NY Town L § 202-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws TWN - Town Article 12 - District and Special Improvements 202-E - Acquisition and Improvement of Additional Property in Park Districts.

§  202-e.  Acquisition  and improvement of additional property in park   districts.  1. Petition. After the establishment of a park district  and   the  acquisition  for  park  purposes  of  the property described in the   petition for the establishment of the district, the town  board  upon  a   petition  therefor  may  acquire additional property for the purposes of   such park district, in the manner herein provided. Such  petition  shall   be  signed,  and acknowledged or proved, or authenticated, in the manner   specified in section  one  hundred  ninety-one  for  petitions  for  the   establishment   of   a  park  district  and  shall  be  subject  to  the   requirements of such section as to sufficiency of signers. The  petition   shall  also describe the additional property proposed to be acquired for   park purposes and shall state the maximum amount proposed to be expended   for the acquisition and improvement thereof.2.  Hearing.  Whenever  such  a  petition  containing   the   required   signatures  shall have been presented to the town board, the board shall   adopt an order providing for a meeting to consider such petition and  to   hear all interested persons and shall cause notice of such hearing to be   given  in  the  manner provided in section one hundred and ninety-three.   After such hearing and upon the evidence given thereat, the  town  board   shall  make  the  determinations specified in subdivision one of section   one hundred and ninety-four.3. Permission of comptroller. If such board  shall  determine  in  the   affirmative  all  the  questions set forth in such subdivision and shall   approve said petition, an application shall be filed in  the  office  of   the  state department of audit and control for permission to acquire and   improve the additional  property  described  in  said  petition.    Such   application shall be executed and filed in the form and manner specified   in  section  one hundred and ninety-four for the execution and filing of   an application  for  permission  to  create  or  extend  an  improvement   district  and the state comptroller shall make and file an order, in the   manner and subject to the restrictions specified in  subdivisions  three   and  four of said section, granting or denying such permission. The town   clerk shall present the order of the comptroller to the  town  board  at   the next meeting thereof.4.  Powers  of  town  board.  If  the  state  comptroller  shall  deny   permission for the acquisition and improvement  of  such  property,  the   town  board  shall forthwith adopt an order denying the petition. If the   state comptroller shall grant permission therefor, the  town  board  may   acquire  by  purchase  or  condemnation  the  property  described in the   petition;  provided,  however,  that  no  property  situated  within  an   incorporated village or city shall be acquired unless the permission and   consent of the legislative body thereof, is first obtained.After such additional property has been acquired, the town board shall   have such powers and shall be subject to such duties in relation thereto   as  shall  be  prescribed in subdivision four of section one hundred and   ninety-eight in relation to property acquired for park purposes pursuant   to the petition for the establishment of such district.