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2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 41 - Taxpayers' Bill of Rights › Part 2 - Liens and Levies › 3017 - Notice to Taxpayer of Exempt Property.

§ 3017.  Notice to taxpayer of exempt property.  In or with any notice
  to  a  taxpayer  provided  under  subdivision  (d)  of section fifty-two
  hundred twenty-two of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules,  or  under
  subdivision  (c)  of  section  fifty-two hundred thirty-two of the civil
  practice law and rules, at the time and in the  manner  such  notice  is
  provided,  there  shall  also  be  provided  to  such taxpayer a list in
  summary form of substantially all property which is  exempt  from  being
  applied  to  the satisfaction of tax warrants, including property listed
  in sections fifty-two hundred five and  fifty-two  hundred  six  of  the
  civil practice law and rules.  At any time subsequent to the publication
  of  a  notice of sale and prior to the sale of real property pursuant to
  section fifty-two hundred thirty-six  of  the  civil  practice  law  and
  rules,  a  sheriff or an officer or employee of the department acting in
  the capacity of a sheriff shall mail  by  first  class  mail,  or  shall
  personally  deliver,  to each taxpayer who is a natural person a copy of
  the notice required by this section.  Where a single notice is  provided
  to  a  taxpayer  pursuant  to  this  section,  it  shall be deemed to be
  sufficient notice for purposes of  complying  with  subdivision  (d)  of
  section  fifty-two  hundred  twenty-two  and  subdivision (c) of section
  fifty-two hundred thirty-two of the civil practice law and rules  if  it
  contains  the  same  basic  text  or information contained in the notice
  required by such subdivisions.   This section  shall  not  apply  to  an
  income execution under section fifty-two hundred thirty-one of the civil
  practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 41 - Taxpayers' Bill of Rights › Part 2 - Liens and Levies › 3018 - Uneconomical Levies.

§  3018.  Uneconomical  levies. No levy may be made on any property if
  the amount of the expenses which the commissioner estimates (at the time
  of levy) would be incurred by the commissioner with respect to the  levy
  and sale of such property exceeds the fair market value of such property
  at the time of levy.
2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 41 - Taxpayers' Bill of Rights › Part 2 - Liens and Levies › 3020 - Sales of Seized Property.

§  3020. Sales of seized property. (a) Any sale of property subject to
a tax lien must be sold at the fair market value of the property at  the
time of the sale.
(b)  The  owner  of  any  property seized by levy may request that the
commissioner sell such property within sixty days after the request  (or
within  a  longer  period  if  specified by the owner). The commissioner
shall comply with the request unless the  commissioner  determines  (and
notifies the owner within such period) that such compliance would not be
in the best interests of this state.
2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 41 - Taxpayers' Bill of Rights › Part 3 - Proceedings by Taxpayers › 3032 - Civil Damages for Failure to Release a Lien.

§ 3032. Civil damages for failure to release a lien. (a) In general. A
taxpayer  may  bring a civil action for damages against the state in the
court of claims if any officer or employee of the department  knowingly,
or  by reason of negligence, fails to release a lien on property of such
taxpayer within forty days after the day on which (1)  the  commissioner
finds that the liability for the amount assessed or determined, together
with  all  interest  in respect thereof, has been fully satisfied or has
become  legally  unenforceable,  or  (2)  there  is  furnished  to   the
commissioner  a  surety  bond issued by a surety company approved by the
superintendent of financial services as to  solvency  or  responsibility
and  authorized  to  transact  business in this state, or other security
acceptable to the commissioner, that is conditioned upon the payment  of
the amount assessed or determined, together with all interest in respect
thereof,  within  the time prescribed by law (including any extension of
such time) and is in  accordance  with  such  requirements  relating  to
terms, conditions, and form of the bond or other acceptable security, as
may be specified by regulation.
(b)  Damages.  In  any  action  brought  under subdivision (a) of this
section, upon a finding of liability on the part of the  defendant,  the
defendant shall be liable to the plaintiff in an amount equal to the sum
of (1) actual, direct economic damages sustained by the plaintiff which,
but  for  the  actions  of the defendant, would not have been sustained,
plus (2) the costs of the action.
(c) Limitations. (1) Exhaustion of administrative remedies. The amount
of damages awarded under subdivision (b) of this section may be  reduced
if  the  court  determines  that  the  plaintiff  has  not exhausted the
administrative  remedies  available  to  such   plaintiff   within   the
department  which  have  been established pursuant to the commissioner's
authority  to  compromise  civil  liability  provided   in   subdivision
eighteenth-a  of  section  one  hundred  seventy-one of this chapter. In
establishing  administrative  review  procedures  regarding  claims  for
damages under this section, the commissioner is authorized to enter into
contracts  with  private  dispute resolution entities for the purpose of
providing review of such claims and suggested compromises by independent
third parties.
(2) Mitigation  of  damages.  The  amount  of  damages  awarded  under
paragraph one of subdivision (b) of this section shall be reduced by the
amount of such damages which could have reasonably been mitigated by the
plaintiff.
(d)  Notice  of  failure  to  release  lien. The commissioner shall by
regulation prescribe reasonable procedures for a taxpayer to notify  the
commissioner  of  the  failure  to release a lien on the property of the
taxpayer.
2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 41 - Taxpayers' Bill of Rights › Part 3 - Proceedings by Taxpayers › 3034 - Civil Damages for Certain Unauthorized Collection Actions.

