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NY Gen City L § 13-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 13-C - Power of Cities to Provide Moneys to Replace Revenues From Excise Taxes.

§ 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 excise taxes on alcoholic beverages   in the last year in which the excise taxes were received.   Such  amount   to  be raised shall be included in the tax levy in addition to all other   sums which the common council or other governing body is  authorized  to   raise,   any   provision   of   the   city   charter   to  the  contrary   notwithstanding.In a city having a board of estimate and apportionment, action by  the   common  council  or other governing body under this section shall not be   taken except with the consent of such board.
NY Gen City L § 13-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 13-E - Expenses of Meeting Rooms for Veterans' and Other Organizations.

§ 13-e. Expenses   of   meeting   rooms   for   veterans'   and  other   organizations.  Any city may appropriate and make  available  a  sum  of   money  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars  in  any one year for each   chapter, post, camp or garrison, as the case may be, of the  Grand  Army   of  the  Republic,  the  United  Spanish  War  Veterans, the Veterans of   Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Disabled American  Veterans,  the   Military Order of the Purple Heart, Inc., the Army and Navy Union of the   United  States,  the  Marine  Corps League, AMVETS, American Veterans of   World War II, the Italian American War Veterans of  the  United  States,   Incorporated,  Veterans  of  World War I of the United States of America   Department of New York, Inc., Polish-American Veterans of World War  II,   Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  Inc.,  Polish-American  Veterans  of  World War II,   Schenectady, N. Y., Inc., Polish Legion of American Veterans, Inc.,  the   Jewish  War  Veterans  of  the  United  States,  Inc.,  the Catholic War   Veterans, Inc., Masonic War Veterans of the State of New York, Inc., the   American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Regular  Veterans  Association,  Inc.,   the  Viet  Nam  Veterans  of  America,  the  Eastern  Paralyzed Veterans   Association,  the  369th  Veterans  Association,  Inc.,  the  Tri-County   Council  of  Vietnam  Veterans,  the  National  Congress of Puerto Rican   Veterans, the Navy Seabee Veterans of America, the Korean  War  Veterans   Association,  the  Women's  Army Corps Veterans Association, or the Navy   Club of the U.S.A., located within its boundaries, for  the  purpose  of   assisting  in  defraying the rental or maintenance expenses, or both, of   rooms for the holding of meetings of any such post,  camp,  garrison  or   chapter.   All   sums   hereby   authorized  to  be  expended  shall  be   appropriated, raised and expended, in the  same  manner  as  moneys  for   other  municipal  expenses  in  the  city  are  appropriated, raised and   expended.
NY Gen City L § 13-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 13-F - Moneys for Maintaining the Municipal Electric Utilities Association of the State of New York and Any of Its Activities.

§ 13-f. Moneys   for  maintaining  the  municipal  electric  utilities   association of the state of New York and any of  its  activities.    The   common  council  of  any  city  or  the board in control of any electric   utility  owned  and  operated  by  the  city  is  hereby  authorized  to   appropriate  and  expend annually from moneys derived from the operation   of the said utility a sum to meet its proportionate share of the  actual   and  necessary  expenses  of  maintaining  and  continuing the municipal   electric utilities association of the state of New York and any  of  its   activities,  in  this  state, for the purpose of devising practical ways   and means for obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the  operation   of the utility.
NY Gen City L § 13-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 13-G - Moneys for Maintaining the New York State Assessors Association and Any of Its Activities.

§ 13-g. Moneys   for   maintaining   the   New  York  State  Assessors   Association and any of its activities. The common council of any city is   hereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually a sum to  meet  its   proportionate  share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining   and continuing the New York State Assessors Association and any  of  its   activities,  in  this  state,  for  the  purpose  of  the improvement of   assessment administration.
NY Gen City L § 13-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 13-H - Moneys for Maintaining Statewide Associations of Local Officials and Any of Their Activities.

§ 13-h. Moneys   for   maintaining  statewide  associations  of  local   officials and any of their activities. The common council of any city is   hereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually a sum to  meet  its   proportionate  share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining   and continuing any state-wide, non-profit association of local officials   whose activities are designed to improve local  administration  in  this   state.
NY Gen City L § 14 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 14 - Permits for Erection of Booths and Arches.

