New York Town Law

Every section of the New York Town Law, in order — 365 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Town Law § 189-b — Sale of firehouse, land and apparatus
• N.Y. Town Law § 189-d — Establishment of district
• N.Y. Town Law § 189-e — Management of affairs of joint fire districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 189-f — Powers of board of commissioners
• N.Y. Town Law § 189-g — Appointment of district treasurer
• N.Y. Town Law § 189-h — Annual statement of expenditures and levy of taxes
• N.Y. Town Law § 189-i — Fire protection
• N.Y. Town Law § 190 — Establishment or extension of improvement districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-a — Water storage and distribution districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-b — Sewage disposal districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-c — Preparation of maps and plans
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-d — Procedure for establishment of a sewage disposal district
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-e — Wastewater disposal districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-f — Additional powers of sewer districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 190-g — Water quality treatment districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 191 — Petition
• N.Y. Town Law § 191-a — Preparation of maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage and water districts before petition
• N.Y. Town Law § 192 — Maps and plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage and water districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 192-a — Provision for excess sewer, drainage or water facilities
• N.Y. Town Law § 193 — Notice of hearing on petition; cost to typical property; definitions
• N.Y. Town Law § 194 — Establishment or extension of districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 194-a — Powers of town boards with respect to certain contracts
• N.Y. Town Law § 195 — Recording of determination; review by certiorari
• N.Y. Town Law § 196 — Modification of plans for sewer, wastewater disposal, drainage, water or water quality treatment districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 197 — Performance of the work
• N.Y. Town Law § 197-a — Contracts by water districts or town water storage and distribution districts with water authorities
• N.Y. Town Law § 198 — Powers of town boards with respect to improvement districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 198-a — Special districts for disposal of duck waste in Suffolk county
• N.Y. Town Law § 199 — Proceedings for lateral sewers, drains or water mains
• N.Y. Town Law § 200 — Petition for street improvement and proceedings thereon
• N.Y. Town Law § 200-a — Construction and repair of sidewalks pursuant to order of town board
• N.Y. Town Law § 201 — Sewer and water connections
• N.Y. Town Law § 202 — Expenses of improvement; how raised
• N.Y. Town Law § 202-a — Expense of maintenance
• N.Y. Town Law § 202-b — Increase or improvement of facilities
• N.Y. Town Law § 202-c — Dissolution and diminishing area of certain districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 202-d — Increase of maximum amount to be expended
• N.Y. Town Law § 202-e — Acquisition and improvement of additional property in park districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 202-f — Construction or installation of certain improvements in state highways and county roads
• N.Y. Town Law § 203 — Existing districts preserved
• N.Y. Town Law § 204 — Transition to benefit basis levy of assessments in existing lighting districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 207 — Re-establishment of certain water supply districts as water districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 208 — Joint administration and operation of special or improvement districts with town functions
• N.Y. Town Law § 208-a — Acquisition of land for proposed district
• N.Y. Town Law § 208-b — Dissolution of lighting or public parking districts; town of Oyster Bay
• N.Y. Town Law § 209 — Application of article
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-a — Definitions
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-b — Appropriation for preparation of maps, plans and reports
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-c — Maps, plans and reports
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-d — Notice of hearing; cost to typical property
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-e — Establishment or extension of districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-f — Application for permission of state comptroller to establish or extend district
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-g — Recording of determination; review by certiorari
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-h — Increase of maximum amount to be expended
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-i — Refuse and garbage improvement districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-q — Sewer, drainage or water improvements
• N.Y. Town Law § 209-s — Water and sewer district tax payments in the town of Carmel, Putnam county
• N.Y. Town Law § 210 — Application
• N.Y. Town Law § 211 — District commissioners
• N.Y. Town Law § 211-a — Special provisions applicable to the Fishers Island garbage and refuse district
• N.Y. Town Law § 212 — Annual election and notice thereof
• N.Y. Town Law § 212-a — Election of commissioners of Bethpage water district and Hicksville water district
• N.Y. Town Law § 213 — Qualification of voters
• N.Y. Town Law § 213-a — Registration for voters and preparation of the voter register
• N.Y. Town Law § 213-b — Absentee ballots for improvement district elections; special provisions
• N.Y. Town Law § 214 — Oaths, undertakings and compensation of commissioners
• N.Y. Town Law § 215 — Powers and duties of improvement district commissioners
• N.Y. Town Law § 215-a — Postings on website of district
• N.Y. Town Law § 216 — Powers of town board
