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2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 3 - Amendment; Consolidation; Merger; and Dissolution › 34 - Effect of Consolidation or Merger.

§ 34. Effect  of  consolidation  or  merger.  (a)  In  the  case  of a
consolidation the existence  of  the  consolidating  cooperatives  shall
cease  and  the articles of consolidation shall be deemed to be articles
of incorporation of the new cooperative; and in the case of a merger the
separate existence of the  merging  cooperatives  shall  cease  and  the
articles  of  incorporation of the surviving cooperative shall be deemed
to be amended to the extent, if any, that changes therein  are  provided
for in the articles of merger;
(b)  All  the  rights,  privileges,  immunities and franchises and all
property, real and personal, including without  limitation  applications
for  membership,  all debts due on whatever account and all other choses
in action, of each of the consolidating or merging cooperatives shall be
deemed to  be  transferred  to  and  vested  in  the  new  or  surviving
cooperative without further act or deed;
(c)  The  new or surviving cooperative shall be responsible and liable
for all the liabilities and obligations of each of the consolidating  or
merging  cooperatives  and  any  claim  existing or action or proceeding
pending by or against any of the consolidating or  merging  cooperatives
may be prosecuted as if the consolidation or merger had not taken place,
but  the  new  or surviving cooperative may be substituted in its place;
and
(d) Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon the property of
any of such cooperatives shall be  impaired  by  such  consolidation  or
merger.
2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 4 - Conversion of Domestic Corporations; Authorization to Foreign Corporations › 40 - Conversion of Existing Domestic Corporations.

§ 40. Conversion  of  existing  domestic corporations. Any corporation
organized under the laws of this state and supplying  or  authorized  to
supply  electric energy may be converted into a cooperative by complying
with the following requirements and shall thereupon  become  subject  to
this  chapter with the same effect as if originally organized under this
chapter:
(a) The proposition for the conversion  of  such  corporation  into  a
cooperative  and  proposed articles of conversion to give effect thereto
shall be submitted to a meeting of the members or stockholders  of  such
corporation,  the  notice of which shall have attached thereto a copy of
the proposed articles of conversion;
(b) If the proposition for the conversion of such corporation  into  a
cooperative   and   the   proposed  articles  of  conversion,  with  any
amendments, are approved by  the  affirmative  vote  of  not  less  than
two-thirds  of  those members of such corporation voting thereon at such
meeting, or,  if  such  corporation  is  a  stock  corporation,  by  the
affirmative  vote  of  the  holders of not less than two-thirds of those
shares of the capital stock of  such  corporation  represented  at  such
meeting  and voting thereon, articles of conversion in the form approved
shall be executed and acknowledged on behalf of such corporation by  its
president  or  vice-president  and its seal shall be affixed thereto and
attested by its secretary. The articles of conversion shall recite  that
they  are  executed  pursuant  to this chapter and shall state:  (1) the
name of the corporation and the address of its principal office prior to
its conversion into a cooperative; (2) the  statute  or  statutes  under
which  it was organized; (3) a statement that such corporation elects to
become a cooperative, non-profit, membership corporation subject to this
chapter; (4) its name as a cooperative; (5) the address of the principal
office of the cooperative; (6) the names and addresses of the  directors
of  the cooperative; and (7) the manner in which members or stockholders
of such corporation may or shall become members of the cooperative;  and
may  contain  any  provisions  not inconsistent with this chapter deemed
necessary  or  advisable  for  the  conduct  of  the  business  of   the
cooperative.  The president or vice-president executing such articles of
conversion shall make and annex thereto an affidavit  stating  that  the
provisions  of  this  section were duly complied with in respect of such
articles.  The articles of conversion shall be deemed to be the articles
of incorporation of the cooperative.
2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 4 - Conversion of Domestic Corporations; Authorization to Foreign Corporations › 41 - Foreign Corporations.

§ 41. Foreign  corporations.  Any  foreign  non-profit  or cooperative
  corporation supplying or authorized to supply electric energy and owning
  or operating electric transmission or distribution lines in an  adjacent
  state  may  construct  or acquire extensions of such lines in this state
  within an area no point of  which  is  more  than  ten  miles  from  the
  boundary  line  of this state and operate such extensions, provided that
  any such  corporation  shall,  before  constructing  or  operating  such
  extensions,  by an instrument executed and acknowledged on its behalf by
  its  president  or  vice-president,  under  its  seal  attested  by  its
  secretary, and filed in the department of state, designate the secretary
  of  state  its  agent  to  accept  service  of  process  on  its behalf.
  Thereafter,  such  corporation  shall  have  all  the  rights,   powers,
  privileges  and immunities of a cooperative, and shall be subject to the
  provisions of this chapter.  In the event any process  shall  be  served
  upon  the  secretary  of  state,  he shall forthwith forward the same by
  registered mail to such corporation at the address thereof specified  in
  the aforesaid instrument.
2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 5 - Filing and Fees › 50 - Filing of Articles.

