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NY Second Class Cities L § 32 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 32 - City Clerk.

§ 32. City  clerk.  The  common  council  shall choose a clerk to hold   office during the term for which its members were elected, unless sooner   removed by a vote of three-fourths of all  the  members  of  the  common   council. He shall be the city clerk and shall attend the meetings of the   common  council,  keep  a  journal of its proceedings and discharge such   other duties as may be prescribed by law or ordinance. He  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 city clerk or a vacancy in the   office, the deputy shall discharge the duties of the  office  until  the   city  clerk  returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. It   shall be the duty of the said clerk to transmit  to  the  head  of  each   department  and the clerk of each board, copies of all ordinances in any   manner affecting any of the matters of  which  any  such  department  or   board  shall  have  jurisdiction.  He shall have the custody of the city   seal. Said clerk and deputy  clerk  shall  each  have  the  power  of  a   commissioner of deeds.
NY Second Class Cities L § 33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 33 - Meetings.

§ 33. Meetings.  The  common  council  shall  hold regular meetings at   times to be determined by it from time to time.  The  president  of  the   common council, or a majority of its members, may call a special meeting   of  the  common  council by causing a written notice thereof, specifying   the objects of the meeting, to be served by the  city  clerk  upon  each   member  personally  or  by  mail,  directed to his place of residence or   place of business, at least twenty-four hours before the time fixed  for   such meeting.
NY Second Class Cities L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 34 - Powers.

§ 34. Powers.  The common council shall determine the rules of its own   proceedings and be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications   of its members. Its meetings shall be public and  its  records  open  to   public  inspection, and a majority of all its members shall constitute a   quorum to do business. The common council may compel the  attendance  of   absent members at any meeting properly called, and may punish or expel a   member  for  disorderly  conduct,  for  a  violation of its rules or for   official misconduct, or declare his seat vacant by  reason  of  absence,   provided  such absence has continued for the space of two months; but no   expulsion shall take place and no  vacancy  on  account  of  absence  be   declared  except  by the vote of three-fourths of all the members of the   common council, nor until the delinquent member has had  an  opportunity   to be heard in his defense. All appointments or designations made by the   common  council  shall be determined upon a vote taken by a roll call of   its members, and a statement of the choice of each member  or  the  yeas   and nays, if any, shall be entered upon the journal.
NY Second Class Cities L § 35 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 35 - Legislative Acts.

§ 35. Legislative acts. All the legislative acts of the common council   shall  be by ordinances, and on the passage of every ordinance, the yeas   and nays of the members voting thereon shall be entered in full upon the   journal. The passage of an ordinance shall require the affirmative  vote   of  at  least  a  majority  of all the members of the common council. No   ordinance shall be passed by the common council on the same day in which   it is introduced, except by unanimous consent.
NY Second Class Cities L § 36 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 36 - Appropriations.

§ 36. Appropriations.  No appropriation of money shall be made for any   purpose  except  by  ordinance specifying each item, the amount thereof,   and the department or specific purpose for which  the  appropriation  is   made.
NY Second Class Cities L § 37 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 37 - Disposition of Real Estate; Franchises.

§ 37. Disposition  of  real  estate; franchises. No ordinance shall be   passed making or authorizing a sale or lease of city real estate  or  of   any  franchise  belonging  to or under the control of the city except by   vote of three-fourths of all the members of the common council. In  case   of  a  proposed  sale  or  lease  of  real estate or of a franchise, the   ordinance must provide for a disposition of the same at  public  auction   to  the  highest  bidder,  under  proper regulations as to the giving of   security and after public notice to be  published  once  each  week  for   three  weeks  in  the  official paper or papers, provided, however, that   where the real estate proposed to be sold or leased was acquired by  the   city   pursuant   to   the   provisions   of  section  seventy-two-k  or   seventy-two-m of the general municipal law for the  purposes  set  forth   therein,  or  where such real estate is owned by the city and devoted to   such purposes, the ordinance may provide that such real estate shall  be   sold  or leased to the highest responsible bidder upon sealed bids after   notice thereof has been published in the same manner as hereinbefore set   forth for sale or lease by public auction. Such notice shall  contain  a   statement  of  the  time  and place where all bids received in pursuance   thereof will be publicly opened and read, and pursuant to  such  notice,   all  bids  received  shall  be  publicly opened and read at the time and   place so specified. A sale or lease of real estate or a franchise  shall   not  be  valid  or take effect unless made as aforesaid and subsequently   approved by a resolution of the board of estimate and  apportionment  or   other governing body. No franchise shall be granted or be operated for a   period  longer  than fifty years. The common council may, however, grant   to the owner or lessees of an existing franchise, under which operations   are being actually carried on, such additional rights or  extensions  in   the  street  or  streets  in  which the said franchise exists, upon such   terms as the interest of the  city  may  require,  with  or  without  an   advertisement,  as  the common council may determine; provided, however,   that no such grant shall be operative unless approved by  the  board  of   estimate  and  apportionment  or  other  governing body, and also by the   mayor.
NY Second Class Cities L § 38 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 38 - Procedure After Passage of Ordinance.

