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2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 11 - County Attorney › 502 - Assistant County Attorneys.

§  502.  Assistant county attorneys. 1. The board of supervisors shall
  have power to authorize the county  attorney  to  appoint  one  or  more
  assistant  county  attorneys.   Every appointment of an assistant county
  attorney shall be in a writing filed and recorded in the office  of  the
  county  clerk. The person so appointed shall take the prescribed oath of
  office  and  furnish  any  required  official  undertaking.   Any   such
  appointment  may be revoked by the county attorney at any time by filing
  a written revocation in the office of the county clerk.
2. The assistant county attorney shall perform such duties  pertaining
  to the office as may be directed by the county attorney.
3.  The  assistant,  during  the  absence  or  inability of the county
  attorney, shall perform the powers and duties of the  office  of  county
  attorney.
4.  In  the  event  of a vacancy in the office of county attorney, the
  assistant shall perform the powers and duties of the  office  of  county
  attorney until a successor is appointed and has qualified.
5.  If more than one assistant county attorney shall be appointed, the
  county attorney shall designate in writing and file in the office of the
  county clerk and clerk of the board of supervisors the  order  in  which
  such  assistants  shall  exercise the powers and duties of the office in
  the event of a vacancy or  the  absence  or  inability  of  such  county
  attorney to perform the duties of the office.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 525 - County Clerk; Duties.

§  525.  County  clerk;  duties. 1. The county clerk shall perform the
  duties prescribed by law as register, and be the clerk  of  the  supreme
  court  and clerk of the county court within his county. He shall perform
  such additional and related duties as  may  be  prescribed  by  law  and
  directed by the board of supervisors.
2. He shall provide at the expense of the county, all books, files and
  other  necessary  equipment  for the filing, recording and depositing of
  documents, maps, papers in actions and special proceedings of both civil
  and criminal nature,  judgment  and  lien  dockets  and  books  for  the
  indexing of the same as directed or authorized by law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 526 - Deputy County Clerk.

§  526.  Deputy  county  clerk.  1. Within ten days after assuming the
  duties of the office, each county clerk shall appoint  a  deputy  county
  clerk  by an instrument in writing filed and recorded in his office. The
  deputy county clerk shall perform such duties as may be assigned by  the
  county clerk and during the temporary absence or inability of the county
  clerk,  have and exercise all of the powers and duties of the office. In
  case of a vacancy in the office of county clerk, the deputy county clerk
  shall perform the duties of  the  county  clerk  until  a  successor  is
  elected or appointed and has qualified.
2. The county clerk in like manner may designate one or more employees
  of  his  office  to  serve  as acting deputy clerk during the absence or
  inability of such deputy county clerk  to  perform  the  duties  of  the
  office.  If  there  be  no  deputy county clerk, or acting deputy county
  clerk, the county judge may in  the  same  manner  designate  an  acting
  deputy  county  clerk  who shall serve until a successor is appointed by
  the county clerk and has qualified.
3. The county clerk may appoint and remove  such  additional  deputies
  authorized  to  act generally for and in the place of their principal as
  shall be authorized by resolution of the board of supervisors.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 527 - Special Court Clerks.

§  527. Special court clerks. The board of supervisors shall authorize
  the appointment by  the  county  clerk  of  such  special  court  clerks
  including  naturalization  clerks  as may be necessary for the courts of
  record sitting in the county to function properly. Special court  clerks
  shall  have  the  same  powers  and  duties  as the county clerk for the
  transaction of business at court sessions attended by them.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 528 - Photo Recording.

§  528.  Photo  recording.  In  any  county  in  which documents to be
  recorded in the county clerk's office are  copies  by  use  of  a  photo
  copying  process,  such  county  clerk  may  cause  the  parts of such a
  document  to  be  separated  temporarily  to  facilitate  such  process,
  provided the document is restored to its original form immediately after
  the completion of such process.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 529 - Consolidated Lien Index.

§  529. Consolidated lien index. 1. In counties having a population of
  less than five hundred  thousand,  the  county  clerk  may  install  and
  maintain  a  single  consolidated  index,  in  lieu of all other indices
  required by law, for the purpose of indexing alphabetically all liens or
  encumbrances affecting real property recorded or filed  in  his  office,
  except mortgages, lis pendens and judgments.
2.   A  county  clerk  may  adopt  a  new  indexing  system  utilizing
  electro-mechanical, electronic or any other method he deems suitable for
  maintaining the indexes.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 530 - Court and Trust Fund Register.

