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2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 2 - Alternative Forms of County Government › 58 - Choice Between Election and Appointment of Officials.

§  58.  Choice  between  election and appointment of officials. 1. The
  office of comptroller, in a county where the office would  otherwise  be
  elective,  or  any elective county office that is being continued except
  that of a supervisor or a judicial officer, may be  made  appointive  by
  provision therefor in the petition or resolution by which an alternative
  form of county government or a change in such a form is initiated and by
  vote  of  the  people as provided in article fourteen. This option shall
  apply to elective officers provided for in the constitution as  well  as
  to  others.  By  like action the office of county commissioner of public
  welfare, in a county where the office would otherwise be appointive,  or
  any  formerly  elective office that has been made appointive pursuant to
  this section, may be made elective. Whenever one of the options provided
  for in this section is submitted to the people, it shall be submitted as
  a separate question.  Its adoption may, however, be made  contingent  on
  the  adoption  of  another  question  submitted  at the same time if the
  petition or resolution by which it is initiated so provides.
2. Except as otherwise  expressly  provided  in  this  chapter,  every
  elective  official  of a county shall remain elective after the adoption
  of an alternative form of government and shall continue to  perform  the
  functions pertaining to his office.
3.  When  an  office which could be made appointive remains or becomes
  elective under an alternative form of county  government,  the  term  of
  such  office  shall  be  four  years from and including the first day of
  January after each election to the office, except that the term  of  the
  first  official  elected to such office after the alternative form takes
  effect shall be three years if the term begins in an odd-numbered  year.
  Elections  shall take place at the general elections in the last year of
  each term. When  an  appointive  office  is  made  elective,  the  first
  election to the office shall take place at the next general election.
4.  When  an elective office is made appointive, the appointment shall
  be made as provided in section two hundred two for  a  term  coterminous
  with the term of the county executive or board of supervisors making the
  appointment,  except that it may be shortened as provided in subdivision
  three if the office is made elective and that the  person  so  appointed
  shall continue to serve until his successor is chosen and has qualified.
  If  a  vacancy occurs in such an office, it shall be filled similarly by
  appointment for the balance of the term.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 3 - Board of Supervisors › 100 - Board of Supervisors.

§  100. Board of supervisors. 1. A county adopting an alternative form
  of county government shall continue to have a board of supervisors.  The
  supervisors of the several cities and towns in the county, when lawfully
  convened, shall constitute the board of supervisors.
2.  If  the  petition or resolution for the adoption of an alternative
  form of county government or  for  the  modification  or  change  of  an
  alternative  form  previously adopted shall so provide and the adoption,
  modification or change  shall  be  approved  by  the  voters  as  herein
  provided,  the  members  of  the  common  council  or  other legislative
  governing body of each city within the county shall serve as the members
  of the county  board  of  supervisors  representing  such  city  and  no
  separate city supervisors shall be elected. In such case each city shall
  continue  to  have the number of votes on the board of supervisors which
  it would have had if this option had not been exercised and the votes of
  each city shall be divided equally among the members  representing  such
  city.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 3 - Board of Supervisors › 101 - General Powers.

§  101.  General  powers.  The board of supervisors of any such county
  shall be the legislative and policy determining body of the  county  and
  shall,  except  as  otherwise expressly provided in the alternative form
  adopted by the county, continue to be vested  with  all  the  functions,
  powers  and  duties of the county and of the board of supervisors as now
  or hereafter provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 4 - County Executive › 150 - Expiration of Term.

§ 150. Expiration of term. Every county executive elected or appointed
  for a fixed term shall hold over and continue to discharge the duties of
  his  office  after  the  expiration  of  his term until his successor is
  chosen and has qualified, but after the  expiration  of  such  term  the
  office shall be deemed vacant for the purpose of choosing his successor.
  All   provisions  of  section  five  of  the  public  officers  law  not
  inconsistent with this chapter shall apply.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 4 - County Executive › 154 - Removal of County Executive.

