N.Y. General Municipal Law § 187: Local option

§ 187. Local option. Subject to the provisions of this article, and

pursuant to the direction contained in subdivision two of section nine

of article one of the constitution of the state, the legislature hereby

gives and grants to every municipality the right, power and authority to

authorize the conduct of games of chance by authorized organizations

within the territorial limits of such municipality. A local law or

ordinance adopted by a town shall be operative in any village or within

any part of any village located within such town if, after adoption of

such local law or ordinance, the board of trustees of such village

adopts a local law or resolution subject to a permisive referendum as

provided in article nine of the village law authorizing the issuance of

licenses by the town for games of chance within such village. Such local

law or resolution may be repealed only by a local law or resolution

which shall also be subject to a permissive referendum, or by enactment

of a local law authorizing games of chance as provided in section one

hundred eighty-eight of this article.