§  530.  Court and trust fund register. Each county clerk shall keep a
  book to be known as a court and trust fund register to be used solely as
  a record of moneys and securities paid, transferred,  or  deposited,  or
  ordered  to  be  so  paid,  transferred, or deposited into the courts of
  which he is clerk. Upon the filing in his office of any judgment, order,
  or decree directing the payment,  transfer,  or  deposit  of  moneys  or
  securities  into court, the amount thereof being stated, or determinable
  upon the happening of the contingency expressed in said judgment,  order
  or  decree;  or upon the filing in his office of any report of a referee
  or other person, or any receipt, or any  other  paper  or  record,  from
  which  it  appears  that  moneys  or  securities  have been or should be
  deposited into court pursuant to any judgment, order, or decree, or  any
  provision  of  law;  or  upon the receipt by any such clerk of moneys or
  securities which may be deposited into court, by any provision  of  law,
  without  a  court order, the clerk shall promptly enter in his court and
  trust fund register (1) the name of the court directing the deposit,  or
  the  source  of  the receipt if deposited without a court order, (2) the
  title of the action or proceeding, (3) the amount of money or nature and
  description of securities deposited or  ordered  to  be  deposited  into
  court,  if  stated,  (4) a statement of any contingency expressed in the
  judgment, order, or decree  upon  the  happening  of  which  the  amount
  required  to  be  deposited  shall be determinable, (5) the names of the
  persons by whom and for whom the deposit is made, or ordered to be made,
  if stated, and the purpose for which the deposit is made, or ordered  to
  be  made,  (6)  the date and nature of each instrument, report, receipt,
  record or other paper indicating moneys or securities deposited or to be
  deposited into court, and the date of filing the same. Such  moneys  and
  securities  shall  be  paid  to the county treasurer pursuant to article
  twenty-six of the civil practice law and rules upon receipt being  given
  therefor. For failure to maintain such a register in accordance with the
  provisions  of this section, a county clerk shall be liable to a penalty
  of two hundred fifty dollars, to be recovered by the  state  comptroller
  in  an  action brought in his name as such comptroller and such penalty,
  together with statutory costs, shall be paid to the  state  comptroller,
  except  that  the  foregoing  shall apply only if the judgment, order or
  decree directing payment into court shall contain, immediately following
  the caption of the particular matter to which  it  relates,  in  capital
  letters  the  words  "Judgment  Directs  Payment  Into  Court"  or other
  appropriate language of similar import, sufficient to apprise the county
  clerk or his assistant that entry in the court and trust  fund  register
  with regard thereto is required.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 532 - Retention and Destruction of Certain Recorded Instruments.

§  532.  Retention  and  destruction  of certain recorded instruments.
  After twenty years have elapsed from  the  date  of  recording  a  deed,
  lease,  contract,  agreement, mortgage or a release of part of mortgaged
  premises any such instrument so recorded which has not been returned  to
  the  person  presenting  such  instrument for recording or to some other
  person authorized to receive the same, may be destroyed  by  the  county
  clerk  without  the permission of the commissioner of education provided
  any such instrument is photographed, microphotographed or reproduced  on
  film preserved for examination and use.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 533 - Liability of County for Negligence of County Clerk and Employees of County Clerk's Office.

§  533.  Liability  of  county  for  negligence  of  county  clerk and
  employees of county clerk's  office.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent
  provision  of  law, general, special or local, a county may by local law
  assume the liability to save harmless and protect its county  clerk  and
  employees  of  the county clerk's office from financial loss arising out
  of any claim, demand, suit or judgment by reason of  alleged  negligence
  of  said  county  clerk or employees, provided such act was committed in
  the discharge of their duties and within the scope of their  employment.
  Such  county may by act of its legislative body arrange for purchase and
  maintain appropriate insurance with any insurance company authorized  to
  do  business  in  the  state  of  New  York  for  coverage  against such
  liability.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 12 - County Clerk › 534 - County Clerk; Appointment of Notaries Public.

§ 534. County clerk; appointment of notaries public. Each county clerk
  shall  designate from among the members of his or her staff at least one
  notary public to be available to notarize documents for  the  public  in
  each  county clerk's office during normal business hours free of charge.
  Each individual appointed by the county clerk  to  be  a  notary  public
  pursuant  to  this  section shall be exempt from the examination fee and
  application fee required  by  section  one  hundred  thirty-one  of  the
  executive law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 13 - County Treasurer › 552 - Liability of County for Loss of Court and Trust Funds.

§  552.  Liability  of county for loss of court and trust funds.  Each
  county shall be responsible for all property or  moneys  deposited  with
  the  county treasurer of the county by virtue of any judgment, decree or
  order of a court of record in this  state  provided,  however,  that  no
  county shall be held liable for any loss due to the depreciated value of
  an  investment  legal at the time of its purchase and which continued to
  be a legal investment during the period of the  trust.    An  action  to
  recover any loss to or of such fund may be brought against the county by
  any  party aggrieved or by the state comptroller in a court of competent
  jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 13 - County Treasurer › 553 - Trustee of Cemetery Lots.

