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2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 4 - Common Council › 44 - Penalties.

§ 44. Penalties.  Any member of the common council who shall knowingly
  or unlawfully disregard any provision of law applicable to  the  members
  thereof,  or who shall vote for any ordinance or measure in violation of
  the law, or any appropriation unauthorized by law or in  excess  of  the
  amount authorized by law, or for any illegal or injurious disposition of
  corporate   property   rights  or  privileges,  shall  be  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor  and  liable  to  the  punishment  and  penalty   prescribed
  therefor, and every member voting in favor thereof shall be individually
  liable to refund the amount to the city at the suit of any taxpayer.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 5 - Mayor › 51 - Acting Mayor.

§ 51. Acting mayor. Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the office of
  mayor,  or  whenever  by reason of sickness or absence from the city the
  mayor shall be prevented from attending to the duties of the office, the
  president of the common council shall act as mayor and possess  all  the
  rights  of mayor during such period of disability or absence. In case of
  a vacancy in the office of mayor he shall so act until noon of the first
  day of January  next  succeeding  the  election  at  which  the  mayor's
  successor  shall  be chosen. It shall not be lawful for the president of
  the common council when acting as mayor in consequence of the absence or
  sickness of the mayor to exercise any power of  appointment  or  removal
  from  office  unless such sickness or absence shall have continued for a
  period of thirty days; or to sign, approve or disapprove  any  ordinance
  or resolution unless such sickness or absence shall have continued for a
  period of at least nine days.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 5 - Mayor › 54 - Duties of Mayor.

§ 54. Duties  of  mayor. It shall be the duty of the mayor to see that
  the city officers and departments faithfully perform  their  duties;  to
  maintain  peace  and  good  order within the city; to take care that the
  laws of the state and the ordinances of the common council are  executed
  and  enforced  within the city; to communicate by written message to the
  common council at least once a year a  statement  of  the  finances  and
  general   conditions   of  the  affairs  of  the  city,  and  with  such
  recommendations in relation thereto as he may deem proper; to give  such
  information  in relation to the same as the common council may from time
  to time require; and to call a special meeting  of  the  common  council
  whenever  in  his  judgment it is required by public necessity. He shall
  also receive and examine into  all  complaints  made  against  any  city
  officer for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 5 - Mayor › 56 - Examination of Books and Accounts.

§ 56. Examination   of  books  and  accounts.  The  mayor  shall  have
  authority at all times to examine the books and papers of  any  officer,
  employee  or department of the city and, as often as he may deem proper,
  to appoint one or more competent persons to examine, without notice, the
  accounts of any city officer or department, and  the  money,  securities
  and  property  belonging  to the city in the possession or charge of any
  officer or department and to report the result of such examination;  and
  he  may  administer  oaths to witnesses and take affidavits in all cases
  relating to the affairs of the city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 5 - Mayor › 57 - Additional Powers and Duties.

§ 57. Additional  powers  and  duties. The mayor shall have such other
  powers and perform such other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed  in  this
  chapter  or  by  other  laws  of the state or by ordinance of the common
  council, not inconsistent with law. In case of  riot,  conflagration  or
  other  public emergency requiring it, the mayor shall have power to call
  out the police and firefighters; he or she  shall  also  have  power  to
  appoint  such  number  of  special police officers as he or she may deem
  necessary to preserve the public peace.  Such  special  police  officers
  shall  be  under  the  sole  control  of  the  regularly  appointed  and
  constituted officers of the police  department.  They  have  shall  have
  power  to  make  arrests  only  for disorderly conduct or other offenses
  against peace or good order. In case of riot or insurrection, he or  she
  may  take  command  of  the  whole  police  force,  including  the chief
  executive officer thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 60 - Temporary and Funded Debts.

§ 60. Temporary  and  funded debts. (a) Whenever the finance board, as
that term is defined in section 2.00 of the  local  finance  law,  shall
authorize the issuance of bonds or notes, it shall do so by ordinance.
(b) Provision shall be made for the payment of each annual installment
of a funded debt and accrued interest on such funded debt in the year in
which  such  principal and interest shall become due by the insertion of
the proper sum in the annual estimate for the year  in  question.  Bonds
issued to provide for the supply of water may be paid out of water rents
received by the city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 62 - Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller.

