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2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-700 - Grant of Power.

§  7-700  Grant  of  power.  For  the purpose of promoting the health,
  safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community,  the  board  of
  trustees of a village is hereby empowered, by local law, to regulate and
  restrict  the  height, number of stories and size of buildings and other
  structures, the percentage of lot that may  be  occupied,  the  size  of
  yards,  courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the
  location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade,  industry,
  residence  or  other purposes.   As a part of the comprehensive plan and
  design, the village board is empowered by local  law,  to  regulate  and
  restrict  certain areas as national historic landmarks, special historic
  sites, places and buildings for the purpose of conservation, protection,
  enhancement and perpetuation of these places of natural  heritage.  Such
  regulations shall provide that a board of appeals may determine and vary
  their application in harmony with the general purpose and intent, and in
  accordance with general or specific rules therein contained.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-702 - Districts.

§  7-702  Districts.  For  any  or  all  of said purposes the board of
  trustees may divide the village into districts of such number, shape and
  area as may be deemed best suited to carry  out  the  purposes  of  this
  article;  and  within  such  districts  it may regulate and restrict the
  erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration,  repair  or  use  of
  buildings, structures or land. All such regulations shall be uniform for
  each  class  or  kind  of  buildings  throughout  each  district but the
  regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-703-A - Planned Unit Development Zoning Districts.

§  7-703-a  Planned  unit  development  zoning  districts.  A  village
  legislative body is hereby authorized to enact, as part  of  its  zoning
  local law, procedures and requirements for the establishment and mapping
  of  planned  unit development zoning districts. Planned unit development
  district  regulations  are  intended   to   provide   for   residential,
  commercial,  industrial  or  other land uses, or a mix thereof, in which
  economies of scale, creative architectural or planning concepts and open
  space preservation may be achieved by a developer in furtherance of  the
  village comprehensive plan and zoning local law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-704 - Purposes in View.

§ 7-704 Purposes in view. Such regulations shall be made in accordance
  with  a  comprehensive  plan  and  designed  to lessen congestion in the
  streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, floods and other dangers; to
  promote health and the general welfare; to provide  adequate  light  and
  air;  to  prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration
  of population; to make provision for, so far as conditions  may  permit,
  the  accommodation of solar thermal, photovoltaics, wind, hydroelectric,
  geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal  energy,  wave
  energy,  ocean  thermal,  farm  waste  electric  generating equipment as
  defined in paragraph (e) of subdivision one of  section  sixty-six-j  of
  the  public  service  law  and  fuel  cells;  to facilitate the adequate
  provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks  and  other
  public  requirements.  Such  regulations  shall  be made with reasonable
  consideration, among other things, as to the character of  the  district
  and  its  peculiar  suitability  for particular uses, and with a view to
  conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the  most  appropriate
  use of land throughout such municipality.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-708 - Changes.

§  7-708  Changes.   Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may
  from time to time be amended. An amendment shall be effected by a simple
  majority vote of the board of trustees, except that an  amendment  shall
  require  the approval of at least two-thirds of the members of the board
  of trustees  in  villages  having  three  members  on  such  board,  and
  three-fourths  of  the members of the board of trustees in all the other
  villages in the event  such  amendment  is  the  subject  of  a  written
  protest, presented to the board and signed by:
1.  the  owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land included
  in such proposed change; or
2. the  owners  of  twenty  percent  or  more  of  the  area  of  land
  immediately  adjacent  to  that  land  included in such proposed change,
  extending one hundred feet therefrom; or
3. the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of  land  directly
  opposite thereto, extending one hundred feet from the street frontage of
  such opposite land.
The  provisions  of  the  previous section relative to public hearings
  shall apply equally to all proposed amendments.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-709 - Exemption of Lots Shown on Approved Subdivision Plats.

