New York Laws
Article 3 - Enacted Without a Hdg
27 - Planning Board, Creation and Appointment.

(b) The chairperson of the planning board may designate an alternate
member to substitute for a member when such member is unable to
participate because of a conflict of interest on an application or
matter before the board. When so designated, the alternate member shall
possess all the powers and responsibilities of such member of the board.
Such designation shall be entered into the minutes of the initial
planning board meeting at which the substitution is made.
(c) All provisions of this section relating to planning board member
training and continuing education, attendance, conflict of interest,
compensation, eligibility, vacancy in office, removal, compatibility of
office and service on other boards, shall also apply to alternate
members.
17. Voting requirements. Every motion or resolution of a planning
board shall require for its adoption the affirmative vote of a majority
of all the members of the planning board. Where an action is the subject
of a referral to the county planning agency or regional planning council
the voting provisions of sections two hundred thirty-nine-m and two
hundred thirty-nine-n of the general municipal law shall apply.