§ 62. Comptroller and deputy comptroller. The comptroller may appoint,
  to hold office during his pleasure, a deputy and such other subordinates
  as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In case
  of  the absence or disability of the comptroller, or of a vacancy in the
  office, the deputy shall discharge the duties of the  office  until  the
  comptroller returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. The
  comptroller  and  deputy comptroller, before entering upon the duties of
  their respective offices, shall each execute  and  file  with  the  city
  clerk  an official undertaking in such penal sum as may be prescribed by
  the common council. The comptroller and deputy comptroller shall each be
  ex officio a commissioner of deeds.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 63 - Duties of Comptroller.

§ 63. Duties  of  comptroller.   The comptroller shall superintend the
  fiscal affairs of the city and manage  the  same  pursuant  to  law  and
  ordinance  of the common council.  He shall keep a separate account with
  every  department  and  with  each  improvement  for  which  funds   are
  appropriated  or  raised by tax or assessment. No warrant shall be drawn
  by him for the payment of any claim against or obligation  of  the  city
  unless it state particularly against which of such funds it is drawn. No
  fund  shall be overdrawn nor shall any warrant be drawn against one fund
  to pay a claim chargeable to another. The comptroller shall perform such
  other and further duties, as may from time to time be prescribed by law,
  or by ordinance  of  the  common  council,  not  inconsistent  with  the
  provisions of this chapter or the other laws of the state.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 65 - Custody and Management of Sinking Fund.

§ 65. Custody  and  management  of sinking fund. The comptroller shall
  have, under the direction of the board of  estimate  and  apportionment,
  the  custody, investment and management of any sinking fund provided for
  the payment or redemption of city debts.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 66 - Accounts With Treasurer.

§ 66. Accounts  with  treasurer. The comptroller shall keep an account
  between the city and the treasurer,  and  of  all  moneys  received  and
  disbursed  by the treasurer, and for that purpose he shall procure daily
  statements from the treasurer as to the moneys received and disbursed by
  him, and shall also procure from the  depositaries  in  which  the  city
  funds  are  deposited by the treasurer, monthly statements of the moneys
  which have been received and paid out on account of the city.  He  shall
  examine the treasurer's books, accounts and bank books, and ascertain as
  to  their  correctness,  and shall render quarterly a detailed report to
  the mayor and common council of the funds and financial condition of the
  city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 67 - Annual Financial Statement.

§ 67. Annual  financial  statement.    The  comptroller  shall, within
  thirty days after the close of each fiscal year, prepare and publish  in
  book  or pamphlet form a full and accurate statement in detail, verified
  by his oath showing: (1) the receipts and revenues of the city from  all
  sources and the accounts which may be due to the city and uncollected at
  the  close of the fiscal year; (2) the disbursements from all city funds
  and the expenditures in all branches of the city government  during  the
  fiscal year; (3) the indebtedness of the city at the close of the fiscal
  year,  the  provisions  made  for  the payment thereof together with the
  purposes for which it was incurred; (4) the  cost  of  the  acquisition,
  construction  and operation of each public utility owned, maintained, or
  operated by the city and the income derived therefrom. Such  publication
  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  statement in detail, in separate columns,
  showing the several funds belonging to the city,  the  amount  drawn  on
  each  fund  and  its  then present condition, also the several debts and
  obligations of the city,  the  character  thereof,  when  the  same  are
  payable and the rate of interest on each.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 68 - Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer.

