New York Consolidated Laws, Village Law - VIL § 4-406 Permits;  franchises;  filing;  duty of clerk

Duplicate originals of every resolution, certificate or other instrument whereby a village, or any board or officer thereof, grants a franchise, including a privilege or consent of any kind, to a public service corporation shall be executed and deposited with the village clerk;  and such franchise shall not be operative for any purposes until so executed and deposited.  The village clerk, upon receiving the same, shall file one such duplicate in his office with the records and papers of the village and shall immediately cause the other to be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the village is situated.