§  553.  Trustee  of cemetery lots. Any person, persons or corporation
  owning or interested in a lot or lots in any cemetery in this state  may
  create a trust in perpetuity for the maintenance of such cemetery lot or
  lots,  the  preservation of a building, structure, fence or walk in such
  cemetery, the renewal or preservation of a tomb, monument, stone, fence,
  railing or other erection or structure on or around any of such lots, or
  the planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs, flowers or  plants  in  or
  about the same, or for any of such purposes, by transferring, conveying,
  devising  or  bequeathing to the county treasurer of the county in which
  such cemetery is located, real or  personal  property,  and  designating
  such  county treasurer as trustee in the instrument creating such trust.
  Such instrument may direct that the income derived  from  such  property
  shall  be  applied  to  one  or  more  of the purposes specified in this
  section. A county treasurer  designated  as  trustee  pursuant  to  this
  section  must  accept  the property so transferred and, within five days
  after the receipt thereof, shall give notice by registered mail  to  the
  cemetery  association or cemetery corporation or other entity owning the
  cemetery that such property has been received pursuant to  this  section
  for  the  purposes provided for in the instrument creating the trust and
  such treasurer shall cause the same to be invested  in  accordance  with
  the  terms  of  the  trust,  if  any are prescribed, and otherwise shall
  invest and re-invest such property in securities in which savings  banks
  are authorized to invest. The income derived from such property shall be
  collected  by  the county treasurer who shall be entitled to receive and
  deduct five per centum of such income for administering the  trust.  The
  balance  of  such  income  shall  be paid by the county treasurer to the
  cemetery association or cemetery corporation or other entity owning  the
  cemetery, and such cemetery association or cemetery corporation or other
  entity  shall accept the same and apply the money so received, so far as
  the same may be applicable, in furtherance of the purpose for which such
  trust  was  created.  In  case  the  cemetery  association  or  cemetery
  corporation  should  become  extinct,  then  it shall be the duty of the
  supervisor of the town in which the cemetery is located, or the mayor of
  the  village  or  city,  if  it  is  located  in  a  village  or   city,
  respectively,  to  receive  the income from such trust and expend it for
  the purposes provided for in the instrument creating the trust.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 14 - County Comptroller › 575 - County Comptroller; Term; Vacancy.

§  575.  County  comptroller;  term;  vacancy.  The  office  of county
  comptroller may be  created  in  any  county  upon  the  adoption  of  a
  proposition submitted at a general election. The board of supervisors of
  its  own  motion  by  local  law adopted prior to September first in any
  year, may create the office of county comptroller. Any  such  local  law
  shall  be  subject  to  a mandatory referendum. A copy of such local law
  duly certified by the clerk of the board shall be filed  forthwith  with
  the  board  of elections of the county which shall cause the proposition
  to be submitted at the next general election  occurring  not  less  than
  sixty  days after the local law is filed with the board. Upon the filing
  with the board of elections prior to September first in any  year  of  a
  petition  duly  signed  and  acknowledged  or  authenticated in the same
  manner as a primary petition, by electors of  the  county  equal  to  at
  least  five per centum of the total vote cast for governor in the county
  at the last general election at which a governor  was  elected,  praying
  that  the  office  of  county  comptroller be created in the county, the
  board of elections shall cause the proposition to be  submitted  to  the
  electors of the county at the next general election following the filing
  of the petition. The proposition shall be substantially in the following
  form:  "Shall  the office of county comptroller be created in the county
  of .......... ?" The proposition shall be submitted to the  electors  of
  the  county in the manner provided by this chapter for the submission of
  a mandatory or permissive referendum. If the vote be in the affirmative,
  at the first general election held thereafter there shall be  elected  a
  county  comptroller  whose  term shall be three years from and including
  the first day of January following his election. Until  such  office  be
  abolished  in  the  same  manner  as created, there shall continue to be
  elected a county comptroller for the term of  three  years.  The  county
  comptroller  shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take
  the constitutional oath of office and execute to the county and file  an
  official  undertaking  as  provided  in  section  eleven  of  the public
  officers law. Any vacancy in the office of county comptroller  shall  be
  filled  by  the  governor  in  the  same manner as other elective county
  officers.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 14 - County Comptroller › 576 - Deputy County Comptroller.

§  576.  Deputy  county comptroller. The county comptroller within ten
  days after entering upon the duties of his office shall appoint a deputy
  comptroller. Such appointment shall be in writing  under  his  hand  and
  seal  and  be  filed  and recorded in the office of the county clerk. He
  shall perform such duties as may be assigned  by  the  comptroller,  and
  during  the  temporary  absence  of  the comptroller he shall act as the
  comptroller and in the event of  a  vacancy  in  the  office,  he  shall
  continue  to  act  as  such  comptroller until a successor is elected or
  appointed and has qualified.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 15 - County Auditor › 600 - County Auditor; Term; Duties.

