New York Laws
Article 17 - Municipal Annexation Law
716 - Restrictions and Prohibitions.

§ 716. Restrictions and prohibitions. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this article or of any other law:

1. An annexation shall not affect the boundaries of any congressional
district, senate district or assembly district.

2. The date on which any such annexation shall take effect shall be
such that it will not deprive a qualified elector of his right to vote
at the general election to be held on the first Tuesday next succeeding
the first Monday in November of the year in which the annexation is to
become effective.

3. A county shall not annex territory situated in another county
unless the territory so annexed shall on the same date be annexed to
either a city situated in whole or in part, or to a town situated in the
county to which the territory is annexed.

4. A city shall not annex territory situated in a county other than a
county in which such city is situated unless the territory so annexed
shall on the same date be annexed to the county, or one of the counties,
in which such city is situated.

5. A town shall not annex territory situated in a county other than
the county in which such town is situated unless the territory so
annexed shall on the same date be annexed to the county in which such
town is situated.

6. A village shall not annex territory of a city unless the territory
so annexed shall on the same date be annexed to the town, or to one or
more of the towns, in which the village is situated.

7. A village may annex territory of another village, but such
annexation shall not result in any change of the boundaries of any
county or town. This provision shall not be deemed to prevent any such
annexation simultaneously with an annexation of the same territory by a
county and the town or towns in which the village to which such
territory is to be annexed is situated in whole or in part or, when the
territory so annexed is situated in the same county as such village,
with an annexation of the same territory by the town or towns in which
such village is situated in whole or in part.

8. A town may annex territory of a city, but such annexation shall not
result in any change of the boundaries of a village. This provision
shall not be deemed to prevent any such annexation by a town
simultaneously with an annexation of the same territory by a county and
by a village or villages situated in whole or in part in such town or
with an annexation by a village or villages situated in whole or in part
in such town.

9. A town may annex territory of another town, but such annexation
shall not result in any change in the boundaries of a village. This
provision shall not be deemed to prevent any such annexation by a town
simultaneously with an annexation of the same territory by a village or
villages situated in whole or in part in either or both of such towns.

10. An annexation by a county shall not increase the area of any
county improvement district in such county. If a county annexes
territory in another county and such territory includes in whole or in
part the area of a county improvement district situated in the other
county, the area of the county improvement district located in the
territory annexed shall cease to be a part of such district when such
annexation becomes effective.

11. If a city annexes territory of a town and such territory includes
in whole or in part the area of any fire district, fire protection
district or fire alarm district or of any town special district or of
any town improvement district, the area of any such district located in
the territory annexed shall cease to be a part of such district when
such annexation becomes effective.

12. If a village annexes territory of the town in which it is situated
or of another village located in such town or in another town, any such
annexation shall not affect the boundaries of any town special or
improvement district in such town or the boundaries of any fire
district, fire protection district or fire alarm district.

13. If a town annexes territory of another town, such annexation shall
not affect the boundaries of any fire district, fire protection district
or fire alarm district, but the territory so annexed shall cease to be a
part of any town special or improvement district in such other town when
the annexation becomes effective.