General Municipal Law § 751 · Title 2. Consolidation of Local Government Entities
Commencing the proceeding
Text — Law content up to date as of September 11, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 751. Commencing the proceeding. 1. Two or more local government entities, whether within the same county or different counties, may be consolidated into a single local government entity if each of the local government entities is contiguous to at least one of the other consolidating local government entities and if together the local government entities would form a consolidated local government entity of a kind or class that is authorized under the laws of the state of New York. The requirement that local government entities be contiguous to consolidate does not apply to entities other than towns and villages.
2. Consolidation proceedings may be commenced by either:
(a) a joint resolution by the governing body or bodies of the local government entities to be consolidated endorsing a proposed joint consolidation agreement; or
(b) elector initiative.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of September 11, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/GMU751
- Text hash
- sha256 7289f5a926ebf6f481f7a772463553bdc8937d9fd3ee43bfa0951449621ad151
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.