§ 116. Town charges. Except as herein otherwise provided, towns may\nincur obligations for any purpose necessary to give effect to the powers\nherein granted, including but not limited to the following:\n 1. The compensation of town officers and employees, and all expenses\nnecessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the town, and when\nincurred by authority of the town board, all expenses necessarily\nincurred and paid by any town officer or employee in executing the\nduties of his office or position, including actual and necessary\nexpenses for travel, office rent, janitor service, light, heat,\ntelephone, postage, furniture, books, stationery and supplies, and, in\nthe county of Franklin, for maintenance while attending meetings of the\ntown board. The town board of any town, in lieu of auditing and allowing\nthe claim of a town officer or employee for actual and necessary\nexpenses for travel, may determine by resolution to allow and pay such\nofficer or employee a reasonable mileage allowance for the use of his\nown automobile for each mile actually and necessarily traveled by him in\nthe performance of the duties of his office or position, in attending a\ncourse of training for his respective office or position provided by the\ntown and county officers training school of the state of New York, or in\nattending a convention, conference or school pursuant to section\nseventy-seven-b of the general municipal law.\n 2. All damages recovered against a town officer for any act done\npursuant to a resolution, or proposition, duly adopted by the town board\nor at a town election duly held; and all damages against any such\nofficer for any act done in good faith, in his official capacity,\nwithout any such direction or resolution, may be made a town charge, by\na vote of the town, at a town election duly held, or by a resolution of\nthe town board, but any such subsequent resolution of the town board\nshall be subject to a permissive referendum.\n 3. The moneys authorized to be raised by the vote of a town election\nfor any town purpose, or by resolution of the town board, which has\nbecome effective by the failure to file a petition for a referendum, or,\nwhich has been approved by a referendum.\n 4. The actual expenses necessarily incurred by the supervisor of a\ntown in the forest preserve, when authorized by resolution of the town\nboard, in connection with the distribution of fish and game birds, not\nexceeding one hundred dollars in any one year.\n 5-a. The expense incurred by a town officer, with the approval of the\ntown board, for insurance indemnifying against any loss through theft,\nrobbery or burglary of public moneys in his custody.\n 6. The cost and expense necessarily incurred by the town board in the\nemployment of a veterinarian to examine animals in the town to ascertain\nwhether they are infected with an infectious or communicable disease.\nThe town board may employ such veterinarian and provide for filing the\nresult of examinations made by him with the commissioner of agriculture\nand markets.\n 7. The reasonable fees of a physician for examining a person arrested\nin the town and charged with being intoxicated while operating a motor\nvehicle.\n 8. The engaging of a certified public accountant or a public\naccountant to audit the accounts and fiscal affairs of the town.\n 9. The fees of officers other than magistrates in criminal\nproceedings, or in criminal actions tried before a magistrate of the\ntown where the offense is alleged to have been committed. The fees\nallowable to towns and villages for the services of a magistrate and the\nfees allowable to an officer in issuing or serving process for an\noffense committed in a town other than that in which such magistrate\nresides, and of which a court of special sessions has jurisdiction to\ntry, or which a magistrate has jurisdiction to hear and determine and\nthe fees allowable to towns and villages for the services of a\nmagistrate in the t
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