§  7-709.  Exemption  of  lots shown on approved subdivision plats. 1.
Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this  chapter  or  of  any
general,  special  or  local  law,  the provisions of a zoning local law
hereafter  adopted,  or  of  a  change  or  amendment   thereto,   which
provisions:
(a)  establish  or  increase  lot areas or lot dimensions which are in
excess of the areas or dimensions of the lots shown and delineated on  a
residential  subdivision  plat  which  has  been  duly  approved  by the
planning board, or other board  or  officer  vested  with  authority  to
approve  subdivision  plats,  if  any,  of the village in which the land
shown on said plat is situate, and duly  filed  in  the  office  of  the
recording  officer  of  the  county  in  which  the  land  shown on said
subdivision plat is situate; or
(b) establish or increase  side,  rear  or  front  yard  or  set  back
requirements  in excess of those applicable to lots under the provisions
of the zoning ordinance or local law, if any, in force and effect at the
time of the filing of said duly approved residential subdivision plat or
first section thereof;
shall not, for the period of time prescribed  in  subdivision  two  of
this  section,  be  applicable  to  or in any way affect any of the lots
shown and delineated on such subdivision plat.
2. If at the time of the filing  of  the  subdivision  plat  or  first
section thereof referred to in subdivision one of this section there was
in the village:
(a)  both  a zoning ordinance or local law and a planning board vested
with authority to approve subdivision plats, then the exemption provided
for in subdivision one of this section shall apply for a period of three
years after the filing of the approved subdivision plat or first section
thereof; or
(b) a zoning ordinance or local law in effect in the village but there
was no planning board in said village vested with authority  to  approve
subdivision plats, then the exemption provided for in subdivision one of
this  section  shall apply for a period of two years after the filing of
the approved subdivision plat or first section thereof; or
(c) no zoning ordinance or local law in the village but  there  was  a
planning  board vested with authority to approve subdivision plats, then
the exemption provided for in subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall
apply  for  a  period  of  two  years  after  the filing of the approved
subdivision plat or first section thereof; or
(d) no zoning ordinance or local law in the village  and  no  planning
board  vested  with  authority  to  approve  subdivision plats, then the
exemption provided for in subdivision one of this  section  shall  apply
for  a  period  of  one year after the filing of the subdivision plat or
first section thereof.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-710 - Adoption of First Zoning Local Law.

§  7-710  Adoption  of  first zoning local law.   1. In order to avail
  itself of the powers conferred by this article, the board of trustees of
  any village shall appoint  a  commission  to  be  known  as  the  zoning
  commission to recommend the boundaries of the various original districts
  and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein.
2.  Where  a  planning  board already exists in the village, it may be
  appointed as the zoning commission.
3. Such commission shall make a preliminary report  and  hold  one  or
  more  public  hearings  thereon  as deemed appropriate by the commission
  before submitting its final report.
4. The board of trustees shall not hold its public  hearing,  or  take
  action, until it has received the final report of such commission.
5.  Upon  adoption  of  a  resolution  by the board of trustees of the
  village accepting the final report, such commission shall cease to exist
  as a separate body.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-712-C - Article Seventy-Eight Proceeding.

§  7-712-c Article seventy-eight proceeding. 1. Application to supreme
  court by aggrieved persons. Any person or persons, jointly or  severally
  aggrieved  by  any  decision  of  the  board  of appeals or any officer,
  department, board or bureau of the village, may  apply  to  the  supreme
  court  for  review  by  a  proceeding under article seventy-eight of the
  civil practice law and rules. Such proceeding shall be instituted within
  thirty days after the filing of a decision of the board in the office of
  the village clerk.
2. Costs of appeal. Costs shall not be allowed against  the  board  of
  appeals  unless  it  shall  appear to the court that it acted with gross
  negligence or in bad  faith  or  with  malice  in  making  the  decision
  appealed from.
3.  Preference  of appeal to court. All issues in any proceeding under
  this section shall have preference over  all  other  civil  actions  and
  proceedings.
4.  Power of court. If upon the hearing at the supreme court, it shall
  appear  to  the  court  that  testimony  is  necessary  for  the  proper
  disposition  of the matter, it may take evidence or appoint a referee to
  take such evidence as it may direct and report the  same  to  the  court
  with  his  or  her  findings of fact and conclusions of law, which shall
  constitute a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the
  court shall be made. The court may reverse or affirm, wholly or  partly,
  or  may  modify  the  decision  brought  up  for  review determining all
  questions which may be presented for determination.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-714 - Remedies.

§  7-714  Remedies.  In  case  any  building  or structure is erected,
  constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained;
  or any building, structure or land is used, or any land is divided  into
  lots,  blocks  or sites in violation of this act, or of any local law or
  other regulation made under  authority  conferred  thereby,  the  proper
  local  authorities  of  the  village, in addition to other remedies, may
  institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful
  erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair,  conversion,
  maintenance, use or division of land, to restrain, correct or abate such
  violation,  to prevent the occupancy of said building, structure or land
  or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about such
  premises. All issues in any action or proceeding for any of the purposes
  herein stated shall have preference over all  other  civil  actions  and
  proceedings.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-716 - Conflict With Other Laws.