§ 600. County auditor; term; duties. 1. The board of supervisors shall
  have  power  to  create  the  office  of  county  auditor,  who shall be
  appointed for the term for which the membership of such board appointing
  him was elected. Except as hereinafter  provided,  he  shall  audit  all
  claims,  accounts  and  demands which are made county charges by law and
  which otherwise would be audited by the board of supervisors.  By  local
  law  or  resolution,  the  board  of supervisors may limit such audit to
  certain types  or  classes  of  claims,  may  fix  rules  governing  the
  presentation  to and the audit by such auditor and such other matters as
  may be deemed proper.  Within such authorization  the  county  treasurer
  shall  pay  the  amounts audited and certified by such auditor as if the
  same had been audited by the board  of  supervisors.  He  shall  not  be
  removed  during  his term without written charges and the opportunity to
  be heard. The board  may  provide  for  the  purchase  of  supplies  and
  equipment  through  such  auditor  and  may  prohibit  such auditor from
  auditing his own orders as purchasing agent and such  other  matters  as
  shall be deemed advisable.
2.   In   any  county  having  no  county  comptroller  the  board  of
  supervisors, by local law or resolution may provide that it  shall  also
  be  the  duty of the county auditor to examine and audit, at times to be
  determined by the board of supervisors, the books, records, vouchers and
  other papers pertaining to the money, funds and property of  any  county
  officer  or  department  specified  in  such local law or resolution and
  render a report thereon to the board of supervisors as to whether proper
  books and records have been kept and all money  and  property  accounted
  for.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 16 - County Purchasing Agent › 625 - County Purchasing Agent; Terms; Duties.

§   625.   County  purchasing  agent;  terms;  duties.  The  board  of
  supervisors shall have power to create the office of  county  purchasing
  agent,  who  shall be appointed for the term for which the membership of
  such board appointing him was elected. Except as otherwise  provided  by
  law,  he  shall  make  all  purchases and contracts for supplies for the
  various county offices,  buildings,  institutions  and  grounds  of  the
  county, and shall let to public advertisement and bid all purchases when
  so  required  by section one hundred three of the general municipal law.
  He shall prescribe  the  form  of  requisitions,  and  of  receipts  for
  supplies  delivered  without  requisition. No claim shall be audited and
  paid without the requisition or delivery receipt being attached thereto.
  He shall be the custodian of all vouchers,  requisitions,  receipts  and
  other   papers   pertaining  thereto  which  shall  be  open  to  public
  inspection. He shall upon dates to be fixed by the  board  and  covering
  periods to be specified by it furnish to the county treasurer and to the
  clerk  of  the board of supervisors verified statements of all purchases
  together with the quantity and price and shall furnish to the  board  of
  supervisors such additional statements as the board may direct. He shall
  perform  such  additional and related duties as may be prescribed by law
  and directed by the board of supervisors.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 16 - County Purchasing Agent › 626 - Purchasing of Products for County Use.

§  626.  Purchasing  of  products  for county use. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of section one hundred three of the  general  municipal  law,
  when  purchasing  products,  the  county  purchasing agent may, wherever
  recycled products meet contract specifications and  the  price  of  such
  products  is  reasonably  competitive, purchase such products.   For the
  purpose  of  this  section  and  until  July  first,  nineteen   hundred
  ninety-six,  "recycled  product"  shall  mean any product which has been
  manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one  of
  section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets
  secondary material content requirements adopted by the office of general
  services  under  subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of
  the state finance law for products available to the county  under  state
  contract  or,  if  no  such  contract for such product is available, any
  product which meets the secondary material content requirements  adopted
  by  the  county  with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the
  county.  On and after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled
  product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which
  is manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision  one
  of  section  two  hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and
  which meets the requirements of subdivision two of  section  27-0717  of
  the  environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant
  thereto. For the purpose of this section, "reasonably competitive" shall
  mean that the cost of the  recycled  product  does  not  exceed  a  cost
  premium  of  ten  percent above the cost of a comparable product that is
  not a recycled product or, if at least fifty percent  of  the  secondary
  materials utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from
  the  waste  stream  in  New York state, the cost of the recycled product
  does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the  cost  of  a
  comparable  product that is not a recycled product.  Whenever the county
  purchasing agent shall purchase or cause the  purchase  of  printing  on
  recycled  paper  pursuant  to  this section, he or she shall require the
  printed  material  to  contain  the  official  state  recycling   emblem
  established  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section  27-0717 of the
  environmental conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated  pursuant
  thereto   if   such  paper  has  been  approved  by  the  department  of
  environmental  conservation  as  satisfying  the  requirements  of  such
  statute  and  regulations,  or,  if such paper has not been so approved,
  require the printed  material  to  include  a  printed  statement  which
  indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled
  material content of such paper.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 650 - General Duties of Sheriff.