§  154.  Removal  of  county executive.   1. A county president may be
removed in the manner provided in sections thirty-three, thirty-four and
thirty-five of the public officers law.
2. A county manager may be removed  by  majority  vote  of  the  whole
number  of the members of the board of supervisors for any reason deemed
by the board to be sufficient.
3. An appointive county executive, other than a county manager, may be
removed by a two-thirds vote of the whole number of the members  of  the
board of supervisors for any of the following reasons:
(a)  because  at  the time of his appointment he was ineligible or has
since become ineligible to hold such office; or
(b) for malfeasance or nonfeasance in office; or
(c) upon conviction of a felony or of a  misdemeanor  involving  moral
turpitude; or
(d)  for  failure to perform the duties of his office in an honorable,
competent and reasonably efficient manner; or
(e) if he becomes morally, physically or  mentally  unfit  to  act  in
behalf of the county.
4.  Before  an  appointive county executive can be removed, he must be
given ten days' written notice of the proposed  action,  and  if  he  so
demands,  must  within ten days after such demand, and at least ten days
before the board of supervisors votes to remove him, be furnished with a
written statement of the charges against him  or  the  reasons  for  his
removal in order that he may reply thereto. If he so demands within five
days  after  receiving  such  statement or at any time prior thereto, he
shall also have the right to  a  hearing  on  such  charges  or  reasons
arranged  with  at least five days' public notice at a public meeting of
the board of supervisors held within fifteen days of such demand and the
board of supervisors shall not vote on the question of his removal until
at least ten days after such hearing.  Pending  removal,  the  board  of
supervisors  may  suspend  him  from  office,  except that the period of
suspension shall not exceed fifty days.  The  action  of  the  board  of
supervisors  in  suspending  or  removing  a county manager shall not be
subject to review.   Such action in  suspending  or  removing  a  county
executive  other  than a county manager shall be subject to review under
article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 4 - County Executive › 155 - Powers and Duties.

§ 155. Powers and duties. 1. The county executive, except as otherwise
provided by this chapter or by other law, shall:
(a) Be the administrative head of the county government.
(b)   Have   supervision,  direction  and  control  over  governmental
functions of all administrative units of the county.
(c) Have and exercise all  functions,  powers  and  duties  of  budget
officer under article seven of the county law.
(d)  Do  and  perform  such  additional  acts, duties and governmental
functions as may be delegated to him by county act.
(e) Report to the board of supervisors annually on or before the first
day  of  February,  a  statement  of  the  activities  of  the   several
administrative  units  of the county during the preceding fiscal year in
such detail as the board of supervisors shall direct.
(f) See that all laws of the state and all county acts  pertaining  to
the administration of county government are enforced.
(g)  Report  to  the  board  of  supervisors the failure of any county
officer or other official paid from county funds, or  the  head  of  any
administrative  unit,  institution or other county agency to enforce any
law or county act which such official has been charged to perform.
(h) Examine and approve or disapprove  the  form  and  sufficiency  of
sureties on official bonds and undertakings.
(i)  Report  to the board of supervisors the removal of any appointive
officer or employee of the county in the  manner  and  within  the  time
prescribed by local law.
(j)  Present  to  the  board  of  supervisors, from time to time, such
information concerning  the  affairs  of  the  county  as  he  may  deem
necessary or as the board of supervisors by county act may request.
(k) Attend meetings of the board of supervisors if he so desires or is
requested by the board of supervisors so to do.
2.  When  delegated  to  him by county act, the county executive shall
have and exercise the following functions, powers  and  duties:  (a)  to
coordinate the various activities of the county and unify the management
of  its affairs; (b) to cause an audit and examination to be made of the
books, records and papers of any administrative unit of the  county  and
of  any  county  officer  or  other  official paid from county funds and
report thereon to the board of supervisors with  all  convenient  speed;
and  (c) to supervise the administration of all functions transferred to
the county from units  of  local  government  and  make  recommendations
thereon to the board of supervisors.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 4 - County Executive › 156 - Deputy County Executive.

§ 156. Deputy county executive. 1. The board of supervisors shall have
  power  to  authorize  the county executive to appoint one or more deputy
  county executives. Every appointment of a deputy county executive  shall
  be  in writing filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk. Any
  such appointment may be revoked by the county executive at any  time  by
  filing a written revocation in the office of the county clerk.
2.  A  deputy county executive shall perform such duties pertaining to
  the office as may be directed by the county executive.
3. The deputy designated by the county executive for the purpose shall
  have the powers and perform the duties of the  county  executive  during
  his absence or disability.
4.  If  more  than one deputy county executive shall be appointed, the
  county executive 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 deputies shall exercise the powers and duties of  the  office
  in  the  event  of  the absence or inability of such county executive to
  perform the duties of the office.
5. The head of any department may be designated  to  serve  as  deputy
  county  executive but without additional compensation. In the event that
  no deputy county executive has been appointed or designated, or  in  the
  event  that  the  deputy  appointed or person so designated is unable to
  serve, the board of supervisors shall designate the head of a department
  or other qualified person to perform the duties of the office during the
  absence or inability of the county executive.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 200 - Departments.