§  3034.    Civil damages for certain unauthorized collection actions.
(a) General.  If, in connection with any  collection  of  any  tax  with
respect  to  a  taxpayer,  any  officer  or  employee  of the department
recklessly or intentionally disregards any provision of any tax, or  any
regulation  promulgated under any of such taxes, such taxpayer may bring
a civil action in the court of claims for  damages  against  the  state.
Except  as provided in section three thousand thirty-two of this article
relating to civil damages for failure to  release  a  lien,  such  civil
action  shall  be  the exclusive remedy for recovering damages resulting
from such actions.
(b)  Damages.  In any action brought under  subdivision  (a)  of  this
section,  upon  a finding of liability on the part of the defendant, the
defendant shall be liable to the plaintiff in an  amount  equal  to  the
lesser  of  one  hundred  thousand dollars or the sum of (1) the actual,
direct economic damages sustained by the plaintiff as a proximate result
of the reckless or intentional actions of the officer or  employee,  and
(2) the costs of the action.
(c)    Limitations.  (1)  Exhaustion  of  administrative remedies. The
amount of damages awarded under subdivision (b)  of this section may  be
reduced if the court determines that the plaintiff has not exhausted the
administrative   remedies   available   to  such  plaintiff  within  the
department which have been established pursuant  to  the  commissioner's
authority   to   compromise  civil  liability  provided  in  subdivision
eighteenth-a of section one hundred seventy-one of  this  chapter.    In
establishing  administrative  review  procedures  regarding  claims  for
damages under this section, the commissioner is authorized to enter into
contracts with private dispute resolution entities for  the  purpose  of
providing review of such claims and suggested compromises by independent
third parties.
(2)  Mitigation  of  damages.    The  amount  of damages awarded under
paragraph one of subdivision (b) of this section shall be reduced by the
amount of such damages which could have reasonably been mitigated by the
plaintiff.
2023 New York Laws › TAX - Tax › Article 41 - Taxpayers' Bill of Rights › Part 3 - Proceedings by Taxpayers › 3038 - Civil Damages for Unauthorized Disclousure of Returns and Return Information.

§  3038.    Civil  damages  for unauthorized disclosure of returns and
return information. (a) General.  (1)  Disclosure  by  employee  of  the
state.    If any officer or employee of the state of New York knowingly,
or by  reason  of  negligence,  discloses  any  return  or  report,  any
particulars set forth or disclosed in any return or report, or any other
information  with  respect  to  a taxpayer in violation of any provision
listed in section eighteen hundred twenty-five  of  this  chapter,  such
taxpayer  may  bring a civil action for damages against the state in the
court of claims.
(2)  Disclosure by a person who is not an employee of the state.  If a
person who is not an officer or employee of the state knowingly,  or  by
reason  of  negligence,  discloses any return or report, any particulars
set forth or disclosed in any return or report, or any other information
with respect to a taxpayer in  violation  of  any  provision  listed  in
section  eighteen hundred twenty-five of this chapter, such taxpayer may
bring a civil action for damages against such person.
(b)  No liability for good faith but  erroneous  interpretation.    No
liability  shall arise under this section with respect to any disclosure
which results from a good faith, but erroneous, interpretation of any of
the provisions listed in section eighteen hundred  twenty-five  of  this
chapter.
(c)    Damages.    In any action brought under subdivision (a) of this
section, upon a finding of a liability on the part of the defendant, the
defendant shall be liable to the plaintiff in an amount equal to the sum
of (1) the  greater  of  (A)  one  thousand  dollars  for  each  act  of
unauthorized  disclosure  with  respect to which such defendant is found
liable, or (B) the sum of  (i)  the  actual  damages  sustained  by  the
plaintiff  as a result of such unauthorized disclosure, plus (ii) in the
case of a willful disclosure or a disclosure  which  is  the  result  of
gross negligence, punitive damages, plus (2) the costs of the action.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions › 2 - Definition of Town.

§  2. Definition of town. A town is a municipal corporation comprising
  the inhabitants within its boundaries, and formed  for  the  purpose  of
  exercising  such  powers and discharging such duties of local government
  and administration of public affairs as have been, or, may be  conferred
  or imposed upon it by law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 2 - Classification of Towns › 10 - Classification of Towns.

