2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 17 - Municipal Annexation Law › 704 - Notice of Hearing on Petition or Joint Resolution to Initiate Annexation of Territory.

§  704.  Notice of hearing on petition or joint resolution to initiate
  annexation of territory. 1.  In  the  event  it  is  proposed  to  annex
  territory,  the  governing  board  or  boards of the local government or
  governments to which it is proposed to  annex  such  territory  and  the
  governing   board   or  boards  of  the  affected  local  government  or
  governments in which such territory is  situated  shall,  within  twenty
  days  after  receipt  of a petition or adoption of a joint resolution to
  initiate annexation, respectively cause a notice to be published once in
  its or their official newspapers, or, if there be no official newspaper,
  in a newspaper published in the county and  having  general  circulation
  within the area of such local government or governments, as the case may
  be.  The governing board of each affected local government in which such
  territory is situated also shall cause a  copy  of  such  notice  to  be
  mailed  to  each  person  or  corporation  owning  real property in such
  territory as shown by the last preceding  assessment  roll  and  to  all
  persons residing in such territory qualified to vote for officers of the
  city,  town  or  village, as the case may be, in which such territory is
  situated as their names appear upon the register of voters for the  last
  preceding  general  election.  Where  the  territory  to  be  annexed is
  situated wholly or partly within a village, the governing board of  such
  village  and  the  governing  board  of  a  town  or towns in which such
  territory is wholly or partly situated  may  provide  by  agreement  for
  joint  publication  and  mailing  of  such  notice. Failure to mail such
  notice or failure of any addressee to receive the same shall not in  any
  manner  affect  the  validity  of  the  petition  or joint resolution to
  initiate annexation of territory or of  any  proceedings  taken  thereon
  provided  that  the  municipalities  that  adopted a joint resolution to
  initiate annexation have demonstrated a good faith attempt to mail  such
  notice to each person or corporation owning real property as required by
  this section. Such notice shall state that a petition for the annexation
  of  territory  or a joint resolution to initiate annexation of territory
  to the local government or governments (naming it or  them  and  briefly
  describing  the  territory  proposed  to  be  annexed  thereto) has been
  proposed, that at a specified place in one of such local governments  on
  a specified day not less than twenty days nor more than forty days after
  the  publication  and mailing of such notice, which place and date shall
  be specified therein, a joint hearing will be had upon such petition  or
  joint  resolution  to initiate annexation by such governing boards. Each
  of such governing boards shall cause a copy of such notice to be  mailed
  not  less  than  ten days prior to the date of such joint hearing to the
  school authorities of any school district in which all or  part  of  the
  territory  proposed  to be annexed is situated and, where it is proposed
  to annex territory to a city, to the school authorities  of  any  school
  district  (a)  adjoining  the  territory  proposed to be annexed and (b)
  located wholly or partly within such city. Each of such governing boards
  shall also cause a copy of such notice to be posted on  the  website  of
  the local government, if one exists.
2.  In  a  case  where  it is proposed to annex territory in a town or
  towns to another local government or  governments,  the  town  board  or
  boards  in  which  such territory is situated shall cause a copy of such
  notice to be mailed not less than ten days prior to  the  date  of  such
  joint  hearing  to the board of commissioners or other governing body of
  each  fire  district  or  other  district  corporation,  public  benefit
  corporation,  and town improvement district operated by a separate board
  of commissioners, situated wholly or  partly  in  the  territory  to  be
  annexed.
3.  In  the  event  that  any  affected local government shall fail to
  publish and mail such notice as required  by  subdivision  one  of  this

  section  or  in  the  event  that the town board of a town shall fail to
  cause copies thereof to be mailed as required by subdivision two of this
  section, the governing board or  boards  of  any  other  affected  local
  government  or  governments, if it or they deem it to be desirable, may,
  during an additional twenty days following  the  forty  day  period  now
  provided  in subdivision one of this section, amend and republish its or
  their notices and, on behalf of such local government,  town  board,  or
  both, publish and mail such notices.