New York County Law Article 5 - GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

• 200 - Compensation of Supervisors.
  1. Notwithstanding the election of a supervisor for a fixed term, the board of supervisors of each county shall have power from time to time...
• 201 - Compensation of Officers.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general law other than this chapter or of any special law to the contrary, each board of supervisors shall fix...
• 202 - Publication of Compensation and Expenses of Supervisors in Certain Counties.
  In those counties wherein the compensation of supervisors is fixed on a per diem basis, the clerk of the board of supervisors in the month...
• 203 - Expenses Incurred in the Performance of Official Duty.
  1. The actual and necessary expenses of all officers and employees, other than supervisors, paid from county funds incurred in the performance of their official...
• 204 - Positions of Employment.
  In addition to those positions of employment specifically provided by law, the board of supervisors shall have power to establish positions of employment and may...
• 205 - Compensation of Employees.
  Subject to the constitution and the civil service law but notwithstanding the provisions of any other general law or of any special law to the...
• 205-a - Certain Pilot Projects.
  Any county operating a county hospital employing physicians and dentists pursuant to a pilot project approved by the public health and health planning council, whereby...
• 206 - Hours of Work and Office Hours.
  1. Subject to the constitution and general laws of this state and to the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto, the board of supervisors may...
• 206-a - Business in County Offices on Holidays and Saturdays.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, holidays and Saturdays shall be considered as Sunday for all purposes relating to the transaction...
• 207 - Vacations; Sick Leaves; Leaves of Absence.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general law other than this chapter or of any special law to the contrary, the board of supervisors shall...
• 208 - Books and Records.
  1. Whenever any public record, book, map or paper has become obliterated or unfit for further public inspection and use, the board of supervisors, upon...
• 209 - Investigations.
  The board of supervisors is empowered to conduct an investigation into any subject matter within its jurisdiction, including the conduct and performance of official duties...
• 210 - Examination and Post Audit.
  The board of supervisors may at any time cause an examination and post audit to be made of the books, records and papers pertaining to...
• 211 - Printed and Electronically Recorded Proceedings of the Board.
  1. The board of supervisors of each county, as soon after the close of each calendar year as practicable, shall cause to be printed in...
• 212 - Designation of Depositaries.
  All moneys received by the county treasurer shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law. Nothing...
• 214 - Designation of Newspapers; Official Publications.
  1. Concurrent resolutions, election notices and official canvass. The members of the county legislative body, whether such body be denominated board of supervisors, county legislature...
• 215 - County Property; General Provisions.
  1. The board of supervisors shall have the general care and control of the corporate real and personal property of the county. 2. All contracts...
• 216 - Location of County Offices.
  The board of supervisors shall have power to select and change the site of any county office or building within the county except as hereinafter...
• 217 - County Jail.
  Each county shall continue to maintain a county jail as prescribed by law.
• 217-a - Qualification for Employment As a County Correction Officer.
  A county may adopt the provisions contained in section twenty-two-a of the correction law relating to qualifications of its officials who may thereafter be appointed...
• 218 - Courthouses and Judicial Expenditures.
  1. Except as otherwise provided by law, each board of supervisors shall provide suitable rooms for courts of record within the county including rooms for...
• 218-a - County Detention Facilities for Juvenile Delinquents and Persons in Need of Supervision.
  A. To assure that suitable and conveniently accessible accommodations and proper and adequate detention in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as defined in section five...
• 218-b - Prisoner Furlough Program in County Jails and Penitentiaries.
  The county legislative body shall have power to elect to have the provisions of article twenty-two-A of the correction law concerning prisoner furloughs apply to...
• 219 - Reforested Lands.
  1. The board of supervisors shall have power to purchase, acquire, or accept by gift lands for purposes of reforestation and/or lease for the purpose...
• 220 - County Planning Board.
  The board of supervisors is empowered to establish a county planning board pursuant to article twelve-b of the general municipal law and to make the...
• 220-a - Water Quality Management Agency.
  The board of supervisors or county legislature, shall have the power to designate a water quality management agency for the purposes of water quality management...
• 221 - County Park Commission.
  The board of supervisors shall have power to create a county park commission to consist of not less than five or more than seven members...
• 222 - Cemeteries.
  1. The board of supervisors may acquire by condemnation, purchase, gift or devise burial plots outside a city or village within the county, for the...
• 223 - Flood Control and Soil Conservation.