§ 10. Classification   of   towns.  Towns  are  divided  into  classes
  according to population, as shown by the latest federal or state  census
  or enumeration, as follows:
First  class.  Towns  containing a population of ten thousand or more,
  excepting towns in Broome and Suffolk counties, and excepting  also  the
  town  of  Potsdam  in  St.  Lawrence county, and such other towns as may
  determine to become towns of the first class pursuant to the  provisions
  of this article. Every town in the county of Westchester shall be a town
  of the first class.
Second class. Towns containing a population of less than ten thousand,
  excepting  towns  in  Westchester  county  and  such towns as shall have
  determined to become towns of the first class pursuant to the provisions
  of this article. Every town in the counties of Suffolk  and  Broome  and
  the town of Potsdam in the county of St. Lawrence.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 22-B - Chairman of Assessors; Designation; Duties and Compensation.

§  22-b.  Chairman of assessors; designation; duties and compensation.
  The town board of any town having more than one assessor  may  establish
  the  office  of  chairman  of town assessors and at its first meeting in
  each year designate one of such assessors to be chairman until the first
  day of January next succeeding such designation. The  chairman  of  town
  assessors,  in  addition  to  his  regular  duties,  shall  perform such
  services in connection with the assessment and taxation of property  for
  state, county and town purposes as the town board shall direct. The town
  board  shall  fix  the compensation of the person designated chairman of
  town assessors for all services rendered  to  the  town,  both  as  town
  assessor and as chairman.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 22-C - Election and Term of Assessors in the Town of Southampton, County of Suffolk.

§  22-c.  Election  and  term of assessors in the town of Southampton,
  county of  Suffolk.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any  general,
  special  or local law, the town board of the town of Southampton, county
  of Suffolk, may by resolution subject to a permissive referendum, direct
  that at the first biennial town  election  held  after  this  act  takes
  effect,  there  shall be elected three town assessors for a term of four
  years and two town assessors for a term of two years each  to  begin  on
  the first day of January next succeeding such election. If no referendum
  be  demanded  or if a proposition therefor be adopted by referendum, the
  assessors of such town shall be elected at such election in  the  manner
  set  forth herein. Thereafter, each assessor shall be elected for a four
  year term.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 23-A - Residence Requirement for Comptroller of the Town of Cortlandt.

*  §  23-a.  Residence  requirement  for  comptroller  of  the town of
  Cortlandt. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or  any  other
  special,  general  or  local  law to the contrary, the town board of the
  town of Cortlandt in Westchester county,  may,  by  resolution,  provide
  that  the comptroller of the town of Cortlandt need not be a resident of
  said town, however he shall be a resident of New York state.
* NB Expired December 31, 1979
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 24 - Terms of Office.

§  24.  Terms of office. All elective officers other than town council
  members, town justices, receivers of  taxes  and  assessors  shall  hold
  their  respective offices for two years. The terms of office of the town
  council members first elected after this chapter shall take  effect  and
  of  the  town  council  members first elected in a town which shall have
  changed its classification from that of a town of the  second  class  to
  that  of a town of the first class, shall be two years each for two town
  council members and four years each for two town  council  members,  and
  thereafter  at  each  biennial  town election there shall be elected two
  town council members for terms of four years each.
The terms of office of the town justices  and  elective  receivers  of
  taxes  and  assessments  shall  be four years. The term of office of the
  assessor shall be  six  years,  unless  the  town  retains  a  board  of
  assessors,  in  which case the term for each shall be four years with no
  more than two assessors to be elected at  any  biennial  election  after
  December  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-one  except  when the
  unexpired balance of term is being filled in which case three  assessors
  may  be elected; when appointed, the term of office shall be as provided
  by section three hundred ten of the real property tax law. The  term  of
  each  elective  officer  shall  begin  on  the first day of January next
  succeeding the election at which he was elected.  The  town  clerk,  the
  town  superintendent of highways, the receiver of taxes and assessments,
  the town engineer and the town attorney, whenever appointed, shall  hold
  their  respective offices until the first day of January next succeeding
  the  first  biennial  town  election  held  after  the  time  of   their
  appointment. All other appointed officers and employees shall hold their
  respective  offices  and  positions  at  the pleasure of the town board,
  except as otherwise provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 24-A - Terms of Office of Elective Officers.

