N.Y. County Law § 575: County comptroller; term; vacancy

§ 575. County comptroller; term; vacancy. The office of county

comptroller may be created in any county upon the adoption of a

proposition submitted at a general election. The board of supervisors of

its own motion by local law adopted prior to September first in any

year, may create the office of county comptroller. Any such local law

shall be subject to a mandatory referendum. A copy of such local law

duly certified by the clerk of the board shall be filed forthwith with

the board of elections of the county which shall cause the proposition

to be submitted at the next general election occurring not less than

sixty days after the local law is filed with the board. Upon the filing

with the board of elections prior to September first in any year of a

petition duly signed and acknowledged or authenticated in the same

manner as a primary petition, by electors of the county equal to at

least five per centum of the total vote cast for governor in the county

at the last general election at which a governor was elected, praying

that the office of county comptroller be created in the county, the

board of elections shall cause the proposition to be submitted to the

electors of the county at the next general election following the filing

of the petition. The proposition shall be substantially in the following

form: "Shall the office of county comptroller be created in the county

of .......... ?" The proposition shall be submitted to the electors of

the county in the manner provided by this chapter for the submission of

a mandatory or permissive referendum. If the vote be in the affirmative,

at the first general election held thereafter there shall be elected a

county comptroller whose term shall be three years from and including

the first day of January following his election. Until such office be

abolished in the same manner as created, there shall continue to be

elected a county comptroller for the term of three years. The county

comptroller shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take

the constitutional oath of office and execute to the county and file an

official undertaking as provided in section eleven of the public

officers law. Any vacancy in the office of county comptroller shall be

filled by the governor in the same manner as other elective county

officers.