N.Y. County Law § 550: County treasurer; duties

§ 550. County treasurer; duties. 1. The county treasurer shall perform

the duties prescribed by law as the chief fiscal officer of the county.

Such county treasurer shall perform such additional and related duties

as may be prescribed by law and directed by the board of supervisors.

2. The county treasurer shall receive and be the custodian of all

money belonging to the county or in which the county has an interest and

shall keep a true account of all receipts and the expenditures in books

provided by him at the expense of the county.

3. On or before the first day of March in each year the county

treasurer shall furnish a statement of and pay over to the state

comptroller all penalties or moneys belonging to the state. Any state

tax levied as part of the county tax shall be paid to the state

comptroller on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year. The

county treasurer, the county and the surety or sureties on the official

undertaking of such county treasurer shall be liable to the state for

all moneys collected and belonging to the state and for any state tax

levied as a part of the county tax together with interest not exceeding

ten per centum per annum, to reimburse the state for any borrowing

occasioned by any failure to pay the same to the state.

4. On or before the tenth day of January in each year, the county

treasurer shall transmit to the town clerk of each town within his

county a statement of all moneys paid by said county treasurer to the

supervisor of the town during the preceding year.

5. The county treasurer shall disburse all moneys received from the

fish and wildlife service of the United States department of the

interior pursuant to section seven hundred fifteen-s of the migratory

bird conservation act on a proportional basis to those units of local

government, including, but not limited to school districts and the

county itself in appropriate cases, which have incurred the loss or

reduction of real property tax revenues by reason of the existence of

such areas. Where such moneys are to be paid to the supervisors of

towns, in a case where any such wildlife refuge lands are located wholly

within the boundaries of an incorporated village, such moneys shall be

paid to the board of trustees of such village. Such moneys shall be used

exclusively for town or village highway purposes, as the case may be.

Where such moneys are paid to treasurers or other fiscal officers of a

school district, such moneys shall be used exclusively for public school

purposes. Upon request, a district superintendent of schools shall

furnish to the county treasurer such data as he may require to

effectuate the disbursement of moneys under this subdivision.

6. The board of supervisors may, by resolution, determine to enter

into a contract to provide for the deposit of the periodic payroll of

the county in a bank or trust company for disbursal by it in accordance

with the provisions of section ninety-six-b of the banking law.