5-528 - Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and associations.

§   5-528   Appropriations   to  maintain  municipal  conferences  and  associations. l.  The  board  of  trustees  of  any  village  is  hereby  authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum  to  meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of  maintaining and continuing the conference of mayors and other  municipal  officials  of  the  state  of New York and any of its activities in this  state for the purpose of devising practical ways and means for obtaining  greater economy and efficiency in the government thereof.    2. The board of trustees of  any  village  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  include  annually  in the budget and raise by taxation in  such village, a sum sufficient to defray the proportionate share of such  village to meet the actual and necessary  expenses  of  maintaining  and  continuing  a  conference  of  village  officials of the villages in the  county in which such village is located  or  a  conference  composed  of  village  officials of villages located in an area of adjoining counties,  and any of its activities in this state, for  the  purpose  of  devising  practical  ways and means of promoting and obtaining greater economy and  efficiency in the government of such village.    3. The board in control of an electric utility, owned and operated  by  the  village  is  hereby  authorized  to  pay  from  the proceeds of the  operation of said utility its proportionate  share  of  the  actual  and  necessary  expenses of maintaining and continuing the municipal electric  utilities association  of  the  state  of  New  York,  and  any  of  its  activities in this state, for the purpose of devising practical ways and  means  for  obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the operation of  municipally owned electric light plants.