N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 16: Location and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy local directors

§ 16. Location and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy

local directors. 1. A local director shall designate the location of the

local and branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within

his or her jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during convenient

hours. The cost of maintenance and operation of a county veterans'

service agency shall be a county charge and the cost of maintenance and

operation of a city veterans' service agency shall be a city charge,

excepting that the state commissioner with the approval of the veterans'

services commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys made

available to him or her for such purposes, to each county veterans'

service agency and each city veterans' service agency, an amount equal

to fifty per centum of its expenditures for maintenance and operation

approved by the state commissioner, provided that in no event shall the

amount allotted and paid for such approved expenditures incurred in any

given year exceed (1) in the case of any county veterans' service agency

in a county having a population of not more than one hundred thousand or

in the case of any city veterans' service agency in a city having a

population of not more than one hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five

thousand dollars, nor (2) in the case of any county veterans' service

agency in a county having a population in excess of one hundred thousand

excluding the population of any city therein which has a city veterans'

service agency, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and, in

addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for each one hundred

thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population of the county in

excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population of any city

therein which has a city veterans' service agency, nor (3) in the case

of any city veterans' service agency in a city having a population in

excess of one hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars,

and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for each one

hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population of the

city in excess of one hundred thousand. Such population shall be

certified in the same manner as provided by section fifty-four of the

state finance law.

2. The head of a branch office of a local veterans' service agency

shall be a deputy local director of the local veterans' service agency

who shall be appointed by the local director of the county or city in

which the branch office is located with the approval of the governing

body which makes the appropriation for the maintenance of such branch

office; provided, however, that the head of a branch office of a local

veterans' service agency which operates in and for two or more adjoining

towns or adjoining villages in the same county, and hereinafter in this

article referred to as a consolidated branch office, shall be appointed

by the local director of the county in which the branch office is

located with the approval of the governing body of each town or village

which makes an appropriation for or toward the maintenance of such

branch office, and any town or village is authorized to enter into an

agreement with an adjoining town or an adjoining village in the same

county, respectively, or with two or more respective adjoining towns or

villages in the same county, providing for their joint undertaking to

appropriate and make available moneys for or toward the maintenance of

such a consolidated branch office.