• N.Y. Town Law § 220 — General town improvements
• N.Y. Town Law § 221 — Solid waste management facilities
• N.Y. Town Law § 222 — Town buildings
• N.Y. Town Law § 223 — Expense of improvement
• N.Y. Town Law § 231 — Permanent financing of district and special improvements
• N.Y. Town Law § 231-a — Permanent financing of district improvements to be paid from general taxation
• N.Y. Town Law § 232 — Permanent financing of general improvements
• N.Y. Town Law § 234 — Disposition of proceeds of bonds, notes or certificates
• N.Y. Town Law § 235 — Accounts to be kept with each improvement
• N.Y. Town Law § 236 — Completion of improvements
• N.Y. Town Law § 237 — Preparation of assessment-roll for certain improvements
• N.Y. Town Law § 238 — Assessment of property partly in district
• N.Y. Town Law § 239 — Completion of roll and hearing
• N.Y. Town Law § 240 — Delivery of roll to collector; warrant for collection
• N.Y. Town Law § 241 — Notice by collector or receiver of taxes; return of assessment roll
• N.Y. Town Law § 242 — Assessments payable in installments
• N.Y. Town Law § 243 — Collection of annual installments of assessments
• N.Y. Town Law § 244 — Correction of assessments
• N.Y. Town Law § 244-a — Apportionment of completed local assessment upon subdivision or sale of part of land affected
• N.Y. Town Law § 245 — Expense of maintenance
• N.Y. Town Law § 246 — Proceeding to review decision
• N.Y. Town Law § 247 — Reassessment and apportionment where original assessment and apportionment has been held invalid
• N.Y. Town Law § 261 — Grant of power; appropriations for certain expenses incurred under this article
• N.Y. Town Law § 261-a — Transfer of development rights; definitions; conditions; procedures
• N.Y. Town Law § 261-b — Incentive zoning; definitions, purpose, conditions, procedures
• N.Y. Town Law § 261-c — Planned unit development zoning districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 262 — Districts
• N.Y. Town Law § 262-a — Town of Lansing; division of certain parts thereof
• N.Y. Town Law § 263 — Purposes in view
• N.Y. Town Law § 264 — Adoption of zoning regulations
• N.Y. Town Law § 265 — Changes
• N.Y. Town Law § 265-a — Exemption of lots shown on approved subdivision plats
• N.Y. Town Law § 266 — Adoption of first zoning ordinance
• N.Y. Town Law § 267 — Zoning board of appeals
• N.Y. Town Law § 267-a — Board of appeals procedure
• N.Y. Town Law § 267-b — Permitted action by board of appeals
• N.Y. Town Law § 267-c — Article seventy-eight proceeding
• N.Y. Town Law § 268 — Enforcement and remedies
• N.Y. Town Law § 269 — Conflict with other laws
• N.Y. Town Law § 270 — Official map, establishment
• N.Y. Town Law § 271 — Planning board, creation, appointment
• N.Y. Town Law § 272-a — Town comprehensive plan
• N.Y. Town Law § 273 — Official map, changes
• N.Y. Town Law § 274-a — Site plan review
• N.Y. Town Law § 274-b — Approval of special use permits
• N.Y. Town Law § 276 — Subdivision review; approval of plats; development of filed plats
• N.Y. Town Law § 277 — Subdivision review; approval of plats; additional requisites
• N.Y. Town Law § 278 — Subdivision review; approval of cluster development
• N.Y. Town Law § 279 — Subdivision review; record of plats
• N.Y. Town Law § 280 — Permits for buildings in bed of mapped streets
• N.Y. Town Law § 280-a — Permits for buildings not on improved mapped streets
• N.Y. Town Law § 281 — Municipal improvements in streets
• N.Y. Town Law § 282 — Court review
• N.Y. Town Law § 283 — Issuance of licenses and permits in certain towns
• N.Y. Town Law § 283-a — Coordination with agricultural districts program
• N.Y. Town Law § 284 — Intermunicipal cooperation in comprehensive planning and land use regulation
• N.Y. Town Law § 285 — Separability clause
• N.Y. Town Law § 290 — Duties of town board
• N.Y. Town Law § 291 — Burial grounds
• N.Y. Town Law § 292 — Transfer of burial grounds to cemetery corporation
• N.Y. Town Law § 292-a — Cemetery and funeral home combinations
• N.Y. Town Law § 293 — Exception
• N.Y. Town Law § 294 — Armed forces' burial plot
• N.Y. Town Law § 295 — Removal of remains of deceased members of armed forces
• N.Y. Town Law § 296 — Abandonment of cemeteries
• N.Y. Town Law § 300 — Apportionment of division fence
• N.Y. Town Law § 301 — Lands lying open
• N.Y. Town Law § 302 — Division fence on change of title
• N.Y. Town Law § 303 — Settlement of disputes
• N.Y. Town Law § 304 — Powers of fence viewers
• N.Y. Town Law § 305 — Neglect to make or repair division fence
• N.Y. Town Law § 306 — Fence destroyed by accident
• N.Y. Town Law § 307 — Damages for insufficient fence
• N.Y. Town Law § 308 — Damages for omitting to build fence
• N.Y. Town Law § 309 — Use of barbed or other wire for division fence
• N.Y. Town Law § 310 — Lien upon strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 311 — Notice of lien to town clerk
• N.Y. Town Law § 312 — Impounding strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 313 — Notice of strays to owner
• N.Y. Town Law § 314 — Charges for notice of strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 315 — Fees of fence viewers as to strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 316 — Foreclosure of lien upon strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 317 — Notice of sale of strays by fence viewers
• N.Y. Town Law § 318 — Proceeds of sale of strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 319 — Notice to owner of strays of fence viewers' meeting
• N.Y. Town Law § 320 — Duties of fence viewers as to strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 321 — Foreclosure of lien upon strays by action
• N.Y. Town Law § 322 — Surplus money upon sale of strays
• N.Y. Town Law § 323 — Damages from other personal property
• N.Y. Town Law § 324 — Penalty of conversion of floating lumber
• N.Y. Town Law § 325 — Application of article
• N.Y. Town Law § 326 — Erection and discontinuance of pounds
• N.Y. Town Law § 327 — Pound-master's fees
• N.Y. Town Law § 340 — Laws repealed
• N.Y. Town Law § 341 — Temporary provisions and saving clause
• N.Y. Town Law § 342 — When to take effect