§  650.  General  duties  of sheriff. 1. The sheriff shall perform the
  duties prescribed by law as an officer of the court and  conservator  of
  the  peace  within  the  county.  He  shall  perform such additional and
  related duties as may be prescribed by law and directed by the board  of
  supervisors or the county legislature.
2.  Upon  written  request  by  the issurer thereof, the sheriff shall
  serve all civil process regardless of whether it has been issued by  the
  court.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 651 - Appointment of Person to Act as Sheriff in Certain Cases.

§ 651. Appointment of person to act as sheriff in certain cases.  When
  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  the  office  of  sheriff,  and there be no
  undersheriff to perform the duties, the county judge shall designate and
  appoint some suitable and proper resident of the county to  perform  the
  duties  of  sheriff  until a new sheriff is elected or appointed and has
  qualified. The designation shall be in writing and filed and recorded in
  the office of the county clerk. The county clerk shall notify the person
  so designated of such designation, and within ten  days  thereafter,  an
  official  undertaking shall be furnished in the same amount and approved
  in the same manner as that of the sheriff. If such  undertaking  be  not
  furnished,  the  county judge shall designate another person in the same
  manner.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 652-A - Appointment and Promotion of Deputy Sheriffs.

§  652-a. Appointment  and  promotion  of  deputy  sheriffs. 1. In any
  county outside the city of New York  where  heretofore  there  has  been
  established  a  procedure for the appointment and promotion of personnel
  within the office of the  sheriff,  the  appointment  and  promotion  of
  personnel  within  the  office  of  the  sheriff may continue to be made
  pursuant to that procedure through March thirty-first, nineteen  hundred
  ninety-three, any other provision of law notwithstanding.
2.  Nothing  contained  herein shall be construed to alter or restrict
  the authority of a  county  to  change  the  method  of  appointment  or
  promotion  of  deputy  sheriffs  by  a duly adopted local law, nor shall
  anything contained herein be construed to alter any existing  collective
  bargaining  agreement  between  a  county  and  an employee organization
  representing deputy sheriffs, nor to alter or restrict the power of  any
  county or employee organization to contract with respect to an alternate
  method of appointment or promotion of deputy sheriffs.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 653 - Part Time Deputy Sheriffs.

§   653.   Part  time  deputy  sheriffs.  Within  the  limits  of  the
  appropriation, the sheriff may employ such number of part time deputies,
  as he may deem necessary, who shall be paid a salary or on  a  per  diem
  basis  as the board of supervisors may determine. Such deputies shall be
  appointed in the same manner as regular deputies and shall perform  only
  those  duties  and  powers  authorized  by such sheriff. Whenever deemed
  necessary, a sheriff may deputize persons to  serve  civil  process  and
  execute civil mandates.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 654 - Deputizing Local Police Officers or Peace Officers.

§ 654. Deputizing local police officers or peace officers. The sheriff
  may  in his discretion deputize the police officers or peace officers of
  cities, towns, villages and special districts and  agents  of  societies
  incorporated  for  the  purpose of prevention of cruelty to animals, for
  the purpose of authorizing an  arrest  without  a  warrant  outside  the
  territorial limits of such city, town, village or special district, when
  such crime or infraction was committed within such territorial limits in
  the  presence  of  such  officer.  Such  officer  shall not be deemed an
  officer, agent, servant or employee of the county.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 655 - Emergency Special Deputies.

§  655.  Emergency  special deputies. For the protection of human life
  and property during an emergency, the sheriff may deputize orally or  in
  writing   such  number  of  additional  special  deputies  as  he  deems
  necessary. If he is unable to continue  the  services  of  such  special
  deputies  without  compensation, he may pay the compensation of any such
  special deputies  in  such  amount  as  the  board  of  supervisors  may
  determine  for  each  day any such special deputy is actually engaged in
  assisting him in the performance of his  duties,  or  in  assisting  any
  other sheriff who has declared a state of special emergency, pursuant to
  the  provisions  of  section two hundred nine-f of the general municipal
  law, with the permission of the sheriff who deputized him. If the  board
  of  supervisors  shall  fail  to  fix  the  compensation of such special
  deputies, the sheriff may fix such compensation at not  exceeding  three
  dollars  per  hour for each such special deputy. The compensation of any
  special deputy so appointed shall be  a  county  charge.  The  board  of
  supervisors  may  direct  the manner of payment including a direction of
  approval for such payment by the chairman of a designated  committee  of
  the board.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 656 - Emergency Equipment and Apparatus.

§  656.  Emergency  equipment  and apparatus. If, in the protection of
  human life and property, the sheriff shall deem it necessary to hire any
  equipment or apparatus together with the operator thereof, he  may  hire
  the  same  during  the  period  of  an  emergency  or  catastrophe  at a
  reasonable charge therefor. The same shall be  audited  and  paid  as  a
  county  charge in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, and
  in the discretion of such board, there  may  be  a  direction  that  the
  further  hiring  and payment be approved by the chairman of the board or
  of a designated committee of such board.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 657 - Emergency Fund.

