§ 5-528 Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and associations. l. The board of trustees of any village is hereby authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum to meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the conference of mayors and other municipal officials of the state of New York and any of its activities in this state for the purpose of devising practical ways and means for obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the government thereof.

2. The board of trustees of any village is hereby authorized and empowered to include annually in the budget and raise by taxation in such village, a sum sufficient to defray the proportionate share of such village to meet the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing a conference of village officials of the villages in the county in which such village is located or a conference composed of village officials of villages located in an area of adjoining counties, and any of its activities in this state, for the purpose of devising practical ways and means of promoting and obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the government of such village.

3. The board in control of an electric utility, owned and operated by the village is hereby authorized to pay from the proceeds of the operation of said utility its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the municipal electric utilities association of the state of New York, and any of its activities in this state, for the purpose of devising practical ways and means for obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the operation of municipally owned electric light plants.