N.Y. Village Law Section 16-1608
Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed

All villages in the state incorporated by special laws and subject to their provisions which have attempted to reincorporate under the provisions of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and the acts amendatory thereof, between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and January first, nineteen hundred and four, or under the provisions of chapter sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine to the date of the adoption of this chapter, and which have held their elections, elected their officers and conducted their municipal affairs under or agreeably or substantially under or substantially agreeable to the provisions of said law for the period of one year, or longer are hereby declared to be regularly and duly incorporated villages under this chapter; and, so far as any defects, omissions or irregularities to the proceedings for such reincorporation affect their annual and special elections and meetings and their acts and proceedings at such elections and meetings and the election of their mayors and their other village officers and all the acts and proceedings of their boards of trustees and all the acts and proceedings of their officers, their said annual and special elections and meetings and the election of their mayors and trustees and their other village officers and all acts and proceedings of their boards of trustees and all the acts and proceedings of their officers, are hereby declared to be legal and valid; and so far as any defects, omissions or irregularities in their proceedings for such reincorporation affect the title to the offices held by their mayors, trustees and other officers, their said mayors, trustees and other officers are hereby declared to be legally holding and entitled to their offices de jure until the expiration thereof as provided by this chapter. This section shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court.

Source: Section 16-1608 — Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/VIL/16-1608 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 31, 2026).

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