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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-AAA - Defined Benefit Service Award Program for Volunteer Ambulance Workers › 219-N - Benefits.

§  219-n.  Benefits.  1.  The  benefit  payable  under a service award
program shall be the actuarial equivalent of an annual payment for  life
in one of the following amounts as selected by the sponsor:
(a) sixty dollars per year of ambulance service;
(b) one hundred twenty dollars per year of ambulance service;
(c) one hundred eighty dollars per year of ambulance service;
(d) two hundred forty dollars per year of ambulance service; or
(e) three hundred sixty dollars per year of ambulance service.
2.  Service  awards  shall  be  paid in the form of a lump sum, a life
annuity with or without survivor benefits, a period certain annuity,  or
any  other  form provided under the program, provided, that all forms of
payment shall be actuarially equivalent to each other. The  program  may
limit   the  forms  of  payment  or  impose  conditions  concerning  the
availability of a form of payment.
3. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a  participant  shall
be  entitled  to  apply  for  and  receive a service award only when the
participant has acquired a nonforfeitable right to a service  award  and
has reached entitlement age.
4.  In  the  event  that a participant becomes totally and permanently
disabled, as certified by  the  workers'  compensation  board  or  other
competent  authority  approved  by the administrator, and the disability
prevents the participant from pursuing his or her normal occupation, the
participant shall be entitled to apply for and receive a service  award,
regardless of whether the participant has reached entitlement age or has
acquired a nonforfeitable right to a service award.
5.  In  the  event  of  the  death of a participant who has acquired a
nonforfeitable right to a service award, the beneficiaries designated by
the participant or, if no beneficiaries have  been  so  designated,  the
participant's  estate, shall be entitled to apply for and receive a lump
sum  death  benefit,  regardless  of  whether  the  participant  reached
entitlement  age  before  death. Such benefit shall be equal to the lump
sum equivalent of the service award earned by  the  participant  at  the
date  of  death,  provided  that  the  benefit provided pursuant to this
subdivision shall not be paid following commencement  of  payment  of  a
service award.
6.  A service award shall be paid only after an application is made to
the  program  administrator   and   the   administrator   approves   the
application.
7. No service award may be assigned or alienated except to provide for
the legally obligated support of minor children or a spouse.
8. Payment of a service award shall not impair any rights of volunteer
ambulance  workers under the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law or
any other law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-AAAA - Supplemental Service Awards for Volunteer Ambulance Workers and Firefighters › 219-Q - Definitions.

§  219-q. Definitions. 1. "Participant" means a participant as defined
in subdivision six of section two hundred nineteen-c  of  this  chapter,
subdivision  seven  of  section  two hundred fifteen of this chapter and
subdivision eight of section two hundred  nineteen-k  of  this  chapter.
Participant   also   includes   individuals   who  served  as  volunteer
firefighters or ambulance workers in  the  timeframe  specified  by  the
program sponsor, prior to the enactment of the service award program.
2.  "Supplemental  award"  means  the  benefit  payable  pursuant to a
supplemental award program.
3. "Supplemental award program" or "program" means a plan established,
adopted  and  maintained  under  this  article  to  provide  awards  for
volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers.
4. "Decade of service" means:
(a) ten calendar years during which a participant accumulates at least
fifty  points  in accordance with the service awards program established
pursuant to article eleven-A, eleven-AA or eleven-AAA of  this  chapter;
or
(b)  ten  calendar years for which the participant can demonstrate, to
the satisfaction of the sponsor, that he or she  substantially  met  the
standards for active service during those ten years.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-A - City and Village Planning Commissions. › 234 - Creation, Appointment and Qualifications.

§  234.  Creation,  appointment  and  qualifications.  Each  city  and
  incorporated village is hereby authorized  and  empowered  to  create  a
  commission  to be known as the city or village planning commission. Such
  commission shall be so created in incorporated villages by resolution of
  the trustees, in cities by ordinance of the common council, except  that
  in cities of the first class, having more than a million inhabitants, it
  shall  be  by  resolution  of the board of estimate and apportionment or
  other similar local  authority.  In  cities  of  the  first  class  such
  commission  shall  consist  of  not  more  than eleven, in cities of the
  second class of not more than nine, in cities of  the  third  class  and
  incorporated  villages of not more than seven members. Such ordinance or
  resolution shall specify the public officer or body of said municipality
  that shall appoint  such  commissioners,  and  shall  provide  that  the
  appointment  of  as  nearly as possible one-third of them shall be for a
  term of one year; one-third for a term of two years, and one-third for a
  term of three years; and that at the expiration of such terms, the terms
  of office of their successors shall be three years; so that the term  of
  office  of one-third of such commissioners, as nearly as possible, shall
  expire each year. All appointments to fill vacancies shall  be  for  the
  unexpired  term.  Not  more  than  one-third  of  the  members  of  said
  commission shall hold any other public office in said city  or  village.
  In  a  county containing a population of over three hundred thousand one
  of the members of any such commission may reside outside of such village
  or city as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-A - City and Village Planning Commissions. › 235 - Officers, Expenses and Assistance.

