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2015 New York Laws
CNT - County
Article 17 - (County) SHERIFF
651 - Appointment of person to act as sheriff in certain cases.

NY Cty L § 651 (2015) What's This?
 651. Appointment of person to act as sheriff in certain cases.  When
  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  the  office  of  sheriff,  and there be no
  undersheriff to perform the duties, the county judge shall designate and
  appoint some suitable and proper resident of the county to  perform  the
  duties  of  sheriff  until a new sheriff is elected or appointed and has
  qualified. The designation shall be in writing and filed and recorded in
  the office of the county clerk. The county clerk shall notify the person
  so designated of such designation, and within ten  days  thereafter,  an
  official  undertaking shall be furnished in the same amount and approved
  in the same manner as that of the sheriff. If such  undertaking  be  not
  furnished,  the  county judge shall designate another person in the same
  manner.

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