N.Y. Alternative County Government Law § 654: Advance notice of petition; effect

§ 654. Advance notice of petition; effect. Any elector of the county

may file with the clerk of the board of supervisors advance notice of

his intention to prepare, circulate and file a petition for the

submission of any question authorized by this chapter. Any such notice

shall specify the alternative form of county government proposed,

together with any variations and shall be accompanied by a deposit of

twenty-five dollars. If the board of supervisors shall have adopted a

resolution initiating a proceeding for the adoption of an alternative

form of county government, with or without variations, within ten days

after the filing of such an advance notice, then and in that event such

advance notice shall have no further force and effect and the

twenty-five dollars deposited shall be refunded to the person making the

deposit. In the event that no such resolution is adopted by the board of

supervisors within such period of ten days after the filing of such an

advance notice, then and in that event if one-third of the number of

signatures required for the submission of the question are filed with

such clerk within twenty days and the remaining two-thirds within forty

days after the filing of the notice, the twenty-five dollars shall be

refunded to the person making the deposit and no other petition or

advance notice shall be filed or accepted for filing, or resolution of

the board of supervisors adopted, for the submission of any question

under this chapter, until the question proposed in the advance notice

shall have been submitted to the electors of the county in accordance

with the provisions of this chapter. The several parts of the petition

filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors under this section,

when complete, shall constitute one petition, which shall be deemed to

be filed for the purposes of this chapter on the date the last portion

is filed. If the required number of signatures is not filed within the

twenty day period, or the forty day period aforesaid, the notice of

intention to file a petition shall be deemed withdrawn and shall have no

further force or effect and the deposit of twenty-five dollars shall be

paid into the general fund of the county treasury.