This chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority of Chapter 365 of
the Laws of 1976 which added a new Subdivision 1d(3) of § 10 of
the Municipal Home Rule Law authorizing towns to adopt a local law which may
amend or supersede any provision of the Town Law in relation to the property,
affairs or government of the town or in relation to any of the other enumerated
subject matters in such § 10, unless there is a state legislative
restriction on such amendment or supersession.