This chapter is enacted pursuant to authority of Chapter 365 of the
Laws of 1976, which added a new Subparagraph (3) to Paragraph d of Subdivision
1 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 § 10, unless there
is a state legislative restriction on such amendment or supersession or it
is inconsistent with the New York State Constitution.
Section 23 of the Town Law is hereby amended and superseded in its application
to the Town of Mamakating to provide that the Director of Buildings, Grounds,
Parks and Water, at the time of his/her appointment and through his/her term
of office, need not be an elector in the Town so long as he or she is a resident
of the Counties of Sullivan or Orange of the State of New York.
The Director of the Department of Buildings, Grounds, Parks and Water
shall be appointed by the Town Board of the Town of Mamakating.
The position of appointed Director of the Department of Buildings, Grounds,
Parks and Water shall be in the classified service.
Compensation of the Director of the Department of Buildings, Grounds,
Parks and Water shall be fixed in accordance with § 27 of the Town
Law.