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2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 15 - Cemeteries › 15-1510 - Cemetery and Funeral Home Combinations.

§ 15-1510 Cemetery and funeral home combinations. 1. No village shall,
directly or indirectly:
(a)  sell,  or  have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real
property dedicated to cemetery purposes or adjacent thereto to a funeral
entity, or use any of its property for location of a funeral entity;
(b) commingle funds used for cemetery purposes with a funeral entity;
(c) direct or carry on its cemetery related business or affairs with a
funeral entity;
(d) authorize control of its cemetery related business or affairs by a
funeral entity;
(e) engage in any sale or cross-marketing of goods or services with  a
funeral entity;
(f)  have,  enter into or perform a management or service contract for
cemetery operations with a funeral entity; or
(g) have, enter into or perform a management contract with any  entity
other  than  a  not-for-profit or religious corporation, or governmental
entity.
2. Only the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision one of
this section shall apply to villages with thirty acres or less  of  real
property dedicated to cemetery purposes, and only to the extent the sale
or  lease  is  of real property dedicated to cemetery purposes, and such
cemeteries shall not engage  in  the  sale  of  funeral  home  goods  or
services,  except  if such goods and services are otherwise permitted to
be sold by cemeteries.
3. For the purposes of this section, "funeral entity" means a  person,
partnership,  corporation,  limited  liability  company or other form of
business  organization  providing  funeral  home  services,  or  owning,
controlling,   conducting   or  affiliated  with  a  funeral  home,  any
subsidiary thereof or any officer, director or stockholder having a  ten
per  centum  or  greater  proprietary,  beneficial,  equitable or credit
interest in a funeral home.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 16 - Reincorporation › 16-1600 - Reincorporation of Special Village Under This Chapter.

§  16-1600  Reincorporation  of  special village under this chapter. A
  village incorporated by special law and subject to its provisions may be
  reincorporated under this chapter by adopting  a  proposition  therefor.
  Such  a  proposition  may  be  submitted  at  an annual election or at a
  special election to be called for that purpose.
The board of trustees of such village may, upon its  own  motion,  and
  shall,  upon the petition of twenty-five electors assessed upon the last
  assessment-roll of the village, cause  to  be  submitted  at  a  village
  election  a proposition for such reincorporation. The ballots to be used
  at such an election may be written or printed,  and  shall  contain  the
  words  "For  the reincorporation of the village of (naming it) under the
  village law."
A proposition for the reincorporation of a village under this  article
  shall  not  be  submitted  at  a  special  election during the months of
  February or March.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 16 - Reincorporation › 16-1602 - Notice and Conduct of Election.

§  16-1602 Notice and conduct of election. If the proposition is to be
  submitted at an annual election, notice thereof shall be  given  by  the
  board  of  trustees  by  posting  notices  in  five public places in the
  village, and publishing the same in  the  official  newspaper  at  least
  twenty  days  before such annual election. In the event that the village
  maintains a website, one of the posting requirements may be fulfilled by
  posting such information on the website. If it is to be submitted  at  a
  special  election, notice of such election and of the submission of such
  proposition thereat, shall be given in the same manner and for the  same
  time  as for the submission of such a proposition at an annual election.
  Such a special election shall be held by the same officers and conducted
  and the result canvassed in the same manner as provided by  law  for  an
  annual election in such village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 16 - Reincorporation › 16-1604 - Certificate of Election.

§  16-1604  Certificate  of  election.  The  officers  conducting such
  election shall make a certificate thereof, showing the whole  number  of
  votes cast upon such proposition, and the number in favor of and against
  it,  and within twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls of such
  election, must file such certificate in the office of the village clerk.
  If the proposition be adopted the village clerk shall  within  ten  days
  after  the  election  file  a  certified copy of such certificate in the
  office of the clerk of each county in which any part of such village  is
  situated, and also in the office of the secretary of state.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 16 - Reincorporation › 16-1606 - Effect of Reincorporation.

§  16-1606  Effect  of reincorporation. If the proposition be adopted,
  the reincorporation of the village under this chapter shall take  effect
  immediately upon the filing of the certificate of election in the office
  of  the  village  clerk  and the secretary of state. From and after such
  filing such village shall be deemed incorporated under this chapter, and
  shall possess all the powers, enjoy all the privileges and be subject to
  all the liabilities, in all respects and for all purposes, as if it  had
  been  originally incorporated thereunder. Such reincorporation shall not
  affect any action then pending or cause of action existing by or against
  such village, nor property rights thereof under the  provisions  of  any
  law  to which it was then subject, nor affect the validity of any lawful
  ordinance previously enacted.   The officers of the  village  in  office
  when  the  reincorporation  takes  effect  shall  continue to hold their
  offices until the end of their term or until their successors shall have
  qualified.   The term of office of  an  officer  elected  at  an  annual
  election,  at  which the proposition to reincorporate was adopted, shall
  not be affected by such reincorporation and such  term  shall  begin  at
  noon  on  the  first  Monday  in  the  month following such election and
  continue for a full term expiring on  the  first  Monday  in  the  month
  following  the  election  at  which  their  successors  shall  have been
  elected.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 16 - Reincorporation › 16-1608 - Reincorporation of Certain Villages Confirmed.

