New York Laws
Article 98 - Actions Against Villages
9801 - Actions Against the Village.

ยง 9801. Actions against the village. 1. No action shall be maintained
against the village for a personal injury or injury to property alleged
to have been sustained by reason of the negligence or wrongful act of
the village or of any officer, agent or employee thereof, unless a
notice of claim shall have been made and served in compliance with
section fifty-e of the general municipal law.

2. Every such action shall be commenced pursuant to the provisions of
section fifty-i of the general municipal law.