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2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 47 - Cancellation of Registration; Notice.

§ 47. Cancellation  of  registration; notice. Such registration may be
  cancelled by such board of health or the examining board of plumbers  if
  so  designated by local law for a violation of the rules and regulations
  for the plumbing and drainage of such city  duly  adopted  and  enforced
  therein,  after  a  hearing  had  before  such  board  of  health or the
  examining board of plumbers if so designated by local  law  and  upon  a
  prior  notice  of not less than ten days stating the ground of complaint
  and served on the person charged with the violation, but such revocation
  shall not be operative  unless  concurred  in  by  the  local  board  of
  examiners.  It  shall not be lawful for any person to engage in or carry
  on the trade, business or calling of an employing or master  plumber  in
  any  of the cities of this state, unless his name and address shall have
  been registered in the city in which he  carries  on  or  conducts  such
  business.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 48 - Inspectors; Qualifications; Notice.

§ 48. Inspectors; qualifications; notice. The local board of health or
  an  official  or board designated by local law of such city, as the case
  may be shall detail, designate or appoint an inspector or inspectors  of
  plumbing,  subject,  however,  to  the provisions or limitations of law,
  regulating the appointment of such inspectors by such board of health or
  an official  or  board  designated  by  local  law  of  such  city.  All
  inspectors  of  plumbing who are detailed, designated or appointed shall
  be practical plumbers and shall not be engaged directly or indirectly in
  the business of plumbing, during the period of their  appointment.  They
  shall  be  citizens  and  actual residents of the city in which they are
  appointed; except in the cities of  Cortland  and  Corning,  where  such
  inspectors  shall  be  citizens  and  actual  residents of the county or
  counties wherein the city is situated, or in  an  abutting  or  adjacent
  county;  except in the city of Watertown, where such inspectors shall be
  citizens and actual residents of the county wherein the city is situated
  except in the  city  of  Middletown,  where  such  inspectors  shall  be
  citizens  and  actual  residents  of  the  county  wherein  the  city is
  situated, or within a twenty-five mile radius of the city of  Middletown
  as  long  as  such  inspectors are citizens and actual residents of this
  state; except in the city of Jamestown, where such inspectors  shall  be
  citizens  and  actual  residents  of  the  county  wherein  the  city is
  situated; except in the city of Tonawanda, where such  inspectors  shall
  be  citizens  and  actual  residents  of  the county wherein the city is
  situated, or in an abutting or adjacent county; except in any city  with
  a  population  of  less than twenty-five thousand, where such inspectors
  shall be citizens and actual residents of the county or counties wherein
  the city is situated. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties
  as such inspectors they shall each be required to obtain  a  certificate
  of  competency  from  said  examining  board.  They shall be entitled to
  receive compensation to be fixed by the officer,  board,  commission  or
  department  having  power  to  fix salaries generally or, if there be no
  officer, board, commission or department thereof having such  power,  by
  the board of aldermen or common council.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 49 - Duties of Inspectors; Reports.

§ 49. Duties  of  inspectors;  reports. The inspector or inspectors of
  plumbing appointed under the provisions of  the  preceding  sections  of
  this  article,  in addition to the duties prescribed by law or ordinance
  and those which may be enjoined or required by the appointing  power  of
  the  city  in  which  they  shall  be appointed, shall be to inspect the
  construction and alteration of all plumbing work performed in such city,
  and to report  in  writing  the  results  of  such  inspection  to  such
  appointing  power  of their respective cities. They shall also report in
  like manner any person  engaged  in  or  carrying  on  the  business  of
  employing plumber, without having the certificate hereinbefore provided.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 50 - Expiration and Renewals of Certificates and Licenses.

§ 50. Expiration  and  renewals  of  certificates  and licenses.   All
  certificates  of  registration  issued  under  the  provisions  of   the
  preceding   sections  of  this  article  and  all  licenses  authorizing
  connections with street sewers  or  water  mains  shall  expire  on  the
  thirty-first  day of December of the year in which they shall be issued,
  and may be renewed within thirty days preceding  such  expiration.  Such
  renewals to be for one year from the first day of January in each year.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 51 - Notice of Violation of Rules.

§ 51. Notice  of  violation  of rules. Whenever any inspector or other
  person reports a  violation  of  any  such  rules  and  regulations  for
  plumbing  and drainage, or a deviation from any officially approved plan
  or specification for plumbing and  drainage  filed  with  any  board  or
  department,  the  appointing  power  shall  first  serve a notice of the
  violation  thereof  upon  the  master  plumber  doing  the  work,  if  a
  registered plumber.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 52 - Notice, How Served; Proceedings When Violated Not Removed.

