New York Laws
Title 2 - Assessors and Assessor Training
310 - Assessor.

(b) In addition to the basic course of training and education, all
appointive assessors and any assessor elected to a six-year term shall
also complete additional courses in a continuing training and education
program prescribed by the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of
this title.
6. Training; services by state; county cooperation. The commissioner
shall provide training programs including but not limited to courses of
training and education required to be completed by local officers and
employees and by candidates for certification as eligible for the
position of assessor in accordance with the provisions of this title.
Such programs shall be provided by the commissioner for counties, cities
and towns to which this title is applicable. Counties shall cooperate
with the commissioner in providing such programs.
7. Indefinite term for assessors. Notwithstanding the provisions of
subdivision two of this section, the office of assessor shall have an
indefinite term (a) where the office of assessor is a full time position
as determined by the local legislative body and on or after August
first, nineteen hundred seventy is classified in the competitive class
of the civil service at the request of the local legislative body or (b)
where on July thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy the office of
assessor is classified in the competitive class of the civil service and
has an indefinite term pursuant to law.