N.Y. General Municipal Law § 760: Duty to approve proposed elector initiated consolidation plan

§ 760. Duty to approve proposed elector initiated consolidation plan.

1. In the case of a proposed consolidation of local government entities

properly initiated by petition of electors pursuant to section seven

hundred fifty-seven of this title, if a majority of the electors voting

in a referendum held in each of the local government entities to be

consolidated vote in favor of consolidation, the entities' governing

body or bodies shall meet within thirty days after certification of the

favorable vote and, within one hundred eighty days of such meeting,

prepare and approve by resolution a proposed elector initiated

consolidation plan.

2. The proposed elector initiated consolidation plan shall include:

(a) the name of each local government entity to be consolidated;

(b) the name of what will be the consolidated local government entity,

which name shall be such as to distinguish it from the name of any other

like unit of government in the state of New York (except the name of any

one of the entities to be consolidated);

(c) the rights, duties and obligations of the consolidated local

government entity;

(d) the territorial boundaries of the consolidated local government

entity;

(e) the type and/or class of the consolidated local government entity;

(f) the governmental organization of the consolidated local government

entity insofar as it concerns elected and appointed officials and public

employees, along with a transitional plan and schedule for elections and

appointments of officials;

(g) a fiscal estimate of the cost of and savings which may be realized

from consolidation;

(h) each entity's assets, including, but not limited to, real and

personal property, and the fair value thereof in current money of the

United States;

(i) each entity's liabilities and indebtedness, bonded and otherwise,

and the fair value thereof in current money of the United States;

(j) terms for the disposition of existing assets, liabilities and

indebtedness of each local government entity, either jointly, separately

or in certain defined proportions;

(k) terms for the common administration and uniform enforcement of

local laws, ordinances, resolutions, orders and the like, within the

consolidated local government entity, consistent with section seven

hundred sixty-nine of this title;

(l) the effective date of the consolidation; and

(m) the time and place or places for the public hearing or hearings on

such proposed elector initiated consolidation plan pursuant to section

seven hundred sixty-two of this title.