§ 52. Notice, how served; proceedings when violated not removed.  Such
  notice  may  be  served  personally or by mail, and if by mail it may be
  addressed to such master plumber at the address registered by  him,  but
  the failure of a master plumber to register will relieve the official or
  board  who or which appoints the plumbing inspector from the requirement
  of giving notice of violation. Unless the violation  is  removed  within
  three days after the day of serving or mailing such notice, exclusive of
  the  day  of  serving  or  mailing,  the  official or board who or which
  appoints the plumbing inspector may proceed according to law.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 53 - Plumbing and Drainage to Be Executed According to Rules.

§ 53. Plumbing  and  drainage  to be executed according to rules.  The
  plumbing and drainage of all buildings, both public and private, in each
  of the cities of this state, shall be performed  by  persons  authorized
  under  the rules and regulations adopted by the local board of examining
  plumbers, in conjunction with the  board  of  health  for  plumbing  and
  drainage,  and  all  plumbing  and  drainage  work  shall be executed in
  compliance  with  such  rules  and  regulations.  And  all  repairs  and
  alterations  in  the  plumbing  and drainage of all buildings heretofore
  constructed shall also be performed and executed in accordance with such
  rules and regulations; but this section shall not be construed to repeal
  any existing provision of law  requiring  plans  for  the  plumbing  and
  drainage of new buildings to be filed with any local board of health and
  be  previously  approved  in  writing  by  such  board  of health and be
  executed in accordance therewith, except that in case  of  any  conflict
  with  such  plans,  rules and regulations of the board of examiners, the
  latter shall govern.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 54 - Office Room; Expenses a City Charge.

§ 54. Office  room;  expenses  a  city  charge. Each of such examining
  boards of plumbers shall have power to procure suitable quarters for the
  transaction of business, to provide the necessary books  and  stationery
  and  to employ a clerk to keep such books and record the transactions of
  such board. The board  of  estimate  and  apportionment  or  the  common
  council  of a city as the case may be shall annually insert in their tax
  levy a sufficient sum to meet all the expenditures  incurred  under  the
  provisions  of  this  article.    The  expenses  incurred by the several
  examining boards of plumbers in the execution  and  performance  of  the
  duties  imposed  by  this  article  shall  be a charge on the respective
  cities and shall be audited, levied, collected  and  paid  in  the  same
  manner as other city charges are audited, levied, collected and paid.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 55 - Violations, How Punished.

§ 55. Violations,  how  punished.  Any  person  violating  any  of the
  provisions of this article, or any rules or regulations of the board  of
  health  or of the examining board of plumbers in any city regulating the
  plumbing and drainage of buildings in such city, shall be  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor,  and on conviction, if a master plumber, shall in addition,
  forfeit any certificate of competency or registration, which he may hold
  under the provisions thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 56 - Issue of Licenses to Connect With Sewers and Water Mains Restricted.

§ 56. Issue  of  licenses  to  connect  with  sewers  and  water mains
  restricted. The commissioner of public works of any city, or the officer
  or officers acting in a like capacity in  any  of  the  cities  of  this
  state,  and  having  charge of the sewers and water mains therein, shall
  not issue a license to any one to connect with the sewers  or  with  the
  water  mains  of  such cities, unless such person has obtained and shall
  produce a certificate of competency from the  examining  board  of  such
  city.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 56-A - Use by the State, Individuals and Corporations Outside Corporate Limits.

§ 56-a. Use   by  the  state,  individuals  and  corporations  outside
  corporate limits. 1. Any city having a population of fifty  thousand  or
  less  may  sell to a public or private corporation, or to an individual,
  the right to make connection with its sewer system for  the  purpose  of
  discharging  sewage  therein  from  outside the city limits, and fix the
  term, consideration and conditions therefor. The board  shall  not  sell
  nor  permit  the  use  of its sewer system under this section if thereby
  such sewer system will be  rendered  inadequate  for  the  city  or  its
  inhabitants.   The   term  "public  corporation"  shall  mean  a  public
  corporation as defined in section three of the general corporation law.
2. Any city having a population of fifty thousand or less may contract
  with the state of New York or with the state  authority  having  control
  and  supervision  of any state institution, and the state of New York or
  the  state  authority  having  control  and  supervision  of  any  state
  institution  may  contract  with the board of sewer commissioners of any
  such city, to provide sewerage and sewage disposal  facilities  for  the
  conveyance,  treatment and disposal of the sewage of such state or state
  institution either within or without the corporate limit of said city on
  such conditions and conveying such powers to the  state  or  such  state
  authority  and  for  such  consideration and such period of time as said
  sewer commissioners and the state of New York or  such  state  authority
  may agree.
3. Any city having a population of fifty thousand or less may contract
  with   the  United  States  of  America  or  with  the  federal  agency,
  administration or  authority  having  control  and  supervision  of  any
  federal  institution  or  installation  to  provide  sewerage and sewage
  disposal facilities for the conveyance, treatment and  disposal  of  the
  sewage  of  such  federal  institution  or installation either within or
  without the corporate limits of the city on such  conditions,  for  such
  consideration  and  for  such period of time as said sewer commissioners
  and the United States of America or such federal agency,  administration
  or authority may agree.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4 - Plumbing and Drainage › 57 - Article Limited.