§  24-a. Terms of office of elective officers. 1.  Notwithstanding the
  provisions of section twenty-four of this chapter or any  other  general
  law,  and  at  least  one  hundred fifty days prior to any biennial town
  election, the town board of any town may adopt a resolution  to  provide
  that  the  term  of  office  of  each  and  any  elective  town official
  thereafter elected shall be four years, and  such  resolution  shall  be
  submitted  to  the  qualified electors of the town for their approval or
  disapproval at the next biennial town election. No such resolution shall
  become effective until approved by the affirmative vote of the  majority
  of  the  qualified  electors of the town voting on such proposition. The
  submission of such proposition shall be as provided in article seven  of
  this chapter for a referendum thereunder in like manner as if a petition
  therefor  had  been  filed  in  accordance  with  the provisions of this
  chapter, except that such proposition  shall  be  submitted  only  at  a
  biennial town election as hereinbefore provided. If the town board shall
  have  adopted  such  a resolution and if a majority of the votes cast on
  any such proposition when submitted as herein provided shall be  in  the
  affirmative, the terms of office of those town officers included in such
  proposition and thereafter elected shall be for a period of four years.
2.  In  those  towns where the term of office of elected officials has
  been set at four years pursuant to subdivision one of this section,  and
  at least one hundred fifty days prior to any biennial town election, the
  town  board may adopt a resolution to provide that the term of office of
  each and any elective town official, whose term of office was changed to
  four years as provided in subdivision one of  this  section,  thereafter
  elected  shall  be  two years, and such resolution shall be submitted to
  the qualified electors of the town for their approval or disapproval  at
  the  next  biennial  town  election.  No  such  resolution  shall become
  effective until approved by the affirmative vote of the majority of  the
  qualified   electors  of  the  town  voting  on  such  proposition.  The
  submission of such proposition shall be as provided in article seven  of
  this chapter for a referendum thereunder in like manner as if a petition
  therefor  had  been  filed  in  accordance  with  the provisions of this
  chapter, except that such proposition  shall  be  submitted  only  at  a
  biennial town election as hereinbefore provided. If the town board shall
  have  adopted  such  a resolution and if a majority of the votes cast on
  any such proposition when submitted as herein provided shall be  in  the
  affirmative, the terms of office of those town officers included in such
  proposition and thereafter elected shall be for a period of two years.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 24-B - Election of Council Members and Town Justices in the Town of Pawling.

§  24-b.  Election of council members and town justices in the town of
  Pawling. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-four  of  this
  article  or any other general or special law, the town board of the town
  of Pawling in Dutchess county, may by  a  resolution  adopted  at  least
  ninety  days  prior  to  the  general election to be held in November of
  nineteen hundred sixty-nine, provide that at the general election to  be
  held in November of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, one town council member
  be  elected  for  a  term  of  two  years and one town council member be
  elected for a term of four years and thereafter at  each  biennial  town
  election  there  shall  be elected one town council member for a term of
  four years. Such  resolution  may  also  provide  that  at  the  general
  election to be held in November of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, one town
  justice  be  elected  for  a  term  of four years and thereafter at each
  biennial town election there shall be elected one  town  justice  for  a
  term of four years.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 25-A - Fingerprints of Persons Before Appointment as Town Police Officers, or as Constables Possessing Powers in Criminal Matters.

§  25-a.  Fingerprints  of  persons  before appointment as town police
  officers, or as constables possessing powers  in  criminal  matters.  No
  person  shall  be  appointed  or  reappointed  a  member  of  the police
  department, or a special police officer, or a constable not  limited  to
  powers  and  duties  in civil actions and proceedings only, in any town,
  who shall not  previously,  for  the  purposes  of  this  section,  have
  submitted fingerprints in the form and manner prescribed by the division
  of criminal justice services to the town board or other board or officer
  of  the town empowered by law to make such appointment or reappointment,
  and it shall be the duty of such board or officer,  before  making  such
  appointment  or  reappointment,  to compare or cause to be compared such
  fingerprints with fingerprints  filed  with  the  division  of  criminal
  justice  services;  provided,  however,  that  in  any  case  where  the
  fingerprints of any such person shall once have been submitted  pursuant
  to  this  section  and  are on file with the board empowered to make the
  appointment  or  reappointment,  no  new  submission  thereof  shall  be
  required,  nor  shall such board be required to make or cause to be made
  such comparison if such  comparison  shall  have  been  made  previously
  pursuant to this section and certification thereof by such department is
  on file with such board.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 31 - Powers and Duties of Town Justices; Requirements; Restriction.