§  200. Departments. Each county adopting the county manager form, the
  county  director  form  or  the  county  president  form  shall  have  a
  department  of  finance, a department of audit and control, a department
  of public works, a department of purchase and  a  department  of  public
  welfare. Each county adopting the county administrator form shall have a
  department  of  finance and a department of public welfare. All offices,
  commissions, boards, bureaus and other agencies of the county, so far as
  consistent with the  alternative  form  adopted,  shall  continue  until
  modified,  amended,  superseded  or  repealed  by  or  pursuant  to  the
  alternative form of county government adopted,  or  by  or  pursuant  to
  local law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 201 - Reorganization of Departments.

§  201.  Reorganization  of departments. When authorized by local law,
  and  in  accordance  with  its  provisions,  the  county  executive  may
  establish  additional  departments  or  change the functions of existing
  departments under his jurisdiction, provide for their  organization  and
  maintenance and assign to each the functions it shall perform, including
  functions  exercised  at  the  time  of such reorganization by any other
  administrative departments, offices or agencies of the county not headed
  by elective officers. Any such department, office or agency, when all of
  its functions are so assigned, may be abolished  by  local  law.  County
  functions  not  expressly  assigned by this chapter shall be distributed
  among departments as may be provided by local law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 202 - Department Heads.

§  202.  Department  heads.  1. The county executive shall appoint, to
  serve during his pleasure, the head of every department  or  office  not
  administered  by an elective official, except that an appointive auditor
  or comptroller shall always be appointed by the board of supervisors and
  except  as  otherwise  specifically  provided  in  this   chapter.   The
  appointment of the head of any department or office in a county adopting
  the  county  administrator  form, the county director form or the county
  president form, shall  be  subject  to  confirmation  by  the  board  of
  supervisors.  The county executive may with the approval of the board of
  supervisors  appoint  one  head  for  two  or  more   departments.   All
  appointments  shall be in writing under the hand of the county executive
  and filed and recorded in the office of the county  clerk.  A  duplicate
  certificate  of  each  appointment  shall be filed with the clerk of the
  board of supervisors within ten days after the appointment is made.
2. Subject to the provisions of section five of  the  public  officers
  law, the head of any such department or office, unless reappointed for a
  new  term, shall not be authorized or permitted to serve beyond the term
  of the county executive by whom the appointment was made, except that he
  shall continue to  serve  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  has
  qualified.
3.  In  any  county adopting the county administrator form, the county
  director form or the county president form,  the  county  executive  may
  appoint  the  head  of  any  department  by  interim appointment pending
  confirmation. Any such interim appointment shall be effective for ninety
  days only and may not be renewed or extended. The county executive  may,
  however,  act  as  head  of the department, or designate a deputy in the
  department to be acting head until the appointment is confirmed  or  the
  position otherwise filled.
4. The head of a department, one deputy and the confidential secretary
  of the head of each department or office shall be in the exempt class of
  the  civil  service. This section shall not affect any other position in
  the exempt class now or hereafter included therein  by  or  pursuant  to
  law.
5.  Except  as  otherwise  provided in this chapter and subject to any
  pertinent provisions of  the  civil  service  law,  the  head  of  every
  department  and  office shall appoint all of his subordinates. Except as
  otherwise provided in the civil service  law,  such  subordinates  shall
  serve during his pleasure.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 204 - Confirmation by Board of Supervisors.

§   204.   Confirmation  by  board  of  supervisors.  Confirmation  of
  appointment of the head of any department or office when required, shall
  be by affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of  members  of
  the  board  of  supervisors  taken  at a regular meeting or at a special
  meeting of the board of supervisors called for that purpose.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 205 - Vacancies in Elective Offices.

§  205.  Vacancies  in  elective  offices.  Vacancy  in the offices of
  sheriff, coroner, county clerk, register, district attorney, and  county
  treasurer shall be filled by the governor with the advice and consent of
  the  senate if in session. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by
  expiration of term,  in  the  office  of  judge  of  the  county  court,
  surrogate, or judge of the family court outside the city of New York, it
  shall  be  filled  for a full term at the next general election held not
  less than three months after such vacancy occurs and, until the  vacancy
  shall  be so filled, the governor by and with the consent of the senate,
  if the senate shall be in session, or, if the senate not be  in  session
  the  governor  may  fill  such  vacancy  by  an  appointment which shall
  continue until and including the last day of  December  next  after  the
  election at which the vacancy shall be filled. All other vacancies in an
  elective county office shall be filled by the board of supervisors.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 206 - Organization of Departments and Offices.

