N.Y. Executive Law § 27: Continuity of local governments

§ 27. Continuity of local governments. 1. Every county, except those

wholly contained within a city, every city, every town and every village

shall have power to provide by local law, and every other public

corporation, district corporation or public benefit corporation shall

have power to provide by resolution, for its continuity and that of its

elective and appointive officers, including members of its legislative

or governing body when, in the event of a disaster and the emergency

conditions caused thereby, any of such officers is unable to discharge

the powers and duties of his office or is absent from the political

subdivision. In any such local law or resolution, provision may be made

that the removal of a disability or the termination of an absence from

the political subdivision of an officer higher on a list or order of

succession provided therein to an office shall not terminate the service

in such office of an individual lower on such list or order of

succession who is temporarily filling such office. Notwithstanding the

provisions of any general or special law or city or village charter, a

local law or resolution adopted pursuant to this section may be made

effective without approval at a mandatory or permissive referendum but

in no case shall such local law or resolution become effective until one

certified copy thereof has been filed with the clerk of the political

subdivision or other appropriate official designated for such purpose by

the respective legislative or governing body, one certified copy thereof

has been filed in the office of the state comptroller and three

certified copies thereof have been filed in the office of the secretary

of state.

No provision of this subdivision shall be construed or interpreted as

affecting the validity of any ordinance, local law or resolution enacted

prior to April first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine or actions taken

thereunder by the government of any county, city, town or village.

2. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable in any case

where the continuity of the government of a political subdivision or

that of any of its elective or appointive officers is otherwise provided

for by or pursuant to law.

3. This section shall be construed liberally. The powers herein

granted shall be in addition to and not in substitution of any power

granted, procedure provided or provision made in any other law.