§  16-1608 Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed. All villages
  in  the  state  incorporated  by  special  laws  and  subject  to  their
  provisions which have attempted to reincorporate under the provisions of
  chapter  four  hundred  and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and
  ninety-seven and  the  acts  amendatory  thereof,  between  July  first,
  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-seven and January first, nineteen hundred
  and four, or under the provisions of chapter sixty-four of the  laws  of
  nineteen  hundred  and nine to the date of the adoption of this chapter,
  and  which  have  held  their  elections,  elected  their  officers  and
  conducted  their  municipal  affairs under or agreeably or substantially
  under or substantially agreeable to the provisions of said law  for  the
  period  of  one  year, or longer are hereby declared to be regularly and
  duly incorporated villages under  this  chapter;  and,  so  far  as  any
  defects,  omissions  or  irregularities  to  the  proceedings  for  such
  reincorporation affect their annual and special elections  and  meetings
  and  their  acts  and proceedings at such elections and meetings and the
  election of their mayors and their other village officers  and  all  the
  acts  and  proceedings  of their boards of trustees and all the acts and
  proceedings of their officers, their said annual and  special  elections
  and  meetings  and  the  election of their mayors and trustees and their
  other village officers and all acts and proceedings of their  boards  of
  trustees  and all the acts and proceedings of their officers, are hereby
  declared to be legal and valid; and so far as any defects, omissions  or
  irregularities  in their proceedings for such reincorporation affect the
  title to the offices held by their mayors, trustees and other  officers,
  their said mayors, trustees and other officers are hereby declared to be
  legally  holding  and  entitled  to  their  offices  de  jure  until the
  expiration thereof as provided by this chapter.
This section shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending  in
  any court.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1700 - Application.

§  17-1700  Application. This article shall apply to any village which
  has been  or  may  hereafter  be  incorporated  to  embrace  the  entire
  territory of a town, to any village which has annexed or may hereinafter
  annex  territory  to  embrace the entire territory of a town, and to any
  town which has been or may hereafter be created to be  coterminous  with
  any village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1702 - Effect of Alteration of Town Boundaries.

§  17-1702  Effect of alteration of town boundaries. 1. The boundaries
  of a village incorporated or which has annexed territory to embrace  the
  entire  territory  of  a  town,  shall  be  deemed to embrace the entire
  territory of such town as such territory  may  thereafter  be  extended,
  diminished  or  altered  pursuant  to law. Whenever the territory of any
  other village to which this article applies is extended,  diminished  or
  altered pursuant to law, other than by consolidation, then the territory
  of the town which is coterminous with such village shall be deemed to be
  correspondingly extended, diminished or altered.
2.  The  real  property  excluded  by law from the territory of a town
  shall not be subject  to  further  assessment  or  taxation  for  either
  general or local purposes by a village embracing the entire territory of
  such  town,  but  taxes  for  the  purposes  of  such  village and local
  assessments may be  levied  and  collected  against  the  real  property
  annexed by law to the territory of such town in the same manner and with
  the  same force and effect as taxes and local assessments are levied and
  collected against other real property within the village. Taxes or local
  assessments, if any, theretofore assessed against real property excluded
  from such town shall be levied and collected in the same manner and with
  the same force and effect as prior to such exclusion.
3. The extension,  diminution  or  alteration  of  the  boundaries  or
  territory  of  a town wholly embraced within the boundaries of a village
  shall in no way affect or impair the boundaries or territory of a school
  district nor shall the assessment,  levy  or  collection  of  taxes  for
  school district purposes be affected or impaired thereby.
4.  Such  extension,  diminution  or  alteration  of the boundaries or
  territory of a town shall in no way affect or impair the jurisdiction of
  any court with respect to  pending  actions  or  proceedings,  nor  with
  respect  to  the  prosecution of crimes committed prior thereto, and all
  courts shall have and retain jurisdiction of such  actions,  proceedings
  and  prosecutions as though such extension, diminution or alteration had
  not been made.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1703 - Filling of Village Offices, Election of Officers.

