N.Y. General Municipal Law § 77-a: Construction and maintenance of memorial building or monument by county or city

§ 77-a. Construction and maintenance of memorial building or monument

by county or city. A county, or a city by resolution adopted by the

governing board of such municipality by a two-thirds vote of its

members, may construct and maintain a memorial building, park or a

monument at a place within the municipality or upon any public park

thereof, in commemoration of soldiers and sailors of the United States

in any war or wars in which the United States shall have engaged, at an

expense to be borne by the city or county at large. Such resolution

shall create a committee, to be at all times composed of members of such

governing boards, to have charge of such construction and of such

maintenance, direct expenditures therefor and let a contract or

contracts for such construction. Upon the adoption of such resolution,

the governing board or other proper authorities of such municipality

shall appropriate, raise by tax in the city or county, as the case may

be, and make available from time to time to the order of such committee,

the amount chargeable to the city or county for such construction and

maintenance. In a city having a board of estimate and apportionment, the

concurrence of such board, with any action by the governing board, shall

be necessary to any action by the city under this section. A county and

a city wholly contained therein may unite in the construction and

maintenance of such a memorial by such resolution being so adopted by

the governing board of each municipality, at an expense to be borne by

the city and county at large, or by the city and taxable property of the

county outside of the city, in such manner and in such proportions as

the resolution shall prescribe. Such resolution shall create a committee

to be at all times composed of members of each of such governing boards,

to have charge of construction and of such maintenance, direct

expenditures therefor and let a contract or contracts for such

construction. Upon adoption of such resolutions the governing board or

other proper authorities of such municipality shall appropriate, raise

by tax in the city or county, as the case may be, and make available

from time to time to the order of such committee, the amount chargeable

to the city or county for such construction and maintenance.