N.Y. Alternative County Government Law § 53: County president form

§ 53. County president form. A county which shall adopt the county

president form of government shall have a county executive to be called

"county president." The office of county president shall be elective.

The term of office of the county president first elected shall be three

years from and including the first day of January of the second calendar

year in which the county president form becomes effective in the county.

Successors shall be chosen by the electors of the county for terms of

four years each. A vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of

term shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors and the

person so appointed shall hold office until the commencement of the

calendar year next succeeding the first general election at which the

vacancy may be filled. The county president may, when authorized by

local law, serve as the head of one or more departments not administered

by an elective official but without additional compensation. The board

of supervisors of the county shall continue to have and exercise all the

functions, powers and duties of boards of supervisors as now or

hereafter provided by this chapter or by other law, except as limited or

otherwise provided by this section. The county president shall have

power, as provided in subdivision five of section twenty of the

municipal home rule law, to veto any local law passed by the board of

supervisors. The foregoing provisions of this section, together with

other applicable provisions of this chapter, including those provisions

of this chapter which may be made applicable, shall constitute the

county president form of government authorized to be adopted by this

chapter.