§ 38. Procedure  after  passage  of  ordinance. Every ordinance of the   common  council  shall  immediately  after  its  passage  be  separately   engrossed  and  signed  by  the president and attested by the clerk. The   clerk shall thereupon present the  same  to  the  mayor.  If  the  mayor   approve  it  he  shall  sign  it  and  return  it  to the clerk, and the   ordinance shall thereupon take effect. If he  disapprove  it,  he  shall   return  it  to  the clerk with his objections stated in writing, and the   clerk shall present the same with such objections to the common  council   at  its next regular meeting. The common council may, within thirty days   thereafter,  reconsider  the  same;  if,  after  such   reconsideration,   three-fourths  of  all  the  members of the common council shall vote to   pass the ordinance  the  same  shall  take  effect  notwithstanding  the   objections  of  the  mayor,  unless  a  greater  number  of members were   necessary according to the provisions of this chapter for  the  original   passage  of  the ordinance, in which case unless as many members as were   requisite for the original passage of the ordinance shall vote  to  pass   the  ordinance  it  shall not take effect. If any ordinance shall not be   returned by the mayor to the clerk within ten days after it  shall  have   been  presented  to  him,  or if such ordinance shall be returned within   such period without the mayor's approval or disapproval, the same  shall   take  effect  in like manner as if the mayor had approved and signed it.   If any ordinance presented  to  the  mayor  contains  several  items  of   appropriation  of  money or embraces more than one distinct subject, the   mayor may approve the provisions relating to one or more items or one or   more subjects and disapprove the others. In such  case  those  items  or   subjects which he shall approve shall take effect and he shall append to   the  ordinance  at  the  time  of signing it a statement of the items or   subjects which he disapproves and said items or subjects so  disapproved   shall  not  take  effect.  He  shall  return to the clerk a copy of such   statement and the  items  or  subjects  disapproved  may  be  separately   reconsidered  by  the  common council and shall only become effective if   again passed by it as above provided. All the provisions of this section   in relation to ordinances disapproved by the mayor shall apply in  cases   in  which  he  shall  disapprove  any  item  or  subject contained in an   ordinance appropriating  money  or  embracing  more  than  one  distinct   subject.
NY Second Class Cities L § 39 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 39 - Record of Ordinances.

§ 39. Record  of  ordinances.  Every  ordinance shall, upon its taking   effect as herein provided, be recorded in a book kept for  that  purpose   by the clerk. Such records shall include the signature of the president,   attestation of the clerk and the mayor's written approval, or in case of   his  disapproval  a  memorandum of its passage over his veto; or in case   the ordinance took effect because he failed to approve or disapprove and   return within ten days, then a memorandum to that effect. Such record or   a certified copy thereof, shall be presumptive evidence of  the  passage   of  the  ordinance  and  of  the facts certified. The original engrossed   ordinances for each year shall be bound together and kept in the custody   of the clerk.
NY Second Class Cities L § 40 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 40 - Regulations of Duties of Officers.

§ 40. Regulations  of  duties  of officers. The common council may, by   ordinance passed by three-fourths of all its members,  not  inconsistent   with  this  chapter, or other laws of the state, regulate the powers and   duties  of  any  city  officer  or  department;  and  it  has  power  to   investigate  all  city officers and departments and shall have access to   all records and papers kept by every city officer or department, and has   power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books,   papers or other evidence at any meeting of the common council or of  any   committee  thereof,  and  for that purpose may issue subpoenas signed by   the president.
NY Second Class Cities L § 41 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 41 - Executive Functions; How Performed.

§ 41. Executive  functions;  how  performed.  Whenever an executive or   administrative function is by law or ordinance  of  the  common  council   required  to  be  performed,  the  same shall be performed by the proper   executive or administrative officer or department, designated in the law   or ordinance, and in case no such designation be  thus  made  the  mayor   shall  make  the same, but no ordinance shall be passed interfering with   the exercise of the executive functions of the officers, departments and   boards of the city, as provided in this chapter or otherwise by law.
NY Second Class Cities L § 42 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 42 - Penalties for Violation of Ordinances.

