.  Each  supervisor  from  such town shall be a member of the   board of supervisors of the county in which such town is located and  as   a  member of such board he shall have powers and duties co-ordinate with   the powers and duties of the supervisors of other towns in  the  county,   and  he  shall  receive from the county for all services in any official    capacity the same salary and expenses as now or  hereafter  provided  by   law for supervisors of other towns in such county.If  the supervisor from such a town be entitled to more than one vote,   the total number of votes to which such town is  entitled,  without  any   limitation  which  would  apply  to a single supervisor of such town and   whether such number of votes be more or less than one-half of the  total   number  of  such  votes  of such board, shall be divided equally between   such supervisors of such town.