§ 57. Article  limited.  1. This article shall not apply to any of the
  following cities: New York, Binghamton,  Schenectady,  Elmira,  Hornell,
  Olean, Poughkeepsie and Cortland.
2.  This  article,  with the exception of section fifty-six-a thereof,
  shall not apply to the city of Glens Falls, the city of  Middletown  and
  the city of Beacon.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4-A - Supervision and Regulation of Plastering › 60 - Supervision of Plastering by Building Department.

§ 60. Supervision  of  plastering by building department. The building
  department of every city of the first class shall have jurisdiction over
  all plastering except where it conflicts with the duties  of  any  other
  department  or conflicts with any law conferring on any other department
  supervision of any portion of plastering.  For such purpose there  shall
  be appointed in each building department in a city of the first class by
  the  head thereof a sufficient number of inspectors to perform such work
  as is necessary in the enforcement of this article who, in  addition  to
  such  qualifications  as may be required by the civil service law, shall
  be competent plasterers of at least ten years' practical experience.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4-A - Supervision and Regulation of Plastering › 61 - Three Coat Work Required on Lath.

§ 61. Three  coat  work required on lath. All plastering in tenements,
  apartments, hospitals, schools and other public buildings when  on  lath
  shall  be known as three coat work, namely, scratch coat, brown coat and
  finish.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4-A - Supervision and Regulation of Plastering › 62 - Key Space.

§ 62. Key  space.  All  ceilings,  stud partitions and furred walls in
  tenements, apartments, hospitals, schools, and  other  public  buildings
  where  plastered  with  lime  on  wood  lath  shall  have  not less than
  three-eighths space between lath. All grounds and jambs shall  mean  not
  less than seven-eighths from the stud.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4-A - Supervision and Regulation of Plastering › 65 - Finishing.

§ 65. Finishing.  When  white  mortar, or any other material of a like
  character is used for finish coat, it  shall  be  laid  on  regular  and
  troweled  to  a  smooth  surface  showing  neither deficiencies or brush
  marks.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 4-A - Supervision and Regulation of Plastering › 67 - Patent Plasters.

§ 67. Patent  plasters.  When  patent  plasters,  such as ivory, acme,
  windsor, et cetera, are used, lathing, if of wood  lath,  shall  not  be
  less  than  one-quarter  inch  key space. First coat shall be thoroughly
  scratched to make key to retain second coat, and  shall  be  set  before
  second coat is applied.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 5-A - Buildings and Use Districts › 81-C - Article Seventy-Eight Proceeding.

§ 81-c. Article  seventy-eight proceeding.   1. Application to supreme
  court by aggrieved persons. Any person or persons, jointly or  severally
  aggrieved  by  any  decision  of  the  board  of appeals or any officer,
  department, board or bureau of the city, may apply to the supreme  court
  for  review  by  a  proceeding  under article seventy-eight of the civil
  practice law and rules.  Such  proceeding  shall  be  instituted  within
  thirty days after the filing of a decision of the board in the office of
  the city clerk.
2.  Costs  of  appeal. Costs shall not be allowed against the board of
  appeals unless it shall appear to the court that  it  acted  with  gross
  negligence  or  in  bad  faith  or  with  malice  in making the decision
  appealed from.
3. Preference of appeal to court. All issues in any  proceeding  under
  this  section  shall  have  preference  over all other civil actions and
  proceedings.
4. Power of court. If upon the hearing by the supreme court, it  shall
  appear  to  the  court  that  testimony  is  necessary  for  the  proper
  disposition of the matter, it may take evidence or appoint a referee  to
  take  such  evidence  as  it may direct and report the same to the court
  with his or her findings of fact and conclusions  of  law,  which  shall
  constitute a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the
  court  shall be made. The court may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly,
  or may modify  the  decision  brought  up  for  review  determining  all
  questions which may be presented for determination.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 5-A - Buildings and Use Districts › 81-E - Article Not Applicable to Certain Cities.

