Section 220. General town improvements  


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  • Upon the adoption of a resolution
      therefor, subject to a permissive referendum, the town board may:
        1. Erect a monument or monuments within the town in  commemoration  of
      any person or event.
        2.  Purchase,  lease,  construct, alter or remodel a town hall, a town
      lockup or any  other  necessary  building  for  town  purposes,  acquire
      necessary  lands therefor, and equip and furnish such buildings for such
      purposes, or to demolish or remove any town building.
        3. Establish airports, landing fields, public parking  places,  public
      parks  or  playgrounds,  acquire the necessary lands therefor, and equip
      the same with suitable buildings, structures and apparatus.
        4. Establish one or more public dumps or  dumping  grounds  within  or
      without such town, and acquire the necessary land therefor. No such land
      shall  be  acquired  within the corporate limits of any city, village or
      other town for such purchase without the consent of the  governing  body
      of the city, village or town in which such land is situated.
        Any expenditure approved pursuant to this section shall be paid for by
      taxes  levied  for  the  fiscal  year in which such expenditure is to be
      made. However, nothing contained in this section shall be  construed  to
      prevent the financing in whole or in part, pursuant to the local finance
      law,  of  any  expenditure  enumerated  in  this  section  which  is not
      authorized pursuant to this section. Any expenditure financed  in  whole
      from  moneys  appropriated  from  surplus  funds shall not be subject to
      referendum.