§ 14. Permits for erection of booths and arches. The mayor of any city   of  the first class or the commissioner of transportation in the city of   New York, may, in  his  discretion,  grant  temporary  permits  for  the   erection  of booths, stands, arches, overhead passageways, or flagstaffs   for the stringing of flags or banners, upon or  over  the  sidewalks  or   streets   of  such  city  for  the  purpose  of  a  public  celebration,   exposition, fair, political demonstration or any charitable or patriotic   drive, function or celebration; provided, however, that no  such  permit   shall  be granted for the erection of any such structure or device which   is to be used in whole or in part for business or commercial advertising   purposes. No such permit shall be granted  by  virtue  of  this  section   without  the consent of the owners of the abutting property constituting   more than one-half of the foot frontage upon both sides of  such  street   in  the  block  formed by the nearest cross-streets on each side of such   structure or erection.
NY Gen City L § 15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 15 - Firefighters Moving From One City to Another.

§ 15. Firefighters  moving  from one city to another. The firefighters   of the different cities of this state, in case of removal from one  city   to  another,  shall  be  allowed the time which they have served as such   firefighters in the city they left, in  the  city  to  which  they  have   removed,  upon  producing  a  certificate of such service, signed by the   chief of the city so left, and being appointed firefighters in the  city   to which they have removed.
NY Gen City L § 16 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 16 - Term of Service; How Reckoned.

§ 16. Term  of  service; how reckoned. When any such firefighter shall   have served as such for so long a time  thereafter  as  shall  make  the   whole  term  of  service  the  same  as  required by law of firefighters   residing in the city removed  to,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  all  the   privileges  and  exemptions  secured  by  law to the firefighters of the   cities of Albany and New York.
NY Gen City L § 16-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 16-B - Computation of Pensions in Certain Retirement Funds.

§ 16-b. Computation   of   pensions   in   certain  retirement  funds.   Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general or special, the   members of every teachers' retirement system in all cities of the  state   shall, when retired pursuant to the law governing such system, receive a   pension,  if  lawfully  entitled  thereto,  based  on the average annual   compensation earnable as a teacher during  the  five  years  immediately   preceding the date of his retirement, or the average annual compensation   earnable as a teacher during any ten consecutive years of state service,   said ten years to be selected by the member prior to date of retirement.
NY Gen City L § 17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 17 - Operation of Crematories for Disposal of Garbage.

§ 17. Operation of crematories for disposal of garbage. A crematory in   any  city or within ten miles of the corporate limits of any city, owned   or controlled by any person  or  corporation  or  by  a  city,  for  the   treatment  or consuming of garbage or other refuse matter or offal, dead   animals or fish, shall be so operated by the use of coke,  charcoal,  or   other  fuel device and by such appliances and methods that the offensive   and noxious gases and fumes arising from the consumption or treatment of   such garbage or other refuse matter or offal, dead animals or fish shall   be burned or disposed of  without  offense  or  danger  to  the  persons   residing  in the neighborhood of such crematory. The city authorities or   the person or corporation owning or  controlling  such  crematory  shall   cause  the necessary devices, and fuel or other supplies to be furnished   for the consumption or proper disposal of such gases and fumes. Any city   authority or other person or  corporation  owning  or  controlling  such   crematory  and  any  city  employee  or  other  person  operating such a   crematory who shall allow or permit such gases or fumes arising from the   consumption of such  garbage  or  other  matter  to  escape  and  become   offensive  or  dangerous  to the persons residing in the neighborhood of   such crematory,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  upon   conviction  be  punished  by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars   nor more than two hundred and fifty  dollars  for  each  day  that  such   offensive  or noxious gases or fumes are permitted or allowed to escape,   or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
NY Gen City L § 18-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 18-A - .

§ 18-a. Nothing  contained  in section eighteen shall be considered to   apply to any so-called miniature motion  picture  apparatus  which  uses   only  an  enclosed  incandescent  electric  lamp and approved acetate of   cellulose or slow-burning films, and is of such construction that  films   ordinarily  used  on  full-sized  commercial picture apparatus cannot be   used therewith.
NY Gen City L § 18-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 18-B - Admission of Children to Theatres.

