Section 225. Optional appropriations for public benefit services administered by the board  


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  • 1. The board of supervisors shall have  power
      to  appropriate county funds and to permit the use of county property of
      all kinds for the following public benefit, objects and purposes:
        (a) Propagation of game, game birds and fish. The amount  appropriated
      under this paragraph for any fiscal year may equal but not exceed in any
      county  one-half  of  one  per  centum  of  the total amount of the last
      preceding annual budget for county purposes, but in no event  an  amount
      in excess of ten thousand dollars;
        (b)   Eradication  or  prevention  of  bovine  tuberculosis  or  other
      infectious or  communicable  diseases  affecting  domestic  animals  and
      fowls;
        (c)  Publicizing  the  advantages  of  the  county  or  region, or for
      commemoration programs of historical events;
        (d) Care of burial lots of deceased members of the armed forces of the
      United States located in a cemetery within  the  county  and  owned  and
      maintained by an incorporated cemetery association;
        (e) Suppression or control of white pine blister rust and other forest
      tree  diseases and forest insects under the direction and supervision of
      the state conservation department. Employees engaged in such  work  upon
      public  or  private lands shall not be liable for trespass and no action
      shall lie therefor;
        (f) Suppression or control of the Japanese  beetle  infestation  under
      the direction and supervision of the state department of agriculture and
      markets.  Employees  engaged  in  such work upon public or private lands
      shall not be liable for trespass and no action shall lie therefor; and
        (g)  Establishment  and  maintenance  of  fire  training  schools  for
      training firemen.
        (h) Establishment and maintenance of a central fire alarm system.
        (i)  In  the  county  of  Washington  for  the destruction of bobcats,
      porcupines, wolves, coyotes, coydogs and rattlesnakes, and in the county
      of Hamilton for the destruction  of  bobcats,  porcupines,  wolves,  and
      coyotes,  the  funds  appropriated therefor to be expended in payment of
      bounties to be established by the board of supervisors.
        (j) In the counties of Essex, Saratoga, St. Lawrence  and  Warren  for
      the  destruction of bobcats, wolves, coyotes, coydogs, foxes, porcupines
      and rattlesnakes, the funds appropriated  therefor  to  be  expended  in
      payment of bounties to be established by the board of supervisors.
        (k)  Conservation  education, including the promotion of better public
      understanding of problems and desirable  practices  in  conservation  of
      natural resources.
        (l)  Establishment and maintenance of a county zoo, or the expenditure
      of county funds for the support, in whole or in part, of an existing zoo
      in the county, owned by a municipal corporation.
        (m) eradication or control of the golden  nematode  infestation  under
      the direction and supervision of the state department of agriculture and
      markets.  Employees  engaged  in  such work upon public or private lands
      shall not be liable for trespass and no action shall lie therefor.
        (n) Without  limitation  of  the  foregoing  for  any  of  the  public
      benefits,  objects  and  purposes  which  are  set  forth in section two
      hundred twenty-four of this county law as amended.
        2. The board shall provide for the expenditure  for  wages,  equipment
      and  supplies,  under  the direction of a committee from its membership.
      Authority may be granted to the chairman  of  such  committee  to  issue
      orders  upon the county treasurer for such expenditures. The board shall
      require a  report  of  such  expenditures  with  verified  or  certified
      vouchers  attached.  The board of supervisors may adopt such rules as it
    
      may deem necessary governing the expenditure  of  such  moneys  and  may
      require a bond in such amount as it shall determine.
        3.  The board may authorize the expenditure of county funds for any or
      all of such public benefit objects and  purposes  jointly  with  another
      county or counties. The board of each participating county shall appoint
      a  committee  to  act  for  it  in  connection with such project.   Such
      committees in joint sessions shall select one of  their  members  to  be
      chairman  and  shall  designate  the  county  treasurer  of  one  of the
      participating counties to be custodian of the project fund. Each  county
      treasurer  shall pay to the designated county treasurer whatever portion
      of the total estimated cost of the project its board of supervisors  has
      determined  to  contribute.  Such joint fund shall be deemed the fund of
      all participating counties in proportion to  the  contribution  made  by
      each.   Orders upon the fund shall be signed by the chairman. Reports of
      expenditures with verified or certified vouchers attached shall be  made
      annually to the board of supervisors of each participating county.