2006 New York Code - Official Visits To Counties.

 
    §  212.    Official  visits to counties.   1.   The board may cause an
  official visit to be made to a county not more often than  once  in  two
  years, and shall cause an official visit to be made to a county upon the
  request  of  the  board  of supervisors thereof.   On such visits it may
  inquire into the methods of assessment and taxation  of  real  property,
  ascertain  whether the assessors are faithfully discharging their duties
  and particularly their compliance with the provisions  of  this  chapter
  directing  assessment at full value, and may consider such other matters
  as may be appropriate.
    2.  The board may require members of the board of supervisors and  the
  assessors  of the assessing units therein to meet at a time and place or
  places within the county designated by the state board.   The  clerk  of
  the  board  of  supervisors shall send notice of such meeting to each of
  the supervisors and assessors in the county at least ten days before the
  meeting and shall immediately thereafter advise  the  state  board  that
  such notices have been sent.
    3.  In addition to other compensation provided by law, assessors shall
  be  entitled to receive compensation at the rate of four dollars per day
  for each calendar day actually and  necessarily  spent  in  attending  a
  meeting  held  pursuant  to  this section, and supervisors and assessors
  shall be entitled to mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile by  the
  most  direct  route from their residences in going to and returning from
  the  place  within  the  county  where  such  meeting  is  held.    Such
  compensation  and  mileage  shall be a county charge for supervisors and
  city and town assessors and a village charge for village assessors,  and
  shall  be  audited,  allowed  and  paid  in the same manner as are other
  claims against such county or village.