N.Y. General Municipal Law § 778: Effective date of dissolution plan

§ 778. Effective date of dissolution plan. A local government entity

dissolved pursuant to a dissolution plan shall continue to be governed

as before dissolution until the effective date of the dissolution

specified in the dissolution plan; provided, however, that no

dissolution plan for a village shall take effect unless approved by a

majority of electors of the village at a referendum called through a

resolution enacted pursuant to section seven hundred seventy-seven of

this title.