§ 42. Penalties  for  violation of ordinances. Any person violating an   ordinance of the common council shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, except   that an ordinance may provide that  a  violation  thereof  shall  be  an   offense,  and  the  common  council  may  provide  therein or by general   ordinance, that any person guilty of such violation shall be liable to a   fine which shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars in amount,  or   to  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one hundred and fifty days, or to both   such fine and imprisonment, or such ordinance may provide for a penalty,   not exceeding five hundred dollars to be recovered  by  the  city  in  a   civil  action.  The city may maintain an action or proceeding in a court   of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with, or to  restrain  by   injunction  the  violation of, any ordinance of the common council or of   the commissioner of public safety, notwithstanding  that  the  ordinance   may provide a penalty for such violation.
NY Second Class Cities L § 43 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 43 - Designation of Official Papers; Official Printing.

§ 43. Designation  of official papers; official printing. At the first   meeting of the common  council  for  the  purpose  of  organization,  as   provided  herein,  it  shall  designate  not  more  than  two newspapers   published in the city to be the official paper or papers  of  the  city.   The common council may, by two-thirds vote of all its members, determine   to  designate but one official paper, in which case it shall designate a   daily newspaper, and the paper receiving the  highest  number  of  votes   shall  be  the  official  paper  for  two years and until a successor is   designated. Unless the common council shall so  determine  to  designate   but  one  official  paper,  it  shall  designate two official papers, of   opposite political faith, and of which at least one  shall  be  a  daily   newspaper,  and each member shall be entitled to vote for but one paper,   and the two papers having the highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  the   official  papers for two years and until a successor or successors shall   be designated. Such official paper or papers shall publish such  matters   and  in  such  form  as  shall  be prescribed by statute or otherwise by   general ordinance of the common council. In case an official paper shall   refuse or fail to act or perform as such, the common council may in  its   discretion,  as  hereinbefore provided, designate a successor. All bills   and accounts  for  publication  in  official  newspapers  and  all  city   printing  and  advertising  shall be a city charge, and shall be paid by   the treasurer upon the audit of the comptroller. The common council may,   by general ordinance, prescribe the form in which  the  proceedings  and   reports  of  the  city officers, boards and departments shall be issued,   and the printing and binding  of  the  same  shall  be  performed  under   contract awarded as in the case of other city contracts.
NY Second Class Cities L § 44 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 4 - Common Council 44 - Penalties.

§ 44. Penalties.  Any member of the common council who shall knowingly   or unlawfully disregard any provision of law applicable to  the  members   thereof,  or who shall vote for any ordinance or measure in violation of   the law, or any appropriation unauthorized by law or in  excess  of  the   amount authorized by law, or for any illegal or injurious disposition of   corporate   property   rights  or  privileges,  shall  be  guilty  of  a   misdemeanor  and  liable  to  the  punishment  and  penalty   prescribed   therefor, and every member voting in favor thereof shall be individually   liable to refund the amount to the city at the suit of any taxpayer.
NY Second Class Cities L § 50 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 50 - Executive Power.

§ 50. Executive  power.  The  executive power of the city is vested in   the mayor, and in such executive officers and departments as are or  may   be created by law, or by ordinance of the common council.
NY Second Class Cities L § 51 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 51 - Acting Mayor.

§ 51. Acting mayor. Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the office of   mayor,  or  whenever  by reason of sickness or absence from the city the   mayor shall be prevented from attending to the duties of the office, the   president of the common council shall act as mayor and possess  all  the   rights  of mayor during such period of disability or absence. In case of   a vacancy in the office of mayor he shall so act until noon of the first   day of January  next  succeeding  the  election  at  which  the  mayor's   successor  shall  be chosen. It shall not be lawful for the president of   the common council when acting as mayor in consequence of the absence or   sickness of the mayor to exercise any power of  appointment  or  removal   from  office  unless such sickness or absence shall have continued for a   period of thirty days; or to sign, approve or disapprove  any  ordinance   or resolution unless such sickness or absence shall have continued for a   period of at least nine days.
NY Second Class Cities L § 52 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 52 - Secretary and Assistants.

§ 52. Secretary  and  assistants.  The mayor shall appoint a secretary   and such other assistants as may be prescribed by the board of  estimate   and apportionment.
NY Second Class Cities L § 54 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 54 - Duties of Mayor.

