N.Y. County Law § 216: Location of county offices

§ 216. Location of county offices. The board of supervisors shall have

power to select and change the site of any county office or building

within the county except as hereinafter provided. No site or location

for any county jail shall be selected or acquired by such board of

supervisors which shall not have been approved by the state commission

of correction. No courthouse, civil office of the sheriff, office of the

county clerk, county treasurer, clerk of the board of supervisors or

board of elections, now or hereafter located in a city or village, shall

be removed beyond the limits of such city or village without the

approval of a proposition therefor by the affirmative vote of a majority

of the qualified electors of the county voting thereon at a general or

special election. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause a

notice of such election to be published in the official newspapers once

a week for six weeks previous to such election; and shall on or before

the first day of publication cause such notice to be posted upon the

bulletin board at the office of each city and town clerk in the county.

The notice shall state the time of the election, the name of the office

or building and the proposed site thereof by a description in general

terms sufficient for readily identifying the proposed site. The clerk

shall cause a certificate to be filed with the board of elections

stating the proposition to be submitted on or before the first

publication. Nothing herein shall be deemed to dispense with any

required approval of a site or building by any state officer or

department. In the event the board of supervisors proposes changing the

present site or sites, as the case may be, of two or more of the above

specified offices or buildings from their present site or sites, as the

case may be, to one site, such proposal may be contained in one

proposition without the necessity of allowing a separate vote on each of

the offices or buildings concerned, and in such case, the proposition

and the notice of such election shall state, as to each office or

building affected, the name of the office or building, the present

location thereof by reference to the city or village, as the case may

be, and the proposed site thereof by a description in general terms

sufficient for readily identifying the proposed site.