N.Y. Town Law § 61: Commissions abolished

§ 61. Commissions abolished. Every separate board of commissioners is

hereby abolished, except fire district commissioners, and commissioners

of districts created pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred

twenty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred seventeen and chapter five

hundred fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-six, and the

commissioners of any district which shall have adopted a proposition

pursuant to subdivision ten of section three hundred forty-one of this

chapter. The town clerk shall forthwith notify the members of such

boards so abolished and they shall deliver to the town clerk within ten

days, all the records, books and papers of such boards or commissions

and, within the same time, shall deliver to the supervisor all funds,

and to the town board all other property in their possession or under

their control, and make complete and proper accounting therefor to the

town board. All powers heretofore exercised by said separate boards or

commissions so abolished shall hereafter be vested in and be exercised

by the town board.

Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the provisions of

this chapter, districts now existing shall continue as now established

until such time as the town board may otherwise determine, pursuant to

the provisions of article twelve. The town board shall have authority

to, and may exercise in and for such districts all the powers permitted

by section one hundred ninety-eight of this chapter, and such additional

powers as shall be necessarily implied therefrom for the operation and

maintenance of such district or districts, including but not limited to

the employment of personal services and the purchase of required

equipment. The town board shall annually prepare a budget for the

operation and maintenance of each such district, including therein the

amounts necessary for the retirement of all bonds or other obligations

and for the payment of interest upon all outstanding indebtedness

becoming due during the next fiscal year, and the supervisor shall

submit such budget to the board of supervisors of the county at the

annual session thereof, and the total amount of such budget shall be

assessed and levied upon and collected from the taxable property within

such district or districts.