Section 226. Employment of state police in towns, villages, police districts

1. The governing board of any police  district  provided  for
  under  article  fourteen-a  of  the  town  law  or of any town or of any
  village, may from time to time respectively contract upon behalf of said
  district, town or village with the superintendent of state  police  upon
  behalf  of  the state for the regular assignment of state police to said
  district, town or village upon the following terms and  conditions:  The
  superintendent  of  state  police  shall  detail  such  number  of state
  policemen as shall be agreed upon to such district, town or village  for
  a  period  of  one year; the pay, maintenance and other expenses of such
  detail for a period of one year shall be computed by the  superintendent
  of state police with the approval of the state comptroller pro rata upon
  the total cost of the pay, maintenance and similar expenses of the whole
  department;  before  such contract shall take effect the governing board
  of said district, town or village shall deposit to  the  credit  of  the
  division  of  state police in a depository to be designated by the state
  comptroller with proper sureties, one half the sum of money so  computed
  and upon the first day of the sixth month during the continuance of said
  contract   shall  likewise  deposit  the  remainder  of  said  sum;  the
  superintendent of state police, upon audit  of  the  comptroller,  shall
  draw upon said depository for the pay, maintenance and other expenses of
  said  detail  when due; said detail shall have all the powers and duties
  and shall remain at all times under the authority and discipline of  the
  superintendent  of state police as provided for state police assigned to
  regular duty under this article.
    2. The  superintendent  of  state  police  is  authorized  to  appoint
  temporarily to the regular force provided for in this article, troopers,
  non-commissioned  officers  and  officers  to  fill  the places of those
  detailed under such agreements. In police  districts  the  money  to  be
  deposited  as  required  hereunder  shall  be provided for as authorized
  under article fourteen-a of the town law as added  in  nineteen  hundred
  and twenty; in towns and villages the money so deposited shall be raised
  by taxation.