N.Y. Village Law § 5-528: Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and associations

§ 5-528 Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and

associations. l. The board of trustees of any village is hereby

authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum

to meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of

maintaining and continuing the conference of mayors and other municipal

officials of the state of New York and any of its activities in this

state for the purpose of devising practical ways and means for obtaining

greater economy and efficiency in the government thereof.

2. The board of trustees of any village is hereby authorized and

empowered to include annually in the budget and raise by taxation in

such village, a sum sufficient to defray the proportionate share of such

village to meet the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and

continuing a conference of village officials of the villages in the

county in which such village is located or a conference composed of

village officials of villages located in an area of adjoining counties,

and any of its activities in this state, for the purpose of devising

practical ways and means of promoting and obtaining greater economy and

efficiency in the government of such village.

3. The board in control of an electric utility, owned and operated by

the village is hereby authorized to pay from the proceeds of the

operation of said utility its proportionate share of the actual and

necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the municipal electric

utilities association of the state of New York, and any of its

activities in this state, for the purpose of devising practical ways and

means for obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the operation of

municipally owned electric light plants.