§  7-716 Conflict with other laws. Wherever the regulations made under
  authority of this act require a  greater  width  of  size  of  yards  or
  courts, or require a lower height of building or less number of stories,
  or  require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose
  other higher standards than are required in any other statute  or  local
  law  or  regulation,  the  provisions  of  the  regulations  made  under
  authority of this act shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any other
  statute or local ordinance or regulation require a greater width or size
  of yards or courts, or require a lower height  of  building  or  a  less
  number  of  stories,  or  require a greater percentage of lot to be left
  unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are  required  by  the
  regulations  made  under  authority  of this act, the provisions of such
  statute, or local ordinance or regulation shall govern.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-724 - Official Maps, Changes in Official Map; Notice of Hearing.

§  7-724  Official  maps,  changes in official map; notice of hearing.
  Every village may by resolution of its board of  trustees  establish  an
  official  map  of  the  village  showing the streets, highways and parks
  theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law.  Drainage  systems
  may  also be shown on this map. Such map is to be deemed to be final and
  conclusive with respect to the location and width of streets,  highways,
  drainage  systems and the location of parks shown thereon. Such official
  map is hereby declared to be established to  conserve  and  promote  the
  public  health,  safety  and general welfare. The clerk of every village
  which has established such an official  map  shall  immediately  file  a
  certificate  of  that  fact  with the clerk or register of the county in
  which said village is located.  Such board of trustees is authorized and
  empowered, whenever and as often as  it  may  deem  it  for  the  public
  interest,  to  change or add to the official map of the village so as to
  lay out new streets, highways or parks, or to widen  or  close  existing
  streets,  highways  or  parks.  There  shall  be a public hearing on any
  proposed action with reference to any such change in the  official  map.
  Before  making  any  such addition or change the board of trustees shall
  refer the matter to the planning board for report thereon,  but  if  the
  planning  board  shall  not  make  its report within thirty days of such
  reference, it shall forfeit the right further to  suspend  action.  Such
  additions  and  changes when adopted shall become a part of the official
  map of the village, and shall be deemed to be final and conclusive  with
  respect  to  the  location  of  the  streets,  highways  and parks shown
  thereon. The granting by the board of trustees of  a  petition  for  the
  approval   of   the   laying   out,  altering,  widening,  narrowing  or
  discontinuing of a street, shall be deemed to be an addition  or  change
  of  the  official map and shall be subject to all the provisions of this
  article with regard to such additions or changes.  Drainage systems  may
  also be shown on this map.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-732 - Subdivision Review; Record of Plats.

§  7-732  Subdivision  review; record of plats. 1. Filing of plat with
county clerk or register. (a) No plat of a subdivision of  land  showing
lots,  blocks  or sites, shall be filed or recorded in the office of the
county clerk or register until it has been approved by a planning  board
which  has  been empowered to approve such plats. Further, such approval
must be endorsed in writing on the plat in such manner as  the  planning
board may designate.
(b)  Such  endorsement shall stipulate that the plat does not conflict
with the county official map, where one exists, or in cases where  plats
do  front  on  or  have  access  to or are otherwise related to roads or
drainage systems shown on the county official map, that  such  plat  has
been  approved in the manner specified by subdivision two of section two
hundred thirty-nine-f of the general municipal law.
2. Notification of filing. It shall be the duty of the county clerk or
register to notify the planning board in writing within  three  days  of
the  filing  or  recording  of any plat approved by such planning board,
identifying such plat by its title, date of  filing  or  recording,  and
official file number.
3.  Effect  of  filing.  After  such  plat  is approved and filed, the
streets, highways and parks shown on such plat shall  be  and  become  a
part of the official map or plan of the village.
4.  Cession  or  dedication  of  streets,  highways  or parks. (a) All
streets, highways or parks shown on a filed or recorded plat are offered
for dedication to the public unless the owner of the affected  land,  or
the owner's agent, makes a notation on the plat to the contrary prior to
final  plat  approval.  Any  street, highway or park shown on a filed or
recorded plat shall be deemed to be private until such time  as  it  has
been formally accepted by a resolution of the local legislative body, or
until  it  has been condemned by the village for use as a public street,
highway or park.
(b) In the event that such approved plat  is  not  filed  or  recorded
prior to the expiration date of the plat approval as provided in section
7-728  of this article, then such offer of dedication shall be deemed to
be invalid, void and of no effect on and after such expiration date.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-734 - Buildings in Streets; Permits; Hearings; Review.