§ 81-e. Article  not  applicable  to certain cities. The provisions of
  this article shall not apply to any city having a population  in  excess
  of  one  million except that any such city may by local law provide that
  this article or any section thereof may apply to such city.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 5-A - Buildings and Use Districts › 81-F - Planned Unit Development Zoning Districts.

§  81-f. Planned unit development zoning districts. A city legislative
  body, except in a city having a population  of  more  than  one  million
  persons,  is hereby authorized to enact, as part of its zoning local law
  or ordinance, procedures and  requirements  for  the  establishment  and
  mapping  of  planned  unit  development  zoning  districts. Planned unit
  development  district  regulations   are   intended   to   provide   for
  residential,  commercial,  industrial  or  other  land  uses,  or  a mix
  thereof, in which economies of scale, creative architectural or planning
  concepts and open space preservation may be achieved by a  developer  in
  furtherance  of  the  city  comprehensive  plan  and zoning local law or
  ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 5-A - Buildings and Use Districts › 83 - Amendments, Alterations and Changes in District Lines.

§ 83. Amendments,  alterations  and changes in district lines.  1. The
common council may from time to time on its own motion or  on  petition,
after  public  notice  and  hearing,  which  hearing  may be held by the
council or by a committee of the council or by the planning board, amend
the regulations and districts established under any ordinance  or  local
law  adopted  pursuant  to  paragraphs  twenty-four  and  twenty-five of
section twenty of this chapter.  Wherever the owners of fifty per centum
or more of the frontage in any district or part thereof shall present  a
petition duly signed and acknowledged, to the common council, requesting
an amendment, supplement, change or repeal of the regulations prescribed
for  such  district or part thereof, it shall be the duty of the council
to vote upon said petition within ninety days after the  filing  of  the
same by the petitioners with the secretary of the council.
2.  An  amendment  shall  be effected by a simple majority vote of the
council, except that an amendment shall require the approval of at least
three-fourths of the members of the council in the event such  amendment
is the subject of a written protest, presented to the council and signed
by:
(a)  the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land included
in such proposed change; or
(b) the owners  of  twenty  percent  or  more  of  the  area  of  land
immediately  adjacent  to  that  land  included in such proposed change,
extending one hundred feet therefrom; or
(c) the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land  directly
opposite thereto, extending one hundred feet from the street frontage of
such opposite land.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 5-A - Buildings and Use Districts › 83-A - Exemption of Lots Shown on Approved Subdivision Plats.

§  83-a.  Exemption  of  lots shown on approved subdivision plats.  1.
Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this  chapter  or  of  any
general,  special  or local law, the provisions of a zoning ordinance or
local law hereafter adopted, or of a change or amendment thereto,  which
provisions:
(a)  establish  or  increase  lot areas or lot dimensions which are in
excess of the areas or dimensions of the lots shown and delineated on  a
residential  subdivision  plat  which  has  been  duly  approved  by the
planning board, or other board  or  officer  vested  with  authority  to
approve  subdivision  plats, if any, of the city in which the land shown
on said plat is situate and duly filed in the office  of  the  recording
officer  of  the county in which the land shown on said subdivision plat
is situate; or
(b) establish or increase  side,  rear  or  front  yard  or  set  back
requirements  in  excess of those applicable to lots under the provision
of the zoning ordinance or local law, if any, in force and effect at the
time of the filing of the said  duly  approved  residential  subdivision
plat or first section thereof;
shall  not,  for  the  period of time prescribed in subdivision two of
this section, be applicable to or in any way  affect  any  of  the  lots
shown and delineated on such subdivision plat.
2.  If  at  the  time  of  the filing of the subdivision plat or first
section thereof referred to in subdivision one of this section there was
in the city:
(a) both a zoning ordinance or local law and a planning  board  vested
with authority to approve subdivision plats, then the exemption provided
for in subdivision one of this section shall apply for a period of three
years after the filing of the approved subdivision plat or first section
thereof; or
(b)  a  zoning  ordinance or local law in effect in the city but there
was no planning board in said city  vested  with  authority  to  approve
subdivision plats, then the exemption provided for in subdivision one of
this  section  shall apply for a period of two years after the filing of
the approved subdivision plat or first section thereof; or
(c) no zoning ordinance or local law in  the  city  but  there  was  a
planning  board vested with authority to approve subdivision plats, then
the exemption provided for in subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall
apply  for  a  period  of  two  years  after  the filing of the approved
subdivision plat or first section thereof; or
(d) no zoning ordinance or local law in the city and no planning board
vested with authority to approve subdivision plats, then  the  exemption
provided for in subdivision one of this section shall apply for a period
of  one  year  after the filing of the subdivision plat or first section
thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 6 - Police Matrons › 90 - Police Station Houses for the Detention of Women; How Designated.

