NY Gen Mun L § 244-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. 244-C - Proposition for Establishment or Maintenance of Recreation System.

§  244-c.  Proposition  for establishment or maintenance of recreation   system.  The term "recreation system," as used  in  this  section  means   playgrounds  and  neighborhood recreation centers as referred to in this   article. The local legislative body of a city or the governing  body  of   any  other  municipality to which this article is applicable may, and on   the petition signed and  acknowledged  by  qualified  electors  of  such   municipality  in  number  equal to at least five per centum of the total   number of votes cast for governor at the last gubernatorial election  in   such  municipality  shall,  submit to the electors at a general election   held in such  municipality  a  proposition  for  the  establishment  and   maintenance  of  a  recreation  system, if there be no recreation system   therein, or for the maintenance of an existing recreation system in such   municipality. The proposition shall specify  the  minimum  amount  which   shall   be  annually  levied  and  appropriated  for  maintenance  of  a   recreation system in such municipality, which shall not exceed an amount   equal to two mills upon every dollar of the assessed valuation  of  real   and  personal  property  in  such  municipality  on  the  last preceding   assessment-roll. Such petition shall be filed within sixty days and  not   later  than  thirty  days before such election with the officer or board   charged by law with the duty of preparing  ballots  for  such  election.   The petition may be made upon separate sheets and the signatures to each   sheet  shall be authenticated in the manner provided by section 6-140 of   the election law, for the authentication of  nominating  petitions.  The   several  sheets  so signed and authenticated, when fastened together and   offered for filing, shall be deemed  to  constitute  one  petition.  The   proposition  shall  be  in the following form: "Shall the (city, county,   town, that part of a town  not  included  within  the  boundaries  of  a   village  or  village)  of  (naming it) establish a recreation system and   annually levy and appropriate for the maintenance  of  such  system  not   less   than   .............  dollars?"  Or,  if  such  petition  be  for   maintenance only, the proposition shall be in the following form: "Shall   the (city, county, town, that part of a town  not  included  within  the   boundaries  of  a  village  or village) of (naming it) annually levy and   appropriate for the maintenance of its recreation system, not less  than   ...........  dollars?"  Such  proposition  shall  be submitted, the vote   thereon canvassed and the result declared in  the  same  manner  as  for   other propositions submitted in such municipality.  If a proposition for   the  establishment  and maintenance of a system be adopted, jurisdiction   and administration thereof shall be vested in such  local  authority  as   shall  be determined in accordance with section two hundred forty-two of   this chapter, and all the provisions of this article shall be applicable   thereto. If either of such propositions be adopted, an amount  not  less   than  that  specified therein for the maintenance of a recreation system   in such municipality shall be annually levied by the officer,  board  or   body  thereof  charged with the duty of levying taxes therein, and shall   be annually appropriated for the maintenance of the recreation system of   such municipality.