§  7-734  Buildings  in  streets;  permits;  hearings; review. For the
  purpose of preserving the integrity of such  official  map  or  plan  no
  permit  shall  hereafter  be  issued  for any building in the bed of any
  street or highway shown or laid out  on  such  map  or  plan,  provided,
  however,  that  if  the land within such mapped street or highway is not
  yielding a fair return on its value to the owner, the board  of  appeals
  or other similar board in any village which has established such a board
  having power to make variances or exceptions in zoning regulations shall
  have  power  in a specific case by the vote of a majority of its members
  to grant a permit for a building in such street or highway which will as
  little as practicable increase  the  cost  of  opening  such  street  or
  highway,  or  tend  to  cause a change of such official map or plan, and
  such board may impose reasonable requirements as a condition of granting
  such permit, which requirements  shall  inure  to  the  benefit  of  the
  village.  Before taking any action authorized in this section, the board
  of appeals or similar board shall give a hearing  at  which  parties  in
  interest  and  other  shall  have  an opportunity to be heard.  Any such
  decision shall be subject to review in the same manner and  pursuant  to
  the  same provisions as in appeals from the decisions of such board upon
  zoning regulations.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-740 - Review of Decisions of Planning Board.

§   7-740   Review  of  decisions  of  planning  board.  Any  officer,
  department, board or bureau of the village, with  the  approval  of  the
  board  of  trustees,  or  any  person  or  persons, jointly or severally
  aggrieved by any decision of the planning board concerning such plat  or
  the  changing  of  the  zoning  regulations  of  such  land, may bring a
  proceeding to review in the manner provided by article seventy-eight  of
  the civil practice law and rules in a court of record on the ground that
  such  decision  is illegal, in whole or in part. Such proceeding must be
  commenced within thirty days after the filing of  the  decision  in  the
  office of the village clerk.
Commencement  of  the  proceeding  shall  stay  proceedings  upon  the
  decision appealed from.
If, upon the hearing, it shall appear to the court that  testimony  is
  necessary for the proper disposition of the matter, it may take evidence
  or  appoint  a referee to take such evidence as it may direct and report
  the same to the court with his findings of fact and conclusions of  law,
  which  shall  constitute  a  part  of  the  proceedings  upon  which the
  determination of the court shall be  made.  The  court  may  reverse  or
  affirm,  wholly  or  partly,  or  may modify the decision brought up for
  review.
Costs shall not be allowed against the planning board, unless it shall
  appear to the court that it acted with gross negligence or in bad  faith
  or with malice in making the decision appealed from.
All  issues in any proceeding under this section shall have preference
  over all other civil actions and proceedings.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 7 - Building Zones › 7-742 - Separability Clause.

§  7-742 Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article
  or the application thereof to any person  or  circumstance  be  adjudged
  invalid  by  any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be
  confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly
  involved in the controversy in  which  such  judgment  shall  have  been
  rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of
  this   article   or   the   application  thereof  to  other  persons  or
  circumstances and the legislature hereby declares  that  it  would  have
  enacted this article or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such
  provision or application thereof been apparent.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 8 - Police Department › 8-800 - Police Departments.

§ 8-800 Police departments. The board of trustees of a village may, by
  resolution,  establish a police department in such village and appoint a
  chief of police and such personnel as  may  be  needed,  and  fix  their
  compensation.    The  board  of trustees may abolish a police department
  established pursuant to this section by local law, subject to permissive
  referendum, and the department shall be deemed abolished as presented in
  such proposition. The board of trustees of a village, upon  establishing
  or  abolishing a police department, shall notify the commissioner of the
  division of criminal justice services of such action within thirty  days
  thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 8 - Police Department › 8-802 - Powers and Duties of Police Officers.

§  8-802  Powers and duties of police officers. The police officers so
  appointed shall have all the powers and be subject  to  the  duties  and
  liabilities  of  constables  of  towns  in  serving process in any civil
  action or proceeding. In addition to other powers conferred by law, said
  police officers shall have power  to  execute  any  warrant  or  process
  issued  by  a  court  of the county or counties in which such village is
  situated.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 8 - Police Department › 8-806 - Review.

§  8-806  Review. The conviction of any member of such police force or
  department shall be subject to  review  by  the  supreme  court  in  the
  judicial  district  in  which  such  village  is  located, in the manner
  provided by article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules on
  the ground that said conviction is illegal provided  the  proceeding  is
  commenced within sixty days after the conviction.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-900 - Acts or Resolutions of the Board of Trustees That Are Subject to Referendum on Petition.

