N.Y. County Law § 656: Emergency equipment and apparatus

§ 656. Emergency equipment and apparatus. If, in the protection of

human life and property, the sheriff shall deem it necessary to hire any

equipment or apparatus together with the operator thereof, he may hire

the same during the period of an emergency or catastrophe at a

reasonable charge therefor. The same shall be audited and paid as a

county charge in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, and

in the discretion of such board, there may be a direction that the

further hiring and payment be approved by the chairman of the board or

of a designated committee of such board.