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GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW Laws 1909, Chap. 29. AN ACT relating to municipal corporations, constituting chapter twenty-four 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,…
ARTICLE 1 Short Title; Definitions Section 1. Short title. 2. Definitions.
§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "General Municipal Law."
§ 2. Definitions. The term "municipal corporation," as used in this chapter, includes only a county, town, city and village. The term "governing board" includes the board of supervisors of a county, the town board of a town, the common council of a city, and the board of trustees of a village. a. "Urban renewal." The t…
ARTICLE 2 GENERAL MUNICIPAL FINANCES Section 3. Compensation for property of a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation taken by eminent domain. 3-a. Rate of interest on judgments and accrued claims against municipal corporations. 3-b. Limitation on real estate tax in New York city. 3-c. Limit upo…
§ 3. Compensation for property of a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation taken by eminent domain. Where property of a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation is taken in the exercise of the power of eminent domain for a purpose substantially different from that for which…
§ 3-a. Rate of interest on judgments and accrued claims against municipal corporations. 1. Except as provided in subdivisions two, four and five of this section, the rate of interest to be paid by a municipal corporation upon any judgment or accrued claim against the municipal corporation shall not exceed nine per cent…
§ 3-b. Limitation on real estate tax in New York city. 1. The amount to be raised by tax on real estate in any fiscal year commencing on or after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-four by the city of New York and the counties contained therein for city and county purposes, in addition to providing for the interest on…
§ 3-c. Limit upon real property tax levies by local governments. 1. Unless otherwise provided by law, the amount of real property taxes that may be levied by or on behalf of any local government, other than the city of New York and the counties contained therein, shall not exceed the tax levy limit established pursuant…
§ 4. Investigation of expenditures of towns and villages. If twenty-five freeholders in any town or village shall present to a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district in which such town or village is situated, an affidavit, stating that they are freeholders and have paid taxes on real property within such…
§ 5. Payment of fines, civil penalties, rent, rates, taxes, fees, charges and other amounts by credit card. (a) The following terms, when used or referred to in this section, shall have the following meaning: 1. "Credit card" means any credit card, credit plate, charge card, charge plate, courtesy card, debit card, oth…
§ 5-a. Electronic or wire transfers. 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, whenever an officer of a local government, as that term is defined in section ten of this article, is authorized or directed pursuant to law to disburse or transfer on behalf of the local government funds in the custody of the office…
§ 5-b. Collection of fines, civil penalties, rent, rates, taxes, fees, charges and other amounts via the internet. 1. The governing board of any local government, as that term is defined in section ten of this article, may, by local law, ordinance or resolution, determine that it is in the public interest and authorize…
§ 6-c. Capital reserve funds for counties, cities, villages, towns and sewer and water improvement districts. 1. As used in this section: a. The term "governing board", insofar as it is used in reference to a village, shall mean the board of trustees thereof; insofar as it is used in reference to a town, shall mean the…
§ 6-d. Repair reserve funds for municipal corporations, school districts, district corporations and improvement districts. 1. The governing board of any municipal corporation, school district, district corporation, or town or county improvement district, may establish a special fund which shall be known as the repair r…
§ 6-e. Contingency and tax stabilization reserve fund for municipal corporations. 1. As used in this section: a. "Annual budget" means the annual budget or estimate, as finally adopted, of a municipal corporation which is required by law to adopt an annual budget or estimate of the expenditures to be made for a fiscal…
§ 6-f. Snow and ice removal and road repair reserve funds for municipal corporations. 1. The governing board of any municipal corporation may establish a special fund which shall be known as the snow and ice removal and road repair reserve fund of such municipal corporation. There may be paid into such fund an amount a…
§ 6-g. Capital reserve funds for fire districts. 1. As used in this section: a. The term "capital improvement" shall mean: (1) Any physical betterment or improvement or any preliminary studies and surveys relative thereto. (2) Land or rights in land. (3) Any furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus for any physic…
§ 6-h. Reserve fund for payment of bonded indebtedness in counties, cities, villages, towns and fire districts. 1. As used in this section, the term "governing board," in so far as it is used in reference to a county, shall mean the board of supervisors thereof; in so far as it is used in reference to a city, shall mea…
§ 6-i. Airport development and amortization funds. a. There shall be a fund set up for each airport acquired, constructed or maintained by a municipal corporation, which fund shall be known as the "................ airport development fund". There shall be paid into such fund all payments for leases, permits or other p…
§ 6-j. Workmen's compensation reserve fund. 1. The governing board of any municipal corporation, school district or fire district, which is, or shall hereafter become a self-insurer under the provisions of subdivision four of section fifty of the workers' compensation law or section thirty of the volunteer firefighters…
§ 6-k. Electric utility depreciation reserve funds. The governing board of any municipal corporation operating an electric public utility service shall establish solely by appropriations from the revenues of such service, a depreciation reserve fund, the assets of which shall be used solely for, and for no other purpos…
§ 6-l. Mandatory reserve fund for municipal corporations, fire districts and school districts. 1. As used in this section, the term "governing board," in so far as it is used in reference to a municipal corporation, shall mean the "legislative body" thereof, as that term is defined in section two of the municipal home…
§ 6-m. Unemployment insurance payment reserve fund. 1. The governing board of any municipal corporation, school district, board of cooperative educational services, or fire district which has elected to become liable for payments in lieu of contributions required of employers liable for contributions under article eigh…
§ 6-n. Insurance reserve fund. 1. a. "Municipal corporation," as used in this section, shall mean a municipal corporation, as defined in section two of this chapter, school district, except a school district in a city with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more, board of cooperative educational servic…