§  235.  Officers, expenses and assistance. The commission shall elect
  annually, a chairman from its own members. It shall have the  power  and
  authority  to  employ  experts,  clerks, and a secretary, and to pay for
  their services and such other expenses as may be necessary  and  proper,
  not exceeding, in all, the annual appropriation that may be made by said
  city  or  village  for said commission. The body creating the commission
  shall by ordinance or resolution provide what compensation if any,  each
  of   such   commissioners   shall  receive  for  his  services  as  such
  commissioner.  Each city and incorporated village is  hereby  authorized
  and  empowered  to  make  such  appropriation as it may see fit for such
  expenses and compensation, such  appropriations  to  be  made  by  those
  officers  or  bodies  in  such  city  or  village  having  charge of the
  appropriation of the public funds.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-A - City and Village Planning Commissions. › 236 - General Powers.

§ 236. General powers. The body creating such planning commission may,
  at  any  time, by ordinance or local law or resolution, provide that the
  following matters, or any one or more of them,  shall  be  referred  for
  report   thereon,   to   such   commission  by  the  board,  commission,
  commissioner or other public officer or officers of said city or village
  which is the final authority thereon before final action thereon by such
  authority: the adoption of any map or plan of said city or  incorporated
  village,  or  part thereof, including drainage and sewer or water system
  plans or maps, and plans or maps for any public water front, or marginal
  street, or public structure upon, in or in connection with such front or
  street, or for any dredging, filling or fixing of lines with relation to
  said front; any change of any such maps or plans; the  location  of  any
  public  structure  upon,  in or in connection with, or fixing lines with
  relation to said front; the location of  any  public  building,  bridge,
  statue  or  monument,  highway,  park,  parkway,  square,  playground or
  recreation ground, or public open place of  said  city  or  village.  In
  default  of  any  such  ordinance,  local  law or resolution all of said
  matters shall be so referred to said planning commission.
The body creating such  planning  commission  may,  at  any  time,  by
  ordinance,  local  law  or  resolution,  fix  the time within which such
  planning commission shall report upon any matter or class of matters  to
  be referred to it, with or without the further provision that in default
  of  report  within  the  time  so  fixed,  the planning commission shall
  forfeit the right further to suspend action, as aforesaid with regard to
  the particular matter upon which it has so defaulted. In default of  any
  such  ordinance,  local law or resolution, no such action shall be taken
  until such report is so received, and no  adoption,  change,  fixing  or
  location  as  aforesaid by said final authority, prior thereto, shall be
  valid. No ordinance, local law or resolution shall deprive said planning
  commission of its right or relieve it of its duty, to  report,  at  such
  time as it deems proper upon any matter at any time referred to it.
This section shall not be construed as intended to limit or impair the
  power  of  any  art  commission, park commission or commissioner, now or
  hereafter existing by virtue of any provision of law, to refuse  consent
  to  the acceptance by any municipality of the gift of any work of art to
  said municipality, without reference of the matter,  by  reason  of  its
  proposed  location  or otherwise, to said planning commission. Nor shall
  this section be construed as intended to limit or impair any other power
  of any such art commission or affect the same, except in so  far  as  it
  provides  for  reference  or report, or both, on any matter before final
  action thereon by said art commission.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-A - City and Village Planning Commissions. › 237 - Maps and Recommendations.

§ 237. Maps and recommendations. Such planning commission may cause to
  be made a map or maps of said city or village or any portion thereof, or
  of  any  land  outside  the limits of said city or village so near or so
  related thereto that in the  opinion  of  said  planning  commission  it
  should  be  so mapped.   Such plans may show not only such matters as by
  law have been or may be referred to the planning  commission,  but  also
  any and all matters and things with relation to the plan of said city or
  village  which  to  said  planning commission seem necessary and proper,
  including recommendations and changes suggested by it; and any report at
  any time made, may include any of the above.  Such  planning  commission
  may  obtain expert assistance in the making of any such maps or reports,
  or in the investigations necessary and proper with relation thereto.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-A - City and Village Planning Commissions. › 238 - Private Streets.

