Section 756. Effective date of joint consolidation agreement

Local
  government entities  consolidated  pursuant  to  a  joint  consolidation
  agreement  shall  continue  to be governed as before consolidation until
  the  effective  date  of  the  consolidation  specified  in  the   joint
  consolidation  agreement; provided, however, that no joint consolidation
  agreement consolidating two or more towns, two or more villages  or  one
  or  more  towns  and  villages  shall  take  effect unless approved by a
  majority of electors in each such town and/or village  at  a  referendum
  called  through  a  resolution enacted pursuant to section seven hundred
  fifty-five of this title.
    * NB Effective March 21, 2010