§ 18-b. Admission  of children to theatres. The local legislative body   of any city by a majority vote may provide by local law, subject to  the   provisions  of  this section, for the licensing of theatres in such city   wherein there shall be exhibited those films which have been licensed by   the education department of the state of New York to admit children over   the age of eight years and under the age of sixteen years, unaccompanied   by a parent or guardian or other adult person.No child under the age of sixteen  years  shall  be  admitted  to  any   theatre  unaccompanied  by  a  parent,  guardian  or other adult person,   unless such theatre is licensed pursuant to and complies with the  terms   of a local law adopted pursuant to this section. Any such local law, and   every license issued thereunder, shall require:1.  That a separate section of seats shall be set aside on the main or   orchestra floor by the owner, operator, or management  of  such  theatre   and  used  exclusively  for  children,  to  which  adults  shall  not be   admitted. Such section of seats shall be specified in the  license,  but   provision  may  be  made therein for varying the size of such section at   different periods of time.2. A seat in such section shall  be  provided  for  every  such  child   admitted to the theatre.3.  Such  children  shall not be admitted to such a theatre during the   time when their school classes within the city are in session.4. One matron and such other assistants as may be  specified  in  such   local  law,  shall be provided by such owner, operator, or management of   such theatre for the supervision of such children. Such matron shall  be   licensed  by such a city and the license fee, not exceeding two dollars,   shall be paid by such owner, operator, or management of such theatre.Such  local  law  may  provide  other  and  additional  conditions  or   limitations  but  such  conditions  or limitations shall not require any   additional approval of and shall not  prohibit  the  exhibition  of  any   motion  picture  film  duly  licensed by the education department of the   state of New York.Such a local law may provide for  the  enforcement  thereof,  and  may   prescribe  penalties  for  violations  thereof  or  of  licenses  issued   thereunder.The admission of a child between eight and sixteen years of age  to  a   theatre  licensed under authority of a local law adopted pursuant to the   provisions of this section, where such theatre complies with  the  terms   of  this  section and of the license, shall not be deemed a violation of   the provisions of section 260.20 of the penal law.
NY Gen City L § 18-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 18-C - .

§ 18-c. The common council in all cities of the third class shall have   the  power, upon application, in writing, of the property owners, owning   at least two-thirds of the number of feet fronting or abutting upon  the   street   and  along  the  line  of  any  proposed  improvement  for  the   construction of an improved system of street lighting, to establish such   special lighting district or districts for the proposed system of street   lighting, and from time to time may alter or extend the same, with  full   power  to  order  such construction and installation and to enter into a   contract for lighting in such district or districts  so  established  or   extended as they may deem proper or expedient.The  amount  of  any  such  contract that may be entered into for such   special lighting, pursuant to the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be   assessed,  levied and collected upon and between the taxable property in   said city and the district or districts respectively, in the same manner   and by the same officers as city taxes, charges  or  expenses  for  said   city are now assessed, levied and collected.The  common  council  shall, by ordinance, apportion the expenses that   shall be borne by the property fronting or abutting upon the street  and   along the line of the proposed system or systems, and the city at large;   but  in no event shall the property fronting or abutting upon the street   or streets along the line of the proposed system or systems  be  charged   less  than  fifty per centum for such charges or expenses, nor more than   the per centum specified  in  the  application  and  agreed  to  by  the   property owners.
NY Gen City L § 18-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2 - General Provisions 18-D - Duty of Street Vendors to Keep the Sidewalk and Street Clean.

§ 18-d. Duty  of street vendors to keep the sidewalk and street clean.   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any city which has  a  local   law  or  ordinance  in  relation  to  responsibility  for maintenance of   sidewalk and street cleanliness shall apply such  law  or  ordinance  or   provisions  similar  thereto to any licensed or unlicensed street vendor   using areas of sidewalks and streets subject to such law or ordinance.
NY Gen City L § 19 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2-A - Powers of Cities 19 - General Grant of Powers.

§  19.  General  grant  of  powers.  1. Every city is granted power to   regulate, manage and control its  property  and  local  affairs  and  is   granted all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction necessary and proper   for carrying such power into execution. No enumeration of powers in this   or  any  other law shall operate to restrict the meaning of this general   grant of power, or to exclude  other  powers  comprehended  within  this   general grant.2. Whenever the constitutionality of any local law, ordinance, rule or   regulation  of  a  city is brought into issue upon a trial or hearing of   any civil cause of action or proceeding in any court, and  the  city  is   not  a  party  to such action or proceeding, notice shall be served upon   the city in accordance with section one thousand  twelve  of  the  civil   practice law and rules.
NY Gen City L § 20-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2-A - Powers of Cities 20-C - Temporary Investment of Certain City Funds in Obligations of the United States.

§ 20-c. Temporary  investment  of certain city funds in obligations of   the United States. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city   of the state, acting through its board of estimate  or  other  analogous   governing  body,  may  authorize  its  comptroller or other chief fiscal   officer, to set aside in a special fund, all or part of the proceeds  of   the  sale  of  serial  or other city bonds sold prior to February first,   nineteen hundred forty-five,  which  such  comptroller  or  other  chief   fiscal  officer  may  determine,  in  his  discretion,  not to be needed   immediately for making payments for the purposes for  which  such  bonds   were  issued,  and  may authorize such comptroller or other chief fiscal   officer to invest such fund in direct obligations of the  United  States   which  may  be issued in registered or inscribed form until such time as   funds are needed or should be available for the purposes for which  such   bonds  were  issued.  Such comptroller or other chief fiscal officer may   thereupon invest such fund in such obligations and may  thereafter  sell   all  or  any  of such obligations whenever he deems such sale advisable.   Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to refer to  refunding   bonds.
NY Gen City L § 21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2-A - Powers of Cities 21 - Public or Municipal Purpose and General Welfare Defined.

