New York Laws
Article 2 - Alternative Forms of County Government
56 - Abandonment of Existing Alternative Form.

§ 56. Abandonment of existing alternative form. A county which shall
have adopted an alternative form of county government may, after the
lapse of three years from the date such form becomes effective in the
county, rescind its previous action and elect to be governed by the
provisions of the county law as then or thereafter in force. No such
question shall be submitted more often than once in every four years.
All of the provisions of this chapter relating to initiating a
proceeding for the adoption of an alternative form of county government
and to the submission and approval of the question shall apply also to
the abandonment of an existing alternative form of county government as
authorized by this section. Any such question shall become effective, if
approved, on the first day of January of the year specified in the
petition or resolution, and if no year be specified, shall become
effective on the first day of January of the second year after its
adoption. The question shall be in substantially the following form:
"Shall the county of (name of county) abandon its present form of county
government and be governed by the county law after January first
(year)?"