New York Town Law Article 3 - TOWN OFFICERS, POWERS, DUTIES AND COMPENSATION

• 20 - Town Officers.
  1. (a) Every town of the first class shall have a supervisor, four town councilmen, unless the number of councilmen shall have been increased to...
• 22-b - Chairman of Assessors; Designation; Duties and Compensation.
  The town board of any town having more than one assessor may establish the office of chairman of town assessors and at its first meeting...
• 22-c - Election and Term of Assessors in the Town of Southampton, County of Suffolk.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the town board of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, may by resolution subject...
• 23 - Eligibility of Town Officers.
  1. Every elective officer of the town at the time of his election and throughout his term of office, shall be an elector of the...
• 23-a - Residence Requirement for Comptroller of the Town of Cortlandt.
  * Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other special, general or local law to the contrary, the town board of the town of...
• 24 - Terms of Office.
  All elective officers other than town councilmen, town justices, receivers of taxes and assessors shall hold their respective offices for two years. The terms of...
• 24-a - Terms of Office of Elective Officers.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-four of this chapter or any other general law, and at least one hundred fifty days prior to any...
• 24-b - Election of Councilmen and Town Justices in the Town of Pawling.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-four or any other general or special law, the town board of the town of Pawling in Dutchess county, may...
• 25 - Oaths of Office and Undertaking.
  Before he or she enters on the duties of the office, and within thirty days after the commencement of the term of office for which...
• 25-a - Fingerprints of Persons Before Appointment As Town Policemen, or As Constables Possessing Powers in Criminal Matters.
  No person shall be appointed or reappointed a member of the police department, or a special policeman, or a constable not limited to powers and...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 39 - Powers and Duties of Constables and Town Policemen.
  Constables and town policemen shall have all the power and authority conferred upon constables by the general laws of the state and such additional powers,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 41-b - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
  41-b. In any town in which the office of director of purchasing shall have been established and a director of purchasing shall have been appointed...
• 42 - Deputy Supervisor.
  The town board of any town may at any time establish the office of deputy supervisor. The deputy supervisor shall be appointed by the supervisor...

Last modified: February 3, 2019