§ 24. Terms of office. All elective officers other than town council members, town justices, receivers of taxes and assessors shall hold their respective offices for two years. The terms of office of the town council members first elected after this chapter shall take effect and of the town council members first elected in a […]
§ 25-a. Fingerprints of persons before appointment as town police officers, or as constables possessing powers in criminal matters. No person shall be appointed or reappointed a member of the police department, or a special police officer, or a constable not limited to powers and duties in civil actions and proceedings only, in any town, […]
§ 26. Resignation of town officers. Any town officer may resign to the town clerk in the manner provided by section thirty-one of the public officers law.
§ 27. Compensation of town officers and employees. 1. The town board of each town shall fix, from time to time, the salaries of all officers and employees of said town, whether elected or appointed, and determine when the same shall be payable. The town board shall not fix the salaries of the members of […]
§ 28. Power to administer oaths. Any town officer may administer any necessary oath in any matter or proceeding lawfully before him, or in connection with any paper to be filed with him as such officer.
§ 29. Powers and duties of supervisor. Except where powers or duties specified herein are devolved upon the town comptroller pursuant to section thirty-four of this chapter, the supervisor of each town. 1. Shall act as treasurer thereof and shall demand, collect, receive and have the care and custody of moneys belonging to or due […]
§ 30. Powers and duties of town clerk. The town clerk of each town: 1. Shall have the custody of all the records, books and papers of the town. He shall attend all meetings of the town board, act as clerk thereof, and keep a complete and accurate record of the proceedings of each meeting, […]
§ 31. Powers and duties of town justices; requirements; restriction. 1. The town justice shall have such jurisdiction in criminal and civil matters and in special proceedings, as is now or may hereafter be conferred by law. Each such justice shall: (a) Keep or cause to be kept the records and dockets required by the […]
§ 32. Powers and duties of town superintendent of highways and deputy superintendent. 1. The town superintendent of highways shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as are or hereafter may be conferred or imposed upon him by law, and such further duties as the town board may determine not inconsistent with law. […]
§ 32-a. Entry by town engineer on private lands. The town engineer and any deputy, assistant or employee of the town engineer’s office designated by him may enter upon any lands, waters or waterways, public or private, within the town, without hindrance, for the purpose of making surveys, examinations or investigations, including the making of […]
§ 33. Powers and duties of assessors. 1. The assessor or assessors shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as are, or hereafter may be, conferred or imposed by law. When required by the town board in a town of the first class, the assessor or assessors shall keep such office hours for […]
§ 34. Powers and duties of town comptroller. 1. In any town in which the office of town comptroller shall have been established and a town comptroller shall have been appointed and shall have qualified, the powers of the town board of that town with respect to auditing, allowing or rejecting all accounts, charges, claims […]
§ 35. Powers and duties of collector. 1. The collector of taxes shall be subject to the duties and shall have and possess, and shall exercise in the manner and within the time prescribed by law, all the rights, powers, authority, and jurisdiction conferred upon him by law. The county clerk, in whose office the […]
§ 36. Collection of taxes by town clerk. 1. In any town of the second class in which the office of tax collector or receiver of taxes exists, the town board thereof may by resolution duly adopted at least one hundred fifty days prior to any biennial town election, determine that said office be abolished, […]
§ 37. Powers and duties of receiver of taxes and assessments. 1. The receiver of taxes and assessments, if the office be elective, shall hold no other elective public office. Except as otherwise provided in section twenty-five hundred six of the education law, he shall have and possess and exercise in the manner and within […]
§ 38. Certain offices abolished. 1. Except as otherwise provided by section twenty-five hundred six of the education law, in towns of the first class the offices of collector and of school district collector are abolished from and after the beginning of the term of office of the first receiver of taxes and assessments under […]
§ 39. Powers and duties of constables and town police officers. Constables and town police officers shall have all the power and authority conferred upon constables by the general laws of the state and such additional powers, not inconsistent with law, as shall be conferred upon them by the town board. They shall be subject […]
§ 40. Powers and duties of fence viewers. The assessors shall perform all the duties and shall exercise all the powers hereinafter imposed and conferred upon fence viewers. In a town having a sole appointed assessor, the assessor and the members of the town board shall act as fence viewers.
§ 41. Additional supervisors in certain towns. 1. Resolution of town board. Any town having a population of more than one-half the total population of the county in which such town is located, according to the latest federal or state census or enumeration, shall have one additional supervisor. No such additional supervisor, however, shall be […]
§ 41-a. Abolition of the additional office of supervisor of the town of Hempstead. The additional office of supervisor of the town of Hempstead as created pursuant to the provisions of section forty-one of this chapter is abolished effective at 12:01 a.m. on January first, nineteen hundred ninety-six. For purposes of the election law, any […]
