N.Y. Alternative County Government Law § 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.