§ 68. Treasurer  and  deputy treasurer.  The treasurer may appoint, to
  hold office during his pleasure, a deputy and such other subordinates as
  may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In case of
  the absence or disability of the treasurer,  or  of  a  vacancy  in  the
  office,  the  deputy  shall discharge the duties of the office until the
  treasurer returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is  filled.  The
  treasurer  and  deputy  treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of
  the duties of their respective offices, shall each execute and file with
  the city clerk, an official undertaking in such  penal  sum  as  may  be
  prescribed  by  the  common  council. Such undertaking, when approved as
  provided by law, shall have the same force  and  effect,  and  shall  be
  filed  and  recorded  in the office of the county clerk of the county in
  which the city is located in the same manner as is required in the  case
  of an undertaking of a town collector.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 69 - Duties of Treasurer.

§ 69. Duties  of  treasurer.  The  treasurer  shall  demand,  collect,
  receive and have the care and custody of and shall disburse  all  moneys
  belonging  to  or  due  the  city from every source, except as otherwise
  provided by law. All moneys of the city received by the treasurer  shall
  be  deposited  and secured by him daily in such depositaries as shall be
  designated by the board of estimate  and  apportionment  in  the  manner
  provided  by  section ten of the general municipal law. The interest, if
  any, on all deposits shall be the property of  the  city  and  shall  be
  accounted  for  and  credited to the appropriate fund. No money shall be
  drawn from a city depository except on checks signed  by  the  treasurer
  and  countersigned  by  the  comptroller  and made payable to the person
  entitled to receive the same. He shall at no time permit any fund to  be
  overdrawn,  nor draw upon one fund to pay a claim chargeable to another.
  No money shall be paid out  by  him  except  upon  the  warrant  of  the
  comptroller.    He  shall  render  to the comptroller at the end of each
  day's business a detailed statement of all moneys received and paid  out
  by  him. He shall perform such other duties, as may from time to time be
  prescribed  by  law,  or  by  ordinance  of  the  common  council,   not
  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of this chapter, or the laws of the
  state.  By  resolution  duly  adopted,  the  common  council  or   other
  legislative  body of the city, may determine to enter into a contract to
  provide for the deposit of the periodic payroll of the city in a bank or
  trust company for disbursal by  it  in  accordance  with  provisions  of
  section ninety-six-b of the banking law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 70 - Deposits and Accounts.

§ 70. Deposits and accounts. All moneys deposited by the treasurer, as
  provided  herein,  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the city. The
  treasurer shall keep bank books in which shall be entered  his  accounts
  or  deposits  in, and moneys drawn from, the banks or trust companies in
  which such deposits shall be made.  He shall exhibit such books  to  the
  comptroller  for his inspection at least once each month, and oftener if
  required. The banks or trust companies in which such deposits are  made,
  shall respectively transmit to the comptroller monthly statements of the
  moneys which shall have been received and paid out by them on account of
  the city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 71 - Board of Estimate and Apportionment.

§ 71. Board  of  estimate and apportionment. There shall be a board of
  estimate  and  apportionment,  which  shall  consist   of   the   mayor,
  comptroller,  corporation  counsel, president of the common council, and
  the city engineer, except that when the number of subordinates,  or  the
  salaries  thereof,  in  the department of any of the members of the said
  board are to be fixed and determined, the  treasurer  shall  temporarily
  take  the  place  of  the  member  whose  number of subordinates, or the
  salaries thereof, is under consideration, for the purpose of fixing such
  salaries or number of subordinates, and  for  that  purpose  alone.  The
  members  of  the  board  shall  meet  upon  the call of the mayor, or as
  directed by the board. The mayor shall be president of the board and the
  city clerk shall act as secretary thereof. The secretary  shall  keep  a
  journal of all of the proceedings of the board.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 72 - Sinking Fund.

§ 72. Sinking  fund.  Unless  under special laws governing the city at
  the time this chapter takes effect provision is made for the creation or
  maintenance of a sinking fund or  funds  for  any  purpose,  thirty  per
  centum  of  all  moneys  or revenues received by any city which has term
  bonds outstanding and unpaid, or by any  officer,  board  or  department
  thereof,  from  any source other than taxes or loans shall, upon receipt
  of the same, be forthwith deposited in a separate account or accounts in
  one or more of the designated fiscal depositories of  the  city  to  the
  credit of the bonded indebtedness of the city, and said deposit shall be
  known  as  the  sinking fund. The sinking fund shall be used exclusively
  for the payment, as it matures, of the principal of the indebtedness  of
  the   city   evidenced  by  term  bonds  other  than  bonds  issued  for
  improvements financed by assessments for benefit or bonds  issued  prior
  to  the  effective date of the local finance law, in anticipation of the
  collection of revenues. If, under the special laws governing the city at
  the time this chapter takes effect, provision is made for  the  creation
  or  maintenance of a sinking fund or funds for any purpose, such sinking
  fund or funds shall continue and be maintained as provided in such laws.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 73 - Fiscal Year; Departmental Estimates.