§ 206. Organization of departments and offices. Subject to approval by
  the  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county,  the  county executive may
  organize departments and offices into such divisions, bureaus or offices
  and make such assignments of functions, powers and  duties  among  them,
  and from time to time change such organization or assignments, as he may
  consider advisable.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 5 - County Departments and Offices › 207 - Abolition of Register or Registrar.

§  207.  Abolition of register or registrar. The office of register or
  registrar, where such office exists in any  county  operating  under  an
  alternative form of county government, may be abolished by local law and
  its  functions,  powers  and duties transferred to the county clerk, and
  such local  law  shall  not  require  submission  to  the  people.  Such
  abolition  and  transfer  may  also  be  provided for in the petition or
  resolution by which an alternative  form  of  county  government,  or  a
  change in such a form, is initiated.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 250 - Department of Finance.

§  250.  Department  of finance. The head of the department of finance
  shall be the director of finance, except that in counties  adopting  the
  county  administrator  form,  the  head  of  the department shall be the
  county treasurer. The director of finance shall be appointed as provided
  in section two hundred two. In  counties  adopting  the  county  manager
  form,  the county director form or the county president form, the office
  of county treasurer is abolished and the functions, powers and duties of
  the office, except as otherwise expressly provided, shall  devolve  upon
  the  department  of  finance.  In a county in which the office of county
  treasurer is abolished, the county treasurer in office at the  time  the
  alternative  form  becomes  effective  in  the county, shall perform the
  duties of director of finance, unless a vacancy otherwise occurs,  until
  the  expiration  of  the term for which he was elected county treasurer.
  Whenever in this chapter the term "director  of  finance"  is  used,  it
  shall be deemed to mean and to refer to the county treasurer in counties
  adopting the county administrator form of government.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 251 - Powers and Duties.

§  251.  Powers  and  duties.  The  director  of  finance,  or  county
  treasurer, as the case may be, subject to the powers  and  authority  of
  the board of supervisors and of the county executive, shall:
1. Be the chief fiscal officer of the county.
2.  Have  charge of the administration of all the financial affairs of
  the county, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
3. Receive and have custody  of  all  public  funds  belonging  to  or
  handled by the county.
4.  Collect all taxes, assessments, license fees and other revenues of
  the county for whose collection the county is responsible, except  those
  payable by law to the county clerk or sheriff.
5. Deposit all funds coming into his hands in such depositories as may
  be  designated  by resolution of the board of supervisors, or if no such
  resolution be adopted  then  as  designated  by  the  county  executive,
  subject  to the requirements of law as to depositories and depositories'
  undertakings.
6. Have supervision over and be responsible for  the  disbursement  of
  all county funds.
7.  Require  reports  of  receipts and disbursements from all spending
  agencies of the county to be made daily, or at such intervals as may  be
  required by county act.
8.  Submit to the board of supervisors annually on or before the first
  day of February a complete  financial  statement  containing  a  general
  balance sheet for the county, and at such other times as may be required
  by county act.
9.  Have charge of the administration of the function of assessment of
  real property  for  taxation,  in  the  event  such  function  shall  be
  transferred  from  units  of  local  government  to  the  county, unless
  otherwise delegated by local law.
10. Perform all the duties required by any law to be performed by  the
  county  treasurer,  unless  such duties shall have been assigned to some
  other county department or officer.
11. Have the custody, investment and management of any  sinking  funds
  provided for the payment or redemption of county debts.
12.  Perform  such  additional  and  related  duties  as  the board of
  supervisors shall require by county act.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 7 - Department of Audit and Control › 301 - Powers and Duties.

§ 301. Powers and duties. The county comptroller shall:
1.  Examine,  audit and verify all books, records and accounts kept by
  the various administrative units, offices, officials  paid  from  county
  funds, institutions and other agencies of the county, including bond and
  note registers and trust accounts, and the accrual and collection of all
  county  revenues  and  receipts, and for this purpose have access to all
  such books, records and accounts at any time.
2. Procure from the depositories with which the  director  of  finance
  shall  have  deposited  the funds and moneys coming into his possession,
  statements, at least monthly, of all moneys deposited by the director of
  finance or paid out pursuant to his order, and reconcile such statements
  with the county accounts.
3. Prescribe such methods of accounting for the county and other units
  of local government of the county as he may deem necessary, provided the
  same shall have been  approved  by  the  state  comptroller  and  county
  executive.
4.  Submit  to  the board of supervisors periodic reports in such form
  and detail and at such times as may be prescribed by county act.
5. Be the auditing authority of the county.
6. Perform  such  additional  and  related  duties  as  the  board  of
  supervisors shall require by county act.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 7 - Department of Audit and Control › 302 - Audit and Payment of Claims.

