New York · statute · N.Y. Village Law · 267 active provisions
CHAPTER 892 AN ACT to repeal the village law, and to amend the agriculture and markets law, the conservation law, the correction law, the county law, the election law, the general business law, the general municipal law, the public health law, the real property actions and proceedings law and the real property tax law,…
ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE Section 1-100 Short title. 1-102. Powers of incorporated village
§ 1-100 Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Village law".
§ 1-102. Powers of incorporated village The citizens of the state of New York, from time to time inhabitants of the territory comprised within the boundaries of any village heretofore or hereafter incorporated shall continue to be a municipal corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name and the same shall in that…
ARTICLE 2 INCORPORATION Section 2-200 Population and area requirements. 2-202 Petition for incorporation. 2-204 Notice of hearing. 2-206 Proceeding on hearing. 2-208 Decision to commence village incorporation election. 2-210 Review of decision. 2-212 Right to election. 2-214 Notice of election. 2-216 Qualification of v…
§ 2-200 Population and area requirements. 1. A territory containing a population of at least one thousand five hundred persons who are regular inhabitants thereof, as hereinafter defined, may be incorporated as a village under this chapter provided such territory does not include a part of a city or village and further…
§ 2-202 Petition for incorporation. 1. A proceeding for the incorporation of such territory as a village shall commence with a petition. The requirements for such petition are as follows: a. Petitioners. Signatures from at least twenty percent of the residents of such territory qualified to vote for town officers in a…
§ 2-204 Notice of hearing. 1. No later than three days after the filing of a petition, the study and all exhibits and certifications required by section 2-202 of this article or copies thereof, the commission shall direct the town clerk of each town in which any portion of such territory is located to cause to be poste…
§ 2-206 Proceeding on hearing. 1. The commission shall meet at the time and place specified in such notice and shall hear objections which may be presented as to the incorporation based upon any of the following grounds: a. That a person signing such petition was not qualified therefor; b. That the petition does not co…
§ 2-208 Decision to commence village incorporation election. 1. Within ten days after such hearing is concluded the commission shall determine whether the petition complies with the requirements of this article and shall make and sign a decision as to whether a village incorporation shall proceed to election. The commi…
§ 2-210 Review of decision. 1. The decision of the commission as to the petition and whether a village incorporation shall proceed to election shall be subject to judicial review in accordance with article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules. 2. Such proceeding must be instituted within thirty days after…
§ 2-212 Right to election. 1. An election to determine the question of incorporation shall be held no later than one hundred eighty days and no earlier than ninety days after the first occurring of either of the following two events: a. The expiration of thirty days from the filing of the original of a decision by the…
§ 2-214 Notice of election. No later than three days after the right to an election is complete, the commission shall direct the town clerk of each town in which any portion of such territory is located to post in six public places in that part of such territory located in such town and also to be published at least tw…
§ 2-216 Qualification of voters. Each resident in such territory qualified to vote for town officers may vote at such election.
§ 2-218 Registration list of voters. 1. Preparation. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each town in which a portion of such territory is located to make and file in their office, at least twenty days before such election an accurate list of voters, alphabetically arranged, who are qualified to vote at such election.…
§ 2-220 Conduct of election. 1. Time and place. An election shall be held at the time and place specified in the notice of election. 2. Manner of voting. Voting may be either by voting machine or by paper ballots. Paper ballots may be written or printed and shall be consecutively numbered. Ballots shall contain the wor…
§ 2-222 Canvass of election. 1. At the close of the polls and as soon thereafter as the inspectors of election shall have completed their other duties as provided in this chapter and in the applicable provisions of the election law, the inspectors thereat shall publicly canvass and ascertain the vote without adjournmen…
§ 2-224 Review of election. A person qualified to vote at such election may, not more than ten days after the filing of the original of the certificate of election, institute a proceeding to determine the validity or regularity of such election before the supreme court or any justice thereof within the judicial distric…
§ 2-226 Notice of proceeding for review of election. A person instituting a proceeding under section 2-224 of this article shall serve a copy of the verified petition on which same is to be heard on each town clerk with whom the original or a copy of the certificate of election was filed and also upon each person desig…
§ 2-228 Stay of further proceedings. The institution of a proceeding under section 2-224 of this article shall serve to stay all further proceedings in connection with the proposed incorporation of such territory until the final determination thereof and the expiration of the time within which to take an appeal with no…
§ 2-230 New election. If the election is set aside as a result of a final determination in a proceeding instituted pursuant to section 2-224 of this article, a new election shall be held. The right to such an election shall be complete upon the filing of certified copies of such final determination with the town clerks…
§ 2-232 Report of incorporation. After ten and within fifteen days from the filing of the certificate of election certifying that a majority of the votes cast were cast for incorporation and if no proceeding is instituted to review the validity and regularity of the election or within fifteen days after the filing of a…
§ 2-234 Date and certificate of incorporation and effective dates. 1. The secretary of state upon receipt of the report of incorporation shall forthwith file same in his office and, in a certificate of incorporation, shall certify, under the seal of his office, to the clerk of each town in which any portion of such ter…
§ 2-236 Payment of expenses incurred in proceedings for incorporation if village not incorporated. If the incorporation of the proposed village be not effected by the proceedings authorized in this article, the expenses incurred by the towns in which any part of such territory is located for payment of cost of posting,…
§ 2-240 Appointment of village clerk. 1. Within five days after the filing of the certificate of incorporation in the offices of the clerks of each town in which any portion of the village is located, such clerks shall jointly appoint a resident of the village to serve as village clerk until his successor is chosen by…