§  9-900 Acts or resolutions of the board of trustees that are subject
  to referendum on petition. l.  Whenever  this  chapter  shall  expressly
  provide that an act or resolution of the board of trustees is subject to
  a  permissive  referendum,  such act or resolution shall be subject to a
  referendum on petition as set forth in the next section.
2. Within ten days after the performance of any act or the adoption of
  any resolution by the board of trustees which is subject to a permissive
  referendum as above described, the village  clerk  shall,  in  the  same
  manner as is provided for notice of a general village election, post and
  publish  a  notice which shall set forth the date of the adoption of the
  act or resolution and contain an abstract  of  such  act  or  resolution
  concisely  stating  the  purpose and effect thereof, and indicating that
  such act or resolution is subject to a permissive referendum.
3. Whenever any state statute shall provide  that  any  local  law  or
  resolution of the board of trustees is subject to a mandatory referendum
  and  if  no  other  procedure is otherwise provided for, such referendum
  shall be conducted as provided in this article  as  if  such  referendum
  were  a permissive referendum upon which a valid petition had been filed
  with the date of adoption of such act or  resolution  by  the  board  of
  trustees  being  deemed  the  date of the filing of the petition. In the
  event a mandatory referendum on the adoption of a local law is held at a
  time other than at the time of a general village election  for  officers
  as provided by section twenty-three of the municipal home rule law, such
  referendum  shall  be  conducted  as provided in this article as if such
  referendum were a permissive referendum upon which a valid petition  had
  been  filed with the date of the adoption of such local law by the board
  of trustees being deemed the date of the filing of the petition.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-904 - Proposition for the Submission of Acts or Resolutions.

§  9-904  Proposition  for  the  submission  of acts or resolutions. A
  proposition submitting an act or resolution of the board of trustees  to
  the  approval  of the electors pursuant to this chapter shall contain an
  abstract of such act or resolution concisely  stating  the  purpose  and
  effect   thereof.   The   village  clerk  shall  prepare  such  abstract
  proposition in the form in which it is proposed to be submitted  to  the
  board  of  trustees  for  approval. Said board shall submit the approved
  proposition at an annual or special  election  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions  of  this chapter. If there be more than one such proposition
  to be voted upon at such election, each proposition shall be  separately
  and consecutively numbered.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-906 - Reconsideration of Act or Resolution Upon Submission to Referendum.

§  9-906  Reconsideration  of  act  or  resolution  upon submission to
  referendum. At any time after the adoption of an act or  resolution  and
  not later than fifteen days prior to the election, the board of trustees
  of  the  village  may  reconsider  its  action  thereon and if upon such
  reconsideration the said act or resolution is repealed, the  proposition
  for  its  approval  shall  not  be  submitted  at  such  election  or if
  submitted, the vote of the electors thereon shall be without effect.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-908 - Referendum on Acts or Resolutions of the Board of Trustees Without Petition.

§  9-908  Referendum  on  acts or resolutions of the board of trustees
  without petition. The board of trustees may, upon its own motion,  cause
  to  be  submitted  for  the  approval  of the qualified electors of such
  village, an act or resolution of such board in connection with  which  a
  petition  could be filed as provided in this article and the proceedings
  thereunder shall be the same as if  such  petition  had  been  filed  in
  accordance with the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-910 - Referendum for Adoption of Local Law at Village Elections.

§  9-910 Referendum for adoption of local law at village elections. 1.
  Whenever, pursuant  to  law,  public  sports,  exercises  or  shows  are
  permitted  on  the  first  day  of  the week after five minutes past one
  o'clock in the afternoon upon the adoption of a local law by  the  board
  of  trustees  of  a village and the board of trustees of any village has
  neglected, failed or refused  to  adopt  a  local  law  permitting  such
  sports,  exercises  or  shows  on  the  first day of the week after five
  minutes past one o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  a  petition,  signed  and
  acknowledged by electors of the village qualified to vote as provided by
  the  election  law  may  be  filed with the village clerk requesting the
  board of trustees to submit, at a village election, a  proposition  upon
  the  question of permitting such sports, exercises or shows on the first
  day of the week after five minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon.
2. Upon the presentation of such petition, the board of trustees shall
  cause the proposition to be submitted as hereinafter provided.
3. The proposition shall embody therein  the  language  of  local  law
  designed  to  permit such sports, exercises or shows on the first day of
  the week after five minutes past one o'clock in the afternoon.
4. If such local law shall be approved by the affirmative  vote  of  a
  majority  of  the  qualified electors of such village as above described
  voting on such proposition, it shall be and become a local law  of  such
  village without being adopted by the board of trustees thereof.
5.  A  local law adopted as provided in this section may be amended or
  repealed in the same manner herein provided for its adoption.
6. If a petition under this section be filed after the  first  day  of
  the month in which the general village election is to be held and before
  the  first day of the month two months prior to the next general village
  election, a special election shall be held not less than  ten  nor  more
  than sixty days after the filing of such petition.
7.  If  a  petition be so filed on or after the first day of the month
  two months prior to the month in which the general village  election  is
  to  be  held  and  on  or before the first day of the month in which the
  general village election  is  to  be  held,  the  proposition  shall  be
  submitted at the said general village election.
8. No special election shall be held hereunder in the month of March.
9. A special election hereunder shall be noticed, conducted, canvassed
  and otherwise held in the same manner as a general village election.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-912 - Propositions--Submission and Special Election.

