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NY Second Class Cities L § 66 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 66 - Accounts With Treasurer.

§ 66. Accounts  with  treasurer. The comptroller shall keep an account   between the city and the treasurer,  and  of  all  moneys  received  and   disbursed  by the treasurer, and for that purpose he shall procure daily   statements from the treasurer as to the moneys received and disbursed by   him, and shall also procure from the  depositaries  in  which  the  city   funds  are  deposited by the treasurer, monthly statements of the moneys   which have been received and paid out on account of the city.  He  shall   examine the treasurer's books, accounts and bank books, and ascertain as   to  their  correctness,  and shall render quarterly a detailed report to   the mayor and common council of the funds and financial condition of the   city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 67 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 67 - Annual Financial Statement.

§ 67. Annual  financial  statement.    The  comptroller  shall, within   thirty days after the close of each fiscal year, prepare and publish  in   book  or pamphlet form a full and accurate statement in detail, verified   by his oath showing: (1) the receipts and revenues of the city from  all   sources and the accounts which may be due to the city and uncollected at   the  close of the fiscal year; (2) the disbursements from all city funds   and the expenditures in all branches of the city government  during  the   fiscal year; (3) the indebtedness of the city at the close of the fiscal   year,  the  provisions  made  for  the payment thereof together with the   purposes for which it was incurred; (4) the  cost  of  the  acquisition,   construction  and operation of each public utility owned, maintained, or   operated by the city and the income derived therefrom. Such  publication   shall  be  accompanied  by  a  statement in detail, in separate columns,   showing the several funds belonging to the city,  the  amount  drawn  on   each  fund  and  its  then present condition, also the several debts and   obligations of the city,  the  character  thereof,  when  the  same  are   payable and the rate of interest on each.
NY Second Class Cities L § 68 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 68 - Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer.

§ 68. Treasurer  and  deputy treasurer.  The treasurer may appoint, to   hold office during his pleasure, a deputy and such other subordinates as   may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In case of   the absence or disability of the treasurer,  or  of  a  vacancy  in  the   office,  the  deputy  shall discharge the duties of the office until the   treasurer returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is  filled.  The   treasurer  and  deputy  treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of   the duties of their respective offices, shall each execute and file with   the city clerk, an official undertaking in such  penal  sum  as  may  be   prescribed  by  the  common  council. Such undertaking, when approved as   provided by law, shall have the same force  and  effect,  and  shall  be   filed  and  recorded  in the office of the county clerk of the county in   which the city is located in the same manner as is required in the  case   of an undertaking of a town collector.
NY Second Class Cities L § 69 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 69 - Duties of Treasurer.

§ 69. Duties  of  treasurer.  The  treasurer  shall  demand,  collect,   receive and have the care and custody of and shall disburse  all  moneys   belonging  to  or  due  the  city from every source, except as otherwise   provided by law. All moneys of the city received by the treasurer  shall   be  deposited  and secured by him daily in such depositaries as shall be   designated by the board of estimate  and  apportionment  in  the  manner   provided  by  section ten of the general municipal law. The interest, if   any, on all deposits shall be the property of  the  city  and  shall  be   accounted  for  and  credited to the appropriate fund. No money shall be   drawn from a city depository except on checks signed  by  the  treasurer   and  countersigned  by  the  comptroller  and made payable to the person   entitled to receive the same. He shall at no time permit any fund to  be   overdrawn,  nor draw upon one fund to pay a claim chargeable to another.   No money shall be paid out  by  him  except  upon  the  warrant  of  the   comptroller.    He  shall  render  to the comptroller at the end of each   day's business a detailed statement of all moneys received and paid  out   by  him. He shall perform such other duties, as may from time to time be   prescribed  by  law,  or  by  ordinance  of  the  common  council,   not   inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of this chapter, or the laws of the   state.  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   section ninety-six-b of the banking law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 70 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 70 - Deposits and Accounts.

§ 70. Deposits and accounts. All moneys deposited by the treasurer, as   provided  herein,  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the city. The   treasurer shall keep bank books in which shall be entered  his  accounts   or  deposits  in, and moneys drawn from, the banks or trust companies in   which such deposits shall be made.  He shall exhibit such books  to  the   comptroller  for his inspection at least once each month, and oftener if   required. The banks or trust companies in which such deposits are  made,   shall respectively transmit to the comptroller monthly statements of the   moneys which shall have been received and paid out by them on account of   the city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 71 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 71 - Board of Estimate and Apportionment.

