2006 New York Code - Municipal Directors Of Weights And Measures.

 
    § 180. Municipal  directors of weights and measures. 1. There shall be
  a county director of weights and measures in each county, except where a
  county is wholly embraced within a city there shall be a  city  director
  of  weights  and measures. Any county or city having a population of one
  million or more may elect to  designate  its  commissioner  of  consumer
  affairs  as  its  director  of weights and measures. Subdivision four of
  this section shall not apply to a commissioner of  consumer  affairs  so
  designated.
    2.  No  city  may  institute a weights and measures program. Provided,
  that any city which maintained a weights and measures program on January
  first, nineteen hundred seventy-six may continue such  program  under  a
  city director of weights and measures.
    a.  Any  such  city may contract with the legislature of the county in
  which it is located for the county director of weights and  measures  to
  perform  the  duties of and have the same powers within such city as the
  city director. Such contract shall fix the amount to be paid annually by
  the city to the  county  for  such  services.  During  the  period  such
  contract  is in force and effect, the office of city director of weights
  and measures shall be abolished.
    b. The county director shall not have jurisdiction in any  city  which
  has  a  city  director  of weights and measures, except in the county of
  Westchester the county director shall have concurrent jurisdiction  with
  city directors of weights and measures in such county.
    3.  Nothing  contained herein shall prohibit the governing body of any
  county or city from assigning  to  its  municipal  director  powers  and
  duties  in  addition to the powers and duties prescribed by this article
  provided such additional powers and duties deal primarily with  services
  designed  to  aid and protect the consumer and are not inconsistent with
  the provisions of this article.
    4. The municipal  director  shall  be  appointed  by  the  appropriate
  authority  of  the  municipality  in which he resides having the general
  power of appointment of officers and  employees.  He  shall  be  paid  a
  salary  determined by the appropriate authority and shall be provided by
  such authority with the working standards of weights, measures and other
  equipment as required by rules and regulations promulgated in accordance
  with this article. The position of municipal director shall  be  in  the
  competitive  class  of  the  civil  service  with respect to all persons
  appointed on or after the effective date of this act.