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GENERAL CITY LAW LAWS 1909, CHAP. 26. AN ACT in relation to cities, constituting chapter twenty-one of the consolidated laws. Became a law February 17, 1909, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows…
ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE Section 1. Short title.
§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "General City Law."
ARTICLE 2 GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 2. Term of office of city supervisors. 2-a. Succession to certain city offices. 2-b. Definition. 3. Members of common council; appointments to other city offices. 3-a. Liability of city officials. 3-b. Deposit of city funds. 3-c. Unlawful offers or agreements by municipal officials…
§ 2. Term of office of city supervisors. 1. The term of office of each supervisor hereafter elected in a city shall, notwithstanding the provisions of such city charter, be two years, and a supervisor shall only be elected in such city each second year thereafter, except to fill vacancies. 2. Notwithstanding any provis…
§ 2-a. Succession to certain city offices. 1. In every city in which the mayor and president or presiding officer of the local legislative body are elected at the same time and for the same term by the electors of the entire city, in case of the removal from office of the mayor, his death, inability to discharge the po…
§ 2-b. Definition. The term "infant" or "minor", as used in this chapter, shall mean a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
§ 3. Members of common council; appointments to other city offices. No member of the common council of any city shall, during the period for which they were elected, be capable of holding under the appointment or election of the common council any office the emoluments of which are paid from the city treasury, or paid…
§ 3-a. Liability of city officials. No official of any city of this state who shall deposit any moneys coming into his hands by virtue of his office in any bank, savings bank, national banking association, trust company, or with any private banker, in accordance with the provisions of any general or local law or charte…
§ 3-b. Deposit of city funds. Funds of a city shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law.
§ 3-c. Unlawful offers or agreements by municipal officials or omnibus lines with respect to omnibus line operations. 1. No officer, employee or agent of any city or any person acting on his behalf shall, directly or indirectly, make an offer to or agree with any private owner or operator of an omnibus line within such…
§ 3-d. Receipts and disbursements of payrolls. By resolution duly adopted, the common council or other legislative body of the city, may determine to enter into a contract to provide for the deposit of the periodic payroll of the city in a bank or trust company for disbursal by it in accordance with provisions of secti…
§ 4. Removal of appointive officers in cities of the third class. No officer heretofore or hereafter appointed by the mayor of a city of the third class, or nominated and appointed by such mayor by or with the consent of the common council of such city, shall be removed or suspended from office without the approval of…
§ 5. Certain parades and processions forbidden; penalty. All processions or parades occupying or marching on any street of any city to the exclusion or interruption of other citizens in their individual right and use thereof, excepting the National Guard and the police and fire departments, and the associations of vete…
§ 6. Swearing witnesses. Whenever the common council of a city shall have appointed a committee of members of their body upon any subject or matter within the jurisdiction of such common council, or to examine any officer of the city, in relation to the discharge of his official duties, or to the receipt or disbursemen…
§ 7. Summoning witnesses. The chairman or any other member of any such committee in his name shall have power to subpoena witnesses.
§ 8. Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions are submitted to all the voters of a city. The provisions of the election law or any other law relating to the submission of questions at general elections, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with this chapter, shall apply to the…
§ 10. Licenses to adult blind persons. The mayor of any city shall have the power to issue a license to any adult blind person for the vending of goods, or newspapers in such places as he or she may set aside for this purpose. The license shall be issued for a term of one year and no charge shall be made for the licens…
§ 11. Use of soft coal in public institutions. No public institution maintained by the state within the corporate limits of any city of the second class, shall use or burn bituminous coal in the operation of any of its departments, provided that the local ordinances of any such city forbid the use thereof.
§ 12. Money for celebration of legal holidays in cities. The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside each year such sums it may deem proper for the purpose of providing for the due and proper observance of any legal holiday in such city.
§ 12-a. Money for tercentennial celebrations. The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside such sums as it may deem proper in order to celebrate the due and proper observance of tercentennial celebrations commemorating the founding of the community.
§ 13. Moneys for Memorial and Veterans days; how expended. The moneys appropriated by a city for observance of Memorial and Veterans days therein pursuant to section twelve of this chapter shall be expended under the direction of a board composed of the mayor and the commanders and quartermasters of the Grand Army post…
§ 13-a. Moneys for maintaining the conference of mayors and other city officials of the state of New York and any of its activities. The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually, from moneys raised by taxation in such city, a sum to meet the actual and necessary expenses of mai…
§ 13-b. Publicity fund. Any city may establish a publicity fund of such amount as the city council or other governing body may by resolution direct, to be expended for the purpose of advertising the advantages of such city as a winter and summer resort, or for the commemoration programs of historical events, or otherwi…
§ 13-c. Power of cities to provide moneys to replace revenues from excise taxes. The common council or other governing body of any city, in which the trafficking in liquor is prohibited wholly or partly may raise, as long as the trafficking in liquor is prohibited, an amount not exceeding the revenue derived from excis…