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§ C201 BROOME COUNTY CHARTER AND CODE § C203
elector of the district he represents if he is appointed to fill a vacancy throughout that
term of office. No elective or appointive official of any town, village or city, or any other
municipality, shall be eligible to hold office as a County Legislator.
5. After each federal decennial census, including that of 1970, the Clerk of the County
Legislature shall determine the results of said census, publicly announce such results and
file the same with the County Legislature. The County Legislature shall thereupon
reconsider its representation and, if necessary, redraw legislative district boundaries. Any
amendment to this Charter reapportioning representation on the County Legislature shall
be subject to a referendum on petition in the manner provided for by the terms and
provisions of § 24 of the Municipal Home Rule Law. [Amended 12-4-1973 by L.L. No.
5-1973]
§ C202. Terms of office.
The terms of office of the members of the County Legislature shall be for two (2) years and
shall begin on the first day of January immediately succeeding their election.
§ C203. Powers and duties.
The County Legislature shall be the governing body of the County and shall be the legislative,
appropriating and policy-determining body of the County and shall have and exercise all
powers and duties of the County now or hereafter conferred or imposed on the County
Legislature by applicable law and any and all powers necessarily implied or incidental thereto,
together with such powers and duties as are provided for in this Charter and Administrative
Code. In addition to all powers conferred by the foregoing or other provisions of this Charter
and Administrative Code, the County Legislature shall have the power, among others:
(A) To make appropriations, levy taxes, incur indebtedness and adopt a budget, including a
capital program;
(B) To exercise all powers of local legislation in relation to enacting, amending or rescinding
local laws and legalizing acts, ordinances or resolutions;
(C) By local law to adopt, amend or repeal an Administrative Code which shall set forth the
details of administration of the County government consistent with the provisions of this
Charter and which Administrative Code may contain revisions, simplifications,
consolidations, modifications and restatements of special laws, local laws, ordinances,
resolutions, rules and regulations consistent with this Charter or amendments thereto;
(D) By local law to create, alter, combine or abolish County administrative units not headed
by elective officials;
(E) To adopt by resolution all necessary rules and regulations for its own conduct and
procedure;
(F)
Subject to the Constitution and general laws of the State of New York, to fix the number
of hours constituting a legal day's work for all classes of County employees and grant to
the employing officer or board the power to stagger working hours;
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