§ 90. Police   station   houses   for  the  detention  of  women;  how
  designated.   The  mayor  of  every  city  containing  a  population  of
  twenty-five  thousand  shall  and  the  mayor  of  every other city when
  authorized by a resolution of the common council may  designate  one  or
  more station houses within his city for the detention and confinement of
  all   women   under  arrest  in  such  city.  Such  mayor  or  board  of
  commissioners of police may at any time designate for such  purpose  any
  additional station house or houses, or may revoke the designation of any
  station  house  or houses theretofore designated, provided that at least
  one such station house shall at all times  be  so  designated  for  such
  purpose in each city.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 6 - Police Matrons › 93 - When Police Matrons to Reside at Station Houses.

§ 93. When  police matrons to reside at station houses.  When only one
  police matron is attached to a police station, she shall  reside  there,
  or  within  a  reasonable  distance therefrom, and shall hold herself in
  readiness to respond to any call therefrom at any hour  of  the  day  or
  night,  and  each matron shall, during such hours as may be fixed by the
  head of the police department, remain in such station and  hold  herself
  in  readiness  to respond to any call therefrom. So long as any woman is
  detained or held under arrest in a police  station  to  which  a  police
  matron  is  attached,  it  shall  be  the  duty of such matron to remain
  constantly thereat, ready for service; or if  there  be  more  than  one
  matron  attached  to  such station, then one of them shall be constantly
  ready for service.  A police matron shall, subject  to  the  officer  in
  charge  of such station house, have the immediate care and charge of all
  women held under arrest in the station to which she is attached, and she
  may at any time call upon the officer in  charge  of  such  station  for
  assistance.  She  shall  be  subject  to  the  authority of the board of
  police, or if there be no such board, then to the chief of police in the
  city where she may be appointed, and to the  rules  prescribed  by  such
  authority,  but  at  a  station  where  she  may be on duty she shall be
  subject only to the authority of the officer in charge thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 6 - Police Matrons › 94 - Women Under Arrest to Have Separate Accommodations.

§ 94. Women under arrest to have separate accommodations.  It shall be
  the  duty  of the boards of commissioners of police in every city, or if
  there be no board of police, then of the mayor of such city, to  provide
  sufficient  accommodations  for  women  held  under  arrest to keep them
  separate and apart from the cells, corridors and apartments provided for
  males under arrest, and  to  so  arrange  each  station  house  that  no
  communication  can  be  had  between the men and women therein confined,
  except with the consent of the matrons and officers in  charge  of  such
  station house.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 6 - Police Matrons › 95 - Proceeding in Case of Arrest of Women.

§ 95. Proceeding  in  case  of  arrest of women.   Whenever a woman is
  arrested and taken to a police station, to which a matron  is  attached,
  it  shall  be  the duty of the officer in charge of the station to cause
  such matron to be summoned forthwith, and whenever, in any city in which
  a police matron has been appointed, a woman is arrested and taken  to  a
  station  house  to  which no matron is attached, it shall be the duty of
  such officer to cause such woman to be removed as soon  as  possible  to
  the  nearest  station house within such city to which a police matron is
  attached. No such separate confinement nor any such removal of any woman
  shall operate to take from any court any jurisdiction it has.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 6 - Police Matrons › 96 - Woman Defined.

§ 96. Woman  defined.   The term "woman" as used in this article shall
  not include any female either  actually  or  apparently  under  the  age
  sixteen years, whose care is assumed by any incorporated society for the
  prevention  of  cruelty  to  children;  but every such female upon being
  taken to a station house shall be at once transferred therefrom  by  the
  officer in charge to the custody of such society.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 6 - Police Matrons › 97 - Appropriations Under Article, How Made.

§ 97. Appropriations  under  article,  how  made.    The  proper local
  authorities of each city in which a police  matron  has  been  appointed
  shall  appropriate  annually  such sum as may be needed for the separate
  care and confinement in station houses of any  women  arrested  in  such
  city,  and for the appointment, salary and maintenance of police matrons
  for the purposes of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 7 - Issuance and Validation of Bonds › 116 - Certificates of Deposit.

