Section 244-C. Proposition for establishment or maintenance of recreation system

The term "recreation system," as used  in  this  section  means  playgrounds  and  neighborhood recreation centers as referred to in this
  article. The local legislative body of a city or the governing  body  of
  any  other  municipality to which this article is applicable may, and on
  the petition signed and  acknowledged  by  qualified  electors  of  such
  municipality  in  number  equal to at least five per centum of the total
  number of votes cast for governor at the last gubernatorial election  in
  such  municipality  shall,  submit to the electors at a general election
  held in such  municipality  a  proposition  for  the  establishment  and
  maintenance  of  a  recreation  system, if there be no recreation system
  therein, or for the maintenance of an existing recreation system in such
  municipality. The proposition shall specify  the  minimum  amount  which
  shall   be  annually  levied  and  appropriated  for  maintenance  of  a
  recreation system in such municipality, which shall not exceed an amount
  equal to two mills upon every dollar of the assessed valuation  of  real
  and  personal  property  in  such  municipality  on  the  last preceding
  assessment-roll. Such petition shall be filed within sixty days and  not
  later  than  thirty  days before such election with the officer or board
  charged by law with the duty of preparing  ballots  for  such  election.
  The petition may be made upon separate sheets and the signatures to each
  sheet  shall be authenticated in the manner provided by section 6-140 of
  the election law, for the authentication of  nominating  petitions.  The
  several  sheets  so signed and authenticated, when fastened together and
  offered for filing, shall be deemed  to  constitute  one  petition.  The
  proposition  shall  be  in the following form: "Shall the (city, county,
  town, that part of a town  not  included  within  the  boundaries  of  a
  village  or  village)  of  (naming it) establish a recreation system and
  annually levy and appropriate for the maintenance  of  such  system  not
  less   than   .............  dollars?"  Or,  if  such  petition  be  for
  maintenance only, the proposition shall be in the following form: "Shall
  the (city, county, town, that part of a town  not  included  within  the
  boundaries  of  a  village  or village) of (naming it) annually levy and
  appropriate for the maintenance of its recreation system, not less  than
  ...........  dollars?"  Such  proposition  shall  be submitted, the vote
  thereon canvassed and the result declared in  the  same  manner  as  for
  other propositions submitted in such municipality.  If a proposition for
  the  establishment  and maintenance of a system be adopted, jurisdiction
  and administration thereof shall be vested in such  local  authority  as
  shall  be determined in accordance with section two hundred forty-two of
  this chapter, and all the provisions of this article shall be applicable
  thereto. If either of such propositions be adopted, an amount  not  less
  than  that  specified therein for the maintenance of a recreation system
  in such municipality shall be annually levied by the officer,  board  or
  body  thereof  charged with the duty of levying taxes therein, and shall
  be annually appropriated for the maintenance of the recreation system of
  such municipality.