N.Y. County Law § 200: Compensation 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 to fix the compensation of its

members for services rendered to the county. Except as hereinafter

provided, such compensation shall be an annual salary and shall be in

lieu of all fees, charges or compensation for all services rendered to

the county. Each supervisor shall be entitled to receive an equal

amount, except the chairman and the majority and minority leaders of the

board, who may be paid an additional amount. Until otherwise provided,

the compensation to be paid by a county to each member of the board of

supervisors shall be the amount authorized to be paid therein for the

year nineteen hundred fifty.

2. Upon the adoption of a proposition therefor submitted as provided

in this chapter, the members of the board of supervisors of a county, in

lieu of an annual salary, may be paid a salary for board meetings and

per diem compensation for committee work, or per diem compensation for

both board meetings and committee work. The proposition may be initiated

by a resolution of the board of supervisors or by a petition duly

subscribed by electors of the county qualified to vote at a general

election of county officers, in number equal at least to five per centum

of the total vote cast for governor in said county at the last general

election held for the election of governor. Such petition shall be

acknowledged or authenticated in the same manner as provided by the

election law for a designating petition. The proposition may be

submitted at either a general or a special election as provided by a

resolution of the board of supervisors, and shall become effective at

the commencement of the fiscal year next following its adoption. Moneys

appropriated to pay salaries of members of the board of supervisors for

such next succeeding fiscal year, shall continue to be available to pay

the compensation of the members of such board earned during such fiscal

year in accordance with the proposition as adopted. If such proposition

be adopted, no further vote shall be submitted before the fifth year

thereafter.

3. The salary, or the rate of per diem compensation, or both, as the

case may be, fixed and paid during a fiscal year shall not exceed the

salary or rate as specified in the notice of the public hearing on the

tentative budget prepared for such fiscal year, published pursuant to

section three hundred fifty-nine of this chapter.