§ 9-912 Propositions--submission and special election. 1. The board of
trustees  may,  upon  its own motion, and shall, upon the petition of at
least two hundred electors in villages containing a population  of  five
thousand  or  more;  by  at least one hundred fifty electors in villages
containing a population of at least three thousand and  less  than  five
thousand;  and by at least one hundred electors in villages containing a
population of one thousand and less than three thousand; and in villages
containing a population of less than one thousand, by electors numbering
at least ten percent of the number of voters  registered  for  the  last
general  village  election,  cause a proposition on any of the questions
set forth in the following subdivision to be submitted at a  regular  or
special  village  election as such elections are defined in the election
law. If such petition request the holding of  a  referendum  at  a  time
other  than  at  such regular or special village election, such petition
must contain twice the number of signatures otherwise required. If  such
petition  does  not  request  the  holding  of  such  a referendum, such
question shall be submitted at  the  next  regular  or  special  village
election  for  officers, held not less than thirty days after the filing
of such petition. If such petition requests the holding of a  referendum
at  a  time other than at such regular or special village election, such
referendum shall be held no less than thirty, nor more than sixty,  days
after the filing of such petition.
2.  The questions which may or shall be submitted as propositions upon
petition or motion of the board of trustees, as  hereinbefore  provided,
are:
(a) Whether or not the area of the village should be diminished.
(b) Whether or not the village should be reincorporated.
(c) Whether or not the name of the village should be changed.
(d) Whether or not the month of the general village election should be
changed.
3.  A  special  election  for  submission  of  a  proposition shall be
noticed, conducted, canvassed and otherwise held in the same manner as a
general village election; provided, however, that a proposition for  the
consolidation  or  dissolution of a village shall be noticed, conducted,
canvassed and otherwise held pursuant to, and in  accordance  with,  the
provisions of article seventeen-A of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 9 - Permissive Referendum › 9-914 - Resubmission of Defeated Propositions.

§ 9-914 Resubmission of defeated propositions. A proposition submitted
  in  pursuance  of  section  9-912 of this article or of section 9-900 of
  this article and which has been defeated, or in the case of a permissive
  referendum in which the  action  of  the  board  of  trustees  has  been
  disapproved  by  a role of the electors, shall not again be submitted to
  such electors until after the expiration of three months  or  until  the
  next general village election, whichever shall be the later.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1002 - Rules and Regulations.

§  10-1002  Rules and regulations. The board of fire commissioners may
adopt rules and regulations for the following purposes:
(a) To protect and preserve the village property and apparatus of  the
fire department.
(b)  To  prevent  danger from fires and to protect property exposed to
destruction or injury by fire.
(c) To provide for  pulling  down,  blowing  up  and  the  removal  of
buildings and property to arrest the progress of fires or extinguish the
same.
(d)  To provide for the installation of yard hydrant systems connected
with the public water supply system in accessible locations  on  private
property  for  the  protection  of multiple residences enumerated in the
multiple residence law where the possibility of a serious fire hazard is
determined by the board to exist.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1004 - Organization of Companies.

§  10-1004 Organization of companies. The board of fire commissioners,
  with the approval of the board of trustees, may  organize  and  maintain
  fire,  hose,  protective  and hook and ladder companies, whenever in its
  judgment the public interests require. The board of  fire  commissioners
  may,  by resolution, with the approval of the board of trustees, consent
  to the incorporation of any of the companies so organized  by  them,  or
  may,  by like approval, consent to the incorporation or the organization
  without incorporation of as many companies voluntarily organized in said
  village as may be deemed necessary.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1008 - Incorporation of Fire Department.

§  10-1008  Incorporation  of  fire department. The members of all the
  fire, hose, protective and hook  and  ladder  companies  of  a  village,
  organized  and  maintained in pursuance of law, constitute a corporation
  by the name  of  the  "fire  department  of.........."  The  term,  fire
  department  of  a  village,  as  used  in this chapter, refers to such a
  corporation.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1010 - Election of Company Officers and Delegates.