§ 73. Fiscal year; departmental estimates. The fiscal year of the city
  shall  commence  on the first day of January. On or before the first day
  of November in each year all heads of departments and officers empowered
  by law or by city ordinance to control or authorize  expenditures  shall
  furnish  to the mayor estimates in writing of the amount of expenditures
  for the next fiscal year in their  respective  departments  or  offices,
  including  a  statement of the salaries of all their subordinates, which
  estimates  the  mayor  shall  lay  before  the  board  of  estimate  and
  apportionment  at  its  first  meeting thereafter, and the same shall be
  entered in its minutes.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 74 - Determination of Positions and Salaries.

§ 74. Determination  of positions and salaries.  The board of estimate
  and apportionment, except as  otherwise  provided  by  law,  shall  have
  authority  to  fix  the  salaries  or  compensation,  and  determine the
  positions and numbers of  all  city  officers  and  employees,  of  each
  office,  board  and  department, but the salary or compensation of every
  officer and  employee  shall  be  thus  fixed  before  his  election  or
  appointment,  except  in  the  first  instance after the city shall have
  become a city of the second class and subject to the provisions of  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 76 - Annual Appropriations.

§ 76. Annual  appropriations.  When  the  common  council  shall  have
  adopted the final estimate of the board of estimate and apportionment or
  said estimate as amended by it, the same shall be entered  at  large  in
  its  minutes  and  become  a  part  of its proceedings. The several sums
  estimated for expenditures therein shall be and become  appropriated  in
  the  amounts  and  for  the several departments, offices and purposes as
  therein specified for the said fiscal year.  The  several  sums  therein
  enumerated  as  estimated revenues and the moneys necessary to be raised
  by tax in addition  thereto  to  pay  the  expenses  of  conducting  the
  business  of  the city and for the purposes contemplated by this chapter
  and otherwise by law, shall be and  become  applicable  in  the  amounts
  therein  named  for the purposes of meeting said appropriations. In case
  the revenues received by the city exceed the amount  of  such  estimated
  revenues  named  in  said  annual  estimate, or in case there remain any
  unexpended balances of appropriations made for the support of  the  city
  government  or for any other purpose, then such surplus revenues or such
  unexpended balances shall, except as otherwise provided by  law,  remain
  upon deposit and be included as a part of the estimated revenues for the
  succeeding  year.    When  any  moneys  or  revenues are received by any
  officer, board or department of the city, from any source other than  by
  municipal  tax,  which  are  not  otherwise appropriated, such moneys or
  revenues may be used and applied toward and in  addition  to  the  funds
  appropriated,  as  aforesaid,  in  such manner as in the judgment of the
  board of estimate and apportionment may be most beneficial to the city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 77 - Tax Budget.

§ 77. Tax  budget.  The  amount of estimated expenditures contained in
  the annual estimate adopted by the common council, less  the  amount  of
  estimated  revenues  applicable to the payment thereof and the amount of
  all judgments payable prior to the tax levy, shall  constitute  the  tax
  budget.  The common council shall levy and cause to be raised by tax the
  amount of said budget, and the amount  shall  be  levied,  assessed  and
  raised  by tax upon the real and personal property liable to taxation in
  the city at the time and in the manner provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 79 - Contracts and Expenditures Prohibited.