§ 116. Certificates  of  deposit.  The  legislative body of a city may
  authorize and empower its chief fiscal officer, in  his  discretion,  to
  issue  certificates  of  deposit, each in the sum of ten dollars, or any
  multiple thereof, and at such a rate of interest, if any,  as  he  shall
  prescribe  and  to  sell  the same for not less than their face value at
  private sale, in such manner and at such times as he deems best for  the
  public  interest so to do. The proceeds of such sales shall be used only
  for the purpose for which such certificates of deposit are  issued.  The
  certificates  so  sold  as  aforesaid  may  be  used only by the holders
  thereof for the payment of taxes and/or assessments levied by  the  city
  when  such taxes and/or assessments are or shall become due and payable,
  and such certificates shall be taken by the treasurer of such  city  for
  the  payment  of  such taxes and/or assessments at the par value thereof
  and any accrued interest thereon,  provided,  however,  that  each  such
  certificate  shall  cease  to  bear interest after the expiration of two
  years from the date thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 8 - Drug Control Authorities › 120 - Creation; Board; Employees.

§ 120. Creation;  board;  employees.  The  governing body of each city
  having a population of fifty thousand or more is  hereby  authorized  to
  create  a  city  drug control authority. Such authority shall consist of
  not less than five nor more than nine members who shall be appointed  by
  the  governing  body  of  the  city,  at  least  one  of whom shall be a
  physician licensed to  practice  medicine  in  this  state.  Any  person
  serving as a member of a city narcotic guidance council, community board
  narcotic guidance council in the city of New York, drug abuse commission
  or  mental  health  board  shall be eligible to serve as a member of the
  board of a city drug authority created pursuant to this  article.    The
  chairman  of  the board shall be designated by the governing body of the
  city from among the  members  so  appointed.  The  compensation  of  the
  members  shall  be  fixed  by  the governing body of the city within the
  amount available therefor by appropriation.  The board shall  appoint  a
  counsel,  an  administrative officer and such other officers, employees,
  agents and consultants as may be necessary, prescribe their duties,  fix
  their compensation and provide for payment of their expenses, all within
  amounts appropriated therefor by the city.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 8 - Drug Control Authorities › 121 - Powers of the Authority.

§ 121. Powers  of  the  authority.  The  authority, by and through its
  board, shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
1. To coordinate and assist in activities in the city relating to drug
  control;
2. To establish in-patient and out-patient  treatment  facilities  for
  persons  addicted  to the use of drugs and drug abusers. Such facilities
  shall include, but shall not be limited to:
a. detoxification centers and clinics for the out-patient treatment of
  drug abusers and addicts;
b. a treatment center where addicts may obtain professional counseling
  from physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and where possible, former
  drug abusers and addicts;
c. half-way houses to provide continuing treatment  for  drug  abusers
  and addicts.
3.  To  create  a  referral  program whereby drug abusers, addicts and
  persons and agencies concerned with their treatment will make use of the
  aforementioned treatment facilities;
4. To encourage and, when so  requested,  assist  cooperative  efforts
  among  state  and  city  agencies  in  developing  solutions to the drug
  problem;
5. To establish one or more treatment districts within the city  based
  on  geography and population density; and to employ a referral counselor
  in each treatment district;
6. To encourage and foster,  if  possible,  the  use  of  former  drug
  abusers and persons formerly addicted to drugs as staff personnel;
7. To develop preventative educational programs and in the city of New
  York,  to  assist  narcotic guidance councils of community boards in the
  development of such programs;
8. Outside the city of New York, to act  as  agent  for  the  city  in
  accepting any public or private funds which may be made available to the
  city to combat the problems of drug abuse;
9.  To  make  a  continuing evaluation of the preventative educational
  techniques and pharmacological and psychiatric treatment procedures used
  in the city;
10. To utilize former  drug  abusers  and  ex-addicts  in  educational
  counseling and make periodic evaluations of their effectiveness;
11. To establish youth centers to provide individual and group therapy
  and develop constructive work habits;
12.  To develop a program designed to educate and enlighten parents on
  detection, prevention and treatment of problems relating to drug use and
  in the city  of  New  York  to  assist  narcotic  guidance  councils  of
  community boards in the development of such programs.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 8 - Drug Control Authorities › 122 - Reports of the Authority.

§ 122. Reports  of  the  authority. The authority shall make an annual
  report to the governing body of the city. When it deems  advisable,  the
  authority  may  make  interim  reports to the governing body of the city
  with its recommendations, in order to afford the governing body  of  the
  city an opportunity to take immediate action thereon.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 8 - Drug Control Authorities › 123 - Acquisition of Real Property; Financing of Expenditures.

§ 123. Acquisition  of real property; financing of expenditures.  Real
  property required for any of the purposes  set  forth  in  this  article
  shall  be  acquired  by  the governing body of the city on behalf of the
  authority.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed  to  prevent  the
  financing, in whole or in part, pursuant to the local finance law of any
  expenditure made to carry out the purposes of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 9 - Contracts for Supply of Gas › 130 - Contracts With Corporations for Supply of Gas.