§  31.  Powers and duties of town justices; requirements; restriction.
1.  The town justice shall have such jurisdiction in criminal and  civil
matters  and  in  special  proceedings,  as  is  now or may hereafter be
conferred by law. Each such justice shall:
(a) Keep or cause to be kept the records and dockets required  by  the
uniform justice court act. No town justice shall receive or disburse any
moneys  unless he shall furnish or receive a proper receipt therefor, or
make a memorandum or record of such transaction, in such form and detail
as the state comptroller shall prescribe.
(b) At least annually and as often as  may  be  required,  submit  his
dockets to the members of the town board for examination and audit.
2.  No  town  justice  selected  for a term of office commencing on or
after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, except one who  has
been  admitted to practice law in this state, shall assume the functions
of his office unless he has filed in the office  of  the  town  clerk  a
certificate  of  completion  of  a  course of training prescribed by the
administrative board of  the  judicial  conference.  The  administrative
board may issue a temporary certificate enabling a justice to assume the
functions  of  his office pending completion of the earliest such course
available thereafter. Such certificates shall be in a form, and  subject
to terms and conditions, prescribed by the administrative board.
3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  law,  actual  and  necessary expenses
incurred by a justice or justice elect in attending a course of training
required of him before he can assume the functions of his  office  shall
be a charge against the town.
4.  No  town  justice  selected  for a term of office commencing on or
after July first, nineteen hundred  seventy-five,  shall  engage  in  or
accept  any  employment  as  a  "police officer" or a "peace officer" as
those terms are defined in the criminal procedure law.
5. A person who has been convicted of a felony pursuant to the laws of
this state or who has been convicted in  federal  court  or  in  another
state  for  a  crime or offense that would constitute a felony under the
laws of this state shall be permanently ineligible to be a candidate for
town justice or to be appointed or continue to hold such office.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 32 - Powers and Duties of Town Superintendent of Highways and Deputy Superintendent.

§  32. Powers and duties of town superintendent of highways and deputy
  superintendent. 1. The town superintendent of highways shall  have  such
  powers  and  shall  perform  such  duties  as  are  or  hereafter may be
  conferred or imposed upon him by law, and such  further  duties  as  the
  town board may determine not inconsistent with law.
2.  The town board of any town may at any time establish the office of
  deputy town superintendent of highways. The deputy  town  superintendent
  of  highways shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the town
  superintendent of highways. If the town superintendent of highways shall
  fail to appoint such deputy within five days after the establishment  of
  the  office  of deputy or within five days after a vacancy occurs in the
  office of deputy, the town board shall have power to appoint such deputy
  town superintendent of highways. During the absence or inability of  the
  town  superintendent  of  highways  to act, such deputy shall act and be
  vested with all the powers and duties  of  the  town  superintendent  as
  provided  by  law. Before such deputy shall perform any power or duty of
  the office of superintendent such deputy town superintendent of highways
  shall take and file the constitutional oath of office  and  execute  and
  file  an official undertaking to be approved by the town board. The town
  board shall fix the compensation to be received by such deputy.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 32-A - Entry by Town Engineer on Private Lands.

§ 32-a. Entry by town engineer on private lands. The town engineer and
  any  deputy,  assistant  or  employee  of  the  town  engineer's  office
  designated by him may enter upon any lands, waters or waterways,  public
  or  private,  within  the  town,  without  hindrance, for the purpose of
  making surveys, examinations or investigations, including the making  of
  test  pits  and test borings, necessary or convenient in the exercise of
  performance of any of the other powers or duties conferred or imposed on
  the town engineer, provided that any test pits or borings made hereunder
  shall be refilled and the real property so disturbed shall  be  restored
  to its previous condition.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 33 - Powers and Duties of Assessors.

§  33.  Powers  and  duties of assessors. 1. The assessor or assessors
  shall have such  powers  and  shall  perform  such  duties  as  are,  or
  hereafter may be, conferred or imposed by law.
When  required  by  the  town  board in a town of the first class, the
  assessor  or  assessors  shall  keep  such  office  hours   for   public
  convenience as the town board shall determine.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 34 - Powers and Duties of Town Comptroller.

§  34.  Powers and duties of town comptroller. 1. In any town in which
  the office of town comptroller shall have been established  and  a  town
  comptroller  shall  have  been  appointed  and shall have qualified, the
  powers of the town board of that town with respect to auditing, allowing
  or rejecting all accounts, charges, claims or demands against  the  town
  or  the improvement districts thereof and with respect to the examining,
  auditing and certification of accounts and receipts  of  town  officers,
  and  making  provision  for preparing and publishing or posting lists of
  all such accounts,  charges,  claims  or  demands  after  the  audit  or
  rejection  thereof,  including  the  powers conferred and duties imposed
  upon the town board in relation to auditing and approving certain claims
  pursuant to sections two hundred eighty-four and two hundred eighty-five
  of the highway law, shall devolve upon and thereafter  be  exercised  by
  such  town  comptroller, during the continuance of such office; and with
  respect to the powers so conferred and the duties so imposed he shall be
  the town board of the town during the continuance of  such  office.  The
  comptroller,  when  required  by  resolution  of  the  town board, shall
  countersign all checks required to be  signed  by  the  supervisor.  The
  comptroller  shall annually audit the fiscal affairs of each improvement
  district in said town operating under article thirteen of  this  chapter
  and report thereon in writing to the town board.
2. In any town in which the office of town comptroller shall have been
  established  and  a town comptroller shall have been appointed and shall
  have qualified, the town board may by ordinance provide that  either  or
  both  of  the  following  powers  conferred  and duties imposed upon the
  supervisor under section one hundred twenty-five of this  chapter  shall
  devolve  upon  and  be  exercised  by  such  town comptroller during the
  continuance of such office: (a) the keeping  of  separate  appropriation
  accounts  and  preventing  funds  or  appropriation  accounts from being
  overdrawn; or (b) the drawing upon funds or appropriations, provided the
  counter-signature of  the  supervisor  shall  be  required.    The  town
  comptroller shall furnish to the supervisor such information and data as
  the  supervisor  may require for the purpose of enabling him to exercise
  his powers and perform his duties or make reports required by law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 36 - Collection of Taxes by Town Clerk.