§  10-1010  Election  of  company  officers and delegates. Each of the
  several companies whose members constitute the fire  department  of  the
  village  shall  hold  an annual meeting on the first Tuesday in April in
  each year, except those fire companies constituting the fire  department
  of  the  village  of  Fishkill,  Dutchess  county, which shall hold such
  annual meetings on the first Tuesday in December of each year.  At  such
  meeting the members of each company shall elect by ballot from their own
  number  a  captain and a lieutenant, and such further officers if any as
  may be provided for in the by-laws of the company, who must be  approved
  by  the  board of fire commissioners, one warden and one delegate to the
  general convention of the fire department. The terms of  office  of  the
  captain  and lieutenant and such further officers if any, as are elected
  as herein provided, shall be one year, the wardens two  years,  and  the
  delegates  three years, respectively, and any vacancies occurring in any
  such offices shall be filled by election in like manner.  At  the  first
  annual  meeting  after  this  act  takes  effect  two  wardens and three
  delegates shall be elected, the wardens to serve for one and two  years,
  respectively,   and   the  delegates  for  one,  two  and  three  years,
  respectively. Any person who has been convicted of arson in  any  degree
  shall not be eligible for election to the office of captain, lieutenant,
  warden,  delegate  and  any other offices provided for in the by-laws of
  the company. Any captain, lieutenant, warden, delegate or other  officer
  of  the  company who is convicted of arson in any degree during his term
  of office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1014 - Council of Fire Department.

§ 10-1014  Council  of fire department. In a village in which separate
  fire commissioners are not appointed, the chief, the assistant, and  the
  wardens  of  the  several  companies  constitute the council of the fire
  department. The council shall meet on the third Tuesday in April in each
  year, except for the council of the fire department of  the  village  of
  Fishkill,  Dutchess  county,  which  shall  meet on the first Tuesday of
  December, and choose from its own number a secretary, a treasurer and  a
  collector  of  the  fire  department,  who  shall  hold their respective
  offices for one year unless sooner removed by the council. A vacancy  in
  the  office  of secretary, treasurer or collector shall be filled by the
  council at its next meeting for the balance of the unexpired term.  Such
  council  shall have all the powers and be subject to all the liabilities
  and perform all the duties of a separate board of fire commissioners, as
  prescribed in section 10-1000 of this article, except subdivisions  two,
  three,  four and eight and the fixing of compensation under subdivisions
  five and seven of such  section,  and  as  to  the  provisions  of  such
  subdivisions  such council shall only recommend to the board of trustees
  of the village. A majority of the members of such council  constitute  a
  quorum,  and may make and prescribe by-laws for the proper management of
  the affairs and the disposition of the funds of the fire department, may
  call meetings of the members, and designate one or  more  days  in  each
  year for public exercise, inspection and review.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1018 - Duties of Chief and Assistants.

§ 10-1018 Duties of chief and assistants. The chief shall be president
  of  the  council  and of the meetings of the fire department.  He shall,
  under the direction of a separate board of fire commissioners,  if  any,
  have  exclusive  control  of  the  members at all fires, inspections and
  reviews, the supervision of the engines, hose and other apparatus  owned
  by  the  village  for  the prevention or extinguishment of fires, of all
  property owned by the fire department, and of all officers and employees
  thereof elected or employed by the council or by  a  separate  board  of
  fire  commissioners, if any. He shall, whenever required by the board of
  fire commissioners, report to the board the condition of the property of
  the department and such other information respecting the  department  as
  may  be  required.  He shall hold the members, officers and employees of
  the department strictly to account for neglect of duty, and  may,  in  a
  village  in which separate fire commissioners are not appointed, suspend
  or discharge them at any time, subject to the approval of two-thirds  of
  the  members  of  the  council  at  the  next  meeting.   He shall, upon
  application, and if authorized by the council, or a  separate  board  of
  fire  commissioners,  if  any,  issue  through the secretary of the fire
  department a certificate of the time of service of a member of the  fire
  department, and shall give to each officer of the department immediately
  after his election a certificate thereof countersigned by the secretary.
  In  case  of  the inability or absence of the chief, the first assistant
  and in case of the absence or inability of  both  the  chief  and  first
  assistant,  the  second  assistant,  and  in  the  absence of the second
  assistant, the third assistant, if any, and in the absence of the  third
  assistant,  if  any,  the  fourth  assistant,  if any, shall perform the
  duties and have all the powers of the chief.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1020 - Abolition of Fire Department; Employment of Paid Firefighters.

