N.Y. Town Law § 24: Terms of office

§ 24. Terms of office. All elective officers other than town council

members, town justices, receivers of taxes and assessors shall hold

their respective offices for two years. The terms of office of the town

council members first elected after this chapter shall take effect and

of the town council members first elected in a town which shall have

changed its classification from that of a town of the second class to

that of a town of the first class, shall be two years each for two town

council members and four years each for two town council members, and

thereafter at each biennial town election there shall be elected two

town council members for terms of four years each.

The terms of office of the town justices and elective receivers of

taxes and assessments shall be four years. The term of office of the

assessor shall be six years, unless the town retains a board of

assessors, in which case the term for each shall be four years with no

more than two assessors to be elected at any biennial election after

December thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-one except when the

unexpired balance of term is being filled in which case three assessors

may be elected; when appointed, the term of office shall be as provided

by section three hundred ten of the real property tax law. The term of

each elective officer shall begin on the first day of January next

succeeding the election at which he was elected. The town clerk, the

town superintendent of highways, the receiver of taxes and assessments,

the town engineer and the town attorney, whenever appointed, shall hold

their respective offices until the first day of January next succeeding

the first biennial town election held after the time of their

appointment. All other appointed officers and employees shall hold their

respective offices and positions at the pleasure of the town board,

except as otherwise provided by law.