2006 New York Code - Deputy Supervisor

 
    §  42.  Deputy  supervisor. The town board of any town may at any time
  establish the office of deputy supervisor. The deputy  supervisor  shall
  be  appointed  by  the  supervisor  to  serve  at  the  pleasure  of the
  supervisor, and in case the office  of  supervisor  becomes  vacant  any
  deputy  supervisor  in  office  at  the  time  such vacancy occurs shall
  continue to serve until the  successor  of  such  deputy  supervisor  is
  appointed.  If  the supervisor shall fail to appoint a deputy supervisor
  within five days after the establishment of the office  or  within  five
  days  after  a  vacancy  occurs in the office, the town board shall have
  power to appoint such deputy supervisor. During the absence or inability
  to act of the supervisor, or while the office of supervisor  is  vacant,
  the  deputy  supervisor  shall preside, when present, at the meetings of
  the town board and shall be vested  with  all  of  the  powers  and  may
  perform  all  of  the duties of the supervisor under this chapter or any
  other law, except that he shall have no vote in his capacity  as  deputy
  supervisor  on  matters  coming  before  the town board and he shall not
  serve as a member of  the  county  board  of  supervisors.  Any  person,
  including  a town officer, official or employee, may be appointed deputy
  supervisor, provided that the person appointed shall  possess  the  same
  qualifications  as an elective town officer. Before he shall perform any
  function as  such,  the  deputy  supervisor  shall  take  and  file  the
  constitutional   oath  of  office  and  execute  and  file  an  official
  undertaking in the manner prescribed  in  section  twenty-five  of  this
  chapter.  The  town  board  shall  fix the compensation which the deputy
  supervisor shall receive, which compensation may be in addition  to  any
  other  compensation  he  may receive as a town officer, town official or
  town employee.