2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 16 - Weights and Measures › 180 - Municipal Directors of Weights and Measures.

§  180. Municipal directors of weights and measures. 1. There shall be
  a county director of weights and measures in each county,  except  where
  (a)  a  county  is  wholly  embraced within a city there shall be a city
  director of weights and measures, or (b) where two or more counties have
  entered into an intermunicipal agreement, pursuant to article five-G  of
  the general municipal law, to share the functions, powers, and duties of
  one  director  of  weights  and  measures.  Any  county or city having a
  population  of  one  million  or  more  may  elect  to   designate   its
  commissioner  of  consumer  affairs  as  its  director  of  weights  and
  measures.  The  county  of  Westchester  may  elect  to  designate   its
  commissioner  or director of consumer affairs as its director of weights
  and measures. Subdivision four of this section  shall  not  apply  to  a
  commissioner or director of consumer affairs so designated.
2.  No  city  may  institute a weights and measures program. Provided,
  that any city which maintained a weights and measures program on January
  first, nineteen hundred seventy-six may continue such  program  under  a
  city director of weights and measures.
a.  Any  such  city may contract with the legislature of the county in
  which it is located for the county director of weights and  measures  to
  perform  the  duties of and have the same powers within such city as the
  city director. Such contract shall fix the amount to be paid annually by
  the city to the  county  for  such  services.  During  the  period  such
  contract  is in force and effect, the office of city director of weights
  and measures shall be abolished.
b. The county director shall not have jurisdiction in any  city  which
  has  a  city  director  of weights and measures, except in the county of
  Westchester the county director shall have concurrent jurisdiction  with
  city directors of weights and measures in such county.
3.  Nothing  contained herein shall prohibit the governing body of any
  county or city from assigning  to  its  municipal  director  powers  and
  duties  in  addition to the powers and duties prescribed by this article
  provided such additional powers and duties deal primarily with  services
  designed  to  aid and protect the consumer and are not inconsistent with
  the provisions of this article.
4. The municipal  director  shall  be  appointed  by  the  appropriate
  authority  of  the  municipality  in which he resides having the general
  power of appointment of  officers  and  employees.  Where  two  or  more
  counties  have  entered  into  an  intermunicipal agreement, pursuant to
  article five-G of the general municipal law,  to  share  the  functions,
  powers,  and  duties  of  one  director  of  weights  and measures, such
  municipal director may reside in any county  that  is  a  party  to  the
  intermunicipal  agreement.  He  shall be paid a salary determined by the
  appropriate authority and shall be provided by such authority  with  the
  working  standards  of weights, measures and other equipment as required
  by rules and regulations promulgated in accordance  with  this  article.
  The  position of municipal director shall be in the competitive class of
  the civil service with respect to all persons appointed on or after  the
  effective date of this act.