New York Consolidated Laws, General Municipal Law - GMU § 778. Effective date of dissolution plan

A local government entity dissolved pursuant to a dissolution plan shall continue to be governed as before dissolution until the effective date of the dissolution specified in the dissolution plan;  provided, however, that no dissolution plan for a village shall take effect unless approved by a majority of electors of the village at a referendum called through a resolution enacted pursuant to section seven hundred seventy-seven of this title.