§  657.  Emergency  fund. The board of supervisors shall have power to
  appropriate and set aside a fund for the purpose of paying in advance of
  audit expenditures of a sheriff  in  an  emergency  or  catastrophe  for
  services  and  expenses  of  special  deputies  and  for  the  hiring of
  equipment  and  apparatus  and  the  operator  thereof.  The  board  may
  authorize  the  sheriff  to issue orders on the county treasurer for the
  payment thereof and may require a countersignature of the chairman of  a
  designated  committee of such board. It may further direct the rendering
  of an  accounting  of  such  expenditures  with  verified  or  certified
  vouchers  attached  and such other conditions and rules as the board may
  deem proper. The claimant and the sheriff shall be jointly and severally
  liable for any item of  expenditure  for  other  than  a  lawful  county
  purpose  disallowed  upon  a  final  audit  to be recovered in an action
  brought by the board of supervisors in the name of the county.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 657-A - Fund for Expenses of Sheriff in Transporting Prisoners.

§  657-a. Fund for expenses of sheriff in transporting prisoners.  The
  board of supervisors shall have power to, and may, provide  a  fund  for
  the  payment in advance of audit of properly itemized and verified bills
  for the expenses of the sheriff lawfully and necessarily incurred in the
  transportation of prisoners, and, by resolution,  authorize  the  county
  treasurer to apply said fund in payment of such bills on the approval of
  the  sheriff  endorsed  thereon; said bills so paid to be transmitted to
  the clerk of the board of supervisors and audited  by  it  at  its  next
  regular  session  held  subsequent to their payment. The sheriff and any
  claimant receiving payment as aforesaid shall be jointly  and  severally
  liable  for  any item or items contained in a bill so paid in advance of
  audit which shall be disallowed and rejected by the board of supervisors
  upon final audit, to be recovered in an action brought by the  board  of
  supervisors in the name of the county.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 658 - Verification of Informations.

§  658.  Verification of informations. Where a summons has been served
  by a sheriff or one of his  staff,  in  lieu  of  arrest,  in  cases  of
  violations  of  the  vehicle and traffic law or of ordinances and orders
  enacted pursuant to that law, any sheriff or undersheriff may administer
  to any member of his staff any necessary oath  in  connection  with  the
  laying  of  such information to be presented to the court by such member
  of his staff in prosecution of the offense.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 660 - Services on Behalf of the State.

§  660.  Services  on  behalf  of the state. All fees or other form of
  compensation audited and paid by  the  state  comptroller  for  services
  rendered to the people of the state including a reasonable allowance for
  removing  persons  from state and Indian lands, shall be the property of
  the county. All disbursements incurred in connection with  such  service
  when  not  a  proper  county  charge  shall  be  audited  by  the  state
  comptroller and paid to the sheriff of the county.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 661 - When Sheriff Party to an Action or Proceeding.

§  661. When sheriff party to an action or proceeding. 1. In an action
  or special proceeding to which the sheriff  is  a  party,  all  mandates
  shall  be  directed to the county clerk of the county, who shall execute
  the same with all the powers and duties of a sheriff including the power
  to arrest under civil  process  and  to  accept  undertakings  for  jail
  liberties, and shall be subject to the same liability as the sheriff for
  escape.  The place of confinement of such sheriff shall be a house other
  than the jail or the home of the sheriff situate within  the  limits  of
  jail  liberties,  and such house shall be deemed the county jail for all
  purposes of confinement and liability for escape.  Such clerk shall have
  power to prosecute such undertaking the same as a sheriff and may assign
  the undertaking  to  the  party  at  whose  instance  such  sheriff  was
  arrested.
2.  When  the  sheriff  is  the  plaintiff  in  an  action  or special
  proceeding and another person is arrested under  civil  process  at  the
  instance  of  the sheriff, the county clerk shall confine such person in
  the county jail. The county clerk shall be liable in the same manner  as
  the  sheriff,  except  that  he  shall not be liable while the person is
  confined in the jail and in the custody of the sheriff.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17 - Sheriff › 662 - Appointment of Private College Campus Security Officers at Independent Non-Profit Colleges.