§  302.  Audit and payment of claims. All claims, accounts and demands
  against the county shall be submitted, audited, allowed and paid in  the
  manner provided by section three hundred sixty-nine of the county law as
  now in force or hereafter amended.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 8 - Department of Public Works › 350 - Department of Public Works.

§  350.  Department  of  public  works.  The head of the department of
  public works shall be the director of public works. In counties adopting
  the county manager  form,  the  county  director  form  and  the  county
  president  form,  the office of county superintendent of highways and of
  county engineer, if any, is abolished  and  the  functions,  powers  and
  duties  of the office shall devolve upon the department of public works.
  Nothing in this article contained  shall  be  construed  to  impair  the
  powers of the county superintendent of highways in counties adopting the
  county  administrator  form of government, and the county superintendent
  of highways of any such county shall continue to have and  exercise  the
  functions,  powers and duties of his office as now or hereafter provided
  by law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 8 - Department of Public Works › 351 - Powers and Duties.

§ 351. Powers and duties. The director of public works shall:
1.  Have  charge  of the construction and maintenance of county roads,
  bridges, sewers, drains and all other public works of the county.
2. Have charge of the construction, repair, upkeep  and  care  of  all
  public buildings, storerooms and warehouses of the county.
3.  Have  charge  of  such  equipment  and  supplies  as  the board of
  supervisors may authorize.
4.  Have  general  supervisory  power  over  town  superintendents  of
  highways.
5.  Have  charge  of county parks and playgrounds, athletic fields and
  recreation centers, together with all buildings,  structures,  equipment
  and  appurtenances  thereof,  except  in  counties  having  a  park  and
  recreation commission.
6. Have supervision of all public works and co-operate with and advise
  any public  works,  sewer,  water  or  other  commission  or  bureau  or
  department   specially  created,  and  through  his  department  provide
  engineering  services  for  all  county  departments,  unless  otherwise
  specified by law.
7.  Have  and  exercise  all  the  powers  and  duties  of  the county
  superintendent of highways as now or hereafter prescribed by law.
8. Have all the powers and be subject to all the duties  of  the  town
  superintendent  of  highways  for  every  town in the county if the form
  adopted provides for the transfer to the  county  of  the  functions  of
  towns  in  relation to the construction and maintenance of town highways
  and bridges, and of the corresponding officials of any  other  units  of
  local  government from which such functions are similarly transferred to
  the county.
9. Perform such additional and related duties as may be prescribed  by
  general or special law or by county act.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 9 - Department of Purchase › 400 - Department of Purchase.

§  400. Department of purchase. The head of the department of purchase
  shall be the county purchasing agent. Nothing in this article  contained
  shall  be  construed to impair the powers of the county purchasing agent
  in counties adopting the county administrator form of county government,
  and the county purchasing agent of any such  county  shall  continue  to
  have  and exercise the functions, powers and duties of his office as now
  or hereafter provided by the county law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 10 - Department of Public Welfare › 450 - Department of Public Welfare.

§  450. Department of public welfare. 1. The head of the department of
  public welfare shall be the county commissioner of public  welfare.  Any
  inconsistent  provision  of  this  chapter  notwithstanding,  the county
  commissioner  of  public  welfare  shall  be  appointed  by  the  county
  executive  in  accordance  with the provisions of the social welfare law
  for a term of five years. A vacancy in the office of the county  welfare
  commissioner  whether occurring by expiration of term or otherwise shall
  be filled by appointment by the county executive.
2. Any inconsistent provision of  this  chapter  notwithstanding,  the
  deputy  commissioners  of public welfare, if any, shall be appointed and
  serve in accordance with the provisions of the social welfare law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 10 - Department of Public Welfare › 451 - Powers and Duties.

§  451.  Powers  and duties. The county commissioner of public welfare
  shall:
1. Have all the powers and perform all  the  duties  conferred  on  or
  required  of  a  county  commissioner of public welfare under the social
  welfare law.
2. Have charge of the county home,  county  hospital,  and  any  other
  public welfare institution maintained by the county.
3.  Perform  such additional and related duties as may be delegated to
  him by county act.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 11 - Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Centers › 500 - County Park and Recreation Commission.

