§ 251. Agreements between municipal corporations. 1. Two or more
municipal corporations may by agreement provide for discharge by the
police department of one of them, on behalf of the other or others, of
the duties provided in subdivisions three, four, five, six, seven and
eight of section two hundred fifty-three of the personal property law
and in sections two hundred fifty-four, two hundred fifty-five and two
hundred fifty-six of such law, with respect to property or instruments
deposited with the police of such other municipal corporation or
corporations and may designate a police officer or other public officer
of one of such municipal corporations as the person to whom such
property and instruments shall be transmitted as provided in subdivision
two of such section two hundred fifty-three. If pursuant to such
agreement property or instruments deposited with the police of a
municipal corporation are transmitted, together with the reports of the
persons who deposited them, to a police officer or other official of
another municipal corporation, the police of that municipal corporation
shall, with respect to such property or instrument, be deemed the police
with whom the property or instrument was deposited and the police having
custody of the property or instrument for the purposes of subdivisions
three, four, five, six, seven, and eight of section two hundred
fifty-three of the personal property law and for the purposes of
sections two hundred fifty-four, two hundred fifty-five, two hundred
fifty-six, and two hundred fifty-eight of such law.

2. Such agreement may also provide for payment to the municipal
corporation by whom such duties are to be discharged, by the municipal
corporation on whose behalf they are so discharged, of such amount or
amounts as may be agreed in reimbursement of or otherwise on account of
expense incurred in the discharge of such duties.

3. Such agreement may also provide that the police of municipal
corporations on whose behalf such duties are to be discharged shall make
and keep records of reports and deposits of found property and found
instruments, and of receipts given therefor, in such manner and by use
of such forms as shall be specified by the police of the municipal
corporation to whose police the property and instruments are to be
transmitted.

4. If incorporated in a resolution of the governing board of a
municipal corporation on whose behalf such duties are to be discharged,
such agreement may also provide that rules and regulations enacted
pursuant to section two hundred fifty of this chapter by the governing
board of the municipal corporation by whose police such duties are to be
performed shall be applicable to property or instruments found, or of
which possession is acquired, within the jurisdiction of the municipal
corporation on whose behalf such duties are to be performed. A
resolution of a municipal corporation on behalf of whom such duties are
to be performed, incorporating an agreement so providing, shall be
deemed an enactment of the rules and regulations so made applicable as
rules and regulations of the municipal corporation on whose behalf such
duties are to be performed.