2023 New York Laws › VET - Veterans' Services Law › Article 1 - Department of Veterans' Services › 16 - Location and Cost of Local Veterans' Service Agencies; Deputy Local Directors.

§  16.  Location  and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy
  local directors. 1. A local director shall designate the location of the
  local and branch offices of the local veterans'  service  agency  within
  his  or  her jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during convenient
  hours. The cost of maintenance  and  operation  of  a  county  veterans'
  service  agency shall be a county charge and the cost of maintenance and
  operation of a city veterans' service agency shall  be  a  city  charge,
  excepting that the state commissioner with the approval of the veterans'
  services  commission  shall  allot  and  pay,  from  state  moneys  made
  available to him or her for such  purposes,  to  each  county  veterans'
  service  agency  and each city veterans' service agency, an amount equal
  to fifty per centum of its expenditures for  maintenance  and  operation
  approved  by the state commissioner, provided that in no event shall the
  amount allotted and paid for such approved expenditures incurred in  any
  given year exceed (1) in the case of any county veterans' service agency
  in a county having a population of not more than one hundred thousand or
  in  the  case  of  any  city veterans' service agency in a city having a
  population of not more than one hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five
  thousand dollars, nor (2) in the case of any  county  veterans'  service
  agency in a county having a population in excess of one hundred thousand
  excluding  the population of any city therein which has a city veterans'
  service agency,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  and,  in
  addition  thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for each one hundred
  thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population of the  county  in
  excess  of  one  hundred  thousand  excluding the population of any city
  therein which has a city veterans' service agency, nor (3) in  the  case
  of  any  city  veterans' service agency in a city having a population in
  excess of one hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars,
  and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for each  one
  hundred  thousand,  or  major  portion thereof, of the population of the
  city in excess  of  one  hundred  thousand.  Such  population  shall  be
  certified  in  the  same manner as provided by section fifty-four of the
  state finance law.
2. The head of a branch office of a  local  veterans'  service  agency
  shall  be  a deputy local director of the local veterans' service agency
  who shall be appointed by the local director of the county  or  city  in
  which  the  branch  office is located with the approval of the governing
  body which makes the appropriation for the maintenance  of  such  branch
  office;  provided,  however, that the head of a branch office of a local
  veterans' service agency which operates in and for two or more adjoining
  towns or adjoining villages in the same county, and hereinafter in  this
  article  referred to as a consolidated branch office, shall be appointed
  by the local director of the  county  in  which  the  branch  office  is
  located  with the approval of the governing body of each town or village
  which makes an appropriation for  or  toward  the  maintenance  of  such
  branch  office,  and  any town or village is authorized to enter into an
  agreement with an adjoining town or an adjoining  village  in  the  same
  county,  respectively, or with two or more respective adjoining towns or
  villages in the same county, providing for their  joint  undertaking  to
  appropriate  and  make available moneys for or toward the maintenance of
  such a consolidated branch office.