Section 41. Additional supervisors in certain towns

1. Resolution of town
  board. Any town having a population of  more  than  one-half  the  total
  population of the county in which such town is located, according to the
  latest federal or state census or enumeration, shall have one additional
  supervisor.  No such additional supervisor, however, shall be elected or
  appointed in any such town which has but one supervisor at the time this
  chapter takes effect, until  the  town  board  of  such  town  shall  by
  resolution  adopted  by  a  majority  vote  determine to provide for the
  election of an additional supervisor.
    2. Election of supervisors in such town. At a town  election  held  in
  November  following  the  adoption of the resolution provided for in the
  preceding section, the electors of such town shall elect one  additional
  supervisor  who shall hold office until January first following the next
  biennial town election,  at  which  time,  and  at  each  biennial  town
  election  thereafter, two supervisors shall be elected under the general
  and special laws relating to the election of supervisors  applicable  to
  such  town,  except  that  one  of  such supervisors shall be elected as
  presiding supervisor of such town.
    3. Powers and duties of presiding supervisor. The presiding supervisor
  shall exercise all the powers and be charged with all the duties imposed
  upon or  required  of  town  supervisors,  except  as  herein  otherwise
  provided.
    4.  Powers  and  duties  of  additional  supervisor.  Such  additional
  supervisor shall be a member of the town board and shall have  one  vote
  therein.  Whenever  by  reason of sickness or absence from the state the
  presiding supervisor shall be prevented from attending to the duties  of
  his  office,  and  whenever  a vacancy occurs in the office of presiding
  supervisor, the town board may by resolution authorize  such  additional
  supervisor  to  act  as  presiding  supervisor  during  such disability,
  absence from the state or vacancy, as the case may be, and  during  such
  time  said  supervisor  shall  possess  all the rights and powers of the
  presiding supervisor. No such additional supervisor  shall  perform  any
  act  as  presiding  supervisor  until  he has qualified by the filing of
  bonds and otherwise as required by law in  the  case  of  the  presiding
  supervisor.  Such additional supervisor shall exercise such other powers
  and perform such other duties not inconsistent with law as may from time
  to time be authorized or required by the town board.
    5. Temporary appointment; vacancies. At the meeting of the town  board
  immediately  following  the  adoption  of a resolution providing for the
  election of an additional supervisor, the town  board  may  appoint  the
  additional  supervisor  to  which  such  town is entitled who shall be a
  resident tax payer of such town and who  shall  hold  office  until  his
  successor  is  elected  at  the election first held thereafter as herein
  provided. From and after the appointment  by  the  town  board  of  such
  additional  supervisor and until the election of a presiding supervisor,
  the supervisor  in  office  at  the  time  of  such  appointment  of  an
  additional supervisor shall be the presiding supervisor. Upon the death,
  disability  or  removal of either supervisor of such town, his successor
  shall be elected or appointed as provided by law in the case of  a  town
  supervisor.
    6.  Salary  of additional supervisor. Such additional supervisor shall
  receive from the town a salary to be fixed by the town board.
    7. Powers and duties  of  supervisors  as  members  of  the  board  of
  supervisors.  Each  supervisor  from  such town shall be a member of the
  board of supervisors of the county in which such town is located and  as
  a  member of such board he shall have powers and duties co-ordinate with
  the powers and duties of the supervisors of other towns in  the  county,
  and  he  shall  receive from the county for all services in any official

  capacity the same salary and expenses as now or  hereafter  provided  by
  law for supervisors of other towns in such county.
    If  the supervisor from such a town be entitled to more than one vote,
  the total number of votes to which such town is  entitled,  without  any
  limitation  which  would  apply  to a single supervisor of such town and
  whether such number of votes be more or less than one-half of the  total
  number  of  such  votes  of such board, shall be divided equally between
  such supervisors of such town.