N.Y. General Municipal Law § 702: Legislative intent

§ 702. Legislative intent. It is the intention of the legislature by

the enactment of this article to provide a municipal annexation law

pursuant to the provisions of the bill of rights for local governments

in subdivision (d) of section one of article nine of the constitution,

which provisions specify basic prerequisites to the annexation of

territory from one local government to another including (1) the consent

of the people, if any, of a territory proposed to be annexed and (2) the

consent of the governing board of each local government, the area of

which is affected, upon the basis of its determination that the

annexation is in the over-all public interest, and which provisions

require the legislature to provide, where such consent of a governing

board is not granted, for adjudication and determination, on the law and

the facts, in a proceeding initiated in the supreme court, of the issue

of whether the annexation is in the over-all public interest.