§ 79. Contracts  and  expenditures  prohibited.  No officer, board, or
  department shall, during any fiscal  year,  expend  or  contract  to  be
  expended  any  money  or incur any liability, or enter into any contract
  which, by its terms, involves the expenditure of money for  any  of  the
  purposes for which provision is made in the annual estimate in excess of
  the  amounts  appropriated  in  said  estimate, as adopted by the common
  council, for such officer, board, department or purpose, for such fiscal
  year. Any contract, verbal or written, made in violation of this section
  shall be null and void as to the city, and no moneys  belonging  to  the
  city  shall  be  paid  thereon,  provided,  however, that nothing herein
  contained shall prevent the making of contracts for light or water,  the
  collection  and  disposal or the disposal of garbage, the collection and
  removal of rubbish and ashes, the cleaning of streets, or the sprinkling
  of streets or public places by railway cars, for periods  exceeding  one
  year.
Nothing  herein  contained,  however,  shall  be  held to prohibit the
  expenditure of such sums as may be made available, pursuant  to  section
  seventy-six of this chapter or section 29.00 of the local finance law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 80 - Penalties for Violation of Preceding Section.

§ 80. Penalties  for  violation  of  preceding section. Any officer or
  member of any board or department of the city, making or voting for  any
  contract prohibited by the preceding section, or auditing any account or
  claim under any such contract, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 6 - Department of Finance › 81 - Appropriations for Band Concerts.

§ 81. Appropriations  for  band  concerts.  The  board of estimate and
  apportionment may include in the  annual  estimate  and  appropriate  an
  amount  to  be  expended  by  the  superintendent  of  parks  under  the
  supervision and direction  of  the  commissioner  of  public  works,  in
  providing  public  band  concerts  in  the public parks or places of the
  city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 90 - Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Public Works.

§ 90. Commissioner  and  deputy  commissioner  of  public  works.  The
  commissioner of public works shall be the  head  of  the  department  of
  public  works.  He  shall appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a
  deputy and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board  of
  estimate  and apportionment. In case of the absence or disability of the
  commissioner or of a vacancy in  the  office,  the  deputy  commissioner
  shall discharge the duties of the office until the commissioner returns,
  his  disability  ceases  or  the vacancy is filled. The commissioner and
  deputy commissioner before entering upon the discharge of the duties  of
  their respective offices shall each execute and file with the city clerk
  an  official  undertaking  in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the
  common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 91 - Powers and Duties of Commissioner.

§ 91. Powers  and duties of commissioner. The commissioner, subject to
  the provisions  of  law  and  ordinances  of  the  common  council,  has
  cognizance,  direction  and  control  of  the construction, maintenance,
  alteration, repair,  care,  cleaning,  paving,  flagging,  lighting  and
  improving  of  the streets, highways, sidewalks and public places of the
  city; of the construction, alteration and repair of all  city  buildings
  and of all docks and bridges belonging to the city; of all public sewers
  and  drains  in  the  city; of the construction, maintenance, extension,
  repair and care of the city waterworks; of the care, superintendence and
  management and improvement of all parks and grounds,  public  baths  and
  recreation  piers belonging to the city. Except as otherwise provided by
  law, the commissioner  shall  have  supervision  of,  control  over  and
  jurisdiction  and authority to make all ordinary repairs or improvements
  upon the streets, parks, sidewalks, crosswalks, gutters, vaults, drains,
  culverts, bridges and public ways and places of the city, including  the
  cleaning,  sprinkling,  laying of dust with substances other than water,
  watering and flushing of the same, and  may  employ  such  laborers  and
  teams  and incur such expenditures as may be necessary within the limits
  of the appropriations made therefor. It shall be his duty to inspect the
  same with sufficient frequency to ascertain their  condition  and  cause
  the  same  to  be  kept free from obstructions and in good condition and
  repair and reasonably safe for public use. The commissioner  shall  also
  have  general  supervision  and  control of all work performed under any
  contract of the city for local or other  improvements  to  be  performed
  within  or  upon  any  of the public streets, parks, ways and places, or
  with reference to the public works and ways within the  jurisdiction  of
  his  department, including the lighting, sprinkling, laying of dust with
  substances other than water, watering or  flushing  of  the  streets  or
  public  places,  and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  performed in full
  compliance with the provisions  of  any  contract  therefor.  Except  as
  otherwise  provided  by  law  or  ordinance  of  the common council, the
  commissioner of public works has, over the  streets  and  public  places
  within the city, all the jurisdiction and is charged with all the duties
  of commissioners of highways within the towns of the state.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 92 - Repair of Sidewalks; Removal of Snow and Ice.