§   10-1020   Abolition   of   fire  department;  employment  of  paid
  firefighters.  The board of trustees of any village may, by  resolution,
  abolish, in whole or in part, the fire department in such village, which
  action  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall  be  subject to a permissive
  referendum as defined in  this  chapter;  if  such  fire  department  is
  abolished, all the money and property of such department shall be turned
  over  by the officers of such department or by the fire commissioners to
  the board of trustees within ten days after service of  notice  on  such
  officers  or  commissioners  of the action of the board of trustees. Or,
  the board of trustees may, by resolution, determine  that  one  or  more
  firefighters shall be employed to act with such voluntary department and
  may  fix the salary of such firefighters; the board of trustees may also
  determine that such paid firefighters shall have charge of all apparatus
  and other equipment and that the voluntary department  shall  act  under
  the orders of such paid firefighter or firefighters.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 10 - Fire Department › 10-1022 - Fire Inspection in Contract Areas.

§ 10-1022  Fire inspection in contract areas. The chief officer of the
  fire department or fire company which  is  to  furnish  fire  protection
  service  to  a  village under a contract for fire protection may inspect
  (1) any public building and (2) with  the  consent  of  the  owner,  any
  privately-owned  building,  located  within  the  village or the portion
  thereof required to be protected under such contract, for fire  hazards,
  or  such  chief  officer  may  delegate  such  power of inspection to an
  officer or member of such department or company.
The term "building," as used  in  this  section  does  not  include  a
  multiple  dwelling  which  may  be  inspected by such fire department or
  company under and pursuant to the  provisions  of  subdivision  four  of
  section three hundred three of the multiple residence law.
The  failure  of  any  such officer or member to discover and properly
  report any such fire hazards or  his  or  her  neglect  or  omission  to
  perform  such  duties  shall  not  subject  him  or her, his or her fire
  department, fire company, or the city, village, fire district or town in
  which or of which he or she is a  firefighter  to  any  civil  or  other
  liability.  Any  such fire officer or member shall not be liable civilly
  for any act or acts  done  by  him  or  her  as  a  firefighter  in  the
  performance of such duties, except for wilful negligence or malfeasance,
  but  the  provisions  of  this  section shall not relieve any such city,
  village, fire district, town, or fire company from  liability,  if  any,
  for  the  negligent  or  wrongful  acts  of the officer or member in the
  actual performance of such duty.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1100 - Contracts for Water Supply.

§ 11-1100 Contracts for water supply. The board of water commissioners
  may  contract,  in  the  name  of  the  village,  with  an individual or
  corporation for supplying water to the village for  extinguishing  fires
  or for other public purposes; but such contracts shall not be made for a
  longer  period  than  forty  years. The amount of such contract shall be
  paid in installments in accordance with  the  resolution  of  the  board
  authorizing same.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1102 - Resolution for Establishment of Water Works.

§  11-1102  Resolution  for establishment of water works. The board of
  trustees  of  any  village  may  by  resolution   determine   upon   the
  establishment  of  a system of water works for supplying the village and
  its inhabitants with water,  or  for  the  acquisition  of  an  existing
  private  system,  at  an  expense  in  either case not exceeding the sum
  stated in the resolution.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1104 - Acquisition of Existing System.

§  11-1104. Acquisition of existing system. If a resolution be adopted
  for the acquisition of an existing system of water works, the  board  of
  water  commissioners  may purchase the same at a price not exceeding the
  sum specified therein. If the board cannot agree with the owners of  the
  system  for  its  purchase, proceedings may be taken to acquire the same
  pursuant to the provisions of the eminent domain procedure law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 11 - Water › 11-1106 - Establishment of Water Works.

§ 11-1106 Establishment of water works. If a resolution to establish a
  system of water works be adopted, the board of water commissioners shall
  proceed to construct such system accordingly. It shall prepare a map and
  plans  showing  the  sources  of  water  supply and a description of the
  lands, streams, water or water rights to be acquired therefor,  and  the
  mode  of constructing the proposed water works and the location thereof,
  including reservoirs, mains, distributing pipes and hydrants. The  water
  commissioners,  their agents, servants and employees, may enter upon any
  lands for the purpose of preparing such map and plans. The map and plans
  shall be filed with the village clerk, and a certified copy of such  map
  shall also be filed in the county clerk's office of each county in which
  any  of  the  lands  are  situated. The board of water commissioners may
  acquire, in the name of the village, by purchase, if it can  agree  with
  the  owners,  or  otherwise by condemnation, any land, streams, water or
  water rights necessary for such system. The board may amend the map  and
  plans  at  any time and such amended map shall be filed in the office of
  the village clerk, and of the  county  clerk,  in  like  manner  as  the
  original.  The  board  may  construct  such  water system by contract or
  otherwise, and may appoint, and at pleasure remove, a superintendent  to
  take  charge  of  the  system,  and  may fix his compensation or may, by
  resolution, provide that any other village officer shall also act as the
  superintendent of water.