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NY Rural Elec Coop L § 65 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 6 - General Provisions Governing Property and Affairs 65 - Directors, Officers or Members as Notaries.

§ 65. Directors,  officers  or  members  as notaries. No person who is   authorized to take acknowledgments under the laws of this state shall be   disqualified from taking  acknowledgments  of  instruments  executed  in   favor  of a cooperative or to which it is a party, by reason of being an   officer, director or member of such cooperative.
NY Rural Elec Coop L § 66 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 6 - General Provisions Governing Property and Affairs 66 - License Fee in Lieu of All Franchise, Excise, Income, Corporation and Sales and Compensating Use Taxes.

§   66.  License  fee  in  lieu  of  all  franchise,  excise,  income,   corporation and sales and compensating use taxes. Each  cooperative  and   foreign  corporation  doing  business  in  this  state  pursuant to this   chapter shall pay annually, on or before the first day of July,  to  the   state tax commission, a fee of ten dollars, but shall be exempt from all   other  franchise, excise, income, corporation and sales and compensating   use taxes whatsoever. The exemption from the sales and compensating  use   taxes  provided  by  this  section  shall not apply to the taxes imposed   pursuant to section eleven hundred seven or eleven hundred eight of  the   tax  law.  Nothing  contained  in this section shall be deemed to exempt   such corporations from collecting and paying over sales and compensating   use taxes on retail sales of tangible  personal  property  and  services   made  by  such  corporations  to  purchasers  required to pay such taxes   imposed pursuant to article twenty-eight or authorized pursuant  to  the   authority  of  article twenty-nine of the tax law. Such annual fee shall   not be payable after January first, two thousand twenty.
NY Rural Elec Coop L § 67 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 6 - General Provisions Governing Property and Affairs 67 - Exemption From Jurisdiction of Public Service Commission and From the Provisions of the Public Service Law.

§ 67. Exemption  from  jurisdiction  of  public service commission and from the provisions of the public service law. Cooperatives and  foreign corporations doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter shall be  exempt  in  all  respects  from  the jurisdiction and control of the public service commission of this state and shall not be subject to  the provisions  of  the public service law. Each cooperative, however, shall file with the public service commission an annual report verified by the oath of the president,  vice-president,  treasurer,  secretary,  general manager, or receiver, if any. The report shall show in detail  (a) The number of its members;  (b)  The  amount  of  its  bonded  indebtedness  and other outstanding indebtedness;  (c) Its receipts and expenditures during the preceding year;  (d) The amount paid in reduction of its indebtedness and  as  interest upon its indebtedness;  (e)  The  names  of  its  officers  and  the  aggregate amount paid as salaries to them and the amount paid as wages to its employees;  (f) The location of its plant  or  plants  and  system,  with  a  full description of its property and franchises.
NY Rural Elec Coop L § 68 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 6 - General Provisions Governing Property and Affairs 68 - Exemption of Securities.

§ 68. Exemption    of    securities.   The   provisions   of   article   twenty-three-a of the general business law shall not apply to any  note,   bond  or  other  evidence  of  indebtedness issued by any cooperative or   foreign corporation doing  business  in  this  state  pursuant  to  this   chapter  to  United  States  of America or any agency or instrumentality   thereof, or to any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument  executed   to  secure the same. The provisions of said article twenty-three-a shall   not apply to the issuance of membership certificates by any  cooperative   or any such foreign corporation.
NY Rural Elec Coop L § 70 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 7 - Construction; Separability; Effective Date 70 - Construction.

§ 70. Construction.  This  chapter  shall  be construed liberally. The   enumeration of any object, purpose,  power,  manner,  method,  or  thing   shall  not  be  deemed  to  exclude  like  or similar objects, purposes,   powers, manners, methods or things.
NY Rural Elec Coop L § 71 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 7 - Construction; Separability; Effective Date 71 - Separability.

§ 71. Separability.   If   any   provision  of  this  chapter  or  the   application of such provision to any  person  or  circumstance  is  held   invalid,  the  remainder  of  the  chapter  and  the application of such   provisions to other persons  or  circumstances  shall  not  be  affected   thereby.
NY Rural Elec Coop L § 72 (2021)
2021 New York Laws REL - Rural Electric Cooperative Article 7 - Construction; Separability; Effective Date 72 - Effective Date.

§ 72. Effective date. This chapter shall take effect immediately.
NY Second Class Cities L § 1 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions 1 - Short Title.

§ 1. Short  title.  This  chapter  shall be known as the "Second Class   Cities Law."
NY Second Class Cities L § 2 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions 2 - Term City Defined.