§ 92. Repair  of  sidewalks; removal of snow and ice. The commissioner
  of public works shall have full power and authority to require the owner
  of property abutting upon a street  to  repair  any  sidewalk  in  front
  thereof  or bring the same to true grade, and to remove the snow and ice
  therefrom. Where the owner of such property shall  fail  or  neglect  to
  repair  any sidewalk or bring the same to true grade for five days after
  written notice so to do has been served on him, either personally or  by
  delivering  the  same  at  his  residence, or if he be a non-resident by
  mailing the same to him at his last known place of residence, or if  the
  name of the owner or his place of residence can not be ascertained after
  due  diligence,  by  posting  the  same  in a conspicuous place upon the
  premises; or where the owner of any such premises shall fail or  neglect
  to  remove  snow  and  ice  from  any  such  sidewalk after the same has
  remained thereon for more than twelve hours, and the commissioner  shall
  have  repaired such sidewalk or brought the same to grade or removed the
  ice or snow therefrom, a bill for the expenses incurred thereby shall be
  presented to the  owner  personally  or  by  leaving  the  same  at  his
  residence or, if he be a non-resident, by mailing the same to him at his
  last  known  place  of  residence,  or, if the name of such owner or his
  place of residence can  not  be  ascertained  after  due  diligence,  by
  posting  the  same  in  a  conspicuous place on the premises; and, if he
  shall fail to pay the same within ten days thereafter, the  commissioner
  shall  file  each  year  immediately  preceding  the time for making the
  annual assessment-roll his certificate of the actual cost of  the  work,
  together  with  a  statement  as  to  the property in front of which the
  repairing or grading or cleaning was done, with  the  assessors  of  the
  city,  who  shall,  in  the  preparation  of the next assessment-roll of
  general city taxes, assess such amount upon such property, and the  same
  shall  be  levied, corrected, enforced and collected in the same manner,
  by the same proceedings, at the same time, under the same penalties  and
  having  the same lien upon the property assessed as the general city tax
  and as a part thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 93 - Performance of Public Work to Be Certified.

§ 93. Performance  of  public  work  to  be certified. All public work
  performed pursuant to contract under the supervision or control  of  the
  commissioner shall, before it is accepted, be certified to by him to the
  effect  that  such  work  has  been  performed in a good and substantial
  manner with the materials required, of the quality  and  in  the  manner
  directed  by  the  terms  of the contract under which the same was done.
  Within ten days after the completion of any such work  the  commissioner
  shall  file  a  certificate  of such completion with the comptroller and
  with the city clerk, to be reported by him to the common  council.  Such
  certificate  shall  state  in  substance  that  said  work has been duly
  examined by the commissioner and that the same has been fully  performed
  and completed in accordance with the terms of the contract therefor.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 94 - Water Works.

