New York Consolidated Laws, County Law - CNT § 359. Public hearing;  distribution of tentative budget

Before the final adoption of the budget, the board of supervisors shall hold a public hearing on the tentative budget with such changes, alterations and revisions, as shall have been made therein by such board pursuant to section three hundred fifty-eight.  The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause to be printed or otherwise reproduced at least one hundred copies of such tentative budget as so changed, altered and revised, but the board of supervisors, by resolution, may direct that a greater number of copies be so printed or reproduced.  The time when and place where such hearing shall be held shall be fixed by resolution of the board of supervisors.  The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause a notice to be published stating the time, place and purpose of the public hearing and that copies of the tentative budget on which the public hearing will be held are available at his office and may be inspected or procured thereat by any interested person during business hours.  There shall be included in the notice of the public hearing on the tentative budget, or in a separate notice published in the same manner and at the same time as such notice of hearing, a statement of the maximum salary, or the maximum rate of per diem compensation, or both, as the case may be, that may be fixed and payable during the ensuing fiscal year to the members of the board of supervisors and to the chairman respectively.  The notice of public hearing shall be published at least once in the official newspaper or newspapers of the county, and in such other newspapers and for such other times as the board of supervisors, by resolution, may direct.  At least five days shall elapse between the first publication of such notice and date specified for the hearing.  The hearing shall be held on the date so specified at which time any person may be heard.  The hearing may be adjourned from day to day, but not later than the twentieth day of December.