2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VIL - Village
Article 5 - (5-500 - 5-532) FINANCES
5-528 - Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and associations.

 
    §   5-528   Appropriations   to  maintain  municipal  conferences  and
  associations. l.  The  board  of  trustees  of  any  village  is  hereby
  authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum
  to  meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of
  maintaining and continuing the conference of mayors and other  municipal
  officials  of  the  state  of New York and any of its activities in this
  state for the purpose of devising practical ways and means for obtaining
  greater economy and efficiency in the government thereof.
    2. The board of trustees of  any  village  is  hereby  authorized  and
  empowered  to  include  annually  in the budget and raise by taxation in
  such village, a sum sufficient to defray the proportionate share of such
  village to meet the actual and necessary  expenses  of  maintaining  and
  continuing  a  conference  of  village  officials of the villages in the
  county in which such village is located  or  a  conference  composed  of
  village  officials of villages located in an area of adjoining counties,
  and any of its activities in this state, for  the  purpose  of  devising
  practical  ways and means of promoting and obtaining greater economy and
  efficiency in the government of such village.
    3. The board in control of an electric utility, owned and operated  by
  the  village  is  hereby  authorized  to  pay  from  the proceeds of the
  operation of said utility its proportionate  share  of  the  actual  and
  necessary  expenses of maintaining and continuing the municipal electric
  utilities association  of  the  state  of  New  York,  and  any  of  its
  activities in this state, for the purpose of devising practical ways and
  means  for  obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the operation of
  municipally owned electric light plants.