§ 2. Term  city  defined.  The term "city," when used in this chapter,   means a city of the second class.
NY Second Class Cities L § 3 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 2 - General Provisions 3 - Corporate Powers.

§ 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 law, with power of perpetual   succession. The city shall have power:1.  To  take,  purchase,  hold,  lease,  sell and convey such real and   personal property as the purposes of the corporation may require.2. To take by gift, grant,  bequest  and  devise  and  hold  real  and   personal estate absolutely or in trust for any public use including that   of  education, art, ornament, health, charity or amusement, for parks or   gardens, or for the use or erection of statues, monuments, buildings  or   structures,  upon  such  terms or conditions as may be prescribed by the   grantor or donor and accepted by said corporation and to provide for the   proper administration of the same.3. To make, have and use, and from time to time alter, a common seal.4. To contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to complain   and defend and to institute, prosecute, maintain and defend  any  action   or proceeding in any court.5. To have and exercise all of the rights, privileges and jurisdiction   essential to a proper exercise of its corporate functions, including all   that  may be necessarily incident to, or may be fairly implied from, the   powers specifically conferred upon such corporation.6. To have and exercise all  the  rights,  privileges,  functions  and   powers  now  prescribed and exercised by it under existing or subsequent   laws and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
NY Second Class Cities L § 4 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 2 - General Provisions 4 - Application of Chapter.

§ 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 pursuant to the former  city   home  rule  law  or  is or was otherwise changed, repealed or superseded   pursuant to law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 10 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 10 - 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.
NY Second Class Cities L § 11 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 11 - Elective Officers.

§ 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 electors of   the city and of the wards thereof such other officers as may be provided   by law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 12 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 12 - Appointive Officers.

§ 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  of  section  one  hundred   sixteen  of  the social welfare law.  Other officers may be appointed as   provided in this chapter or otherwise by law.  All appointments  to  any   city  office  shall  be evidenced by a certificate in writing, signed by   the appointing officer and filed forthwith in the  office  of  the  city   clerk.  If an appointment be made by the common council such certificate   shall be signed by the officer presiding at the time the appointment was   made and attested by the city clerk.
NY Second Class Cities L § 13 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 13 - Terms of Office.

§ 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 specified in the  certificate  of   appointment. The term of office of the mayor, comptroller, treasurer and   president  of  the common council shall be two years. The term of office   of alderman and supervisor shall be two years. The term of office of the   assessors shall be four years, except that at the  city  election  first   held  in  the city after the same shall have become a city of the second   class and the provisions of this chapter relating to the election of its   officers shall have become applicable  thereto,  two  of  the  assessors   shall  be  elected  for  a  term of two years and two for a term of four   years. The term of office of the  corporation  counsel,  city  engineer,   commissioner of public works and sealer of weights and measures shall be   two years, unless sooner removed by the mayor. The term of office of the   commissioner  of  public  welfare shall be five years. Where the term of   office of an appointive officer is not specifically fixed by statute  it   shall  be  deemed  to  continue only during the pleasure of the officer,   officers, board or body authorized to make the appointment.
NY Second Class Cities L § 14 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 14 - Elections.

§ 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 as the general election held in such   year, and shall be conducted in all  respects  in  the  same  manner  as   general  elections  in  cities are required to be conducted, and all the   provisions of law relative to such elections shall be applicable to  the   election  for  officers  of the city. In case of the failure to elect an   elective city officer, except as otherwise provided herein,  the  office   shall be deemed to be vacant for the purpose of choosing a successor and   the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  in  the  manner provided herein for the   filling of  a  vacancy  in  such  office  happening  otherwise  than  by   expiration of term.
NY Second Class Cities L § 15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 15 - Vacancies.

§ 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  the  first  annual   election  after the happening of the vacancy at which a successor can be   elected for the balance of the unexpired term,  if  any.  If  a  vacancy   shall  occur  in  an  appointive  office  of the city, otherwise than by   expiration of term, the officer, officers, board or body  authorized  to   make appointment to such office for the full term shall appoint a person   to fill such vacancy for the balance of the unexpired term.
NY Second Class Cities L § 17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 17 - Additional Fees or Compensation Not to Be Paid.

§ 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 use any perquisites, compensation   or  fees  for  services  pertaining directly or indirectly, or which may   hereafter be added to the duties of  his  office,  in  addition  to  his   salary;  and all perquisites, compensation and fees paid to and received   by any such officer for services pertaining directly or  indirectly,  or   which may hereafter be added to the duties of his office, other than his   salary  received  from  the city, shall be the property of the city, and   shall be paid by the officer receiving the same into the city  treasury.   The  compensation  of  all  the officers, clerks and subordinates in the   several departments shall not exceed in the aggregate the  appropriation   made by the board of estimate and apportionment for that purpose.
NY Second Class Cities L § 18 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 18 - Official Undertakings.