§  17-1703.  Filling of village offices, election of officers. 1. Upon
  the filing of the certificate of incorporation of each village which has
  been incorporated to embrace the entire  territory  of  a  town  in  the
  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  town, the town board of such town shall
  constitute the interim board of trustees of the village for all purposes
  and the supervisor of such town shall  be  the  interim  mayor  of  such
  village  for  all purposes until the first election in such village of a
  board of trustees and mayor. Upon the qualification and  filing  of  the
  oath of office by the mayor and trustees elected in accordance herewith,
  the  holding  of the office, ex officio, of mayor or trustee by any town
  officer shall terminate.
2. A first election of village officers shall be held pursuant to  the
  election law at the same time, date and places, and in substantially the
  same  manner  as the first regularly scheduled election of town officers
  occuring not less than thirty days after such filing of the  certificate
  of incorporation of such village.
3. At such first election, a mayor and two trustees shall be chosen to
  serve  as  village  officers  for  terms of two years each and two other
  trustees shall be chosen to serve as village officers for terms of  four
  years  each  measured from the first day of January next succeeding such
  election notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one hereof.
4. For purposes of electing successors to the village officers elected
  at the first village election as herein provided the terms of office  of
  trustees  shall  be four years and the term of office of the mayor shall
  be two years and such terms of office shall commence on the first day of
  January next succeeding the date of election.
5. Nothing herein contained shall diminish the power of the  board  of
  trustees  pursuant  to  section  3-302  of  this  chapter  or  any other
  provision of law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1704 - Succession of Powers and Duties.

§  17-1704 Succession of powers and duties. In every such village, all
  the powers and duties imposed by law upon the town board of the town  or
  upon  any officer of the town or commissioners or boards of any district
  in relation to any water  district,  or  any  lamp  or  street  lighting
  district,  or  any  sewer  district,  or  any  fire district, created or
  organized under the provisions of the town law, shall  devolve  and  are
  hereby  imposed  upon  the  board  of  trustees of such village, and all
  contracts in relation to such  districts  or  any  improvements  therein
  shall be performed and completed by the said board of trustees.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1706 - Succession of Powers and Duties Relating to Public Bridges and Highways.

§  17-1706  Succession of powers and duties relating to public bridges
  and highways. In every such village all powers and duties granted to  or
  imposed upon the town board of a town, or upon any officer of a town, in
  relation  to any public bridge or bridges, street or streets, highway or
  highways, wholly or partly within such town, are hereby granted  to  and
  imposed  upon  the  board  of  trustees  of  such  village. The board of
  trustees of any such village shall have  full  power  and  authority  to
  repair,  replace,  construct  or re-construct any public bridge over any
  boundary of such village. If the project is to be paid from taxes levied
  for the fiscal year in which the expenditure is to be made, the board of
  trustees may submit to the voters of the village qualified  to  vote  at
  such   an   election,   a   proposition  for  the  repair,  replacement,
  construction or re-construction of any such bridge partly at the expense
  of such village and such board of trustees  shall  also  have  power  to
  complete  any  proceedings  commenced  under  the town law, or under the
  highway   law,   for   the   repair,   replacement,   construction    or
  re-construction of any such bridge.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1710 - Bond or Undertaking by Town and Village Officer.

§  17-1710  Bond  or undertaking by town and village officer. In every
  such village where one individual holds  more  than  one  office  either
  under the village, town or other law, whether elective or appointive, in
  which  it  is  required  that he shall give a bond or undertaking he may
  give one bond covering him in all capacities.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1712 - Water Districts.

§  17-1712  Water districts. In every such village any water districts
  created or organized  under  the  provisions  of  the  town  law,  shall
  continue  and  the board of trustees shall be and they are hereby vested
  with the full management and control of such districts,  and  the  water
  systems constructed therein, and the assessment of the cost and expenses
  thereof,  which  water  districts shall until discontinued in the manner
  hereinafter provided, be managed, controlled and  operated  and  may  be
  extended  or  enlarged, by said board of trustees in the manner provided
  in the town law; provided, however, that if any such village shall adopt
  a general village water system, such water district or districts may  be
  discontinued  upon the adoption of a proposition for such discontinuance
  at a village election. In every such village any water  supply  district
  organized  under  the  town law or under the transportation corporations
  law shall continue  and  the  boundaries  thereof  may  be  extended  or
  modified  by  the  board  of  trustees,  or  the  board  of trustees may
  establish one or more additional water supply districts in said village,
  by filing a certified copy of a resolution describing the bounds thereof
  as extended or modified, or as established by the board of trustees,  in
  the  office  of the village clerk; and may contract with any corporation
  in the name of the village to supply water  for  fire  or  other  public
  purposes  to any such district or districts, or in case any such village
  shall own or operate a water supply system the  board  of  trustees  may
  supply  water  therefrom  to  any  such  district  or districts for such
  purposes and fix the amount of the rentals and charges therefor; and the
  rentals or expenses thereof under any such contract, or for  the  supply
  of  water by the village shall annually, and in the same manner as other
  expenses of the  village  are  raised,  be  assessed,  levied  upon  and
  collected  from the taxable property within such water supply districts,
  respectively.  No such contract shall be made for a longer  period  than
  five  years, nor shall the tax in any year for such rentals and expenses
  exceed four mills on each dollar of the assessed value  of  the  taxable
  property within any such water supply district.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1714 - Establishment and Maintenance of Hospitals.