  1. The board of supervisors shall have power to, and may, appropriate and pay out for the general improvement of agriculture and the soil such...
• 223-a - Enacted Without Section Heading.
  223-a. The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate such sums as it may deem proper, not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one...
• 223-b - Ems Training and Mutual Aid Programs.
  1. In order to develop and maintain programs for EMS training, EMS-related activities and mutual aid emergencies in which the services of EMS providers would...
• 224 - Optional Appropriations and Contracts for Public Benefit Services.
  The board of supervisors shall have power to contract with non-profit organizations and other corporations, associations and agencies within the county formed for the purposes...
• 224-a - Elimination of Noxious Weeds.
  The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem proper for the elimination of noxious weeds within...
• 224-b - Cooperative Extension Area and Statewide Program Specialist.
  1. Agreements to employ and manage area program specialists. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision eight of section two hundred twenty-four of this article, two or...
• 225 - Optional Appropriations for Public Benefit Services Administered by the Board.
  1. The board of supervisors shall have power to appropriate county funds and to permit the use of county property of all kinds for the...
• 225-a - Fire Training and Mutual Aid Programs.
  1. In order to develop and maintain programs for fire training, fire service-related activities and mutual aid in cases of fire and other emergencies in...
• 225-b - Contracts for Visiting Nursing Services.
  The board of supervisors of any county may, upon recommendation of the county board of health, contract with any nonprofit institution or agency, wholly or...
• 226 - Monuments and Memorials.
  1. The board of supervisors of any county may, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its total membership erect in the county, monuments and...
• 226-a - Patriotic Observances.
  The county legislature and/or board of supervisors, as the case may be, of any county or borough outside the city of New York, is hereby...
• 226-b - Solid Waste Management; Resource Recovery.
  1. The legislative body of any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem proper to provide for the separation, collection and...
• 227 - Legalizing Acts.
  1. Power to legalize. The board of supervisors of any county shall have power to legalize and validate any act had and taken in connection...
• 228 - Disputed Town Boundaries.
  Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the supreme court and the county court to hear and determine disputed town boundaries in an action brought by any...
• 229 - Erection and Dissolution of Towns.
  The board of supervisors shall perform the duties prescribed by the town law relating to the erection of new towns and the dissolution of towns.
• 231 - Expenses of Police Officer or Peace Officer Injured in Line of Duty.
  The board of supervisors may, in its discretion, audit and pay the reasonable medical and hospital expenses of any police officer or peace officer of...
• 232 - County Officers' and County Executives' Associations.
  Power is granted each board of supervisors to appropriate and pay annually to the treasurer of the New York state association of counties, and/or to...
• 233 - Procedure on Tax Limit Increase.
  1. In accordance with section ten of article eight of the constitution, the amount to be raised in any county by tax on real estate...
• 233-a - Amounts to Be Included or Excluded in Computing Constitutional Taxing Power.
  1. For the purpose of computing the amount that may be raised in any county by tax on real estate in any fiscal year for...
• 233-b - Payment in Lieu of Taxes for Property Acquired for Park or Recreational Purposes.
  * The county of Nassau having acquired certain property for park or recreational purposes in the Lido Beach-Point Lookout area shall have the power and...
• 234 - Additional Powers Granted Under Other Laws.
  Nothing herein shall be deemed to affect or impair the provisions of any other act of the legislature granting additional powers to appropriate and expend...
• 234-a - Service of Notice in Relation to Constitutionality of Local Law, Ordinance, Rule or Regulation of a County.
  Whenever the constitutionality of any local law, ordinance, rule or regulation of a county is brought into issue upon a trial or hearing of any...
• 235 - Enacted Without Section Heading.
  235. The board of supervisors by resolution may appoint a committee of citizens of the county to act in an advisory capacity to any committee,...
• 236 - County Plumbing Licensing.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general city law or any other law to the contrary, the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to establish...
• 236-a - County Master Electrician Licensing.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general city law or any other law to the contrary, the counties of Dutchess, Suffolk and Westchester are each...
• 236-b - County Electrical Inspector Licensing.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent general, special, or local law to the contrary, the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to establish a Westchester county board...
• 237 - Alcoholic Beverage Control.
  Pursuant to section seventeen of the alcoholic beverage control law, the board of supervisors by resolution may request the state liquor authority to further restrict...

Last modified: February 3, 2019