NY Exec L § 359 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 17 - Veterans' Services 359 - Location and Cost of Local Veterans' Service Agencies; Deputy Local Directors.

§  359.  Location and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy   local directors. 1. A local director shall designate the location of the   local and branch offices of the local veterans'  service  agency  within   his  or  her jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during convenient   hours. The cost of maintenance  and  operation  of  a  county  veterans'   service  agency shall be a county charge and the cost of maintenance and   operation of a city veterans' service agency shall  be  a  city  charge,   excepting  that  the  state  director with the approval of the veterans'   services  commission  shall  allot  and  pay,  from  state  moneys  made   available  to  him  or  her  for such purposes, to each county veterans'   service agency and each city veterans' service agency, an  amount  equal   to  fifty  per  centum of its expenditures for maintenance and operation   approved by the state director, provided that  in  no  event  shall  the   amount  allotted and paid for such approved expenditures incurred in any   given year exceed (1) in the case of any county veterans' service agency   in a county having a population of not more than one hundred thousand or   in the case of any city veterans' service agency  in  a  city  having  a   population  of  not  more  than  one  hundred  thousand,  the sum of ten   thousand dollars, nor (2) in the case of any  county  veterans'  service   agency in a county having a population in excess of one hundred thousand   excluding  the population of any city therein which has a city veterans'   service agency, the sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  and,  in  addition   thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for each one hundred thousand,   or  major  portion thereof, of the population of the county in excess of   one hundred thousand excluding the population of any city therein  which   has  a  city  veterans'  service agency, nor (3) in the case of any city   veterans' service agency in a city having a population in excess of  one   hundred  thousand,  the  sum  of  ten thousand dollars, and, in addition   thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for each one hundred thousand,   or major portion thereof, of the population of the city in excess of one   hundred thousand. Such population shall be certified in the same  manner   as provided by section fifty-four of the state finance law.2.  The  head  of  a branch office of a local veterans' service agency   shall be a deputy local director of the local veterans'  service  agency   who  shall  be  appointed by the local director of the county or city in   which the branch office is located with the approval  of  the  governing   body  which  makes  the appropriation for the maintenance of such branch   office; provided, however, that the head of a branch office of  a  local   veterans' service agency which operates in and for two or more adjoining   towns  or adjoining villages in the same county, and hereinafter in this   article referred to as a consolidated branch office, shall be  appointed   by  the  local  director  of  the  county  in which the branch office is   located with the approval of the governing body of each town or  village   which  makes  an  appropriation  for  or  toward the maintenance of such   branch office, and any town or village is authorized to  enter  into  an   agreement  with  an  adjoining  town or an adjoining village in the same   county, respectively, or with two or more respective adjoining towns  or   villages  in  the  same county, providing for their joint undertaking to   appropriate and make available moneys for or toward the  maintenance  of   such a consolidated branch office.