§ 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 and validity by the  corporation   counsel and as to the sufficiency of the sureties by the mayor. All such   undertakings  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office of the city clerk. In   addition to the city officers required in this chapter, or otherwise  by   law,  to  give official undertakings, the common council may require any   other city officer to give an official undertaking in such penal sum and   with such conditions and sureties as it shall direct and approve. It may   also, in a proper  case,  require  an  undertaking  of  any  officer  in   addition   to  that  required  by  law.  The  mayor  shall  examine  the   sufficiency of the proposed sureties of any officer or person from  whom   an  official undertaking is required and may require such sureties to be   examined on oath as to their property  qualifications  and  liabilities.   The deposition of each surety shall be reduced to writing, subscribed by   him,  certified by the officer administering the oath and annexed to and   filed with the undertaking. In case any city officer shall fail to  file   the required official undertaking, if an elective officer, within thirty   days  after receipt of his certificate of election, and if an appointive   officer, within fifteen days after receipt of notice of his appointment,   the office shall be deemed to be vacant and the vacancy shall be  filled   in  the  manner  herein  provided  for  the filling of a vacancy therein   happening otherwise than by expiration of term. The official undertaking   of a city officer shall not be a lien upon real estate owned by  him  or   the sureties on such undertaking.
NY Second Class Cities L § 19 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 19 - Holding More Than One Office.

§ 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 deeds.
NY Second Class Cities L § 20 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 20 - Charges Against City Officers.

§ 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  perform  his  official   duties or some delinquency materially affecting his general character or   fitness  for  the office, unless otherwise specifically provided by law.   Where the charges are for disability for service, the examination  shall   be  one  of  inquiry only and the decision made in a proper case, may be   for honorable discharge from service. In all other cases the examination   shall be a trial, conducted under such reasonable rules and  regulations   as  shall  be  prescribed by the officer, officers, board or body before   whom the trial is held.  Whenever an elective city officer shall  be  or   become permanently disabled, or permanently incapacitated and is thereby   rendered   incapable  of  performing  his  official  duties  during  the   remainder of his term of  office,  such  officer  may  be  removed  upon   charges  and  after hearing, in the same manner as is provided herein or   otherwise by law, for the removal of appointive officers of the city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 21 - Office Hours.

§ 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 for the collection of water   rents, shall be kept open as aforesaid from ten o'clock in the  forenoon   until  three  o'clock in the afternoon. The common council may from time   to time direct any city office to be kept open at such  other  hours  as   public convenience may require.
NY Second Class Cities L § 22 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 22 - Officers, Trustees of Public Property.

§ 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 control, and every taxpayer residing   in said city is hereby declared to be a cestui que trust in  respect  to   the said property, funds and effects respectively; and any co-trustee or   any  cestui  que trust shall be entitled as against said trustees and in   regard to said property, funds and effects to all  the  rules,  remedies   and  privileges  provided by law for any co-trustee or cestui que trust;   to prosecute and maintain an action to prevent waste and injury  to  any   property,  funds  and estate held in trust; and such trustees are hereby   made subject to all the duties and responsibilities imposed  by  law  on   trustees,  and  such  duties and responsibilities may be enforced by the   city or by any co-trustee or cestui que trust  aforesaid.  The  remedies   herein provided shall be in addition to those now provided by law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 3 - Officers 23 - Annual Reports of Departments.

§ 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 nothing in this section   contained shall be construed to relieve such heads of  departments  from   furnishing such other information as may be required by the mayor at any   time.
NY Second Class Cities L § 30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 30 - Legislative Power.

§ 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  its  inhabitants  and  the   protection  and security of their property; and its authority, except as   otherwise provided in this chapter, or by law, is legislative only.
NY Second Class Cities L § 31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 31 - Members; President; Organization of Council.

§ 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  president  shall  preside  at  all   meetings  and discharge such other duties as may be defined by ordinance   of the common council and otherwise by law. The common  council  may  at   any  regular  meeting, elect one of its members president pro tempore to   act during the temporary absence or disability of the president and  who   shall  be  the  president  of  the common council in case of a permanent   vacancy in that office.  Until such permanent vacancy shall  be  filled,   the  mayor  shall preside over the meetings of the common council. Until   such a vacancy is filled the common council shall transact  no  business   except  to  adjourn from time to time. The president may vote like other   members of the  common  council  upon  all  resolutions  and  ordinances   submitted  to  the body for its action in case of a tie vote, and when a   member of the common council is elected president, he shall be  entitled   to  vote  as a member of the common council. The president of the common   council shall have the power of commissioner of deeds.