N.Y. General Municipal Law § 119-oo: Expenses

§ 119-oo. Expenses. The board of supervisors of a county, the town

board of a town, the common council of a city, and the board of trustees

of a village, or the governing bodies of the participating

municipalities comprising membership in a regional planning council or

county planning board or agency are hereby authorized independently or

in collaboration with other local governments, in their discretion, to

appropriate and raise by taxation money for the expenses of such

regional planning council or county planning board or agency; and such

municipal corporations shall not be chargeable with any expense incurred

by such regional planning council or county planning board or agency

except pursuant to such an appropriation. In the case of any regional

planning council whose membership consists only of counties, each such

county is authorized to provide for the payment of the moneys so

appropriated for the expenses of such council to an officer of the

council designated by the council to receive such moneys, provided that

before any such moneys shall be paid to such officer, such officer shall

have executed an official undertaking conditioned for the faithful

performance of his duties in the manner provided in section four hundred

three of the county law and provided that such undertaking shall have

been approved by the governing body of each county involved.