N.Y. General Municipal Law § 119-CC
1. In order to facilitate the coordination between state and local preservation policies and activities and to provide necessary information for the effective financial and technical assistance to local government and for a state clearinghouse of public preservation programs, the chief executive officer of every county, city, town and village or designee of such officer may within twenty-four months after the effective date of this section, prepare or cause to be prepared a local historic preservation report. This report may include, but need not be limited to: