§ 226. Employment of state police in towns, villages, police
districts. 1. The governing board of any police district provided for
under article fourteen-a of the town law or of any town or of any
village, may from time to time respectively contract upon behalf of said
district, town or village with the superintendent of state police upon
behalf of the state for the regular assignment of state police to said
district, town or village upon the following terms and conditions: The
superintendent of state police shall detail such number of state police
officers as shall be agreed upon to such district, town or village for a
period of one year; the pay, maintenance and other expenses of such
detail for a period of one year shall be computed by the superintendent
of state police with the approval of the state comptroller pro rata upon
the total cost of the pay, maintenance and similar expenses of the whole
department; before such contract shall take effect the governing board
of said district, town or village shall deposit to the credit of the
division of state police in a depository to be designated by the state
comptroller with proper sureties, one half the sum of money so computed
and upon the first day of the sixth month during the continuance of said
contract shall likewise deposit the remainder of said sum; the
superintendent of state police, upon audit of the comptroller, shall
draw upon said depository for the pay, maintenance and other expenses of
said detail when due; said detail shall have all the powers and duties
and shall remain at all times under the authority and discipline of the
superintendent of state police as provided for state police assigned to
regular duty under this article.

2. The superintendent of state police is authorized to appoint
temporarily to the regular force provided for in this article, troopers,
non-commissioned officers and officers to fill the places of those
detailed under such agreements. In police districts the money to be
deposited as required hereunder shall be provided for as authorized
under article fourteen-a of the town law as added in nineteen hundred
and twenty; in towns and villages the money so deposited shall be raised
by taxation.