§ 500. County park and recreation commission. The board of supervisors
  of  any  county  adopting an alternative form of county government under
  this chapter may create a county park  and  recreation  commission.  The
  commission  shall  consist of five members to be appointed by the county
  executive with the approval of the board  of  supervisors.  One  of  the
  members shall be designated as chairman by the county executive with the
  approval of the board of supervisors.  The term of office of the members
  of  the  commission  shall  be  five  years,  except that of those first
  appointed, one member shall be appointed for five years,  one  for  four
  years,  one  for  three years, one for two years and one member shall be
  appointed for one year. Successors shall be appointed in the same manner
  as those originally appointed for terms of five years  each.  A  vacancy
  occurring  otherwise  than  by  expiration  of  term  shall be filled by
  appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. The  members  of  the
  commission  shall  receive  for the services such compensation as may be
  fixed by the board of supervisors, together with their  actual  expenses
  incurred  in  the performance of their duties.  The commission, with the
  approval of the county executive, may appoint and at pleasure remove  an
  executive   secretary  and  employ  and  contract  for  such  engineers,
  architects, experts and employees as may be  necessary  to  perform  the
  duties  of  the  commission.  The  secretary  and  each  such  engineer,
  architect, expert or other employee shall receive a compensation  to  be
  fixed by the commission within the scale and line item schedule of funds
  appropriated  by  the  board  of  supervisors.  In  any  county having a
  department of public works, county engineers and county architects, when
  available, shall be assigned temporarily to the work of  the  commission
  but  without  additional compensation. Nothing in this section contained
  shall affect the civil  service  or  retirement  rights  of  any  person
  assigned to the work of the commission.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 11 - Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Centers › 501 - Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Centers.

§  501.  Parks,  playgrounds  and recreation centers. 1. The county is
  hereby authorized  to  accept  by  gift  and  to  acquire  by  purchase,
  condemnation,  lease or permit, and to own, construct, operate, maintain
  and  repair  anywhere  within  the  county  outside  of  cities,  parks,
  playgrounds,  athletic  fields  and  recreation  centers,  together with
  necessary buildings, structures, equipment and appurtenances, including,
  but without limitation, public baths, swimming  pools  and  auditoriums,
  and  to  make  the cost thereof a county charge. The county may contract
  with any town or village for the operation by the county or by such town
  or village of any park, playground, athletic field or recreation  center
  located  within  such town or village, whether owned by the county or by
  such town or village, and make the cost thereof a county charge.
2. The board of supervisors shall have power by county act to regulate
  the use of and to establish a schedule of charges for the  use  of  such
  parks,  playgrounds,  athletic fields, recreation centers and facilities
  therein and may prescribe reasonable penalties  for  violations  of  its
  rules  and  regulations.  The  board  of  supervisors  may authorize the
  operation, granting and sale of concessions by the commission or  others
  in  or  in  connection with any such park, playground, athletic field or
  recreation center. All moneys received by the commission shall belong to
  the county and shall be paid into the  county  treasury  monthly  on  or
  before  the  tenth  day  of  the  month.  The board of supervisors, upon
  determination by county act  that  any  playground,  athletic  field  or
  recreation  center,  or  part thereof, or facility therein, is no longer
  required for public use, may authorize the commission to sell  or  lease
  the same under rules and regulations to be prescribed by local law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 11 - Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Centers › 502 - Powers of Commission.

§ 502. Powers of commission. The county park and recreation commission
  shall, subject to such rules and regulations as the board of supervisors
  shall  prescribe,  have  supervision,  direction  and  control  over the
  operation, maintenance and repair of all  parks,  playgrounds,  athletic
  fields   and   recreation   centers,  including  buildings,  structures,
  equipment and appurtenances constructed or  otherwise  acquired  by  the
  commission within the county outside cities.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 12 - Optional Transfer of Powers › 550 - County Assessment of Real Property.

