§ 329. Option to change to sole elected assessor. In any city or town
where the option to retain elective assessors was exercised in
accordance with the provisions of former section fifteen hundred
fifty-six of this chapter, the legislative body of such city or town may
adopt a local law providing that from and after the first day of January
first following the next biennial or general election at which the
electors would vote for an assessor, there shall be but one assessor, to
be elected at that election. The legislative body, in its discretion,
may determine that a local law adopted pursuant to this section shall be
subject to a mandatory or permissive referendum, or not subject to a
referendum. Any such referendum shall be conducted in the manner
prescribed in section twenty-three or twenty-four of the municipal home
rule law, as the case may be. On December thirty-first of the year in
which such local law shall take effect, the term or terms of all
assessors then in office shall terminate.