N.Y. Town Law § 125: Duties of supervisor

§ 125. Duties of supervisor. Except where duties specified herein are

devolved upon the town comptroller pursuant to section thirty-four of

this chapter, the supervisor of each town shall have the following

duties:

1. The supervisor shall keep in his records, in such manner and form

as the state department of audit and control may direct, a separate

account with every appropriation for which funds are appropriated or

raised by tax. He shall state in every check or draft drawn by him the

fund against which it is drawn and the appropriate account chargeable

therewith. He shall not permit any fund or appropriation account to be

overdrawn at any time nor draw upon one fund or appropriation account to

pay a claim chargeable to another. In a town in which there shall be no

town comptroller no money shall be paid out by the supervisor except

upon the warrant, order or draft of the town clerk, after audit and

allowance by the town board. In a town in which there shall be a town

comptroller no money shall be paid out by the supervisor except upon the

warrant, order or draft of the town comptroller, after audit and

allowance thereof. The supervisor, however, may pay the principal of and

interest on indebtedness, stated salaries, compensation for services of

officers or employees regularly engaged by the town at agreed wages by

the hour, day, week, month or year, and amounts becoming due upon lawful

contracts for periods exceeding one year for which provision for payment

has been made in the annual budget and payments authorized by

subdivision two of section one hundred eighteen of this chapter, without

prior audit.

2. The supervisor shall without prior audit, issue individual checks

to the persons as authorized by the town welfare officer or pay over to

the town welfare officer moneys for the revolving fund as provided by

section eighty-six of the social welfare law, and the receipt of the

town welfare officer shall be a sufficient voucher for such payment. The

supervisor shall render to the town board at the end of each month a

detailed statement of all money received and disbursed by him for such

month, and shall file a copy in the office of the town clerk.