N.Y. Town Law § 91

§ 91. Referendum on petition. Any such resolution or act of the town\nboard as set forth in the preceding section shall not take effect until\nthirty days after its adoption; nor until approved by the affirmative\nvote of a majority of the qualified electors of such town or district\naffected, voting on such proposition, if within thirty days after its\nadoption there be filed with the town clerk a petition signed, and\nacknowledged or proved, or authenticated by electors of the town\nqualified to vote upon a proposition to raise and expend money, in\nnumber equal to at least five per centum of the total vote cast for\ngovernor in said town at the last general election held for the election\nof state officers, but which shall not be less than one hundred in a\ntown of the first class nor less than twenty-five in a town of the\nsecond class, protesting against such act or resolution and requesting\nthat it be submitted to the qualified electors of the town or district\naffected, for their approval or disapproval. If such petition be so\nfiled not more than seventy-five days nor less than sixty days prior to\na biennial town election, a proposition for the approval of such act or\nresolution shall be submitted at such biennial town election. If a\npetition be so filed at any other time, a proposition for the approval\nof such act or resolution shall be submitted at a special town election\nto be held not less than sixty nor more than seventy-five days after the\nfiling of such petition. The petition may be made upon separate sheets\nand the signatures to each sheet shall be authenticated in the manner\nprovided by the election law for the authentication of nominating\npetitions. The several sheets so signed and authenticated when fastened\ntogether and offered for filing shall be deemed to constitute one\npetition. If, within five days after the filing of such petition, a\nwritten objection thereto be filed with the town clerk, and a verified\npetition setting forth the objections be presented by the person so\nfiling such objections to the supreme court or any justice thereof of\nthe judicial district in which such town is located, such court or\njustice within twenty days shall determine any question arising\nthereunder and make such order as justice may require. Such proceeding\nshall be heard and determined in the manner prescribed by section 16-116\nof the election law.\n