§  550. County assessment of real property. 1. If the alternative form
  of county government, or the modification or change of  any  such  form,
  shall  provide  for  the  transfer  to  the  county  of  the function of
  assessment of real property from the  towns,  villages  or  cities,  the
  director of finance, or county treasurer, as the case may be, shall have
  all  the powers and perform all the duties of the assessment officers of
  the unit of local government from which the functions of assessment have
  been transferred to the county. All provisions of law which apply to the
  assessment officers of such units of local  government  shall  apply  to
  such  officer,  except  that the board of supervisors may, by local law,
  enact such provisions relating to the assessment  of  property  in  such
  units  of local government as shall not be inconsistent with the general
  plan for the assessment of property contained in the tax law and subject
  to the general supervision and authority of the  state  tax  commission,
  but which may include, without limitation of the power thus conferred, a
  rearrangement  of  dates  for  the performance of acts, or the method of
  giving notices, or the place of filing  the  assessment-roll  so  as  to
  coordinate the assessment work; provided, however, that the county board
  of  assessment review of such county, if there be one, shall review such
  assessments in the manner provided in this article. It shall be the duty
  of the director of finance to adopt scientific  methods  of  assessment,
  including  tax and land value maps in the form approved by the state tax
  commission.
2. If the function of assessment of real property is transferred  from
  the  towns  or  the  cities to the county, the school districts or parts
  thereof within such towns or cities shall use the county assessment.
3. If the alternative form  of  county  government  provides  for  the
  transfer  to  the  county of the function of assessment of real property
  from any units of government within the county, such  form  may  provide
  for  a board of assessors, either three or five in number as provided in
  the petition or resolution by which the form or the question of adopting
  such board is initiated to be appointed by the board of supervisors upon
  recommendation of the county executive. At least one of  such  assessors
  shall  be  a resident of a city in the county if there be any such city,
  and at least one shall be a resident of the county outside of any  city.
  In  case  of  the  appointment  of a board of assessors, the director of
  finance shall have general supervisory power only over such  board,  and
  shall  not  have  charge  of  the  administration  of  the  function  of
  assessment of real  property  for  taxation,  which  function  shall  be
  performed solely by the board of assessors.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 600 - Fiscal Year; County Budget; Tax Levy.

§  600.  Fiscal  year; county budget; tax levy. The fiscal year of the
  county shall begin on  the  first  day  of  January  and  end  with  the
  thirty-first day of December in each year. Except as otherwise expressly
  provided  in  the  alternative  form  adopted  by  the  county,  or  the
  modification or change of any such form, all provisions of article seven
  of the county law, as now in force or hereafter amended, shall  continue
  to  apply  to the county. When the county budget shall have been finally
  adopted, the board of supervisors shall  levy  the  annual  tax  in  the
  manner provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 603 - County Board of Elections.

§  603.  County  board  of elections. There shall be a county board of
  elections to be appointed by the board of supervisors in the manner  and
  for  such  term  as  provided  by  the election law. The county board of
  elections shall continue to have and exercise all functions, powers  and
  duties vested in or imposed on boards of elections by any law applicable
  to the county.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 605 - Advisory and Planning Boards.

§  605.  Advisory  and  planning  boards.  The  county executive, upon
  authorization by the board  of  supervisors,  may  appoint  a  board  of
  electors  of  the county to act in an advisory capacity to himself or to
  the head of any administrative unit under his jurisdiction. The  members
  of  the  advisory  board  shall  serve without compensation but shall be
  allowed and paid actual and necessary expenses incurred by them  in  the
  performance of their duties. It shall be the duty of members of any such
  advisory  and  planning board to consult and advise upon county problems
  but not to direct the conduct or administration of county affairs.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 606 - Citizenship and Residence Requirements for Department Heads and Deputies.

§ 606. Citizenship and residence requirements for department heads and
  deputies.  The  head  of  each  department  or  office  and  each deputy
  appointed under or pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall,  at
  the  time of his appointment and throughout the incumbency of his office
  be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the county.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 607 - Retirement System.

§  607.  Retirement  system.  Persons  who  are members of an existing
  pension  or  retirement  system,   or   beneficiaries   or   prospective
  beneficiaries  thereof,  shall  continue to have the rights, privileges,
  obligations and status with respect to such  system  which  are  now  or
  hereafter  may  be provided by law and the benefits of such system shall
  not be diminished or  impaired  by  reason  of  the  enactment  of  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 609 - Continuity of Authority.

§  609.  Continuity  of  authority.  The performance of functions by a
  department, office or agency to which they are assigned pursuant to  the
  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  be deemed and held to constitute a
  continuation thereof for  the  purpose  of  succession  to  all  rights,
  powers, duties and obligations attached to such functions at the time of
  such assignment.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 610 - Completion of Unfinished Business.

§  610.  Completion  of  unfinished  business. Any proceeding or other
  business undertaken or commenced by a department, office or agency,  the
  functions,  powers and duties whereof are assigned, may be conducted and
  completed by the head of the department, office or agency to  which  the
  assignment  is  made,  in  the  same manner and under the same terms and
  conditions and with the same effect as if undertaken  or  commenced  and
  conducted  and  completed  by  the  department,  office  or  agency, the
  functions, powers and duties whereof are so assigned.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 13 - General Provisions › 611 - Oath of Office; Official Undertaking.