§ 238. Private streets. The body creating such planning commission may
  at  any  time,  by ordinance or resolution provide that no plan, plot or
  description, showing the layout of any highway or  street  upon  private
  property,  or of building lots in connection with or in relation to such
  highway or street shall, within the limits of any municipality having  a
  planning  commission, as aforesaid, be received for record in the office
  of the clerk of the county where such real property is situated, until a
  copy of said  plan,  plot  or  description  has  been  filed  with  said
  commission  and  it  has  certified, with relation thereto, its approval
  thereof. Such certificate shall be recorded as a part of the  record  of
  said  original instrument containing said plan, plot, or description. No
  such street or highway which  has  not  received  the  approval  of  the
  planning  commission shall be accepted by said city or village until the
  matter has been referred to  such  commission  under  the  provision  of
  section  two  hundred  and  thirty-six  of this article. But if any such
  street is plotted or laid  out  in  accordance  with  the  map  of  said
  municipality,  adopted  according to law, then it shall not be necessary
  to file such copy, or obtain or record such certificate.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-A - City and Village Planning Commissions. › 239-A - Construction of Article.

§  239-a.  Construction of article. This article shall be construed as
  the grant of additional power and authority to cities  and  incorporated
  villages,  and  not as intended to limit or impair any existing power or
  authority of any city or village.
Any city or incorporated  village  in  order  to  appoint  a  planning
  commission  under  this  article  shall  recite,  in  the  ordinance  or
  resolution so creating the commission, the fact that it is created under
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-B - County Planning Boards and Regional Planning Councils › 239-B - Definitions.

§  239-b.  Definitions.  As  used in this article and unless otherwise
  provided:
1. "Municipal legislative body" means the town board of  a  town,  the
  board  of  trustees of a village; the board of aldermen, common council,
  council or commission of a city; and other elective governing  board  or
  body now or hereafter vested by state statute, charter or other law with
  jurisdiction to initiate and adopt local laws or ordinances.
2.  "County  legislative  body"  means  the  board of supervisors of a
  county, the county legislature, the county board of representatives,  or
  other body vested by its charter or other law with jurisdiction to enact
  local laws or resolutions.
3.  "Municipality"  means  a  city, village, or that portion of a town
  located outside the limits of any city or village.
4. "County planning board" means a county planning  board  established
  pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-c of this article.
5.  "Special board" means a board consisting of one or more members of
  the county planning board and such other members as are appointed by the
  county legislative body to prepare a proposed county comprehensive  plan
  or an amendment thereto.
6.  "County  comprehensive  plan"  means the materials, written and/or
  graphic,  including  but  not  limited   to   maps,   charts,   studies,
  resolutions,  reports  and  other descriptive material that identify the
  goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards,  devices
  and   instruments   for   the   immediate   and  long-range  protection,
  enhancement, growth and development of the county, as  may  be  prepared
  pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-d of this article.
7.  "Region"  means  an  area  which  encompasses  a regional planning
  council.
8. "Regional planning council" means a council established pursuant to
  section two hundred thirty-nine-h of this article.
9. "Regional comprehensive plan" means the materials,  written  and/or
  graphic,   including   but   not   limited  to  maps,  charts,  studies,
  resolutions, reports and other descriptive material  that  identify  the
  goals,  objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards, devices
  and  instruments  for   the   immediate   and   long-range   protection,
  enhancement,  growth  and  development of the region, as may be prepared
  pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-i of this article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-B - County Planning Boards and Regional Planning Councils › 239-G - Planning Associations or Federations.

§  239-g.  Planning associations or federations. 1.  Establishment. In
  any county or counties, the municipalities  may  form  a  federation  or
  association  to  promote community or inter-community planning within or
  by such municipalities, to provide for the collection  and  distribution
  of  information  on planning, subdivision and zoning matters and kindred
  subjects and to cooperate with appropriate state and county  authorities
  in  matters  affecting the county comprehensive plan and county official
  map.
2. Appropriation, expenses. A municipal legislative body or  a  county
  legislative body, is hereby authorized to include annually in the budget
  and  raise  by taxation in such municipality or county a sum to meet the
  actual  and  necessary  expenses  of   establishing,   maintaining   and
  continuing  such  association  or  federation. Such expenses may include
  activities in this state for the purpose of devising practical ways  and
  means for obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the design, layout
  and  development  of  a municipality or county; for promoting the public
  health, safety and general welfare by means of local and inter-community
  planning, subdivision and zoning activities;  or  for  establishing  and
  maintaining information services for the benefit of its members.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-B - County Planning Boards and Regional Planning Councils › 239-L - Coordination of Certain Municipal Zoning and Planning Actions; Legislative Intent and Policy.

