N.Y. Education Law § 256: Contracts

§ 256. Contracts. 1. Any authority named in section two hundred

fifty-five may, individually or jointly with another municipal or

district body or tribal government, grant money for the support of the

cost of maintaining or the cost of any capital improvements to or

expenditure for one or more: free association libraries, provided such

libraries are registered by the regents; public libraries, provided such

libraries are registered by the regents; and cooperative library systems

approved by the commissioner; or may, individually or jointly with

another municipal or district body or tribal government, contract with

the trustees of a free association library registered by the regents, or

with any municipal or district body having control of such a library, or

with the trustees of the cooperative library system, or with the

trustees of a public library registered by the regents to furnish

library services to the people of the municipality, district or

reservation for whose benefit the contract is made, under such terms and

conditions as may be stated in such contract. The amount agreed to be

paid for such services under such contract shall be a charge upon the

municipal or district bodies or tribal government which agree to make

the payment and shall be paid directly to the treasurer of the free

association library, public library or of the cooperative library

system.

2. When the municipality agreeing to make the payment or grant is a

town in which there are one or more incorporated villages, which village

or villages jointly with such town contract with the trustees of a

cooperative library system, a free association library or with another

municipal district or body having control of a public library whether or

not such district or body is an incorporated village in such town, the

amount appropriated by the town board in such town shall be a charge

upon the taxable property of that part of the town outside of any such

incorporated village.