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NY Second Class Cities L § 162 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation 162 - Rebates and Deficiencies.

§ 162. Rebates  and  deficiencies.  In  all  cases  of  assessment for   improvements the assessors shall include in the  apportionment  all  the   expenses  connected  with  or  which  were incident to the making of the   improvement and assessment.    Whenever  the  amount  apportioned  shall   exceed  the  actual  cost  of  the  improvement,  including all expenses   connected therewith or incidental thereto, the comptroller shall certify   the amount of the surplus to the  assessors  and  they  shall  thereupon   declare  a  rebate  and  the  excess  shall  be refunded pro rata to the   persons who paid their assessments.   If the  amount  assessed  for  any   improvement  shall be insufficient to cover the cost of the improvement,   including all expenses connected therewith and incidental  thereto,  the   comptroller  shall  certify  the  amount of the deficiency to the common   council and assessors,  and  the  common  council  and  assessors  shall   forthwith  cause to be assessed and levied the amount of such deficiency   pro rata upon the property included within the original  assessment  and   the same shall be assessed, levied and collected in like manner as other   assessments of a like character.
NY Second Class Cities L § 163 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation 163 - Assessment Not Invalidated by Irregularities.

§ 163. Assessment  not invalidated by irregularities. No assessment or   tax shall  be  vacated,  set  aside,  canceled,  annulled,  reviewed  or   otherwise  questioned  or  affected  by  reason  of any error, omission,   irregularity or defect, not actually fraudulent, in any of the steps  or   proceedings  required  to  be  had or taken as preliminary to, or in the   making of, the assessment, or in the levying or collection of  the  tax,   nor  in  relation  to or in connection with any proposal, designation of   materials, contract, work or improvement for or on account of which such   assessment was made or tax imposed. But all property shall be liable  to   assessment  and  all  assessments  shall  be valid and of full force and   effect notwithstanding any such error, omission, irregularity or defect.
NY Second Class Cities L § 164 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation 164 - Right to Review Assessment or Tax for Local Improvement Limited.

§ 164. Right  to  review  assessment  or  tax  for  local  improvement   limited.  No action or proceeding to set aside, vacate, cancel or  annul   any  assessment  or  tax  for  a  local improvement shall be maintained,   except for total want of jurisdiction to levy and assess the same on the   part of the officers, board or body authorized by law to make such  levy   or  assessment  or to order the improvement on account of which the levy   or assessment was made. No action or proceeding shall be  maintained  to   modify  or  reduce  any  such  assessment  or  tax  except  for fraud or   substantial error  by  reason  of  which  the  amount  of  such  tax  or   assessment  is  in  excess of the amount which should have been lawfully   levied or assessed.
NY Second Class Cities L § 166 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation 166 - Consolidation of Separate Proceedings.

§ 166. Consolidation  of separate proceedings. Two or more persons may   unite in commencing and prosecuting the proceedings to vacate or  modify   assessments;  and  when  two  or  more  persons  have commenced separate   proceedings to vacate or modify assessments for  the  same  improvement,   the  court  before  whom  the  same are commenced or pending, or a judge   thereof at special term or chambers may, by order, upon due  application   and notice, consolidate such separate proceedings into one proceeding.
NY Second Class Cities L § 167 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation 167 - State Lands.

§ 167. State   lands.   Nothing  herein  contained  shall  affect  any   assessment upon lands owned by the state nor  be  deemed  to  repeal  or   modify  any  of the provisions of section twenty-one of the public lands   law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 170 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare 170 - Commissioner; Deputy.

§ 170. Commissioner;  deputy.  The  commissioner of public welfare may   appoint one or more deputies, 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,   a deputy shall discharge the duties of the office until the commissioner   returns,  his  disability  ceases  or  the  vacancy   is   filled.   The   commissioner, and the deputies 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 § 171 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare 171 - Powers and Duties of Commissioner.

