New York Laws
Title 2 - Consolidation of Local Government Entities
760 - Duty to Approve Proposed Elector Initiated Consolidation Plan.

(a) the name of each local government entity to be consolidated;
(b) the name of what will be the consolidated local government entity,
which name shall be such as to distinguish it from the name of any other
like unit of government in the state of New York (except the name of any
one of the entities to be consolidated);
(c) the rights, duties and obligations of the consolidated local
government entity;
(d) the territorial boundaries of the consolidated local government
entity;
(e) the type and/or class of the consolidated local government entity;
(f) the governmental organization of the consolidated local government
entity insofar as it concerns elected and appointed officials and public
employees, along with a transitional plan and schedule for elections and
appointments of officials;
(g) a fiscal estimate of the cost of and savings which may be realized
from consolidation;
(h) each entity's assets, including, but not limited to, real and
personal property, and the fair value thereof in current money of the
United States;
(i) each entity's liabilities and indebtedness, bonded and otherwise,
and the fair value thereof in current money of the United States;
(j) terms for the disposition of existing assets, liabilities and
indebtedness of each local government entity, either jointly, separately
or in certain defined proportions;
(k) terms for the common administration and uniform enforcement of
local laws, ordinances, resolutions, orders and the like, within the
consolidated local government entity, consistent with section seven
hundred sixty-nine of this title;
(l) the effective date of the consolidation; and
(m) the time and place or places for the public hearing or hearings on
such proposed elector initiated consolidation plan pursuant to section
seven hundred sixty-two of this title.