§ 54. Duties  of  mayor. It shall be the duty of the mayor to see that   the city officers and departments faithfully perform  their  duties;  to   maintain  peace  and  good  order within the city; to take care that the   laws of the state and the ordinances of the common council are  executed   and  enforced  within the city; to communicate by written message to the   common council at least once a year a  statement  of  the  finances  and   general   conditions   of  the  affairs  of  the  city,  and  with  such   recommendations in relation thereto as he may deem proper; to give  such   information  in relation to the same as the common council may from time   to time require; and to call a special meeting  of  the  common  council   whenever  in  his  judgment it is required by public necessity. He shall   also receive and examine into  all  complaints  made  against  any  city   officer for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
NY Second Class Cities L § 55 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 55 - Execution of Deeds and Contracts.

§ 55. Execution  of deeds and contracts. The mayor shall, on behalf of   the city, execute all deeds and contracts made by it and shall cause  to   be affixed thereto the city seal.
NY Second Class Cities L § 56 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 56 - Examination of Books and Accounts.

§ 56. Examination   of  books  and  accounts.  The  mayor  shall  have   authority at all times to examine the books and papers of  any  officer,   employee  or department of the city and, as often as he may deem proper,   to appoint one or more competent persons to examine, without notice, the   accounts of any city officer or department, and  the  money,  securities   and  property  belonging  to the city in the possession or charge of any   officer or department and to report the result of such examination;  and   he  may  administer  oaths to witnesses and take affidavits in all cases   relating to the affairs of the city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 57 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 5 - Mayor 57 - Additional Powers and Duties.

§ 57. Additional  powers  and  duties. The mayor shall have such other   powers and perform such other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed  in  this   chapter  or  by  other  laws  of the state or by ordinance of the common   council, not inconsistent with law. In case of  riot,  conflagration  or   other  public emergency requiring it, the mayor shall have power to call   out the police and firefighters; he or she  shall  also  have  power  to   appoint  such  number  of  special police officers as he or she may deem   necessary to preserve the public peace.  Such  special  police  officers   shall  be  under  the  sole  control  of  the  regularly  appointed  and   constituted officers of the police  department.  They  have  shall  have   power  to  make  arrests  only  for disorderly conduct or other offenses   against peace or good order. In case of riot or insurrection, he or  she   may  take  command  of  the  whole  police  force,  including  the chief   executive officer thereof.
NY Second Class Cities L § 60 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 60 - Temporary and Funded Debts.

§ 60. Temporary  and  funded debts. (a) Whenever the finance board, as that term is defined in section 2.00 of the  local  finance  law,  shall authorize the issuance of bonds or notes, it shall do so by ordinance.  (b) Provision shall be made for the payment of each annual installment of a funded debt and accrued interest on such funded debt in the year in which  such  principal and interest shall become due by the insertion of the proper sum in the annual estimate for the year  in  question.  Bonds issued to provide for the supply of water may be paid out of water rents received by the city.
NY Second Class Cities L § 62 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 62 - Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller.

§ 62. Comptroller and deputy comptroller. The comptroller 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 comptroller, or of a vacancy in the   office, the deputy shall discharge the duties of the  office  until  the   comptroller returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. The   comptroller  and  deputy comptroller, before entering upon 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 comptroller and deputy comptroller shall each be   ex officio a commissioner of deeds.
NY Second Class Cities L § 63 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 63 - Duties of Comptroller.

§ 63. Duties  of  comptroller.   The comptroller shall superintend the   fiscal affairs of the city and manage  the  same  pursuant  to  law  and   ordinance  of the common council.  He shall keep a separate account with   every  department  and  with  each  improvement  for  which  funds   are   appropriated  or  raised by tax or assessment. No warrant shall be drawn   by him for the payment of any claim against or obligation  of  the  city   unless it state particularly against which of such funds it is drawn. No   fund  shall be overdrawn nor shall any warrant be drawn against one fund   to pay a claim chargeable to another. The comptroller shall perform such   other and further 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 other laws of the state.
NY Second Class Cities L § 65 (2021)
2021 New York Laws SCC - Second Class Cities Article 6 - Department of Finance 65 - Custody and Management of Sinking Fund.

§ 65. Custody  and  management  of sinking fund. The comptroller shall   have, under the direction of the board of  estimate  and  apportionment,   the  custody, investment and management of any sinking fund provided for   the payment or redemption of city debts.