§  239-l.  Coordination  of  certain  municipal  zoning  and  planning
actions; legislative intent and policy. 1. Definitions. For the purposes
of this section and sections two hundred thirty-nine-m and  two  hundred
thirty-nine-n of this article, the following terms shall apply:
(a) "County planning agency" means a county planning board, commission
or  other  agency  authorized  by  the county legislative body to review
proposed  actions  referenced   for   inter-community   or   county-wide
considerations  subject  to the provisions of this section, and sections
two hundred thirty-nine-m and two hundred thirty-nine-n of this article.
(b) "Regional planning council" means a  regional  planning  board  or
agency established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
2.  Intent.  The  purposes  of  this  section,  sections  two  hundred
thirty-nine-m and two hundred thirty-nine-n of this article shall be  to
bring  pertinent  inter-community and county-wide planning, zoning, site
plan and subdivision considerations  to  the  attention  of  neighboring
municipalities and agencies having jurisdiction. Such review may include
inter-community   and  county-wide  considerations  in  respect  to  the
following:
(a) compatibility of various land uses with one another;
(b)  traffic  generating  characteristics  of  various  land  uses  in
relation  to  the  effect  of such traffic on other land uses and to the
adequacy of existing and proposed thoroughfare facilities;
(c) impact of proposed land uses on existing and  proposed  county  or
state institutional or other uses;
(d)  protection  of  community  character  as regards predominant land
uses, population density,  and  the  relation  between  residential  and
nonresidential areas;
(e) drainage;
(f) community facilities;
(g)  official  municipal  and  county  development policies, as may be
expressed through comprehensive plans, capital  programs  or  regulatory
measures; and
(h)  such  other  matters  as may relate to the public convenience, to
governmental efficiency, and to  the  achieving  and  maintaining  of  a
satisfactory community environment.
3.   Review   considerations.   In   no   way   shall  the  review  of
inter-community  and  county-wide   considerations   pursuant   to   the
provisions  of  this  section,  or  pursuant  to  sections  two  hundred
thirty-nine-m and two hundred thirty-nine-n of this article, preclude  a
county  planning  agency  or  a  regional  planning  council from making
informal comments, or supplying such  technical  assistance  as  may  be
requested by a municipality.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-B - County Planning Boards and Regional Planning Councils › 239-NN - Rights and Duties of Neighboring Municipalities in Planning and Zoning Matters.

§  239-nn. Rights and duties of neighboring municipalities in planning
and zoning matters. 1. Legislative intent and purpose. It is the  intent
and  purpose  of  this section to encourage the coordination of land use
development and regulation among adjacent municipalities in  order  that
each  adjacent  municipality  may  recognize the goals and objectives of
neighboring municipalities, and as a  result  development  occurs  in  a
manner  which  is  supportive of the goals and objectives of the general
area.
2. Definitions. For the purpose of this section:
(a)  "Municipality"  shall  mean  a  city,  except  a  city  having  a
population in excess of one million, a town or a village.
(b)  "Adjacent municipality" shall mean a city, except a city having a
population in excess of one million, town or village which has a portion
of its boundary that is contiguous with another municipality.
3. The legislative body or other authorized body  having  jurisdiction
in  a  municipality shall give notice to an adjacent municipality when a
hearing is held by such body relating to:
(a) the issuance of a proposed special use permit or the granting of a
use variance on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent
municipality;
(b) site plan review and approval on  property  that  is  within  five
hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; or
(c)  a subdivision review and approval on property that is within five
hundred feet of an adjacent municipality.
4. Such notice shall be given by mail or  electronic  transmission  to
the  clerk  of  the adjacent municipality at least ten days prior to any
such hearing.
5. Such adjacent municipality may appear and be heard.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-D - Commissions on Human Rights › 239-O - Creation, Appointment and Terms.

§  239-o.  Creation, appointment and terms. The governing board of any
  county, city, village or town may by resolution create a  commission  on
  human  rights. The governing board shall determine the number of members
  of such commission, the terms of the members, the manner of  appointment
  of  the  members,  the  selection of a chairman and the compensation, if
  any, to be paid to them. In selecting the membership of the  commission,
  the  governing  board  shall  take  into consideration the various ages,
  races,  creed,  color,  national  origin,  sexual  orientation,   gender
  identity  or  expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing
  genetic  characteristics,  familial  status,  marital  status,  domestic
  violence  victim  status  and  political  groups  in  the community. The
  establishment of such a commission at  one  level  of  local  government
  shall not preclude establishment of such a commission at other levels of
  local government.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-D - Commissions on Human Rights › 239-P - Officers and Employees; Expenses.

§  239-p.  Officers and employees; expenses. The commission shall have
  the power and authority to employ an executive director, a secretary and
  such attorneys, experts and other employees as may be necessary,  within
  the  amount  made  available  by the local governing board. Each county,
  city, village and town is hereby authorized and empowered to  make  such
  appropriation  for such expenses and for the compensation, if any, to be
  paid to the members of the commission.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-D - Commissions on Human Rights › 239-Q - General Duties and Powers.