§  17-1714  Establishment  and  maintenance  of  hospitals. 1. For the
  purpose of enabling such villages  to  procure  federal  aid  under  the
  provisions  of the national industrial recovery act in the establishment
  of hospitals, the board of trustees of any village which has been or may
  hereafter be incorporated or which has annexed territory to embrace  the
  entire  territory  of a town, and which is adjacent to a city or town in
  which a  hospital  is  maintained  by  a  duly  incorporated  membership
  corporation, may acquire by gift or purchase title to lands in such city
  or  town  in trust for hospital purposes. If such land is to be acquired
  by gift, the acquisition shall be subject to a permissive referendum  or
  if  such  land  is  to be acquired by purchase, the acquisition shall be
  subject to a permissive referendum if it is to be paid from taxes levied
  for the fiscal year in which such expenditure is  made.  The  board  may
  construct  and  maintain  on  such land suitable buildings and equip the
  same for hospital purposes and, from time to time,  enter  into  one  or
  more  agreements  with  such  membership  hospital  corporation  for the
  control and operation thereof, and such board of trustees may accept  on
  such  terms  as  the president of the United States shall prescribe, any
  grants made by him pursuant to  the  provisions  of  the  said  national
  industrial  recovery  act  in  aid  of  the  establishment  of  the said
  hospital.
2. There shall be  levied  and  assessed  annually  upon  the  taxable
  property  in  the  said  village  in  the manner prescribed by law a sum
  sufficient to defray the cost of the operation and  maintenance  of  the
  said  hospital  in  each  year, as estimated by the board of trustees of
  such village.
3. Hospital corporations duly incorporated under the provisions of the
  membership corporation law are hereby empowered to dedicate,  grant  and
  release  to  any  such  village  lands for said purposes, upon terms and
  conditions to be approved by its board of governors, and to  enter  into
  agreements  with  the  board  of  trustees  of  any such village for the
  control, operation and maintenance of any hospital or  hospitals  to  be
  constructed as hereinbefore provided.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1716 - Lamp or Street Lighting Districts.

§ 17-1716 Lamp or street lighting districts. In every such village any
  lamp  or  street  lighting  districts  created  or  organized  under the
  provisions of the town law, shall continue and  the  board  of  trustees
  shall be and they are hereby vested with the full management and control
  of  such  districts, and the lighting system thereof, and the assessment
  of the cost and expenses of such lighting, which lighting district shall
  until discontinued in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided,  be  managed,
  controlled  and  operated and may be extended or enlarged, by said board
  of trustees, in the manner provided in the town law; provided,  however,
  that  the  board  of trustees of such village may, in its discretion, by
  resolution, discontinue any such lighting district, in  which  case  the
  provisions of the village law in relation to street lighting shall apply
  to any such village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1719 - Wastewater Disposal Districts.

§  17-1719  Wastewater  disposal  districts.  All of the provisions of
  section 17-1718 of this article, relating to the  continuance  of  sewer
  districts,  shall  apply  to  the  continuance  of  wastewater  disposal
  districts.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1722-A - Single Assessment Roll for Both Town and Village Purposes.