§ 71. Board  of  estimate and apportionment. There shall be a board of   estimate  and  apportionment,  which  shall  consist   of   the   mayor,   comptroller,  corporation  counsel, president of the common council, and   the city engineer, except that when the number of subordinates,  or  the   salaries  thereof,  in  the department of any of the members of the said   board are to be fixed and determined, the  treasurer  shall  temporarily   take  the  place  of  the  member  whose  number of subordinates, or the   salaries thereof, is under consideration, for the purpose of fixing such   salaries or number of subordinates, and  for  that  purpose  alone.  The   members  of  the  board  shall  meet  upon  the call of the mayor, or as   directed by the board. The mayor shall be president of the board and the   city clerk shall act as secretary thereof. The secretary  shall  keep  a   journal of all of the proceedings of the board.
NY Second Class Cities L § 72 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 72 - Sinking Fund.

§ 72. Sinking  fund.  Unless  under special laws governing the city at   the time this chapter takes effect provision is made for the creation or   maintenance of a sinking fund or  funds  for  any  purpose,  thirty  per   centum  of  all  moneys  or revenues received by any city which has term   bonds outstanding and unpaid, or by any  officer,  board  or  department   thereof,  from  any source other than taxes or loans shall, upon receipt   of the same, be forthwith deposited in a separate account or accounts in   one or more of the designated fiscal depositories of  the  city  to  the   credit of the bonded indebtedness of the city, and said deposit shall be   known  as  the  sinking fund. The sinking fund shall be used exclusively   for the payment, as it matures, of the principal of the indebtedness  of   the   city   evidenced  by  term  bonds  other  than  bonds  issued  for   improvements financed by assessments for benefit or bonds  issued  prior   to  the  effective date of the local finance law, in anticipation of the   collection of revenues. If, under the special laws governing the city at   the time this chapter takes effect, provision is made for  the  creation   or  maintenance of a sinking fund or funds for any purpose, such sinking   fund or funds shall continue and be maintained as provided in such laws.
NY Second Class Cities L § 73 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 73 - Fiscal Year; Departmental Estimates.

§ 73. Fiscal year; departmental estimates. The fiscal year of the city   shall  commence  on the first day of January. On or before the first day   of November in each year all heads of departments and officers empowered   by law or by city ordinance to control or authorize  expenditures  shall   furnish  to the mayor estimates in writing of the amount of expenditures   for the next fiscal year in their  respective  departments  or  offices,   including  a  statement of the salaries of all their subordinates, which   estimates  the  mayor  shall  lay  before  the  board  of  estimate  and   apportionment  at  its  first  meeting thereafter, and the same shall be   entered in its minutes.
NY Second Class Cities L § 74 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 74 - Determination of Positions and Salaries.

§ 74. Determination  of positions and salaries.  The board of estimate   and apportionment, except as  otherwise  provided  by  law,  shall  have   authority  to  fix  the  salaries  or  compensation,  and  determine the   positions and numbers of  all  city  officers  and  employees,  of  each   office,  board  and  department, but the salary or compensation of every   officer and  employee  shall  be  thus  fixed  before  his  election  or   appointment,  except  in  the  first  instance after the city shall have   become a city of the second class and subject to the provisions of  this   chapter.
NY Second Class Cities L § 76 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 76 - Annual Appropriations.

§ 76. Annual  appropriations.  When  the  common  council  shall  have   adopted the final estimate of the board of estimate and apportionment or   said estimate as amended by it, the same shall be entered  at  large  in   its  minutes  and  become  a  part  of its proceedings. The several sums   estimated for expenditures therein shall be and become  appropriated  in   the  amounts  and  for  the several departments, offices and purposes as   therein specified for the said fiscal year.  The  several  sums  therein   enumerated  as  estimated revenues and the moneys necessary to be raised   by tax in addition  thereto  to  pay  the  expenses  of  conducting  the   business  of  the city and for the purposes contemplated by this chapter   and otherwise by law, shall be and  become  applicable  in  the  amounts   therein  named  for the purposes of meeting said appropriations. In case   the revenues received by the city exceed the amount  of  such  estimated   revenues  named  in  said  annual  estimate, or in case there remain any   unexpended balances of appropriations made for the support of  the  city   government  or for any other purpose, then such surplus revenues or such   unexpended balances shall, except as otherwise provided by  law,  remain   upon deposit and be included as a part of the estimated revenues for the   succeeding  year.    When  any  moneys  or  revenues are received by any   officer, board or department of the city, from any source other than  by   municipal  tax,  which  are  not  otherwise appropriated, such moneys or   revenues may be used and applied toward and in  addition  to  the  funds   appropriated,  as  aforesaid,  in  such manner as in the judgment of the   board of estimate and apportionment may be most beneficial to the city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 77 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 77 - Tax Budget.