§ 21. Public   or  municipal  purpose  and  general  welfare  defined.   Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law,  the  terms  "public  or   municipal  purpose,"  and  "general  welfare,"  as used in this article,   shall each include the promotion of  education,  art,  beauty,  charity,   amusement,  recreation, health, safety, comfort and convenience, and the   promotion, creation, development or  expansion  of  business,  commerce,   industry  or  job  opportunities,  and all of the purposes enumerated in   sections twenty, twenty-a, twenty-b, and twenty-e.
NY Gen City L § 21-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2-A - Powers of Cities 21-B - Debt Service in Relation to Certain Municipal Cooperative Activities.

§ 21-b. Debt  service  in  relation  to  certain municipal cooperative   activities.   If any joint indebtedness  described  in  title  one-A  of   article two of the local finance law is allocated and apportioned, or is   excluded,  under or pursuant to such title or any other provision of law   for the purpose of determining the debt-contracting power of  a  county,   city,   town,   village   or   school   district,  such  allocation  and   apportionment, or exclusion, shall not limit the amount to be raised  in   any  city  outside  the  limitations  applicable  to cities set forth in   section ten of article eight of the  constitution  to  provide  for  the   interest on and the principal of any greater proportionate share of such   debt  service  which  the city has agreed or is required to provide. The   total of the amounts which may be so raised by all participating  public   corporations  outside  any  limitation imposed by or pursuant to section   ten of article eight of the constitution to provide for their respective   portions  of  any  payment  of  principal  or  of  interest   on   joint   indebtedness shall not exceed the full amount required to be provided by   all of such participants to make any such payment.
NY Gen City L § 21-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2-A - Powers of Cities 21-D - Establishment of Blood Credit Systems by Cities.

§ 21-d. Establishment  of  blood  credit systems by cities.   1. Every city shall have the power to establish by executive order of  the  mayor or  by resolution of the local governing body, a blood credit system for the purpose of providing blood and related  benefits  for  employees  of such  city  or  of  any  corporation,  agency  or  institution receiving financial support from such city, and the families or dependents of such employees, as defined  in  such  executive  order  or  resolution.  Such executive order or resolution may:  (a)  Establish  the  eligibility  requirements  for  and the terms and conditions of membership in such system;  (b) Prescribe the method of organization of the system;  (c) Fix the cost of membership, to be paid either in  money  or  blood donation;  (d)  Prescribe  the blood bank arrangements to be made with blood bank organizations;  (e) Prescribe the methods of administration and financial  management, including provision for payroll deductions of membership fees;  (f) Prescribe the benefits to be provided by the system;  (g)  Establish  a  central  blood  credit  administration  unit in the department of personnel or other appropriate department of the city  for the  purpose  of administering the operational activities of the system, and appoint or authorize the appointment of such officers  or  employees of the city as may be necessary to carry out the functions of such unit;  (h)  Provide  for  the  payment  by  the  city  of  such sum as may be necessary to pay the initial  administrative  cost  of  setting  up  the system and the program, within the amounts appropriated therefor;  (i)  Provide that employees who are members of the blood credit system and who retire shall be permitted to retain  membership  voluntarily  at such terms as may be prescribed by such order or resolution;  (j)  Contain  such  other  terms,  conditions and provisions as may be necessary to enable the system to provide blood and related benefits  to the  members of such system and their families or dependents which shall bear a reasonable relationship to the cost of membership and will enable the system to be self-supporting.   2. Any such executive order or resolution may be amended from time  to time.
NY Gen City L § 21-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GCT - General City Article 2-A - Powers of Cities 21-E - Operating Assistance for Water-Works Corporations in Certain Cities.

§ 21-e. Operating  assistance  for water-works corporations in certain   cities. Each city having a population  of  more  than  one  million  may   provide operating assistance to a water-works corporation subject to the   provisions  of  the  public  service law which provides water service in   such city for the purpose of reducing or eliminating  disparity  between   rates  charged  for such service by the municipal water supply system of   such city and rates charged by  such  water-works  corporation,  and  in   furtherance of such purpose the chief executive officer of such city may   enter  into  an  agreement  with such water-works corporation and expend   such sums as may be appropriated therefor so as to effect a reduction of   rates of such water-works corporation.