§  36. Collection of taxes by town clerk. 1. In any town of the second
  class in which the office of tax collector or receiver of taxes  exists,
  the  town  board  thereof  may  by  resolution duly adopted at least one
  hundred fifty days prior to any biennial town election,  determine  that
  said  office  be abolished, same to take effect at the expiration of the
  term of office to which the incumbent was elected or appointed;  and  no
  such  tax  collector  or  town receiver of taxes shall be elected at any
  biennial town election  held  not  less  than  one  hundred  fifty  days
  thereafter.  Upon  the  expiration  of  the  term  of office of such tax
  collector or town  receiver  of  taxes  as  provided  herein,  he  shall
  surrender  and  deliver  to  the  town clerk of said town all assessment
  rolls, books, papers, writings and all other documents and  property  in
  his  possession  as  such  officer. In all towns where the office of tax
  collector or receiver of taxes has been abolished, it shall be the  duty
  of  such  town  clerk  to collect and receive all state, county and town
  taxes and assessments that may be levied in such town and the town clerk
  shall have all the powers  and  be  subject  to  all  the  duties  of  a
  collector  with  respect to the collection of such taxes, the deposit of
  receipts and the return of unpaid taxes, as provided by subdivision  one
  of section thirty-five of this chapter.
2.  The  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county in which such town is
  situate shall issue its warrant to such  clerk  for  the  collection  of
  taxes  in  such  town,  in  the  same  manner  as warrants are issued to
  collectors, and all other warrants or authorizations for the  collection
  of  taxes, assessments or other moneys upon the taxable property of said
  town.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 38 - Certain Offices Abolished.

§  38.  Certain  offices abolished. 1. Except as otherwise provided by
  section twenty-five hundred six of the education law, in  towns  of  the
  first  class  the  offices of collector and of school district collector
  are abolished from and after the beginning of the term of office of  the
  first  receiver of taxes and assessments under this chapter, and no such
  collector or school district collector shall be chosen at  any  time  to
  succeed  the collectors in office when the term of such receiver begins.
  Upon the taking of office by the first receiver of taxes and assessments
  as provided herein, the town tax  collector  and  each  school  district
  collector shall surrender and deliver to such receiver all tax warrants,
  assessment rolls, books, papers, writings and all other documents in his
  possession as such officer. All provisions of law applicable to town tax
  collectors  or  school  district  collectors,  not inconsistent with the
  provisions of this article, are hereby made applicable to such  receiver
  and such receiver shall continue to collect all fees and penalties which
  such  collectors,  or  either of them, would collect were it not for the
  provisions of this article.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions  of  section  thirty-seven  of  this
  chapter,  the  town  board of any town of the first class may enter into
  agreement with one or more school boards for the  collection  of  school
  taxes  within  such  town, in which event a school district collector or
  collectors shall be appointed in the manner, and with all the powers and
  duties, prescribed by section twenty-one hundred thirty of the education
  law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 39 - Powers and Duties of Constables and Town Police Officers.

§  39.  Powers  and  duties  of  constables  and town police officers.
  Constables and town  police  officers  shall  have  all  the  power  and
  authority conferred upon constables by the general laws of the state and
  such additional powers, not inconsistent with law, as shall be conferred
  upon  them  by  the  town  board.  They  shall be subject to the general
  authority and direction of  the  town  board  and  to  such  orders  and
  regulations as the town board may prescribe, not inconsistent with law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 40 - Powers and Duties of Fence Viewers.

§  40. Powers and duties of fence viewers. The assessors shall perform
  all the duties and shall exercise all the powers hereinafter imposed and
  conferred upon  fence  viewers.  In  a  town  having  a  sole  appointed
  assessor,  the  assessor  and the members of the town board shall act as
  fence viewers.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 41-A - Abolition of the Additional Office of Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead.

