New York Laws
Article 3 - Town Officers, Powers, Duties and Compensation
24 - Terms of Office.

§ 24. Terms of office. All elective officers other than town council
members, town justices, receivers of taxes and assessors shall hold
their respective offices for two years. The terms of office of the town
council members first elected after this chapter shall take effect and
of the town council members first elected in a town which shall have
changed its classification from that of a town of the second class to
that of a town of the first class, shall be two years each for two town
council members and four years each for two town council members, and
thereafter at each biennial town election there shall be elected two
town council members for terms of four years each.

The terms of office of the town justices and elective receivers of
taxes and assessments shall be four years. The term of office of the
assessor shall be six years, unless the town retains a board of
assessors, in which case the term for each shall be four years with no
more than two assessors to be elected at any biennial election after
December thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-one except when the
unexpired balance of term is being filled in which case three assessors
may be elected; when appointed, the term of office shall be as provided
by section three hundred ten of the real property tax law. The term of
each elective officer shall begin on the first day of January next
succeeding the election at which he was elected. The town clerk, the
town superintendent of highways, the receiver of taxes and assessments,
the town engineer and the town attorney, whenever appointed, shall hold
their respective offices until the first day of January next succeeding
the first biennial town election held after the time of their
appointment. All other appointed officers and employees shall hold their
respective offices and positions at the pleasure of the town board,
except as otherwise provided by law.