New York · statute · N.Y. Second Class Cities Law · 164 active provisions
SECOND CLASS CITIES Laws 1909, Chap. 55. AN ACT in relation to cities of the second class, constituting chapter fifty-three 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 Asse…
ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE; DEFINITIONS Section 1. Short title. 2. Term city defined.
§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Second Class Cities Law."
§ 2. Term city defined. The term "city," when used in this chapter, means a city of the second class.
ARTICLE 2 GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 3. Corporate Powers. 4. Application of chapter.
§ 3. Corporate powers. The citizens of the state of New York, from time to time inhabitants of the territory comprised within the boundaries of the city, shall continue to be a municipal corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name, and the same shall in that name be a body politic and corporate in fact and in la…
§ 4. Application of chapter. A provision of this chapter shall apply, according to its term, only to a city of the state which on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-three was a city of the second class, until such provision is superseded pursuant to the municipal home rule law, was superseded…
ARTICLE 3 OFFICERS Section 10. Officers. 11. Elective officers. 12. Appointive officers. 13. Terms of office. 14. Elections. 15. Vacancies. 17. Additional fees or compensation not to be paid. 18. Official undertakings. 19. Holding more than one office. 20. Charges against city officers. 21. Office hours. 22. Officers,…
§ 10. Officers. City officers, within the meaning of this chapter, include all persons elected or appointed to any office of the city created or authorized by this chapter or otherwise by law.
§ 11. Elective officers. There shall be elected by the qualified electors of the city, a mayor, comptroller, treasurer, president of the common council and four assessors. There shall be elected by the qualified electors of each ward of the city an alderman and a supervisor. There shall also be elected by the qualified…
§ 12. Appointive officers. There shall be appointed by the mayor a corporation counsel, city engineer, commissioner of public works, commissioner of public safety, commissioner of public welfare and sealer of weights and measures. The commissioner of public welfare shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions o…
§ 13. Terms of office. The term of office of each elective officer, unless elected to fill a vacancy then existing, shall commence on the first day of January next succeeding his election. The term of office of each appointive officer shall commence on the day succeeding his appointment unless a different date is speci…
§ 14. Elections. All elections of city officers, including supervisors and judicial officers of a city court or inferior local court, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, and, except to fill vacancies, in an odd-numbered year. All such elections shall be held at the same time and places…
§ 15. Vacancies. If a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term, in an elective office of the city, including that of supervisor, the mayor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy. The person so appointed to such vacancy shall hold office until the commencement of the political year next succeeding…
§ 17. Additional fees or compensation not to be paid. No officer of the city, except corporation counsel, a justice of a city court, acting as clerk of said court, city marshal, marshal of a city or municipal court, commissioners of deeds and city officers acting as commissioners of deeds, shall have or receive to his…
§ 18. Official undertakings. No person elected or appointed to a city office shall enter upon or continue in the discharge of the duties of his office until he shall have executed and filed with the city clerk the official undertaking, if any, required to be given and the same shall have been approved as to its form an…
§ 19. Holding more than one office. No person shall, at the same time, hold more than one city office. Upon the acceptance by a city officer of a second office the office first held by him shall thereupon become vacant. The term "city officer" as used herein, however, shall not be deemed to include a commissioner of de…
§ 20. Charges against city officers. Whenever it is provided herein, or otherwise by law, that an officer of the city shall hold office during good behavior or shall be removed only upon charges, such charges shall be for disability for service or neglect or dereliction of official duty or incompetency or incapacity to…
§ 21. Office hours. Unless otherwise provided by law, the city offices shall be kept open for the transaction of business each day in the year, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from ten o'clock in the forenoon until four o'clock in the afternoon, except that the offices of comptroller, city treasurer and the office…
§ 22. Officers, trustees of public property. The common council and the several members thereof, and all officers and employees of the city are hereby declared trustees of the property, funds and effects of said city respectively, so far as such property, funds and effects are or may be committed to their management or…
§ 23. Annual reports of departments. The several heads of departments shall present to the mayor annually, on or before the first Monday of December, a report of their proceedings during the preceding year. The mayor shall transmit the same to the common council with any recommendation he may think proper to make, but…
ARTICLE 4 COMMON COUNCIL Section 30. Legislative power. 31. Members; president; organization of council. 32. City clerk. 33. Meetings. 34. Powers. 35. Legislative acts. 36. Appropriations. 37. Disposition of real estate; franchises. 38. Procedure after passage of ordinance. 39. Record of ordinances. 40. Regulations of…
§ 30. Legislative power. The legislative power of the city is vested in the common council thereof, and it has authority to enact ordinances, not inconsistent with law, for the government of the city and the management of its business, for the preservation of good order, peace and health, for the safety and welfare of…
§ 31. Members; president; organization of council. The aldermen of the city shall constitute the common council thereof. The members of the common council shall meet in the room provided for the purpose on the second day of January after their election, or if that be Sunday, then on the next day, and organize. The pres…
§ 32. City clerk. The common council shall choose a clerk to hold office during the term for which its members were elected, unless sooner removed by a vote of three-fourths of all the members of the common council. He shall be the city clerk and shall attend the meetings of the common council, keep a journal of its pr…