§ 50. Filing   of  articles.  Articles  of  incorporation,  amendment,
  consolidation, merger, conversion, or  dissolution,  when  executed  and
  acknowledged  and  accompanied  by such affidavits as may be required by
  applicable provisions of this chapter, shall be filed in the  department
  of state.  The secretary of state shall, upon the payment of the fees as
  in  this  chapter provided, index such articles. Upon the filing of such
  articles,   the   incorporation,   amendment,   consolidation,   merger,
  conversion, or dissolution provided for therein shall be in effect.  The
  provisions  of this section shall also apply to certificates of election
  to dissolve and affidavits executed in connection therewith pursuant  to
  subsection (b) of section thirty-five of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 5 - Filing and Fees › 51 - Fees.

§ 51. Fees. The department of state shall charge and collect for:
(a) Filing articles of incorporation, forty dollars;
(b) Filing articles of amendment, twenty-five dollars;
(c) Filing articles of consolidation or merger, twenty-five dollars;
(d) Filing articles of conversion, twenty-five dollars;
(e) Filing certificate of election to dissolve, five dollars;
(f) Filing articles of dissolution, five dollars;
(g) Filing certificate of change of principal office, fifteen dollars;
and
(h)  Filing  by  foreign  corporation of instrument of designation for
service of process, two dollars.
2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 6 - General Provisions Governing Property and Affairs › 61 - Disposition of Property.

§ 61. Disposition  of  property.  (a)  The  board  of  directors  of a
cooperative shall have full power and authority,  without  authorization
by  the  members  thereof,  to authorize the execution and delivery of a
mortgage or mortgages or a deed or deeds of trust of, or the pledging or
encumbering of, any or all of the property, assets, rights,  privileges,
licenses, franchises and permits of the cooperative, whether acquired or
to  be  acquired,  and  wherever  situated,  as well as the revenues and
income therefrom, all upon such terms and conditions  as  the  board  of
directors  shall  determine.   Any such mortgage or mortgages or deed or
deeds of trust or other instruments shall be exempt  from  the  mortgage
recording taxes imposed by article eleven of the tax law.
(b) A cooperative may not otherwise sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise
dispose  of  or  encumber  all  or a substantial portion of its property
unless such sale, mortgage, lease or other disposition or encumbrance is
authorized by the affirmative vote of not less than  two-thirds  of  the
total members of the cooperative.
2023 New York Laws › REL - Rural Electric Cooperative › Article 6 - General Provisions Governing Property and Affairs › 63 - Recordation of Mortgages; Effect Thereof.

§  63. Recordation  of  mortgages; effect thereof. In case of conflict
  between this section and article nine of the  uniform  commercial  code,
  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall control. Any mortgage, deed of
  trust  or  other  instrument  executed  by  a  cooperative  or   foreign
  corporation doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter, which
  affects  real  and  personal  property and which is recorded in the real
  property records in any county in which such property is located  or  is
  to  be  located, shall have the same force and effect as if the security
  interest created by such  mortgage  in  the  personal  property  thereby
  affected, had been perfected by filing in accordance with section 9--501
  of  the  uniform  commercial  code.  All after-acquired property of such
  cooperative or foreign corporation described or  referred  to  as  being
  mortgaged  or  pledged  in  any  such  mortgage,  deed of trust or other
  instrument, shall become subject to the lien  thereof  immediately  upon
  the  acquisition  of  such  property  by  such  cooperative  or  foreign
  corporation, whether or not such property was in existence at  the  time
  of  the  execution  of such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument.
  Recordation of any such mortgage, deed  of  trust  or  other  instrument
  shall  constitute notice and otherwise have the same effect with respect
  to such after-acquired property as it has under  the  laws  relating  to
  recordation,  with  respect  to  property  owned  by such cooperative or
  foreign corporation at the time of the execution of such mortgage,  deed
  of  trust  or  other  instrument and therein described or referred to as
  being mortgaged or pledged thereby.
The security  interest  in  personal  property  created  by  any  such
  mortgage,  deed  of  trust  or other instrument shall, after recordation
  thereof, continue perfected and of record  without  the  filing  of  any
  continuation  statement  as  required  by  section 9--515 of the uniform
  commercial code.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.