N.Y. General Municipal Law § 244-d: Joint recreation commission

§ 244-d. Joint recreation commission. 1. Two or more municipalities

which have established recreation commissions, as provided in section

two hundred forty-three of the general municipal law, may join for the

purpose of establishing a joint recreation commission.

2. The board of municipalities desiring to establish a joint

recreation commission shall informally agree on the use of facilities,

personnel, and the distribution of financial support. After informal

agreement has been reached, the common council or board of each

participating municipality shall pass an ordinance embodying the terms

of the agreement, before the agreement becomes final. Failure of one of

the municipalities to pass the ordinance within ninety days after the

informal agreement has been reached shall void the arrangement as to all

parties; but the remaining parties may proceed with a new agreement.

3. A joint recreation commission shall be organized and function in

the same manner as a recreation commission and shall be composed of all

the members of the commissions of the participating municipalities. A

joint recreation commission, however, may create an executive committee

from its membership composed of an equal number of members from each

participating municipality. Under the same limitations as the recreation

commission, the executive committee may exercise all of the authority of

the joint recreation commission, except that any executive committee

member by demand may require an issue to be submitted to the joint

recreation commission.

4. The joint recreation commission shall determine its total budget

request. The members of each participating municipality shall present to

their appropriating body the total budget and shall set forth the amount

chargeable to their municipality by the terms of the agreement and

ordinance. In case their appropriating body does not appropriate an

amount sufficient to meet its proportionate share, the joint recreation

commission may reduce the expenditures attributable to that municipality

or treat the reduced appropriation as a repudiation of the agreement and

terminate the relationship according to the provisions of subdivision

six of this section.

5. A fiscal officer of one such municipality shall be the custodian of

the moneys made available for expenditure for such purposes by all such

municipalities and that such fiscal officer may make payments therefrom

upon audit of the appropriate auditing body or officer of his

municipality.

6. A municipality may withdraw from a recreation commission board at

the close of a fiscal year by repealing its adopting ordinance and

filing a copy of the repeal ordinance with the other participating

municipalities. The joint recreation commission may terminate the

participation of a municipality when it does not contribute its

proportion of the total budget agreed upon in the original agreement and

ordinance. The termination shall occur at the conclusion of the fiscal

year in which the joint recreation commission makes its finding.

The joint recreation commission at the conclusion of a fiscal year in

which a discontinuance occurs, shall fairly and equitably distribute to

the participating municipalities all moneys remaining in the fund.