N.Y. General Municipal Law § 776: Public hearings on proposed dissolution plan

§ 776. Public hearings on proposed dissolution plan. 1. The governing

body of the local government entity to be dissolved shall set a time and

place or places for one or more public hearings on the proposed

dissolution plan. The hearing or hearings shall be held no less than

thirty-five days and no more than ninety days after commencement of

dissolution proceedings pursuant to section seven hundred seventy-four

of this title. Any interested person shall be given a reasonable

opportunity to be heard on any aspect of the proposed dissolution.

2. The public hearing or hearings shall be held on notice of at least

ten days, but not more than twenty days, published in a newspaper or

newspapers having general circulation within the local government entity

to be dissolved and displayed on a website maintained by the entity or

otherwise on a website maintained by the village, town and/or county in

which the entity is located. The notice of the hearing or hearings shall

provide a descriptive summary of the proposed dissolution plan and a

reference to the public place or places within the entity where a copy

of such plan may be examined.

3. After completion of the final hearing, the governing body of the

local government entity to be dissolved may amend the proposed

dissolution plan, provided that the amended version complies with the

provisions of subdivision two of section seven hundred seventy-four of

this title and is publicized pursuant to subdivision four of this

section, and/or approve a final version of the dissolution plan, or

decline to proceed further with dissolution proceedings. Any approval by

the governing body of a final version of the dissolution plan must occur

within one hundred eighty days of the final hearing.

4. No later than five business days after amending the proposed

dissolution plan, the governing body of the entity to be dissolved

shall:

(a) cause a copy of the amended version of the proposed dissolution

plan, along with a descriptive summary thereof, to be displayed and

readily accessible to the public for inspection in a public place or

places within the entity; and

(b) cause the amended version of the proposed dissolution plan, along

with a descriptive summary thereof and a reference to the public place

or places within the entity where a copy thereof may be examined, to be

displayed on a website maintained by the entity or otherwise on a

website maintained by the village, town and/or county in which the

entity is located.