§  41-a.  Abolition of the additional office of supervisor of the town
  of Hempstead. The  additional  office  of  supervisor  of  the  town  of
  Hempstead  as created pursuant to the provisions of section forty-one of
  this chapter is abolished effective at  12:01  a.m.  on  January  first,
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-six.  For  purposes  of  the election law, any
  petition filed or any nomination made in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-five
  for the office of presiding supervisor of the town of Hempstead shall be
  deemed  filed  and  or  made for the office of supervisor of the town of
  Hempstead which shall exist  effective  12:01  a.m.  on  January  first,
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-six, and any petition filed or nomination made
  in nineteen hundred ninety-five for the office of supervisor of the town
  of Hempstead which is abolished hereunder shall be null and void.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 41-B - .

§  41-b.  In  any  town  in which the office of director of purchasing
  shall have been established and a director of purchasing shall have been
  appointed and shall have qualified, the  director  of  purchasing  shall
  make  all  purchases  and  all  contracts  for  supplies,  materials and
  equipment of every nature for the town  and  for  any  town  department,
  board  or  agency  for which the town may in any event be liable and for
  any special improvement district within such town except for a  district
  having  a  separate  board of commissioners. Before making any purchase,
  the director of purchasing shall comply with such rules and  regulations
  in  relation  thereto  as  may  be established by resolution of the town
  board and such provisions of law as may be applicable thereto.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation › 42 - Deputy Supervisor.

§  42.  Deputy  supervisor. The town board of any town may at any time
  establish the office of deputy supervisor. The deputy  supervisor  shall
  be  appointed  by  the  supervisor  to  serve  at  the  pleasure  of the
  supervisor, and in case the office  of  supervisor  becomes  vacant  any
  deputy  supervisor  in  office  at  the  time  such vacancy occurs shall
  continue to serve until the  successor  of  such  deputy  supervisor  is
  appointed.  If  the supervisor shall fail to appoint a deputy supervisor
  within five days after the establishment of the office  or  within  five
  days  after  a  vacancy  occurs in the office, the town board shall have
  power to appoint such deputy supervisor. During the absence or inability
  to act of the supervisor, or while the office of supervisor  is  vacant,
  the  deputy  supervisor  shall preside, when present, at the meetings of
  the town board and shall be vested  with  all  of  the  powers  and  may
  perform  all  of  the duties of the supervisor under this chapter or any
  other law, except that he shall have no vote in his capacity  as  deputy
  supervisor  on  matters  coming  before  the town board and he shall not
  serve as a member of  the  county  board  of  supervisors.  Any  person,
  including  a town officer, official or employee, may be appointed deputy
  supervisor, provided that the person appointed shall  possess  the  same
  qualifications  as an elective town officer. Before he shall perform any
  function as  such,  the  deputy  supervisor  shall  take  and  file  the
  constitutional   oath  of  office  and  execute  and  file  an  official
  undertaking in the manner prescribed  in  section  twenty-five  of  this
  chapter.  The  town  board  shall  fix the compensation which the deputy
  supervisor shall receive, which compensation may be in addition  to  any
  other  compensation  he  may receive as a town officer, town official or
  town employee.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3-A - Suburban Town Law › Title 2 - Town Board › 51 - General Powers of Town Board.

§  51. General powers of town board. The town board of a suburban town
  shall  be  the  legislative,   appropriating,   governing   and   policy
  determining body of the town and shall have and exercise all such powers
  and  duties  as  are  conferred  or  imposed  upon it or are necessarily
  incidental thereto which are consistent  with  the  provisions  of  this
  article;  provided,  however, that whenever the expense of a function or
  activity is required by law or agreement to be a charge upon the taxable
  property of that part of  the  town  outside  of  any  village  and  the
  responsibility  for  the  performance  of  such  function or activity is
  reassigned, transferred or changed in any way pursuant to the provisions
  of this article, the  expenses  and  liabilities  attributable  to  such
  function  or  activity  shall  continue to be a charge upon such taxable
  real property outside of any village. In addition to  functions,  powers
  and  duties  otherwise  granted to it, the town board of a suburban town
  also shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
1. Appointment of the  heads  and  deputies  of  departments  of  town
  government  in  cases  in  which  such  officers  are appointive and the
  hearing and determination of charges brought by the supervisor  for  the
  removal from office of any of such appointive officers.
2.   On   recommendation   of   the  supervisor,  approval  of  budget
  modifications and transfers  between  budgetary  appropriations  in  the
  annual budget or in the capital budget, if any.
3. Requiring reports from the supervisor concerning the conduct of the
  official  business  of the town and the performance by town officers and
  employees of their functions, powers and duties.
4. Making of studies and investigations as it deems to be in the  best
  interests  of  the  town  and,  in  connection  therewith, to obtain and
  provide for compensation for professional and technical advice, subpoena
  witnesses, administer oaths and require the production of books,  papers
  and  other  evidence  deemed necessary or material for any such study or
  investigation.
5. Creation of non-compensated advisory boards, each member  of  which
  shall  be  appointed  by  the  town board or the supervisor, or both, as
  shall be specified by the town board in its  action  providing  for  the
  particular advisory board.
6.  Determination  and provision for any matter of town government not
  otherwise provided for, including but  not  restricted  to,  any  matter
  necessarily  involved  in  the transition to government of the town as a
  suburban town under the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3-A - Suburban Town Law › Title 3 - Supervisor › 52 - Supervisor.