§ 171. Powers   and   duties  of  commissioner.  The  commissioner  of   charities shall have the general care,  management,  administration  and   supervision   of   the   charities,  almshouses,  hospitals,  houses  of   correction, orphan asylums  and  all  other  similar  institutions,  the   control  or  government of which belongs or is intrusted to the city. He   shall make regulations for the expenditure of  the  moneys  appropriated   for the support or relief of the poor and for the general supervision of   such  expenditures.  He shall investigate fully the circumstances of all   persons alleged to be destitute or without proper means of  support,  or   without  proper  guardianship, or who are in danger of becoming or are a   public burden in any  respect;  and  also  the  circumstances  of  their   relatives  or other persons whose duty it is to relieve or maintain them   or contribute to their support; also to institute and prosecute any  and   all  actions  and  proceedings  authorized  by law to compel any and all   persons liable for the care, maintenance, education or  support  of  any   such  destitute  or  dependent  persons  to  contribute  thereto, and to   indemnify the city  and  public  against  any  expenditures  on  account   thereof.  He  shall  also  prosecute  any and all bonds, undertakings or   recognizances given for any of the purposes herein mentioned or  in  any   manner  relating thereto. Any and all moneys recovered in any such suit,   action or proceeding or otherwise  paid  to  or  received  by  the  said   commissioner  on  account of the care, maintenance, relief, education or   support of any such persons shall be deposited by the commissioner  with   the  city  treasurer  as a trust fund, and the same shall be applied and   expended by the said commissioner for the purpose on  account  of  which   the  same  were paid. Any surplus remaining in said fund at the close of   the fiscal year shall be treated  as  an  unexpended  balance  of  money   appropriated  for such department. The commissioner shall furnish to and   file with the comptroller a monthly statement in detail of all  receipts   and  expenditures, including the aid and relief granted by him, with the   names and addresses of all recipients.
NY Second Class Cities L § 173 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare 173 - City Owner of Supplies.

§ 173. City owner of supplies. The city shall continue to be the owner   of  supplies  furnished to any poor person or applicant for relief until   the same are consumed. If any person to whom the same shall be furnished   shall sell or exchange the same for money or intoxicating liquors or  in   any  way  dispose  of  the  same other than in the manner directed, such   conduct shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
NY Second Class Cities L § 174 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare 174 - Liability of City.

§ 174. Liability  of  city. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be   deemed to make the city liable for the support or  relief  of  any  poor   person when it is not otherwise so liable.
NY Second Class Cities L § 180 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 180 - Jurisdiction of Police Court.

§ 180. Jurisdiction  of  police  court. If, under the general or local   laws, there now exists or shall hereafter be established in the  city  a   court  of criminal jurisdiction known as the police court, it shall have   the jurisdiction and powers hereinafter provided.
NY Second Class Cities L § 181 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 181 - Police Justice.

§ 181. Police  justice.  There shall be one justice of the court to be   known as the police justice. Said office shall be filled by election  by   the  electors  of  the city at the city election. The term of the police   justice shall be six years and he shall receive an annual salary, to  be   fixed  by  the  board  of estimate and apportionment, provided, however,   that if the city does not have or is not authorized by law to have  more   than  one  officer  possessing  the  jurisdiction  of a court of special   sessions, such salary shall  be  fixed  at  not  less  than  thirty-five   hundred  dollars  per annum.  If a police justice in any city shall have   served as such for more than twelve  consecutive  years,  the  board  of   estimate  and  apportionment  may,  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of   section seventy-four of  this  chapter,  increase  the  salary  of  such   justice, from time to time, during his term of office, to take effect at   the  time  of  any such increase or from the first day of January of the   current calendar year, as the board may determine. No  person  shall  be   eligible  for  election  to the office of police justice unless he be an   elector and has been an attorney of the supreme court of the  state  for   five  years.  In case of the absence or disability of the police justice   or of a vacancy in the office, any city judge or judge of the  municipal   court  shall  perform  the duties of the office until the police justice   returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. In the city  of   Albany,  in the case of the absence, disability or unavailability of the   police justice or of a vacancy in the office, the recorder of  the  city   or  any  justice of the city court of Albany shall perform the duties of   the office of police justice until such justice returns, his  disability   ceases or the vacancy is filled.
NY Second Class Cities L § 182 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 182 - Vacancy, How Filled.

§ 182. Vacancy, how filled. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than   by  expiration  of term, in the office of police justice, the same shall   be filled, for the balance of the  unexpired  term,  at  the  next  city   election  happening not less than thirty days after such vacancy occurs.   Until such vacancy shall be so filled, the mayor may appoint a qualified   attorney to fill the same, who shall hold office until the first day  of   January after the election at which his successor is elected.
NY Second Class Cities L § 183 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 183 - Jurisdiction and Powers.

