Legislation
SECTION 226
Transfer of duties of railroad commissioners to supervisors
General Municipal (GMU) CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 12
§ 226. Transfer of duties of railroad commissioners to supervisors.
Every town in which railroad commissioners heretofore appointed or
elected under the provisions of any general or special statute of this
state authorizing towns to incur indebtedness in aid of the construction
of any railroad, remain in office, and in which the duties imposed by
such statutes, upon such commissioners, are not yet fully performed, is
hereby authorized and empowered, at an annual town meeting, or at a
special town meeting called for such purpose in the manner prescribed by
law, to authorize the transfer of the powers and duties of such railroad
commissioner or commissioners to the supervisor of such town, by a
resolution to such effect passed and adopted by a majority vote of all
persons voting at such town meeting.
Every town in which railroad commissioners heretofore appointed or
elected under the provisions of any general or special statute of this
state authorizing towns to incur indebtedness in aid of the construction
of any railroad, remain in office, and in which the duties imposed by
such statutes, upon such commissioners, are not yet fully performed, is
hereby authorized and empowered, at an annual town meeting, or at a
special town meeting called for such purpose in the manner prescribed by
law, to authorize the transfer of the powers and duties of such railroad
commissioner or commissioners to the supervisor of such town, by a
resolution to such effect passed and adopted by a majority vote of all
persons voting at such town meeting.