§ 17-1722-a Single assessment roll for both town and village purposes.
  1.  Except  in  the town and village of Mount Kisco, Westchester county,
  and notwithstanding the provisions of section 17-1722 of this chapter or
  of any general, special, local or other law  to  the  contrary,  in  any
  village  which  embraces the entire territory of a town there shall be a
  single assessment  roll  for  both  town  and  village  purposes,  which
  assessment  roll shall be prepared by the town in the manner provided by
  law.
2. In any village subject to the provisions of subdivision one of this
  section, the taxable status date of the town shall  be  controlling  for
  village tax purposes and all acts required by law to be performed by the
  town  in  the  preparation  of  the  assessment  roll, including but not
  limited to, the giving of notice and the  hearing  of  complaints  shall
  inure  to the village and shall have the same force and effect as if the
  same had been performed by the village.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special,  local  or
  other  law  to  the  contrary, commencing with the first assessment roll
  prepared pursuant to this section, assessments made or approved  by  the
  commissioner   of   taxation   and   finance   for   town  purposes  and
  determinations made by the commissioner of taxation and finance pursuant
  to titles two-a and two-b of article four of the real property  tax  law
  for  town  purposes  shall  be  deemed  to  have  been made, approved or
  determined  for  village  purposes  and  the  state  equalization   rate
  established  by  the  commissioner  of taxation and finance for the town
  pursuant to article twelve of the real property tax law shall be  deemed
  to be the state equalization rate established for the village.
4.  On or before the twenty-fifth day of June the board of trustees of
  any such village shall levy the tax for the current  fiscal  year.  Upon
  the  completion of the tax levy, and not later than the twenty-fifth day
  of June, the clerk shall deliver to the treasurer a duplicate  tax  roll
  with  warrant  attached  or filed therewith if the rolls are prepared in
  accordance with the provisions of article fifteen-C of the real property
  tax law.
5. Any final order in a proceeding under article  seven  of  the  real
  property  tax  law which orders or directs the correction or striking of
  an assessment appearing on an assessment roll prepared pursuant to  this
  section  shall  be binding on the town and the village and any refund of
  taxes required to be made by reason of such final order shall be made in
  the manner provided in section seven  hundred  twenty-six  of  the  real
  property tax law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1724 - Taxation and Assessment.

§  17-1724 Taxation and assessment. In every such village all property
  shall be assessed for taxation for  state,  county,  town,  village  and
  district  purposes, in the manner provided by the laws applicable to the
  county in which such village may be situated.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1728 - Town Budgets.

§  17-1728  Town  budgets.  In  every  such town, the town board shall
  annually, during the month of December, or such other  date  as  may  be
  applicable pursuant to section 17-1729 of this article, prepare and file
  with  the  clerk of such village an itemized statement in writing of the
  estimated revenues and expenditures of such town for the  period  ending
  with  the  next  ensuing  fiscal  year of such village and such itemized
  statement shall be included by the board of trustees of such village  in
  its  next annual estimate, and the amount thereof as finally allowed and
  determined by the said board of trustees shall be included in the budget
  of the said village for the said ensuing fiscal year,  and  included  in
  the general village tax levied during the said year and the several sums
  estimated   for  expenditures  therein  and  the  several  sums  therein
  enumerated as estimated revenues shall be and become applicable  in  the
  amounts therein named for the purpose of meeting such appropriations.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1732 - Trees and Shrubs and Shade Tree Commission.

§  17-1732  Trees  and  shrubs  and shade tree commission. In any such
  village the board  of  trustees  may  annually  raise  by  taxation  and
  appropriate  and expend for planting, care and preservation of trees and
  shrubs in and upon the public highways and public places thereof  a  sum
  not  exceeding  twenty-five  hundred dollars, except that the village of
  Scarsdale may raise by taxation and expend  for  the  purposes  of  this
  section  such  sum  as may be necessary and appropriate therefor; and in
  any such village the  board  of  trustees  may  regulate  the  planting,
  maintenance,  protection  and  control  of  shade  trees upon the public
  highways or public places of such village, and for  that  purpose  shall
  have  power  to  enact,  amend  and  repeal  an ordinance or ordinances,
  providing for the appointment of a shade tree commission (which  may  be
  the   village   planning   commission)   and  for  the  planting,  care,
  preservation, maintenance, protection and control  of  shade  trees  and
  shrubs  upon  the  public highways or public places of such village, and
  for the enforcement thereof by fines and penalties. Every such ordinance
  shall provide that the members  of  such  shade  tree  commission  serve
  without compensation.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1734 - Town Assessment-Roll Official.

§  17-1734 Town assessment-roll official. The assessment-roll prepared
  by the board  of  assessors  of  such  a  town  shall  be  the  official
  assessment-roll  for  the  town and each special tax district and school
  district or portion thereof, so far as  it  relates  to  property  lying
  within the limits of such town. The assessment-roll shall be prepared in
  duplicate  and  after  revision  and  correction  both  rolls  shall  be
  delivered to the supervisor of the town. The town board may  publish  or
  cause to be published the assessment-roll in whole or in part.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 17 - Provisions Applicable to a Village Embracing the Entire Territory of a Town › 17-1735 - Town Legislation to Carry Over.

