§ 756. Effective date of joint consolidation agreement. Local
government entities consolidated pursuant to a joint consolidation
agreement shall continue to be governed as before consolidation until
the effective date of the consolidation specified in the joint
consolidation agreement; provided, however, that no joint consolidation
agreement consolidating two or more towns, two or more villages or one
or more towns and villages shall take effect unless approved by a
majority of electors in each such town and/or village at a referendum
called through a resolution enacted pursuant to section seven hundred
fifty-five of this title.