§  239-q.  General  duties  and powers. 1. It shall be the duty of the
commission:
(a) To foster mutual respect and understanding among all ages,  races,
creed,  color,  national  origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression,  military  status,  sex,  disability,  predisposing  genetic
characteristics,  familial  status, marital status and domestic violence
victim status groups in the community.
(b) To make such studies in any field of  human  relationship  in  the
community  as in the judgment of the commission will aid in effectuating
its general purposes and where desirable, to make the  results  of  such
studies public.
(c) To inquire into incidents of tension and conflict among or between
various  racial,  religious  and  nationality  groups,  and to take such
action as may be designed to alleviate such tensions and conflict.
(d) To conduct and recommend such  educational  programs  as,  in  the
judgment  of the commission, will increase goodwill among inhabitants of
the community and open new opportunities into all  phases  of  community
life for all inhabitants.
2.  In  addition to all other powers, the commission, where and to the
extent authorized by local law or ordinance, shall have the power:
a. To report complaints to  the  division  of  human  rights  alleging
unlawful discriminatory practices under article fifteen of the executive
law.
b.  To  receive,  accept  and use and expend public grants and private
gifts, donations or bequests and other  payments,  goods  and  services,
notwithstanding any other provision of law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-D - Commissions on Human Rights › 239-R - General Obligations.

§  239-r.  General  obligations.  A commission on human rights created
under the provisions  of  section  two  hundred  thirty-nine-o  of  this
article  shall  discharge  the  following  obligations.  (a)  To receive
complaints of alleged discrimination because  of  an  individual's  age,
race,  creed,  color  or  national  origin,  sexual  orientation, gender
identity  or  expression,  military   status,   marital   status,   sex,
disability,   predisposing  genetic  characteristics,  familial  status,
marital status or domestic violence victim status, to  seek  the  active
assistance of the division of human rights in the solution of complaints
which  fall  within  the jurisdiction of the division and to prepare its
own plans in the case of other complaints with a view  to  reducing  and
eliminating   such   alleged   discrimination  through  the  process  of
conference, conciliation and persuasion.
(b) To hold conferences, and other public meetings in the interest  of
the constructive resolution of age, race, creed, color, national origin,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex,
disability,   predisposing  genetic  characteristics,  familial  status,
marital status and domestic violence victim status  group  tensions  and
the prejudice and discrimination occasioned thereby.
(c)  To issue such publications and reports of investigation as in its
judgment will tend to effectuate the purposes of this article.
(d) To enlist the cooperation and participation of the various racial,
religious and nationality groups, community organizations, industry  and
labor   organizations   media   or  mass  communication,  fraternal  and
benevolent associations, and other groups  in  an  educational  campaign
devoted  to  fostering  among the diverse groups of the community mutual
esteem, justice and equity and opening new opportunities into all phases
of community life for all individuals.
(e) To encourage and stimulate agencies under the jurisdiction of  the
governing board which created the commission to take such action as will
fulfill the purposes of this article.
(f) To submit an annual report to the governing board or boards and to
furnish a copy thereof to the division of human rights.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-D - Commissions on Human Rights › 239-S - New York City Commission on Human Rights.

§  239-s.  New  York  city commission on human rights. Nothing in this
  article shall be deemed to limit or reduce the powers of  the  New  York
  city  commission  on  human rights, and with respect to such powers, the
  jurisdiction of the New York city commission on human rights in relation
  to matters within the city of New York shall be deemed to be  concurrent
  with the jurisdiction of the New York state division of human rights.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-D - Commissions on Human Rights › 239-T - Filing Copies.

§  239-t. Filing copies. One copy each of any resolution, ordinance or
  local law which has been, or which may hereafter be adopted, creating  a
  commission  on  human  rights,  or  any  amendment thereto, shall, on or
  before September first, nineteen hundred  sixty-seven,  or  within  five
  days after its adoption, be filed with the division of human rights.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 12-G - Landlord-Tenant Relations Council › 239-Z - Creation of Landlord-Tenant Relations Council.