§ 77. Tax  budget.  The  amount of estimated expenditures contained in   the annual estimate adopted by the common council, less  the  amount  of   estimated  revenues  applicable to the payment thereof and the amount of   all judgments payable prior to the tax levy, shall  constitute  the  tax   budget.  The common council shall levy and cause to be raised by tax the   amount of said budget, and the amount  shall  be  levied,  assessed  and   raised  by tax upon the real and personal property liable to taxation in   the city at the time and in the manner provided by law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 79 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 79 - Contracts and Expenditures Prohibited.

§ 79. Contracts  and  expenditures  prohibited.  No officer, board, or   department shall, during any fiscal  year,  expend  or  contract  to  be   expended  any  money  or incur any liability, or enter into any contract   which, by its terms, involves the expenditure of money for  any  of  the   purposes for which provision is made in the annual estimate in excess of   the  amounts  appropriated  in  said  estimate, as adopted by the common   council, for such officer, board, department or purpose, for such fiscal   year. Any contract, verbal or written, made in violation of this section   shall be null and void as to the city, and no moneys  belonging  to  the   city  shall  be  paid  thereon,  provided,  however, that nothing herein   contained shall prevent the making of contracts for light or water,  the   collection  and  disposal or the disposal of garbage, the collection and   removal of rubbish and ashes, the cleaning of streets, or the sprinkling   of streets or public places by railway cars, for periods  exceeding  one   year.Nothing  herein  contained,  however,  shall  be  held to prohibit the   expenditure of such sums as may be made available, pursuant  to  section   seventy-six of this chapter or section 29.00 of the local finance law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 80 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 80 - Penalties for Violation of Preceding Section.

§ 80. Penalties  for  violation  of  preceding section. Any officer or   member of any board or department of the city, making or voting for  any   contract prohibited by the preceding section, or auditing any account or   claim under any such contract, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Second Class Cities L § 81 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 81 - Appropriations for Band Concerts.

§ 81. Appropriations  for  band  concerts.  The  board of estimate and   apportionment may include in the  annual  estimate  and  appropriate  an   amount  to  be  expended  by  the  superintendent  of  parks  under  the   supervision and direction  of  the  commissioner  of  public  works,  in   providing  public  band  concerts  in  the public parks or places of the   city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 90 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 7 - Department of Public Works 90 - Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Public Works.

§ 90. Commissioner  and  deputy  commissioner  of  public  works.  The   commissioner of public works shall be the  head  of  the  department  of   public  works.  He  shall appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a   deputy and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board  of   estimate  and apportionment. In case of the absence or disability of the   commissioner or of a vacancy in  the  office,  the  deputy  commissioner   shall discharge the duties of the office until the commissioner returns,   his  disability  ceases  or  the vacancy is filled. The commissioner and   deputy commissioner before entering upon the discharge of the duties  of   their respective offices shall each execute and file with the city clerk   an  official  undertaking  in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the   common council.
NY Second Class Cities L § 91 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 7 - Department of Public Works 91 - Powers and Duties of Commissioner.

