N.Y. Town Law § 24-B
Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-four of this article or any other general or special law, the town board of the town of Pawling in Dutchess county, may by a resolution adopted at least ninety days prior to the general election to be held in November of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, provide that at the general election to be held in November of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, one town council member be elected for a term of two years and one town council member be elected for a term of four years and thereafter at each biennial town election there shall be elected one town council member for a term of four years. Such resolution may also provide that at the general election to be held in November of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, one town justice be elected for a term of four years and thereafter at each biennial town election there shall be elected one town justice for a term of four years.
N.Y. Town Law § 24-B