§  239-z.  Creation of landlord-tenant relations council. 1. The local
legislative body of any city, town or village may by resolution create a
landlord-tenant relations council hereinafter  called  the  council,  to
advise,  counsel, mediate problems and disputes and to improve relations
between landlords and tenants.  Such council shall direct itself  toward
accomplishing the following:
(a) conduct research into community housing problems;
(b) formulate programs to improve landlord-tenant relations;
(c)   accumulate   statistical   information   on   available  housing
accommodations;
(d) counsel the local legislative body on landlord-tenant problems and
disputes and recommend programs for the solution of same;
(e) resolve  problems  and  disputes  between  landlords  and  tenants
through mediation and discussion at meetings of the counsel.
2.  Such council shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed
by the local legislative body for a term not exceeding two years and who
shall be unsalaried.   Three of such members  shall  represent  landlord
interests,  three shall represent tenant interests and the seventh shall
be an impartial appointee.
3.  The  presiding  officer  or  chairman  of  the  council  shall  be
designated  by  the  local  legislative  body  from among the members so
appointed to the  council.    The  local  legislative  body  shall  have
authority  to  remove any member of said council so appointed for cause,
after a public hearing, if requested.  A vacancy shall be filled for the
unexpired term in the same manner as an original appointment.  The local
legislative body is authorized to make such appropriations as it may see
fit for such expenses incurred by the council. Such council may  appoint
such clerks and other employees as it may from time to time require with
the  approval of the local legislative body. The expenses of the council
shall not exceed the appropriation that may  be  made  therefor  by  the
local legislative body.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 240 - Application of Article.

§  240.  Application of article. This article shall apply to cities of
  the second and third class, to any county outside of  the  city  of  New
  York,  and  to  towns  and villages. The term "municipality," as used in
  this article, includes only a city of the second and  third  class,  any
  county  outside  the city of New York, a village, town or that part of a
  town not included within the boundaries of a village.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 241 - Dedication or Acquisition of Land or Buildings for Playgrounds or Neighborhood Recreation Centers.

§  241. Dedication or acquisition of land or buildings for playgrounds
  or  neighborhood  recreation  centers.  The  board   of   estimate   and
  apportionment  of  a  city,  or  if  there  be no such board, the common
  council, board of aldermen or corresponding  legislative  body,  or  the
  governing  board  of any county outside of the city of New York, or of a
  town or village, may designate and set apart for use as  playgrounds  or
  neighborhood  recreation  centers  any  land  or  building owned by such
  municipality and not dedicated or devoted to another inconsistent public
  use;  or  such  municipality  may,  with  the  approval  of  such  local
  authorities  and  in such manner as may be authorized or provided by law
  for the acquisition of land for public purposes  in  such  municipality,
  acquire  lands  in  such  municipality  for  playgrounds or neighborhood
  recreation centers, or if there be no law authorizing such  acquisition,
  the  board of estimate and apportionment of such city, or if there be no
  such board, the common  council,  board  of  aldermen  or  corresponding
  legislative  body,  or  the  governing board of any such county, town or
  village, may acquire land for such purpose by gift, private purchase  or
  by  condemnation,  or  may lease lands or buildings in such municipality
  for temporary use for such purpose.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 242 - Administration, Equipment and Operation.

§  242.  Administration,  equipment  and  operation.  The authority to
  establish and maintain playgrounds and neighborhood  recreation  centers
  may  be  vested  in  the  park  board  or  other  existing  body or in a
  recreation commission as the board of estimate and apportionment, common
  council, board of aldermen or corresponding  legislative  body,  or  the
  governing  board  of  any such county, town or village, shall determine.
  The local authorities of any  such  municipality  designated  to  equip,
  operate  and maintain playgrounds and neighborhood recreation centers as
  authorized by this article, may equip such  playgrounds  and  recreation
  centers,  and  the  buildings  thereon,  and may construct, maintain and
  operate in connection therewith public baths and  swimming  pools.  Such
  local  authorities  may,  for the purposes of carrying out the object of
  such playgrounds or recreation centers, employ play leaders,  playground
  directors,  supervisors,  recreation  secretary,  superintendent or such
  other officers or employees as they deem proper.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 244 - Organization of Commission.

§  244.  Organization  of  commission.  The  members  of  a recreation
  commission established pursuant to this article shall elect  from  their
  own  number  a  chairman  and  secretary and other necessary officers to
  serve for one year, and may employ such persons as  may  be  needed,  as
  authorized  by  this  act  and  pursuant  to  law.    Such  a recreation
  commission shall have power to adopt rules of procedure for the  conduct
  of all business within its jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 244-A - Acceptance of Donations.

§  244-a.  Acceptance  of  donations. A recreation commission or other
  authority in which is vested the power to equip,  operate  and  maintain
  playgrounds and neighborhood recreation centers pursuant to this article
  may  accept any grant or devise of real estate or any gift or bequest of
  money or other personal property or any donation to be applied principal
  or income for either  temporary  or  permanent  use  for  playground  or
  recreation  purposes,  but  if  the  use  thereof  for such purpose will
  subject the municipality to  expense  for  improvement,  maintenance  or
  renewal, the use of any grant or devise of real estate shall be approved
  by  the  board  or body establishing such recreation commission or other
  authority. Money received for such purpose, unless otherwise provided by
  the terms of the gift or bequest, shall be deposited with the  treasurer
  of the municipality to the account of the recreation commission or other
  such  authority,  and the same may be withdrawn and paid out in the same
  manner as money appropriated for recreation purposes.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 244-B - Joint Playgrounds or Neighborhood Recreation Centers.

