N.Y. Village Law § 18-1804 Diminishing Boundaries

• Library: New York Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 NY Law Chapter 777
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.Y. Village Law § 18-1804

The boundaries of a village may be diminished by excluding from its corporate limits territory not adjacent to nor benefited by either street or sidewalk improvements, electric lights, sewers, water works system or fire protection, when any of such benefits, improvements or system have been completed in a village. A petition for diminishing the boundaries of a village by excluding territory therefrom may be presented to the board of trustees of such village. Such petition shall describe the territory sought to be excluded, and shall state the number of inhabitants thereof and the names of the owners and occupants of each parcel of land therein, and shall be signed and duly acknowledged by a majority of the persons residing therein, if any, qualified to vote for village officers, or by the owners of a majority in value of the real property sought to be excluded, assessed upon the last preceding village assessment-roll. Each person signing such petition shall state opposite his name the assessed valuation of all property owned by him in such territory, together with the amount of such village taxes paid thereon during the preceding year. Such statement of assessed valuation and taxes paid shall be duly verified by each person signing such petition. The petition must also be accompanied by the consent in writing of a majority of the town board of the town in which the territory sought to be excluded is situated. Upon the presentation of such petition and consent, the board of trustees shall cause a proposition for so diminishing such boundaries to be submitted at the next succeeding annual village election, or a special election called for the purpose of voting upon such proposition. If the proposition be adopted, the petition, consent and certificate of the result of the vote cast upon the proposition shall be recorded in the village book of records. Within twenty days after the adoption of such proposition, a certificate containing a description of t...