N.Y. General Municipal Law § 251: Agreements between municipal corporations

§ 251. Agreements between municipal corporations. 1. Two or more

municipal corporations may by agreement provide for discharge by the

police department of one of them, on behalf of the other or others, of

the duties provided in subdivisions three, four, five, six, seven and

eight of section two hundred fifty-three of the personal property law

and in sections two hundred fifty-four, two hundred fifty-five and two

hundred fifty-six of such law, with respect to property or instruments

deposited with the police of such other municipal corporation or

corporations and may designate a police officer or other public officer

of one of such municipal corporations as the person to whom such

property and instruments shall be transmitted as provided in subdivision

two of such section two hundred fifty-three. If pursuant to such

agreement property or instruments deposited with the police of a

municipal corporation are transmitted, together with the reports of the

persons who deposited them, to a police officer or other official of

another municipal corporation, the police of that municipal corporation

shall, with respect to such property or instrument, be deemed the police

with whom the property or instrument was deposited and the police having

custody of the property or instrument for the purposes of subdivisions

three, four, five, six, seven, and eight of section two hundred

fifty-three of the personal property law and for the purposes of

sections two hundred fifty-four, two hundred fifty-five, two hundred

fifty-six, and two hundred fifty-eight of such law.

2. Such agreement may also provide for payment to the municipal

corporation by whom such duties are to be discharged, by the municipal

corporation on whose behalf they are so discharged, of such amount or

amounts as may be agreed in reimbursement of or otherwise on account of

expense incurred in the discharge of such duties.

3. Such agreement may also provide that the police of municipal

corporations on whose behalf such duties are to be discharged shall make

and keep records of reports and deposits of found property and found

instruments, and of receipts given therefor, in such manner and by use

of such forms as shall be specified by the police of the municipal

corporation to whose police the property and instruments are to be

transmitted.

4. If incorporated in a resolution of the governing board of a

municipal corporation on whose behalf such duties are to be discharged,

such agreement may also provide that rules and regulations enacted

pursuant to section two hundred fifty of this chapter by the governing

board of the municipal corporation by whose police such duties are to be

performed shall be applicable to property or instruments found, or of

which possession is acquired, within the jurisdiction of the municipal

corporation on whose behalf such duties are to be performed. A

resolution of a municipal corporation on behalf of whom such duties are

to be performed, incorporating an agreement so providing, shall be

deemed an enactment of the rules and regulations so made applicable as

rules and regulations of the municipal corporation on whose behalf such

duties are to be performed.