N.Y. General Municipal Law § 756: Effective date of joint consolidation agreement

§ 756. Effective date of joint consolidation agreement. Local

government entities consolidated pursuant to a joint consolidation

agreement shall continue to be governed as before consolidation until

the effective date of the consolidation specified in the joint

consolidation agreement; provided, however, that no joint consolidation

agreement consolidating two or more towns, two or more villages or one

or more towns and villages shall take effect unless approved by a

majority of electors in each such town and/or village at a referendum

called through a resolution enacted pursuant to section seven hundred

fifty-five of this title.