§  244-b.  Joint  playgrounds or neighborhood recreation centers.  Any
  two or more such municipalities may jointly  acquire  property  for  and
  operate  and maintain playgrounds or neighborhood recreation centers and
  may make and perform agreements in connection  therewith.    Any  school
  district  shall  have  the  power  to join with any such municipality in
  equipping,  operating  and  maintaining  playgrounds  and   neighborhood
  recreation  centers,  may  appropriate  money  therefor and may make and
  perform agreements in  connection  therewith.  Such  agreements  between
  municipalities  or  a  school  district and a municipality shall include
  provisions for the proportionate cost to be borne by  each  municipality
  or  school  district  and  the manner of employment of personnel and may
  provide that a fiscal officer of one  such  municipality  shall  be  the
  custodian of the moneys made available for expenditure for such purposes
  and  that  such fiscal officer may make payments therefrom upon audit of
  the appropriate auditing body or officer of his municipality.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 245 - Expenses Incurred Under Article.

§  245.  Expenses  incurred under article. All expenses incurred under
  this  article  coming  within  the  annual  appropriation  therefor  (as
  provided  in section two hundred and forty-six of this article) shall be
  a charge against the municipality incurring the same, payable  from  the
  current  funds  of  such  municipality;  but  the  local authorities may
  provide for the acquisition of lands or  buildings  for  playgrounds  or
  neighborhod  recreation  centers payable from the current funds or to be
  financed, in whole or in part, pursuant to the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13 - Playgrounds and Neighborhood Recreation Centers. › 247 - Acquisition of Open Spaces and Areas.

§  247. Acquisition of open spaces and areas. 1. Definitions.  For the
  purposes of this chapter an "open space" or "open area" is any space  or
  area  characterized  by (1) natural scenic beauty or, (2) whose existing
  openness, natural condition, or present state of use, if retained, would
  enhance the present or potential value of abutting or surrounding  urban
  development, or would maintain or enhance the conservation of natural or
  scenic  resources.  For purposes of this section natural resources shall
  include but not be limited to agricultural lands defined as  open  lands
  actually used in bona fide agricultural production.
2.  The  acquisition  of  interests or rights in real property for the
  preservation of open spaces and areas shall constitute a public  purpose
  for  which  public  funds  may  be expended or advanced, and any county,
  city, town or village after due notice and a public hearing may acquire,
  by purchase, gift, grant, bequest, devise, lease or otherwise,  the  fee
  or  any lesser interest, development right, easement, covenant, or other
  contractual right necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter,  to
  land within such municipality. In the case of a village the cost of such
  acquisition of interests or rights may be incurred wholly at the expense
  of  the  village,  at  the  expense of the owners of the lands benefited
  thereby, or partly at the expense of  such  owners  and  partly  at  the
  expense  of  the  village  at large as a local improvement in the manner
  provided by  article  twenty-two  in  the  village  law  entitled  local
  improvements.
3.  After  acquisition  of  any such interest pursuant to this act the
  valuation placed on such an open space or  area  for  purposes  of  real
  estate taxation shall take into account and be limited by the limitation
  on future use of the land.
4.  For  purposes  of  this section, any interest acquired pursuant to
  this section is hereby enforceable by and against the  original  parties
  and  the  successors  in  interest,  heirs  and  assigns of the original
  parties, provided that a record of such  acquisition  is  filed  in  the
  manner  provided  by section two hundred ninety-one of the real property
  law. Such enforceability shall not be defeated because of any subsequent
  adverse possession, laches, estoppel, waiver, change in character of the
  surrounding neighborhood or any rule of common law. No  general  law  of
  the  state  which  operates to defeat the enforcement of any interest in
  real property shall operate to defeat the enforcement of any acquisition
  pursuant to this section, unless such general law expressly  states  the
  intent  to  defeat  the  enforcement of any acquisition pursuant to this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13-A - Lost and Found Property › 250 - Lost and Found Property.

