N.Y. General Municipal Law § 99-e: Operation, improvement and maintenance of parks

§ 99-e. 1. Operation, improvement and maintenance of parks.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, or

of any charter, ordinance, rule or regulation, any county, except a

county wholly included within a city and except a county operating under

an alternative form of county government or under a county charter, may

undertake to operate, maintain and improve public parks and recreational

facilities theretofore established by a municipal corporation within its

boundaries on land owned by such municipal corporation. Such county and

any municipal corporation located therein may, when authorized by

majority vote of the whole number of the members of its governing body,

enter into an agreement for the aforesaid purpose for a term not to

exceed thirty years, upon such other terms and conditions as such bodies

shall determine. Such operation, maintenance and improvement shall be

county purposes and the board of supervisors of such county may

appropriate and expend county funds for such purposes.

2. After such an agreement has been executed, employees of the

municipal corporation so contracting with the county, who at the time of

the execution of such agreement were employed in the operation and

maintenance of the parks and recreational facilities covered by any such

agreement, shall be transferred to the employ of the county in the

manner set forth in section seventy of the civil service law.