§  611.  Oath of office; official undertaking. 1. The county executive
  and each other officer whose compensation  is  paid  from  county  funds
  shall take and file an official oath in the manner prescribed in section
  ten  of  the  public  officers  law  and  the provisions of section four
  hundred two of the county law shall apply to all such officers.
2. The county executive, the head of each administrative unit and each
  other officer whose compensation is paid from county funds shall, before
  entering upon the duties of his office, execute an official  undertaking
  as  provided  in  section  eleven  of the public officers law, except as
  otherwise provided by law. The amount of such undertaking shall be fixed
  by the board of supervisors and approved by such board if in session and
  if not in session by the county clerk, except that  the  undertaking  of
  the  county  clerk  shall  be  approved by the county judge. When in the
  opinion of the board of supervisors the sureties are deemed insufficient
  and the money and property of the county may be unsafe, such  board  may
  direct  a  further  undertaking  upon  ten days' notification thereof in
  writing and such officer shall not perform any duties nor be entitled to
  compensation until such further undertaking is furnished.  All  elective
  and appointive county officers shall give such other undertakings as may
  be required by law. The board of supervisors or any county officer shall
  have the power to demand the giving of an undertaking by subordinates or
  employees,  as  may  be  deemed necessary. Any default or misfeasance in
  office on the part of any such subordinate or employee shall be deemed a
  breach of the undertaking of the county officer appointing him  as  well
  as  a  breach  of  the  undertaking  furnished  by  such  subordinate or
  employee. The neglect to furnish and file any  such  undertaking  within
  the  time  prescribed by law, except in the cases of the sheriff, county
  clerk and district attorney, shall be deemed a refusal to serve and  the
  office  may  be  filled  as in the case of a vacancy. Until the sheriff,
  county clerk or district attorney shall execute and  file  the  required
  undertaking,  he  shall  not  perform  any  duties of the office, nor be
  entitled to any compensation. The board of supervisors  shall  cause  an
  action  to  be  brought  upon  any  breach of the conditions of any such
  undertaking.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 14 - Submission and Adoption › 650 - Initiation of Proceeding.

§  650.  Initiation  of  proceeding.  A  proceeding for adoption of an
  alternative form of county government may be initiated by  petition,  or
  by  resolution  of  the  board  of  supervisors of the county; provided,
  however, that no such resolution  shall  be  adopted  by  the  board  of
  supervisors after the initiation of such a proceeding by the filing of a
  petition  therefor, or subsequent to ten days following the filing of an
  advance notice of filing such a petition,  so  long  as  the  proceeding
  initiated  by  the  petition  or  thereafter  initiated pursuant to such
  advance notice is pending.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 14 - Submission and Adoption › 651 - Petition.

§  651.  Petition.  Upon  the  filing  with  the clerk of the board of
  supervisors of a petition signed by electors  of  the  county  equal  in
  number  to  at least ten per centum of the whole number of votes cast in
  the county for governor at the last gubernatorial election asking that a
  referendum be held on the question of adopting one  of  the  alternative
  forms  of  county government authorized by this chapter, with or without
  variations, the board of supervisors shall  cause  the  question  to  be
  submitted  to  the  electors  of  the  county  in the manner hereinafter
  provided. Proceedings may be instituted and maintained  to  contest  the
  sufficiency  and  validity of any petition in the manner provided in the
  election law, as though such petition were a  designating  petition.  If
  the  petition be sufficient and valid, the board of supervisors shall by
  resolution cause the question to be submitted to  the  electors  of  the
  county  for  approval  or  disapproval  at  the  next  general  election
  occurring in an odd-numbered year and not less than sixty days after the
  date on which the petition is filed.
2023 New York Laws › ACG - Alternative County Government › Article 14 - Submission and Adoption › 652 - Resolution.

§  652.  Resolution.  The  board  of  supervisors  of  a county may by
  resolution duly adopted provide for submission to the  electors  of  the
  county  of  one of the alternative forms of county government authorized
  by this chapter,  with  or  without  variations,  at  the  next  general
  election  occurring in an odd-numbered year and not less than forty-five
  days after the adoption of the resolution; provided,  however,  that  no
  such  resolution  shall be adopted by the board of supervisors after the
  initiation of a proceeding for the adoption of an  alternative  form  of
  county  government,  with  or  without  variations,  by  the filing of a
  petition therefor, or subsequent to ten days following the filing of  an
  advance  notice  of  filing  such  a petition, so long as the proceeding
  initiated by the petition  or  thereafter  initiated  pursuant  to  such
  advance notice is pending.