§  17-1735 Town legislation to carry over. Notwithstanding any general
  or special law to the contrary in any village  which  has  been  or  may
  hereafter be incorporated to embrace the entire territory of a town, and
  in  any  village  which  has  annexed  territory  to  embrace the entire
  territory of a town, all local laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules  and
  regulations  in  effect in such town, on the date of incorporation shall
  remain in effect in such  village,  and  such  local  laws,  ordinances,
  resolutions,  rules  and regulations may be amended from time to time by
  the town board, and such amendments shall be in effect in such  village,
  and  new  local laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations may
  be enacted from time to time by the town board and shall be in effect in
  such village, as if the same had been  duly  adopted  by  the  board  of
  trustees   provided,   however,   that   such  local  laws,  ordinances,
  resolutions, rules and regulations shall cease to be in  effect  in  the
  village  or  any part thereof when so determined by duly enacted village
  local law, resolution, rule or regulation as may be appropriate, or when
  replaced  by  duly  enacted  village  local  law,  resolution,  rule  or
  regulation  covering  the  same  subject  matter.  Any  such local laws,
  ordinances, resolutions, rules  or  regulations,  and  any  local  laws,
  resolutions,  rules  or  regulations enacted by any such village, may be
  administered and enforced by either such town or such village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1800 - Change of Name.

§  18-1800  Change  of name. The name of a village may be changed upon
  the adoption of a proposition therefor at an annual or special election.
  The proposition must contain the proposed new name, and  be  accompanied
  by written notice to the United States Postal Service of such change. If
  the  proposition be adopted a certificate thereof, attested by the mayor
  and clerk of the village, shall, within ten days after the election,  be
  filed  in the office of such clerk, in the office of the county clerk of
  each county in which any part of the village is situated,  and  also  in
  the  office  of  the secretary of state. The change of name takes effect
  upon the filing of the certificate in the office of the village clerk.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1802 - Taxes to Pay Interest and Principal of Town Highway Bonds.

§  18-1802  Taxes to pay interest and principal of town highway bonds.
  The board of trustees of a village which has had or may  hereafter  have
  its  boundaries  extended  when  authorized  by  a  majority vote of the
  electors thereof at a referendum duly called therein, in behalf of  said
  village,  may  by  contract with the town or towns in which said village
  lies agree to assume and pay that part of the town taxes to be levied in
  future years by such town or towns to  pay  principal  and  interest  of
  obligations  sold  to  improve  and  pave highways in said town or towns
  which taxes will, when levied, become a lien upon property in  territory
  annexed  to  said  village,  and  to the extent contracted for, the said
  taxes shall be collectible by the town or towns from  said  village  and
  become  a  general village charge, and when said village shall have paid
  such part of said town taxes  the  property  in  the  annexed  territory
  subject to such levy shall be relieved from paying the part thereof paid
  by said village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1820 - Establishment of a Commission for Village Manager.

§ 18-1820 Establishment of a commission for village manager. The board
  of  trustees  of any village may, as an alternative to the adoption of a
  local law establishing the position of village manager,  adopt  a  local
  law  providing  for  the creation of a commission to study and prepare a
  local law establishing the position of village manager and defining  the
  duties  and responsibilities thereof. Such local law shall be subject to
  a permissive referendum. The local law  creating  the  commission  shall
  provide   for   the  organization  and  method  of  procedure  for  such
  commission, including, but not limited to, (a) the number of members  of
  such  commission,  which shall not exceed seven and of which number more
  than one-half shall not be members of the board  of  trustees,  (b)  the
  compensation,  if  any,  of  the  members  of  the  commission,  (c) the
  employment of staff or consultants, if any, and (d) the  date  by  which
  such  commission  shall  report  its recommendations to the board, which
  date shall be no later than two years after the final appointment of all
  members of the commission. The appointment of members of the commission,
  and the filling of any vacancies on such commission, shall  be  made  as
  provided in this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1822 - Establishment of Commission by Petition.

§  18-1822  Establishment  of commission by petition.  Notwithstanding
  the provisions of section twenty of  the  municipal  home  rule  law,  a
  proposed  local law creating a commission as provided in section 18-1820
  of this article shall be submitted to referendum providing such proposed
  local law is submitted with a petition  requesting  that  such  proposed
  local law be submitted to the electors of the village for their approval
  or  disapproval  in  accordance  with  the provisions and procedures set
  forth in article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1824 - Form of Proposition.

§ 18-1824  Form of proposition.  The proposition submitting such local
  law  to  the  electors  of  the  village  shall  be in substantially the
  following     form:     Shall     local      law      number..........of
  nineteen............creating   a  commission  to  prepare  a  local  law
  establishing the position of village manager and defining the duties and
  responsibilities  thereof  for   the   village   of...................be
  approved?
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1826 - Powers and Duties of the Commission.

