2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VIL - Village
Article 2 - (2-200 - 2-258) INCORPORATION
2-204 - Notice of hearing.

 
    § 2-204 Notice of hearing. Within twenty days after the filing of such
  petition  or  copies  thereof, each supervisor with whom same were filed
  shall cause to be posted in five public places  in  that  part  of  such
  territory located in his town and also to be published at least twice in
  the newspaper or newspapers designated pursuant to subdivision eleven of
  section  sixty-four  of  the  town  law,  a  joint  notice  of  all such
  supervisors: that a petition for the incorporation  of  the  village  of
  (naming  it) has been received; that at a place in such territory and on
  a day, not less than twenty nor more than thirty days after the date  of
  the  posting  and first publication of such notice, which date and place
  shall be specified therein, a hearing will be had  upon  such  petition;
  that such petition will be available for public inspection in the office
  of  each  town clerk until the date of such hearing; that the purpose of
  the hearing is to consider the legal sufficiency of the  petition;  that
  objections  to  the legal sufficiency of the petition must be in writing
  and signed by one or more of the residents of such town;  and  that  any
  group  of  persons  having  one  or  more  objections in common may make
  designation in writing and signed by them of at least one  but  no  more
  than  three  persons  giving the full names and addresses on whom and at
  which addresses all papers required to be served in connection with  the
  proceeding  for  incorporation  shall  be  served.  A  majority  of such
  designees must reside in such town or towns. In the absence of any other
  suitable place, such hearing shall be held in a school building, if any,
  located in such territory. If such territory is located in more than one
  town the hearing shall be noticed and publicized as a joint  hearing  of
  all  such towns. For the purposes of this section, in the event that the
  town maintains a website, one of the posting  requirements  required  by
  this  section may be fulfilled by posting such information on the town's
  website.