Filed Date: 4/7/1981
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
Norman W. Seiter, Jr., Esq. Town Attorney, Mexico
You request an opinion whether a town board member may be employed by the town in seasonal part-time work at a moderate salary to maintain a town park.
The courts, and opinions of the Attorney General, have consistently held that it is contrary to public policy for any appointing board to appoint one of its members to a position which it has authority to fill (Wood vTown of Whitehall,
It would appear, therefore, that the town board may not appoint one of its members to a seasonal part-time position at a moderate salary to maintain a town park. See, in this connection, the enclosed. copies of our formal opinion published in 1964 Op Atty Gen 47 and our informal opinion published in 1971 Op Atty Gen 54. You will note that the 1971 opinion refers to an amendment of Town Law §