§  52. Supervisor. The supervisor shall be the chief executive officer
  of a suburban town  and  head  of  the  administrative  branch  of  town
  government.  He  shall  be  responsible for the proper administration of
  town affairs, law enforcement and the maintenance of peace and order  in
  the  town.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  article  or other
  applicable law, in addition to the functions, powers  and  duties  of  a
  supervisor  as provided by this chapter and other laws of the state, the
  supervisor shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
1. Appoint, and at pleasure remove, a director of  finance  who  shall
  assist  the  supervisor in the preparation of the preliminary budget and
  the capital budget, if any, and in the administration  of  other  fiscal
  operations of the town for which the supervisor is responsible.
2. On the basis of estimates submitted to him by departments, agencies
  and officers of the town, prepare annually the preliminary budget of the
  town   and   submit  it  to  the  town  board  and  be  responsible  for
  administration of the annual budget after adoption by  the  town  board,
  and  be responsible for recommending modifications and transfers between
  appropriations in such budget during the fiscal year.
3. Where the town board has,  by  local  law,  established  a  capital
  budget  procedure,  on  the  basis  of  estimates  submitted  to  him by
  departments, agencies  and  officers  of  the  town,  prepare  with  the
  assistance of the planning board, if any, a proposed capital budget and,
  after  adoption  of  a  capital  budget by the town board, recommend for
  action by the board, from time to time when necessary, modifications and
  transfers between appropriations in such capital budget.
4. Bring removal charges against the appointive head or deputy head of
  any department of town government for hearing and determination  by  the
  town board.
5.  Approve  the  transfer  of  personnel  in  and  among agencies and
  departments of the town.
6. Provide for and direct the internal organization and reorganization
  within individual town departments or  agencies  where  consistent  with
  applicable  law,  provided,  however,  that  in  any  event, permissible
  transfers of functions between departments or agencies shall be  subject
  to approval of the town board.
7.  Keep the town board informed generally concerning town affairs and
  of the financial condition and future needs of the town  and  make  such
  recommendations as may seem to him desirable.
8. Have and perform the functions, powers and duties necessary for the
  execution  of those functions, powers and duties specifically granted in
  this article or other applicable law consistent herewith.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3-A - Suburban Town Law › Title 3 - Supervisor › 52-A - Official Newspaper in Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County.

§  52-a. Official newspaper in town of Greenburgh, Westchester county.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to  the  contrary,  the  town
  board of the town of Greenburgh, Westchester county is hereby authorized
  and  empowered  to  designate as the official newspaper of such town any
  newspaper regularly published in such town if such  newspaper  has  been
  entered  as  second class mail matter, or such town board shall have the
  option to designate as its official newspaper any newspaper published in
  the county if such newspaper has general circulation in such town. If no
  official newspaper has been designated, the town board may authorize the
  publication of a notice, resolution or ordinance in any newspaper  which
  could  be  designated  as  the  official  newspaper  of  the  town. Such
  authorization shall be deemed a designation of  such  newspaper  as  the
  official  newspaper  of  the  town  for the purpose of such publication.
  Additional  newspapers  published  in  the  English  language   may   be
  designated   for  the  publication  of  such  notices,  resolutions  and
  ordinances at the option of the town board. Any designation by the  town
  board  pursuant  to  the foregoing provisions shall be deemed sufficient
  authority for designation of any such newspaper by  any  board,  agency,
  commission  or  authority  of such town for any publication of notice or
  resolution required by law unless the town board in its discretion shall
  clearly indicate otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 3-A - Suburban Town Law › Title 4 - Town Departments › 53 - Departments of Town Government.

§  53.  Departments  of  town government. The town board of a suburban
  town may, by local law, create, modify or discontinue departments of the
  town government in addition to those otherwise authorized by law and may
  assign  additional  functions  or  duties  to  offices,  departments  or
  agencies  established  by or pursuant to act of the legislature or local
  law, but may not discontinue or assign to any other  office,  department
  or agency any function or duty otherwise required by law to be performed
  by an officer serving in an elective office.