§ 91. Powers  and duties of commissioner. The commissioner, subject to   the provisions  of  law  and  ordinances  of  the  common  council,  has   cognizance,  direction  and  control  of  the construction, maintenance,   alteration, repair,  care,  cleaning,  paving,  flagging,  lighting  and   improving  of  the streets, highways, sidewalks and public places of the   city; of the construction, alteration and repair of all  city  buildings   and of all docks and bridges belonging to the city; of all public sewers   and  drains  in  the  city; of the construction, maintenance, extension,   repair and care of the city waterworks; of the care, superintendence and   management and improvement of all parks and grounds,  public  baths  and   recreation  piers belonging to the city. Except as otherwise provided by   law, the commissioner  shall  have  supervision  of,  control  over  and   jurisdiction  and authority to make all ordinary repairs or improvements   upon the streets, parks, sidewalks, crosswalks, gutters, vaults, drains,   culverts, bridges and public ways and places of the city, including  the   cleaning,  sprinkling,  laying of dust with substances other than water,   watering and flushing of the same, and  may  employ  such  laborers  and   teams  and incur such expenditures as may be necessary within the limits   of the appropriations made therefor. It shall be his duty to inspect the   same with sufficient frequency to ascertain their  condition  and  cause   the  same  to  be  kept free from obstructions and in good condition and   repair and reasonably safe for public use. The commissioner  shall  also   have  general  supervision  and  control of all work performed under any   contract of the city for local or other  improvements  to  be  performed   within  or  upon  any  of the public streets, parks, ways and places, or   with reference to the public works and ways within the  jurisdiction  of   his  department, including the lighting, sprinkling, laying of dust with   substances other than water, watering or  flushing  of  the  streets  or   public  places,  and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  performed in full   compliance with the provisions  of  any  contract  therefor.  Except  as   otherwise  provided  by  law  or  ordinance  of  the common council, the   commissioner of public works has, over the  streets  and  public  places   within the city, all the jurisdiction and is charged with all the duties   of commissioners of highways within the towns of the state.
NY Second Class Cities L § 92 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 7 - Department of Public Works 92 - Repair of Sidewalks; Removal of Snow and Ice.

§ 92. Repair  of  sidewalks; removal of snow and ice. The commissioner   of public works shall have full power and authority to require the owner   of property abutting upon a street  to  repair  any  sidewalk  in  front   thereof  or bring the same to true grade, and to remove the snow and ice   therefrom. Where the owner of such property shall  fail  or  neglect  to   repair  any sidewalk or bring the same to true grade for five days after   written notice so to do has been served on him, either personally or  by   delivering  the  same  at  his  residence, or if he be a non-resident by   mailing the same to him at his last known place of residence, or if  the   name of the owner or his place of residence can not be ascertained after   due  diligence,  by  posting  the  same  in a conspicuous place upon the   premises; or where the owner of any such premises shall fail or  neglect   to  remove  snow  and  ice  from  any  such  sidewalk after the same has   remained thereon for more than twelve hours, and the commissioner  shall   have  repaired such sidewalk or brought the same to grade or removed the   ice or snow therefrom, a bill for the expenses incurred thereby shall be   presented to the  owner  personally  or  by  leaving  the  same  at  his   residence or, if he be a non-resident, by mailing the same to him at his   last  known  place  of  residence,  or, if the name of such owner or his   place of residence can  not  be  ascertained  after  due  diligence,  by   posting  the  same  in  a  conspicuous place on the premises; and, if he   shall fail to pay the same within ten days thereafter, the  commissioner   shall  file  each  year  immediately  preceding  the time for making the   annual assessment-roll his certificate of the actual cost of  the  work,   together  with  a  statement  as  to  the property in front of which the   repairing or grading or cleaning was done, with  the  assessors  of  the   city,  who  shall,  in  the  preparation  of the next assessment-roll of   general city taxes, assess such amount upon such property, and the  same   shall  be  levied, corrected, enforced and collected in the same manner,   by the same proceedings, at the same time, under the same penalties  and   having  the same lien upon the property assessed as the general city tax   and as a part thereof.
NY Second Class Cities L § 93 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 7 - Department of Public Works 93 - Performance of Public Work to Be Certified.

§ 93. Performance  of  public  work  to  be certified. All public work   performed pursuant to contract under the supervision or control  of  the   commissioner shall, before it is accepted, be certified to by him to the   effect  that  such  work  has  been  performed in a good and substantial   manner with the materials required, of the quality  and  in  the  manner   directed  by  the  terms  of the contract under which the same was done.   Within ten days after the completion of any such work  the  commissioner   shall  file  a  certificate  of such completion with the comptroller and   with the city clerk, to be reported by him to the common  council.  Such   certificate  shall  state  in  substance  that  said  work has been duly   examined by the commissioner and that the same has been fully  performed   and completed in accordance with the terms of the contract therefor.