§ 130. Contracts  with  corporations  for supply of gas. The municipal
  officers authorized by law to contract in behalf  of  any  city  of  the
  first  class, for the lighting of its streets may, from time to time, in
  the manner, upon the terms and with the conditions hereinafter  provided
  contract  in  behalf  of  such city with any corporation or corporations
  then supplying gas therein for a supply of gas to  such  city,  for  and
  during  such  specified  period  not exceeding fifteen years as shall by
  such municipal officers be deemed to be for the best interests  of  such
  city and of the inhabitants thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 9 - Contracts for Supply of Gas › 131 - Letting of Contract to Be Public.

§ 131. Letting  of contract to be public. Every such contract shall be
  let at public letting as required by law, and as a consideration for the
  execution and performance  thereof,  shall  expressly  provide  for  and
  secure  to  such  city,  prices lower than any now prescribed therein by
  law, and a progressive reduction in such price for each year during  the
  continued  performance  of  such contract and also adequate assurance of
  the continuing mutual performance of  such  contract  according  to  the
  conditions  thereof,  with  proper  indemnity  to  either  party to such
  contract against  any  possible  violation,  impairment,  abrogation  or
  supersession thereof, within the term specified.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 9 - Contracts for Supply of Gas › 132 - Contract to Provide for Reduction of Price.

§ 132. Contract to provide for reduction of price. Every such contract
  shall  also  provide  and require that during the term therein specified
  the  corporation  party  thereto  may  and  shall  supply  gas  to   the
  inhabitants  of such city at prices lower than those now or then charged
  therein by such corporation party thereto and  progressively  lower  for
  each  year  of  such  term;  any company or corporation bidding for such
  contract shall specify such several prices and reductions of  price  for
  the  several  classes  and  terms  of  gas supply, and the same shall be
  considered in the award of any such contract to the  bidders  or  bidder
  therefor,  and  the  corporation  receiving  any  such contract shall be
  entitled to charge and collect the prices therein specified  during  the
  continuance  thereof.  Nothing  in this article contained is intended or
  shall be construed to affect or impair any existing  right  or  contract
  except with the consent of the parties to any such contract.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 10 - Hospitals for Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis › 140 - Establishment of Hospitals.

§ 140. Establishment  of  hospitals.  A  city of the first class shall
  have power whenever its board of health shall deem it necessary for  the
  promotion  of  the  health  of  its inhabitants, to establish, equip and
  maintain, outside of its corporate limits, and not within the limits  of
  any  other  city or any village, a hospital or hospitals for the regular
  treatment of the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 10 - Hospitals for Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis › 141 - Selection of Site.

§ 141. Selection  of site. Whenever a city having a population of more
  than three hundred thousand inhabitants shall  desire  to  exercise  the
  power  conferred  by  this article it shall through its board of health,
  select such locality outside of its corporate  limits,  but  within  the
  state,  and  not  within  the  corporate limits of any other city or any
  village, as it may consider best adapted by reason of climatic and other
  conditions for the treatment of such disease, and shall make application
  to the department of health for the approval of the  site  so  selected.
  Upon  such approval being given the city may acquire title to such lands
  as its board of health may designate, within the limits of the  locality
  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  state  department  of health. The
  provisions of law relating to the  acquiring  of  private  property  for
  public purposes are hereby made applicable as far as may be necessary to
  the acquiring of title to such lands.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 10 - Hospitals for Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis › 142 - Jurisdiction of Local Board of Health.

§ 142. Jurisdiction  of  local  board  of  health.  All  hospitals  or
  institutions now or hereafter established or maintained by any  city  of
  the  first  class  for  the  regular  or  special  treatment  of persons
  suffering from the disease known  as  pulmonary  tuberculosis  shall  be
  subject  to  the approval of the local board of health; special wards or
  pavilions for the  treatment  of  cases  of  pulmonary  tuberculosis  in
  existing  hospitals  shall  be  provided  with  separate nurses, cooking
  utensils, washing and plumbing facilities.
2023 New York Laws › GCT - General City › Article 11 - Protection of Purchasers of Coal › 161 - Bills of Lading; Penalty for Altering.