§  662.  Appointment  of  private  college campus security officers at
  independent non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other  provision
  of  law  to  the contrary, the sheriff of any county, any part or all of
  which falls outside the limits of a city  having  a  population  of  one
  million or more, may appoint as private college campus security officers
  security  guards  employed by an independent non-profit college upon the
  request of such independent non-profit college in  accordance  with  the
  provisions  of  subdivision  five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of
  the education law. The sheriff may appoint such campus security officers
  pursuant to this section only if more than fifty percent  of  the  total
  acreage  of  real  property  owned  by  or  under  the  control  of such
  independent non-profit college is located within such  sheriff's  county
  of jurisdiction and outside the geographic boundaries of any city within
  such county and the county legislature or board of supervisors, pursuant
  to  local  law or resolution duly adopted, has authorized the sheriff to
  make such appointments. Any such security  guards  appointed  as  campus
  security  officers  shall  be  employees  of  the independent non-profit
  college requesting such appointment and shall not be  officers,  agents,
  servants  or  employees  of  the  appointing  sheriff  or  his county of
  jurisdiction nor be considered  public  officers,  agents,  servants  or
  employees.    Such campus security officers shall have only those powers
  set forth in subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the
  education law.
2. The sheriff may condition appointment  as  private  college  campus
  security  officers upon compliance by such campus security officers with
  written procedures established by the  sheriff  in  order  to  ensure  a
  coordinated and cooperative law enforcement effort and the payment of an
  administrative  fee  not  to  exceed  fifty  dollars per year per campus
  security officer and may  revoke  such  appointments  at  any  time  for
  material non-compliance with the requirements of such written procedures
  or subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the education
  law  or for any other reason that shall disqualify a security guard from
  being such a campus security officer pursuant to the provisions of  such
  subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17-A - Coroner, Coroner's Physician and Medical Examiner › 670 - Application of Article.

§  670.  Application  of  article.  1.  The provisions of this article
  insofar as they are (a) in conflict with or in limitation of a provision
  of any alternative form of county  government  heretofore  or  hereafter
  adopted  by  a  county  pursuant  to  section one of article nine of the
  constitution, or any administrative code, county government law,  county
  charter or civil divisions act enacted by the legislature and applicable
  to  such county as now in force or hereafter amended, or (b) in conflict
  with any local law heretofore or hereafter adopted by any  county  under
  an optional or alternative form of county government, or (c) in conflict
  with  any  special act of the legislature applicable to a county, or (d)
  in conflict with or limitation  of  a  county  charter  or  charter  law
  adopted  pursuant  to  article  four  of  the  municipal  home  rule law
  constituting the county charter law, or an administrative code or  local
  law  of  a  county  which  has adopted a county charter pursuant to such
  article, as  now  in  force  or  as  hereafter  amended,  shall  not  be
  applicable to such county.
2.  In  the exercise of its power to enact local laws, and in addition
  to any such power conferred by  article  two  or  article  four  of  the
  municipal   home  rule  law  or  other  applicable  law,  the  board  of
  supervisors or other elective governing body of any county, other than a
  county wholly included within a city, may adopt and make  applicable  to
  such  county,  or  to  its officer performing the functions of a medical
  examiner, by whatever name designated, any  provision  of  this  article
  which is inapplicable to such county under the provisions of subdivision
  one  of this section, provided that such power shall be exercised in the
  manner and subject to any veto, referendum or other requirement provided
  by applicable law.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17-A - Coroner, Coroner's Physician and Medical Examiner › 671 - General Duties of Coroner, or Coroner and Coroner's Physician, or Medical Examiner; Additional Duties May Be Directed.

§  671. General duties of coroner, or coroner and coroner's physician,
or medical examiner; additional duties may be directed. 1. The  coroner,
or  if  he is not a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this
state, the coroner and a coroner's physician, together, or  in  counties
in which the office of coroner has been abolished, the medical examiner,
(a)  shall  make  inquiry  into  unnatural deaths within his county as
prescribed by law;
(b) shall make inquiry into all deaths whether natural or unnatural in
his  or  her  county  occurring  to  an  incarcerated  individual  of  a
correctional  facility  as defined by subdivision three of section forty
of the correction law, whether or not the  death  occurred  inside  such
facility.
2. The coroner shall perform such additional and related duties as may
be prescribed by law and directed by the board of supervisors.
3.  In  those  counties  in  which  the  office  of  coroner  has been
abolished, the  medical  examiner  shall  perform  such  additional  and
related duties involving exercise of professional skills and training as
may be prescribed by the board of supervisors and the district attorney.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17-A - Coroner, Coroner's Physician and Medical Examiner › 672 - Mutual Aid Agreements for Coroners' Services.

§  672.  Mutual  aid agreements for coroners' services. 1. Two or more
  counties are authorized to enter into written mutual aid agreements  for
  the  provision  of  services  provided by the county coroner's office or
  office of the medical examiner in such counties. Each  county  shall  be
  liable  for  acts  or  omissions  of its employees or agents when acting
  pursuant to such an agreement in the same manner and to the same  extent
  as  if  such  acts  or  omissions  occurred  within the county; and such
  employees or agents shall have immunities and privileges for their  acts
  or  omissions  when  acting  pursuant  to  such an agreement in the same
  manner and to the same extent as if  such  acts  or  omissions  occurred
  within the county.
2.  Nothing  in this section shall be construed to alter the liability
  of any county that enters into a mutual aid agreement pursuant  to  this
  section  to  a  third party claimant for any cause of action that arises
  out of such agreement or the joint and several liability of  any  county
  that enters into a mutual aid agreement pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17-A - Coroner, Coroner's Physician and Medical Examiner › 673 - Deaths Concerning Which a Coroner, Coroner and Coroner's Physician or Medical Examiner Has Jurisdiction to Investigate.