§ 183. Jurisdiction  and  powers.  The police court shall have, in the   first instance, exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all  charges   of  misdemeanor, committed within the city and shall also have exclusive   jurisdiction to  try  and  determine  all  complaints  and  charges  for   violation  of city ordinances, and shall have the power and jurisdiction   now or hereafter conferred upon local criminal courts by  section  10.30   of  the  criminal  procedure  law. But any charge of misdemeanor pending   before said police court or police justice may be  removed  to  a  court   sitting  with  a grand jury by the same method now or hereafter provided   in sections 170.20 and 170.25 of  the  criminal  procedure  law;  but  a   complaint  or  charge  for  a violation of a city ordinance shall not be   removed.
NY Second Class Cities L § 184 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 184 - Further Jurisdiction.

§ 184. Further jurisdiction. The police justice shall also possess all   the  powers  and  jurisdiction  of  a  magistrate,  which  are or may be   conferred by  law  upon  justices  of  the  peace,  concerning  offenses   committed  within  the  city.  He  shall  possess  such other powers and   perform such other duties as are now or may be conferred or  imposed  by   law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 186 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 186 - Office Hours.

§ 186. Office  hours. It shall be the duty of the police justice to be   present at the police court rooms at such times and during such hours as   the public interest may require, unless necessarily detained therefrom.
NY Second Class Cities L § 187 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 187 - Clerk.

§ 187. Clerk.  The police justice shall have a clerk of the court, who   shall be the confidential appointee of said justice, and who shall  have   the  power  to  take  informations upon which warrants for the arrest of   persons charged with the commission of crimes  may  be  issued  by  said   justice.    The  clerk  shall  also  have  the  power  to issue and sign   subpoenas,  to  administer  oaths  to  witnesses,  to  make   and   sign   executions, commitments and certificates of conviction and to certify to   and  sign  copies  thereof for the execution of any judgment rendered in   police court, as police justice or as a court of special  sessions.  The   clerk  of the court shall receive all penalties and other moneys or fees   payable in such court, and shall pay the same  into  the  city  treasury   once  in  each  week,  and  shall file with the comptroller, monthly, an   itemized statement of the same. The said justice shall have  such  other   clerical  assistance  as  the  board  of  estimate and apportionment may   prescribe; and, if said board creates the office of deputy  clerk,  then   said  deputy clerk shall have the same powers as the clerk of the court.   All clerks appointed by the justice shall  serve  during  his  pleasure.   Said  appointments  shall  be in writing and filed with the clerk of the   county in which the city is located and with the city clerk. Said  clerk   and  deputy, if any, 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.  The police justice may appoint, and at pleasure remove,   a  police  court  attendant,  who  shall perform such services as may be   required of him by the police justice and shall be subject to the  order   and  control  of said justice and of no other person. He shall be in the   exempt class of the civil service, and  shall  receive  such  salary  as   shall  be  fixed  by the board of estimate and apportionment. The police   justice may appoint a member of the police department to said  position,   and  in  such  case said appointee shall be paid upon the certificate of   the police justice from the same fund as other police officers, and when   he shall retire from office he shall be reassigned to duty by the  chief   of police to the rank from which he came.
NY Second Class Cities L § 188 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 188 - Trial by Jury.

§ 188. Trial  by jury. In the police court, at the time of interposing   any plea which forms an issue of fact, the defendant may demand a  trial   by jury, and unless so demanded then a trial by jury is waived.
NY Second Class Cities L § 189 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 189 - Jurors and Juries.

§ 189. Jurors and juries. Jurors for the trial of an action in which a   jury  has  been  demanded  shall  be drawn and summoned and a trial jury   shall be procured in all respects in accordance with the  provisions  of   the  justice  court act.  A police officer shall have all the powers and   duties of a constable under those provisions.
NY Second Class Cities L § 191 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 12 - Judiciary 191 - Pay of Jurors.

§ 191. Pay  of  jurors.  Jurors  in the police court shall receive the   same compensation as jurors in justice's court held by justices  of  the   peace except that in the police court of the city of Albany jurors shall   receive  such  compensation  as may be provided by the board of estimate   and apportionment of the city of Albany.
NY Second Class Cities L § 200 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 200 - Corporation Counsel.

§ 200. Corporation  counsel. The corporation counsel shall be the head   of the department of law.  He may appoint, to  hold  office  during  his   pleasure,  a  first  assistant  and  such  other  subordinates as may be   prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In  case  of  the   absence or disability of the corporation counsel, or of a vacancy in the   office,  the  first  assistant  shall discharge the duties of the office   until the corporation counsel returns,  his  disability  ceases  or  the   vacancy  is  filled.  The corporation counsel and first assistant 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 § 201 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 201 - Duties of the Corporation Counsel.

