New York Laws
Article 5 - County Departments and Offices
200 - Departments.

ยง 200. Departments. Each county adopting the county manager form, the
county director form or the county president form shall have a
department of finance, a department of audit and control, a department
of public works, a department of purchase and a department of public
welfare. Each county adopting the county administrator form shall have a
department of finance and a department of public welfare. All offices,
commissions, boards, bureaus and other agencies of the county, so far as
consistent with the alternative form adopted, shall continue until
modified, amended, superseded or repealed by or pursuant to the
alternative form of county government adopted, or by or pursuant to
local law.