§  250.  Lost  and  found  property. The governing boards of municipal
corporations  may  by  resolution  enact  rules  and   regulations   for
administering the provisions of article seven-b of the personal property
law and may provide the following:
(a)  the designation of a public officer to accept and keep custody of
found property and found instruments;
(b) procedures for determining the value and for  estimating  the  net
sum  likely to be realized by sale at public auction of lost property as
defined in article seven-b of the personal property law;
(c) a procedure for the disposition of derelict automobiles and  other
property having no value or salvage value only;
(d)  longer  or  shorter periods of time for the report and deposit of
found property and instruments by specified classes  of  persons  having
possession  thereof or for either such report or such deposit, provided,
however, that such rules and regulations so enacted by a county or  town
shall  not  supersede  rules  and  regulations  with respect to time for
report and deposit, or for either report or deposit, so enacted  by  any
municipal corporation within its limits, except to such extent as may be
provided  by  an  agreement pursuant to section two hundred fifty-one of
this chapter;
(e) provisions for notices,  reports,  storage,  and  sales  of  found
property  not inconsistent with the provisions of article seven-b of the
personal property law;
(f) the payment of proceeds from the sale of lost property as  defined
in article seven-b of the personal property law into a public fund other
than the treasury of the municipal corporation.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13-B - Picnic Parks And/or Roadside Rest Areas › 275 - Picnic Parks And/or Roadside Rest Areas.

§  275. Picnic parks and/or roadside rest areas. The governing body of
  any county, city, town or village is hereby authorized and empowered  to
  authorize  and  direct  such  of  its  officers  or agencies as it shall
  designate to enter into agreements  with  the  state  superintendent  of
  public  works  for the maintenance of a picnic park and/or roadside rest
  area as  authorized  by  section  twenty  of  the  highway  law  and  to
  appropriate  and  spend  moneys of the county, city, town or village for
  that purpose.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13-BB - Adopt-a-Municipal Park, Shoreline or Roadway Programs › 277 - Adopt-a-Municipal Park, Shoreline or Roadway Programs.

§  277.  Adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or roadway programs. 1. The
  governing body of any county, city, town or village is hereby authorized
  and empowered to authorize and direct such of its officers  or  agencies
  as  it  shall designate to enter into adopt-a-park, shoreline or roadway
  program agreements with volunteers or groups in an effort to reduce  and
  remove  litter  from parks, shorelines, roadways and other public lands.
  Such agreements shall include but not be limited to:
a. providing and coordinating services  by  volunteers  or  groups  to
  reduce the amount of litter including providing trash bags and trash bag
  pick  up  and  in  designated  areas  where  volunteers  may be in close
  proximity to moving vehicles providing safety briefings  and  reflective
  safety gear; and
b.  providing  and  installing  signs  identifying those volunteers or
  groups adopting particular parks, shorelines, roadways or other sections
  of public land.
2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  county,
  city,  town or village and its employees shall not be liable for damages
  suffered by any persons resulting from the actions or activities of such
  volunteers or groups.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 13-C - Establishment or Extension of Residential or Recreational Areas in the Lake George Park › 282 - Entry, Publication, Posting and Effective Date of Ordinance; Review by Proceeding Under Article Seventy-Eight of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.

§  282.  Entry,  publication, posting and effective date of ordinance;
  review by proceeding under article seventy-eight of the  civil  practice
  law  and rules.   1. Every ordinance or local law and every amendment to
  an existing ordinance or  local  law  (including  any  map  incorporated
  therein)  adopted  pursuant  to  the provisions of this article shall be
  entered in the minutes of the board and a copy thereof (exclusive of the
  map incorporated therein) shall  be  published  at  least  once  in  the
  official  newspaper  and  a copy thereof together with a copy of any map
  incorporated therein shall be posted conspicuously in the office of  the
  village clerk or on the sign board maintained by the town clerk pursuant
  to  subdivision  six  of section thirty of the town law, as the case may
  be, and affidavits of the publication and posting thereof shall be filed
  with the clerk. Such ordinance or local law shall take effect  ten  days
  after  such  publication  and  posting;  but such ordinance or local law
  shall take effect from the date of its service as against any person  or
  corporation  served  personally  with  a  copy thereof, certified by the
  clerk under the corporate seal of the village or town, as the  case  may
  be,  and showing the date of its passage and entry in the minutes of the
  board.
2. When such ordinance or local law has been  entered,  published  and
  posted  as  provided in subdivision one of this section, the adoption of
  such ordinance or  local  law  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  of  the
  regularity  of all proceedings for the establishment of such area or the
  extension of an existing area and of all  other  actions  taken  by  the
  board in relation thereto.
3.  Any person or corporation aggrieved by any determination or action
  of the board taken pursuant to the provisions of this article may review
  the same by a  proceeding  under  article  seventy-eight  of  the  civil
  practice  law  and rules provided that the application for such order of
  review is made within four months from the first date of the publication
  and posting of copies of such ordinance as provided in  subdivision  one
  of  this  section.  All  determinations  and  actions of the board taken
  pursuant  to  this  article  shall  be  final  and   conclusive   unless
  application  has  been  made for such review within four months from the
  date of such publication and posting.