§ 201. Duties  of  the  corporation  counsel.  The corporation counsel   shall be and act as the legal adviser of the common council and  of  the   several  officers,  boards  and departments of the city. He shall appear   for and protect the rights and interests of the  city  in  all  actions,   suits  and  proceedings  brought  by  or against it or any city officer,   board or department, including the commissioner of charities in bastardy   proceedings; and such officer, board  or  department  shall  not  employ   other  counsel.  The  corporation counsel may, however, with the written   consent of the mayor, employ counsel, at such  compensation  as  may  be   approved  by  the  board of estimate and apportionment, to assist him in   the argument and conduct of important cases or proceedings in which  the   city  or  any  officer,  board  or department thereof is interested or a   party.
NY Second Class Cities L § 202 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 202 - Costs.

§ 202. Costs.  Neither  the corporation counsel, deputy, clerk, or any   other subordinate or assistant, shall receive any fee or compensation of   any kind, other than the salary fixed by law or by the board of estimate   and apportionment.
NY Second Class Cities L § 203 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 203 - Account of Moneys Collected.

§ 203. Account  of moneys collected. The corporation counsel shall pay   over at once to the city treasurer, for and on behalf of the  city,  all   moneys  collected  by him for and on behalf of the city, including fines   and penalties.
NY Second Class Cities L § 204 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 204 - Certification and Approval of Contracts and Conveyances.

§ 204. Certification  and  approval  of contracts and conveyances.  No   written contract providing for the payment of  two  hundred  dollars  or   more,  entered  into  by  the  city  or  any  of its officers, boards or   departments, shall become effective or be acted under until there  shall   be  indorsed  thereon  by  the  corporation  counsel  or an assistant, a   certificate to the effect that the city  officer,  board  or  department   which  has  executed  the  same on behalf of the city, had authority and   power to make such contract, and that such contract is  in  proper  form   and  properly  executed; he shall approve all deeds, conveyances, leases   and abstracts of title  affecting  property  acquired,  conveyed  to  or   leased  by  the city; and he shall attend to all the law business of the   city and discharge such other duties as may  be  prescribed  by  law  or   ordinance of the common council.
NY Second Class Cities L § 205 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 205 - Compromise of Claims.

§ 205. Compromise  of  claims. The corporation counsel shall, whenever   he considers that the interests of the city will be  subserved  thereby,   enter into an agreement in writing, subject to the approval of the board   of  estimate  and  apportionment,  to  compromise  and  settle any claim   against the city, which agreement shall constitute  a  valid  obligation   against the city; and the amount therein provided to be paid shall, with   interest  thereon from its date, be included in the next city tax budget   and be collected and paid the same in all respects as a judgment against   the city. If, however, before the adoption of the city tax budget  there   shall  be  received by the city treasurer from any source any moneys not   otherwise appropriated, the amount in the agreement provided to be  paid   out of such moneys so received, so far as they will satisfy the same.
NY Second Class Cities L § 206 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 13 - Department of Law 206 - Judgments Against the City.

§ 206. Judgments   against  the  city.  The  amount  of  any  judgment   recovered against the city and payable by it, remaining unpaid, with the   interest due thereon, in case the time to appeal therefrom  has  expired   and  no  appeal  has been taken, or a certificate of no appeal therefrom   has been given by the corporation counsel, or in case such  judgment  is   finally affirmed, or an appeal taken and the execution thereon shall not   be stayed, shall be reported to the common council immediately after the   same  shall  have  become  payable, as aforesaid; and the amount thereof   shall be included in the next city tax budget. Such judgments  shall  be   paid  in  the  order of their recovery out of the moneys first paid into   the city treasury on account of the annual taxes or, prior thereto,  out   of  the proceeds of tax anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the   collection of such taxes or out of the proceeds  of  budget  notes.  If,   however,  there  be any moneys in the treasury to the credit of any fund   derived from city revenues,  other  than  taxation,  in  excess  of  the   estimated  revenues  from  such  source, and not otherwise appropriated,   sufficient to satisfy judgments against the city, the comptroller  shall   issue  warrants  for  the payment of such judgments out of said funds in   the order of their recovery. Until the moneys applicable to the  payment   of  a  judgment  have  been  raised  and paid into the city treasury and   payment of the judgment has  been  refused,  no  execution  shall  issue   against  the city unless the amount of such judgment shall not have been   included in the tax budget.