2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 225 - Optional Appropriations for Public Benefit Services Administered by the Board.

§   225.   Optional   appropriations   for   public  benefit  services
administered by the board. 1. The board of supervisors shall have  power
to  appropriate county funds and to permit the use of county property of
all kinds for the following public benefit, objects and purposes:
(a) Propagation of game, game birds and fish. The amount  appropriated
under this paragraph for any fiscal year may equal but not exceed in any
county  one-half  of  one  per  centum  of  the total amount of the last
preceding annual budget for county purposes, but in no event  an  amount
in excess of ten thousand dollars;
(b)   Eradication  or  prevention  of  bovine  tuberculosis  or  other
infectious or  communicable  diseases  affecting  domestic  animals  and
fowls;
(c)  Publicizing  the  advantages  of  the  county  or  region, or for
commemoration programs of historical events;
(d) Care of burial lots of deceased members of the armed forces of the
United States located in a cemetery within  the  county  and  owned  and
maintained by an incorporated cemetery association;
(e) Suppression or control of white pine blister rust and other forest
tree  diseases and forest insects under the direction and supervision of
the state conservation department. Employees engaged in such  work  upon
public  or  private lands shall not be liable for trespass and no action
shall lie therefor;
(f) Suppression or control of the Japanese  beetle  infestation  under
the direction and supervision of the state department of agriculture and
markets.  Employees  engaged  in  such work upon public or private lands
shall not be liable for trespass and no action shall lie therefor; and
(g)  Establishment  and  maintenance  of  fire  training  schools  for
training firefighters.
(h) Establishment and maintenance of a central fire alarm system.
(i)  In  the  county  of  Washington  for  the destruction of bobcats,
porcupines, wolves, coyotes, coydogs and rattlesnakes, and in the county
of Hamilton for the destruction  of  bobcats,  porcupines,  wolves,  and
coyotes,  the  funds  appropriated therefor to be expended in payment of
bounties to be established by the board of supervisors.
(j) In the counties of Essex, Saratoga, St. Lawrence  and  Warren  for
the  destruction of bobcats, wolves, coyotes, coydogs, foxes, porcupines
and rattlesnakes, the funds appropriated  therefor  to  be  expended  in
payment of bounties to be established by the board of supervisors.
(k)  Conservation  education, including the promotion of better public
understanding of problems and desirable  practices  in  conservation  of
natural resources.
(l)  Establishment and maintenance of a county zoo, or the expenditure
of county funds for the support, in whole or in part, of an existing zoo
in the county, owned by a municipal corporation.
(m) eradication or control of the golden  nematode  infestation  under
the direction and supervision of the state department of agriculture and
markets.  Employees  engaged  in  such work upon public or private lands
shall not be liable for trespass and no action shall lie therefor.
(n) Without  limitation  of  the  foregoing  for  any  of  the  public
benefits,  objects  and  purposes  which  are  set  forth in section two
hundred twenty-four of this county law as amended.
2. The board shall provide for the expenditure  for  wages,  equipment
and  supplies,  under  the direction of a committee from its membership.
Authority may be granted to the chairman  of  such  committee  to  issue
orders  upon the county treasurer for such expenditures. The board shall
require a  report  of  such  expenditures  with  verified  or  certified
vouchers  attached.  The board of supervisors may adopt such rules as it

may deem necessary governing the expenditure  of  such  moneys  and  may
require a bond in such amount as it shall determine.
3.  The board may authorize the expenditure of county funds for any or
all of such public benefit objects and  purposes  jointly  with  another
county or counties. The board of each participating county shall appoint
a  committee  to  act  for  it  in  connection  with  such project. Such
committees in joint sessions shall select one of  their  members  to  be
chairman  and  shall  designate  the  county  treasurer  of  one  of the
participating counties to be custodian of the project fund. Each  county
treasurer  shall pay to the designated county treasurer whatever portion
of the total estimated cost of the project its board of supervisors  has
determined  to  contribute.  Such joint fund shall be deemed the fund of
all participating counties in proportion to  the  contribution  made  by
each.  Orders  upon the fund shall be signed by the chairman. Reports of
expenditures with verified or certified vouchers attached shall be  made
annually to the board of supervisors of each participating county.