N.Y. General Municipal Law § 431: Authorization

§ 431. Authorization. It shall be lawful in the interests of

efficiency and economy for any county and any one or more municipal

corporations within such county or for any two or more such corporations

within the county to jointly acquire real property by purchase, lease or

condemnation for the purposes hereinafter specified and to establish,

construct, equip, operate, maintain, control and supervise for the joint

use and benefit of such corporations one or more jails at such place or

places as may be equally accessible for each of such corporations to be

specified in the agreement providing therefor or to utilize one or more

existing jails, lock-ups, or workhouses therefor. The ordinance or

resolution providing for such joint action shall be adopted by the

governing boards of each of the several corporations affected and a

committee, composed of at least one member of each of such boards, shall

be created to acquire necessary real property, in the name of the

municipal corporations affected and, as the joint agent of such

corporations such committee shall have charge of the construction,

equipment, maintenance, and operation of such jail or jails and shall

supervise and control the same. The ordinance or resolution may specify

matters as to which the action of the committee shall require the joint

approval of such boards and shall prescribe the proportions of the cost

of the construction and operation of such jail or jails to be borne by

the several corporations affected. The moneys to pay the share to be

borne by each corporation affected shall be provided by appropriation in

such amounts and at such time as may be agreed upon. Any jail,

penitentiary, workhouse, or lock-up, abandoned or rendered useless by

reason of action taken pursuant to this section may be sold or otherwise

disposed of or utilized by the corporation controlling the same. The

ordinance or resolution may also provide for the transfer to and

utilization in the proposed joint jail or jails of the books, papers and

records and the vans, wagons, automobiles, equipment and personnel of

any existing jail, penitentiary, workhouse, or lock-up whose continued

operation will be rendered unnecessary by reason of action taken

pursuant to this section. All of the provisions of the correction law

and of every other general, special or local law shall so far as

practicable, continue to apply with full force and effect to every jail

established and maintained pursuant to this section as if the several

constituent institutions consolidated by such jail had continued in

operation as single units.