N.Y. Real Property Tax Law § 329: Option to change to sole elected assessor

§ 329. Option to change to sole elected assessor. In any city or town

where the option to retain elective assessors was exercised in

accordance with the provisions of former section fifteen hundred

fifty-six of this chapter, the legislative body of such city or town may

adopt a local law providing that from and after the first day of January

first following the next biennial or general election at which the

electors would vote for an assessor, there shall be but one assessor, to

be elected at that election. The legislative body, in its discretion,

may determine that a local law adopted pursuant to this section shall be

subject to a mandatory or permissive referendum, or not subject to a

referendum. Any such referendum shall be conducted in the manner

prescribed in section twenty-three or twenty-four of the municipal home

rule law, as the case may be. On December thirty-first of the year in

which such local law shall take effect, the term or terms of all

assessors then in office shall terminate.