N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 121-A
Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, general or special, the town board or boards of a town or towns in the same county and the board or boards of trustees of an incorporated village or villages located wholly within such town or towns, may, upon the adoption of propositions therefor duly submitted in such town or towns and village or villages, determine to create a joint town and village police department for such town or towns and village or villages. The proposition to be submitted in such village or villages may be submitted at a general or special election of each village and the proposition to be submitted in such town or towns may be submitted at a general or special election of each town. Upon the adoption of a proposition therefor as herein provided, the town board or boards and the board or boards of trustees of the village or villages shall meet in joint session, at a time and place to be determined by agreement of such boards, and organize such joint police department and establish rules and regulations governing the same. Such boards shall at such meeting, by a majority vote, appoint a chief of police for such joint police department. Such chief of police shall be a resident of the area covered by such joint department and be subject to the control, direction and supervision of such joint boards. Such chief of police shall be appointed for a term of office of three years, and shall receive such compensation as the town and village boards at joint session may determine. A chief of police may be removed by joint action of the town and village boards upon written charges for malfeasance or misfeasance in office. Such charges shall be filed in duplicate in the offices of the town and village clerks and a copy thereof served personally on the chief of police. The town and village boards shall, in joint session, designate a time and place for a hearing upon such charges and cause notice of such hearing to be served personally upon the chief of police at least five days before the day set for the hearing. The town and village boards shall hear the evidence in support and in defense of such charges and by majority vote make an order sustaining or dismissing the charges. An order sustaining the charges shall operate as a removal and the town and village boards shall thereupon appoint another person to fill the vacancy. The person so appointed shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term or until the entry of a final order by a court of competent jurisdiction determining that the chief of police was wrongfully or unlawfully removed. An appeal to the county court may be taken by the chief of police removed within thirty days after personal service of a copy of such order of removal. The county court shall consider the charges presented and review the evidence taken before such joint board. It may hear additional evidence and shall make such determination as justice requires. A copy of such order shall be filed in the offices of the town and village clerks. An order by the county court determining the charges shall, upon such filing, act as the reinstatement of the person removed. The board or boards of trustees of each village shall appoint village police officers for service inside the area covered by such joint department, and the town board or boards shall appoint town police officers for service inside the area covered by such joint department. Such town and village police officers shall be appointed for such terms of office and receive such compensation as the town or village board may determine. The expense of village police officers, chargeable by law to a village shall be a charge against the village employing them, and the expense of the town police officers chargeable by law to a town, shall be a charge against real property in the town employing them situated outside of such participating village or villages. The salary of the chief of police and other expenses of the department, except compensation of village and town police officers, shall be apportioned between the village or villages and the town or towns by such boards in joint session. The portion of such expense to be borne by a town shall be a charge in that portion of the town situated outside of such participating village or villages and the portion to be borne by a village a village charge. Upon the creation of a joint town and village police department as herein provided, the term of office of all town constables heretofore elected in such town or towns shall terminate and thereafter no constables shall be elected in any such town, unless and until such police department is abolished as hereinafter provided. A joint police department established as provided by this section may be abolished upon the adoption of a proposition duly submitted at a general or special village or town election to take effect on January first succeeding the next general election at which town officers are elected. Whenever the town board of a town or towns in the same county and the board of trustees of an incorporated village or villages located wholly within such town or towns, either create or abolish a joint town and village police department, the joint board taking such action shall notify the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services of the action taken by them within thirty days of such action.

Source: Section 121-A — Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/121-A (updated Jan. 11, 2019; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

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Contracts for purification of water and sewerage 120‑A
Contracts for sewerage disposal 120‑AA
Source separation and segregation of recyclable or reuseable materials 120‑B
Supervision of sewage system 120‑BB
Town of Huntington solid waste management resource recovery facility 120‑C
Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts 120‑CC
Enforcement of unpaid solid waste collection and/or disposal fee 120‑D
Officers of meeting 120‑E
By whom proposed district represented 120‑F
Contract 120‑G
Apportionment of cost 120‑H
Further provisions as to apportionment of cost 120‑I
Means of payment 120‑K
Payments 120‑L
Letting of contracts 120‑M
Application of other laws to procedure 120‑N
Maps and plans of sewers 120‑O
Definitions 120‑P
Referendum in cities and villages 120‑Q
Rules and regulations 120‑R
Cancellation of sewerage contracts for neglect 120‑S
Joint meeting for acquisition and operation of property 120‑T
Town and village may establish a joint water district 120‑U
Mutual aid for water service 120‑V
Contracts for disposal of sewage outside the state 120‑W
Contracts and agreements for solid waste management, collection and disposal 120‑X
Agreements for joint acquisition, construction and operation of public docks 120‑Z
Sewer hook-ups by private contractors 121
Establishment and maintenance of free public baths 121‑A
Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages 121‑B
Care of children admitted to certain places of amusement in certain cities, villages and towns under a local law or ordinance 122
Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited 122‑B
General ambulance services 122‑C
Transport of police work dogs injured in the line of duty 123
Erection and operation of life-saving apparatus 124
Inspection of building elevators in Nassau county 125
Issuance of building permits 125‑A
Posting signs on dead-end roads 126
Establishment of public general hospitals 126‑A
Joint hospitals for cities, towns or villages 126‑B
Public hospitals for chronically ill 126‑B*2
Establishment of Broome county nursing home 126‑C
Appointment to board of managers of county hospital 127
Appointment and terms of office of managers 128
General powers and duties of managers 128‑A
Petty cash fund 129
General powers and duties of superintendent 129‑A
Erie county 130
Admission and maintenance of patients 131
Training school for nurses 132
Room for detention and examination of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill 133
Visitation and inspection 134
Existing county, town, city or village public general hospitals 135
Application of preceding sections 135‑A
Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the aged 135‑B
Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria 135‑C
Prenatal and maternity care 136
Regulation of automobile junk yards 139‑C
Sheltered workshops 139‑D
Storage and display of firearms, ammunition and explosives 139‑E
Posting of sanitary inspection grade
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Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Jan. 11, 2019

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