§  18-1826 Powers and duties of the commission. The commission created
  pursuant  to  this  article  shall  have  all  the  powers,  duties  and
  responsibilities set forth in the local law creating such commission and
  shall  immediately,  upon  final  appointment of all members, proceed to
  discharge such powers, duties and responsibilities.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 18 - Alterations and Form of Government › 18-1828 - Vote on Commission Report.

§  18-1828  Vote on commission report. A commission appointed pursuant
  to this article shall report to the board of trustees  within  the  time
  provided  in  the local law creating such commission unless the board of
  trustees, on its own motion, elects to  extend  such  time,  but  in  no
  event,  shall  such time to report be extended more than ninety days. In
  the event the commission prepares a local law establishing the  position
  of  village  manager,  such  local  law shall be filed with the board of
  trustees who shall submit such local law to the village attorney  or  an
  attorney employed by the village to review the legal sufficiency of such
  local  law.  The  attorney shall review such local law and report to the
  board whether or not such local law complies with  sections  twenty  and
  twenty-seven  of  the municipal home rule law and whether such local law
  is consistent with the constitution and other laws  of  this  state.  If
  such  local  law  be filed after the first day of the month in which the
  general village election is to be held and before the first day  of  the
  month  two  months  prior  to  the  next  general  village  election,  a
  proposition for the approval of such local law shall be submitted  at  a
  special  election  of such village to be held not less than ten nor more
  than sixty days after the filing of such petition. If such local law  be
  so  filed on or after the first day of the month two months prior to the
  date on which the general village election is  to  be  held  and  on  or
  before  the first day of the month in which the general village election
  is to be held, the proposition for the approval of such local law  shall
  be  submitted  at  the said general village election. A special election
  hereunder shall be noticed, conducted, canvassed and otherwise  held  in
  the same manner as provided in article nine of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 20 - Actions Involving the Village; Ordinances › 20-2000 - Orders, Rules and Regulations.

§  20-2000 Orders, rules and regulations. An order, rule or regulation
  which contains a penalty therein may be adopted by local law. Any  rule,
  by-law  or  regulation  adopted  by any separate board, the violation of
  which shall result in a fine or imprisonment shall be  approved  by  the
  board  of  trustees  and  notice  of  hearing  and  publication shall be
  conducted by the board of trustees in the same manner as  the  enactment
  of a local law prior to such approval.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 20 - Actions Involving the Village; Ordinances › 20-2002 - Traffic Orders, Rules or Regulations.

§ 20-2002 Traffic orders, rules or regulations. In the event the board
  of  trustees  of a village adopts any order, rule or regulation pursuant
  to the authority of the vehicle and traffic law or delegates any  powers
  granted  to such village by the vehicle and traffic law to any official,
  board or agency of such village as authorized by section sixteen hundred
  three of the vehicle and traffic law, any orders, rules  or  regulations
  adopted  by such board of trustees, official, board or agency shall take
  effect immediately upon adoption, subject to the limitations imposed  by
  section  sixteen  hundred  eighty-four  of  the vehicle and traffic law,
  without notice or hearing, providing traffic control  devices  complying
  with  the manual and specifications thereof as adopted by the department
  of transportation are placed and maintained as shall be deemed necessary
  to indicate and carry out  the  provisions  of  such  orders,  rules  or
  regulations  as  required  by  section  sixteen hundred eight-two of the
  vehicle and traffic law.
No orders, rules or regulations heretofore adopted  by  any  board  of
  trustees,  or  by  any  official,  board  or agency as authorized by the
  provisions of section sixteen hundred three of the vehicle  and  traffic
  law shall be deemed invalid or ineffective solely because such order was
  adopted without notice or hearing.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 20 - Actions Involving the Village; Ordinances › 20-2003 - Discharge of Firearms in the Village of Green Island.

§  20-2003  Discharge of firearms in the village of Green Island.  The
  local legislative body of the village of Green Island in the  county  of
  Albany  is  authorized  to prohibit by local law, rule or regulation the
  discharge of firearms in areas in which such activity may  be  hazardous
  to the general public or nearby residents, and providing for the posting
  of  such  areas  with  signs  giving  notice  of such local law, rule or
  regulation, which local laws, rules and regulations may be more, but not
  less restrictive than any other provision of law. Thirty days  prior  to
  the adoption of any such local law, rule or regulation, a notice must be
  sent  to  the regional supervisor for fish and game of the environmental
  conservation department notifying him of such intention.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 20 - Actions Involving the Village; Ordinances › 20-2004 - Proof of Ordinance Adopted Prior to September First, Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four.