§ 161. Bills  of  lading;  penalty  for  altering.  A person guilty of
  altering with intent to defraud, any original bill of lading  issued  by
  the  person,  firm  or  corporation by whom the coal was loaded into the
  vessel in which such coal is transported to any city  of  the  first  or
  second  class,  in this state, or of uttering any such bill of lading so
  altered, or who  is  guilty  of  making,  preparing  or  subscribing  or
  uttering  a  false  or  fraudulent  manifest,  invoice or bill of lading
  thereof, or removing any part of such cargo of coal without  having  the
  amount  thereof certified to in writing on such original bill of lading,
  by the person, firm or corporation receiving the coal so removed, and by
  the captain of the  vessel  containing  such  cargo,  is  punishable  by
  imprisonment  in a state prison, not exceeding three years, or by a fine
  not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both, and  the  delivery  of  any
  fraudulent  bill of lading to any purchaser of coal shall be presumptive
  evidence of uttering the same with criminal intent.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 10 - Acknowledge and Acknowledgment.

§   10.  Acknowledge  and  acknowledgment.  The  terms  acknowledge  and
  acknowledgment,  when  used  with  reference  to  the  execution  of  an
  instrument  or  writing  other  than  a deed of real property, include a
  compliance with the provisions of the next section by either such  proof
  or acknowledgment.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 11 - Acknowledgment or Proof of Instrument.

§  11.  Acknowledgment or proof of instrument. When the execution of any
  instrument  or  writing  is  authorized  or  required  by  law   to   be
  acknowledged,  or  to  be  proven  so  as  to  entitle it to be filed or
  recorded in a public office, the acknowledgment  may  be  taken  or  the
  proof  made  before  any  officer  then and there authorized to take the
  acknowledgment or proof of the execution of a deed of real  property  to
  entitle  it to be recorded in a county clerk's office, and shall be made
  and certified in the same manner as such acknowledgment or proof of such
  deed.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 15 - Chattels.

§  15.    Chattels.  The term chattels includes goods and chattels; and,
  where the term appears in any statute or rule pertaining to an action to
  recover the same, it also includes all specific personal property,  such
  as,  but  not  limited to, certificates of stock, bonds, notes, or other
  securities or obligations.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 16-B - Condemnation.

§ 16-b. Condemnation.  The term "condemnation" when used in reference to
  the  acquiring  of  any  title  to,  right or interest in, real property
  through the exercise of the power of eminent domain, shall be deemed  to
  mean acquisition.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 20 - Day, Computation.

§  20. Day, computation. A number of days specified as a period from a
  certain day within which or after or before which an act  is  authorized
  or  required  to be done means such number of calendar days exclusive of
  the calendar day from which the reckoning is made. If such period  is  a
  period  of  two  days,  Saturday,  Sunday  or  a  public holiday must be
  excluded from the reckoning if it is an intervening day between the  day
  from  which  the  reckoning  is  made and the last day of the period. In
  computing any specified period of time from a specified event,  the  day
  upon  which the event happens is deemed the day from which the reckoning
  is made. The day from which any specified period  of  time  is  reckoned
  shall be excluded in making the reckoning.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 22 - Gender.

§  22.  Gender.  Whenever  words  of  the masculine or feminine gender
  appear in any law, rule, regulation, or resolution unless the  sense  of
  the  sentence  indicates  otherwise,  they  shall  be deemed to refer to
  persons  of  any  gender.  This  construction  shall  apply  to   gender
  indicative  suffixes  or prefixes as well as to gender indicative words.
  Whenever  the  reference  is  to  a  corporation,  board,  body,  group,
  organization  or  other  entity comprising more than one person or to an
  assemblage of persons or to an inanimate object the reference  shall  be
  construed  to  be  neutral  in  gender.  Hereafter,  in  any  law, rule,
  regulation,  or  resolution,  gendered  terms  shall  not  be  used  and
  gender-neutral  terms,  including  but not limited to "they", "them" and
  "theirs", shall be used in substitution therefor and with the same force
  and effect; provided, however, if any such  law,  rule,  regulation,  or
  resolution  is in reference to a specific person, the language referring
  to such person shall be gendered in accordance with the gender  identity
  of such person.
2023 New York Laws › GCN - General Construction › Article 2 - Meaning of Terms › 24 - Public Holidays; Half-Holidays.

§ 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
  the  following days in each year: the first day of January, known as New
  Year's day; the third Monday of January,  known  as  Dr.  Martin  Luther
  King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
  the  third  Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; the last
  Monday in May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in  June,  known
  as Flag day; the nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth; the fourth
  day  of  July, known as Independence day; the first Monday in September,
  known as Labor day; the second Monday in October, known as Columbus day;
  the eleventh day  of  November,  known  as  Veterans'  day;  the  fourth
  Thursday  in  November,  known as Thanksgiving day; and the twenty-fifth
  day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such days  except
  Flag  day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general election day,
  and each day appointed by the president of the United States or  by  the
  governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiving, general fasting
  and   prayer,   or   other   general  religious  observances.  The  term
  half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each  Saturday
  which is not a public holiday.