§  673.  Deaths  concerning  which  a  coroner,  coroner and coroner's
physician or medical examiner has  jurisdiction  to  investigate.  1.  A
coroner   or   medical   examiner  has  jurisdiction  and  authority  to
investigate the death of every person dying within his county, or  whose
body is found within the county, which is or appears to be:
(a)  A  violent  death,  whether  by  criminal  violence,  suicide  or
casualty;
(b) A death caused by unlawful act or criminal neglect;
(c) A death occurring in a suspicious, unusual or unexplained manner;
(d) A death while  unattended  by  a  physician,  so  far  as  can  be
discovered,  or where no physician able to certify the cause of death as
provided in the public health law and  in  form  as  prescribed  by  the
commissioner of health can be found;
(e)  A death of a person confined in a public institution other than a
hospital, infirmary or nursing home.
2. Except as provided  in  subdivision  one  of  section  six  hundred
seventy-four  of  this  article,  when a coroner is not a physician duly
licensed to practice  medicine  in  this  state,  the  jurisdiction  and
authority  specified  in  this  section must be exercised jointly by the
coroner and a coroner's physician.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17-A - Coroner, Coroner's Physician and Medical Examiner › 674-A - Manner of Investigation When Decedent Is a Donor of an Anatomical Gift.

§  674-a.  Manner  of  investigation  when  decedent  is a donor of an
  anatomical  gift.  1.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law  to  the
  contrary,  if  the decedent who is under the jurisdiction of the coroner
  or medical examiner as defined in this chapter is a donor of all or part
  of his body as defined in  the  public  health  law  including  properly
  executed consent, such body or part thereof being medically suitable for
  transplant  and  the  donation  having  been  executed  pursuant  to the
  provisions  of  the  public  health  law,  the  coroner,  the  coroner's
  physician  or the medical examiner who has notice of such donation shall
  only perform an autopsy and/or analysis of tissues or organs in a manner
  and within a time  period  compatible  with  the  preservation  for  the
  purposes of transplantation of said donation.
2.  A physician or surgeon authorized to remove the anatomical gift by
  the public health law may remove the  donated  part  or  parts  of  said
  donor's  body for acceptance by a person authorized to become a donee by
  the public health law under the following circumstances:
a. after completion of an autopsy and/or analysis of tissues or organs
  of said donor  by  the  coroner,  the  coroner's  physician  or  medical
  examiner as provided in subdivision one of this section; or
b.  after  notice  to the coroner or medical examiner, if such autopsy
  and/or analysis is not undertaken in the  manner  and  within  the  time
  provided  in  subdivision  one  of  this  section.  The coroner, medical
  examiner or representative thereof may be present during removal of  the
  anatomical gift.
3.  The  physician  performing  a  transplant  from  a donor under the
  coroner's or  medical  examiner's  jurisdiction  shall  file  with  such
  coroner  or medical examiner a report detailing the condition of and the
  relationship to the cause of death of the part of the body that  is  the
  anatomical  gift.  If appropriate, such report shall include a biopsy or
  medically approved sample from the anatomical gift.   Such report  shall
  become part of the coroner's or the medical examiner's report.
2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 17-A - Coroner, Coroner's Physician and Medical Examiner › 675 - Advice, Consultation, Assistance, Examinations, Analyses and Reports.

§  675.  Advice,  consultation, assistance, examinations, analyses and
  reports.  1. A coroner, coroner's physician or  medical  examiner  shall
  have  authority  when  necessary  in  his opinion to consult with and to
  request advice, consultation or other assistance from any officer  of  a
  department  of  the  state  government, from any medical examiner of any
  city or county, from any other coroner or  coroner's  physician  of  any
  county,  or  from  the  head  of  any  public  health laboratory, police
  laboratory or state or municipal laboratory or from any  member  of  the
  staff  of  such  laboratory  designated  for  such  purpose  by the head
  thereof, or from any physician qualified to make postmortem examinations
  and to testify thereon; and to request from any such person such  tests,
  examinations  or  analyses  and  reports  with  respect  thereto  as are
  necessary in his opinion, with respect to the body of  the  deceased  or
  any  part  thereof  or  with  respect to any other matter related to his
  investigation.
2. Subdivision one  of  this  section  does  not  empower  a  coroner,
  coroner's  physician or medical examiner to incur charges against county
  funds except as authorized by the board of supervisors.