§  20-2004  Proof  of  ordinance  adopted  prior  to  September first,
  nineteen hundred seventy-four. The  certificate  of  the  village  clerk
  setting  forth the records of the village showing the adoption of one or
  more ordinances and the publishing of the notice of  adoption  shall  be
  presumptive  evidence  of such adoption and publication in any action or
  special proceeding in any court or otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 21 - Hearings › 21-2100 - Notice of Hearings.

§ 21-2100 Notice of hearings. l. Any local law adopted pursuant to the
  powers granted by this chapter shall be in accordance with the procedure
  prescribed  by  the municipal home rule law. Any other action taken by a
  village board of trustees in the exercise of its powers and upon which a
  public hearing is required to be conducted shall be in  accordance  with
  this  section  unless  otherwise  specifically  required by statute. Any
  notice of a hearing, not otherwise specifically required by law shall be
  given in the following manner:
by publication of such notice in the official newspaper of the village
  or if there be none, in  a  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in  the
  village wherein the hearing is to be held.
2.  Such  hearing  shall  be  conducted not less than seven days after
  publication of such notice.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 21 - Hearings › 21-2102 - Conduct of Hearings.

§  21-2102  Conduct  of  hearings. l. The hearing shall be held at the
  time and place designated in the notice. Such hearing may  be  adjourned
  by  the  board  conducting  such  hearing provided the adjourned date is
  announced at such public hearing.  The  board  conducting  such  hearing
  shall have minutes taken of such proceedings.
2.  Within sixty-two days after such hearing is concluded the board of
  trustees shall  make  a  decision  accordingly.  The  original  of  such
  decision,  copies  of the notice of the hearing together with affidavits
  of  publishing  same,  in  compliance  with  rule   forty-five   hundred
  thirty-two  of  the civil practice law and rules, the written objections
  and the minutes of proceedings taken on the hearings,  including  signed
  testimony,  shall  be  filed  by  the board of trustees with the village
  clerk within five days after the decision is rendered.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 22-A - Joint Fire Districts › 22-2210 - Establishment of Joint Fire Districts.

§  22-2210  Establishment of joint fire districts. The town board of a
  town or the town boards of more than one town, and the board of trustees
  of an incorporated village or the boards of trustees of  more  than  one
  incorporated village located in said town or towns are hereby authorized
  to establish and/or extend in such town or towns and village or villages
  a joint fire district for the purposes stated and in the manner provided
  in  article  eleven-A  of the town law, provided all of the territory in
  such joint fire district shall be contiguous.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 22-A - Joint Fire Districts › 22-2212 - Operation of Joint Fire Districts in Towns.

§  22-2212 Operation of joint fire districts in towns. In all respects
  the provisions of article eleven-A of the town law shall  apply  to  the
  establishment,  extension,  operation  and  management of any joint fire
  district provided for by this article.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 23 - Construction; Laws Repealed; Effective Date › 23-2200 - Savings Clause.

§  23-2200  Savings  clause.  The  repeal  of the village law, chapter
  sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred nine and amendments  thereto,
  shall  not  affect or impair the validity or operation of any local law,
  ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to such law. For  the  purposes
  of  actions  or proceedings which may or have been taken or rights which
  may or have been granted or obtained thereunder, such law and such local
  laws, ordinances or resolutions shall continue in force  and  effect  as
  fully and to the same extent as if such law had not been so repealed.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 23 - Construction; Laws Repealed; Effective Date › 23-2202 - Exceptions.

§  23-2202  Exceptions.  This chapter shall not be deemed to repeal or
  otherwise affect the provisions of any special or local law or ordinance
  of any county, city  or  village  charter,  or  other  special  form  of
  government,  it  being  the  intention  of the legislature that the same
  shall continue in full force and effect until and unless otherwise  duly
  amended, repealed or affected.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 23 - Construction; Laws Repealed; Effective Date › 23-2204 - Effect of Chapter.

§  23-2204  Effect  of  chapter.  Provisions  of this chapter that are
  substantially the same in substance and effect as  those  which  are  in
  force  immediately  prior to the time this chapter shall take effect and
  which are repealed by this chapter are intended to be codifications  and
  continuations of such latter provisions of law and not new enactments.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 23 - Construction; Laws Repealed; Effective Date › 23-2206 - Pending Actions and Proceedings.

§  23-2206  Pending  actions  and proceedings. No action or proceeding
  pending at the time  when  this  chapter  shall  take  effect  shall  be
  affected  by  any  provision  of  this  chapter,  but  the  same  may be
  prosecuted, defended or  enforced  as  if  this  chapter  had  not  been
  enacted.