N.Y. Executive Law § 226: Employment of state police in towns, villages, police districts

§ 226. Employment of state police in towns, villages, police

districts. 1. The governing board of any police district provided for

under article fourteen-a of the town law or of any town or of any

village, may from time to time respectively contract upon behalf of said

district, town or village with the superintendent of state police upon

behalf of the state for the regular assignment of state police to said

district, town or village upon the following terms and conditions: The

superintendent of state police shall detail such number of state police

officers as shall be agreed upon to such district, town or village for a

period of one year; the pay, maintenance and other expenses of such

detail for a period of one year shall be computed by the superintendent

of state police with the approval of the state comptroller pro rata upon

the total cost of the pay, maintenance and similar expenses of the whole

department; before such contract shall take effect the governing board

of said district, town or village shall deposit to the credit of the

division of state police in a depository to be designated by the state

comptroller with proper sureties, one half the sum of money so computed

and upon the first day of the sixth month during the continuance of said

contract shall likewise deposit the remainder of said sum; the

superintendent of state police, upon audit of the comptroller, shall

draw upon said depository for the pay, maintenance and other expenses of

said detail when due; said detail shall have all the powers and duties

and shall remain at all times under the authority and discipline of the

superintendent of state police as provided for state police assigned to

regular duty under this article.

2. The superintendent of state police is authorized to appoint

temporarily to the regular force provided for in this article, troopers,

non-commissioned officers and officers to fill the places of those

detailed under such agreements. In police districts the money to be

deposited as required hereunder shall be provided for as authorized

under article fourteen-a of the town law as added in nineteen hundred

and twenty; in towns and villages the money so deposited shall be raised

by taxation.