§ 94. Water  works.  In  case  the  city owns and operates a system of
  municipal water works, the commissioner of public works  shall  appoint,
  to hold office during his pleasure, a superintendent of water works, who
  shall  have,  under  the direction of the commissioner, the supervision,
  care, management and control of the  water  department  and  water-works
  system  of the city.  It shall be the duty of the commissioner of public
  works to see that the city has an abundant supply of pure and  wholesome
  water  for  public and private use; to devise plans and sources of water
  supply;  to  plan  and  supervise  the  construction,  maintenance   and
  extension  of  the water system and the distribution of water throughout
  the city; to protect it  from  contamination;  to  prescribe  rules  and
  regulations for its use, which, when ratified and approved by the common
  council,  shall  have  the  same force and effect as city ordinances. He
  shall have  power,  with  the  assent  of  the  board  of  estimate  and
  apportionment,  to  establish  rates  of  rents  to  be charged and paid
  annually  for  the  supply  of  water  or  for  the  benefits  resulting
  therefrom,  to  be called water rents, which shall be apportioned to the
  different classes of  buildings  in  the  city  in  reference  to  their
  dimensions and the ordinary uses of water for the same, and to different
  lots,  as may be practicable, and from time to time to modify and amend,
  increase or diminish such rates and to extend them to other descriptions
  of buildings, lots, establishments and uses. He shall also  have  power,
  with  like assent, to establish rates for the use of water in buildings,
  establishments, trades and other purposes  in  or  for  which  water  is
  consumed  beyond  the  quantity  required for ordinary purposes, and may
  require the same paid to him in advance, at the rates thus  established,
  before permission to use such extra quantity of water shall be given.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 95 - Collection of Water Rents.

§ 95. Collection  of  water  rents. All water rents shall be collected
  from the owners of the lots and buildings which shall be  situated  upon
  any  street  or  avenue upon which the distributing pipes are now or may
  hereafter be laid, and  from  which  such  lots  and  buildings  can  be
  supplied  with  water.  Water  rents,  together with the amounts due and
  unpaid for the introduction and measurement  of  the  supply  of  water,
  shall  be,  like  other  taxes  of  the  city,  a lien upon the lots and
  buildings against which the same are chargeable. It shall be the duty of
  the commissioner each year,  immediately  preceding  the  time  for  the
  making of the annual assessment-roll, to make out a list or roll of each
  ward  or  assessment district of the city, in which he shall set out the
  amount of water rents accrued or chargeable upon each lot, part  of  lot
  or  building,  and  which  shall not have been paid to him, and file the
  same with the assessors of the city, who shall in the preparation of the
  next assessment-rolls for general  city  taxes,  in  a  separate  column
  thereof,  assess  such  amount upon such property, and hearings shall be
  had thereon and the  same  shall  be  levied,  corrected,  enforced  and
  collected in the same manner, by the same proceedings, at the same time,
  under  the  same  penalties,  and having the same lien upon the property
  assessed as the general city tax and as a part thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 96 - Superintendent of Parks.

§ 96. Superintendent  of  parks. Unless otherwise provided by law, the
  commissioner of public works shall appoint, to hold  office  during  his
  pleasure, a superintendent of parks, who shall have, under the direction
  of  the  commissioner,  the supervision, care, management and control of
  all the parks of the city and of such portions of the  streets  as  pass
  through  or  intersect  the  same,  and  of the shade trees of the city.
  Subject to the direction of the commissioner and to  the  ordinances  of
  the  common  council,  he  shall  prescribe the powers and duties of his
  subordinates and shall, except as otherwise provided by law, superintend
  the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for park purposes.  He  shall
  keep  an  account  of  such  expenditures  and  shall approve all claims
  against the city on account thereof before submission to the comptroller
  for audit. The superintendent, under the direction of the  commissioner,
  may  make  all ordinary repairs and improvements upon the parks and such
  intersecting streets, may employ all laborers needed  thereon,  and  fix
  their  wages,  subject to the approval of the commissioner and the board
  of estimate and apportionment. Except as otherwise provided by  law,  he
  shall conduct, with the aid of the corporation counsel, all negotiations
  and proceedings for the acquisition of lands for park purposes, when the
  same  shall  have been authorized by ordinance of the common council and
  approved by the board of estimate and apportionment.  He shall make such
  rules and regulations, not  inconsistent  with  the  ordinances  of  the
  common  council  and  laws of the state, as he shall deem proper for the
  government, management and care of the parks and of the streets  in  and
  through  the  same, and of such other streets, being approaches thereto,
  as may be designated by ordinance of the common council as parkways, and
  such rules and regulations, when approved by the common  council,  shall
  have  the  force and effect of city ordinances. The superintendent shall
  have such other powers and  be  charged  with  such  other  duties,  not
  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of this chapter and the laws of the
  state, as the commissioner may direct,  or  as  the  common  council  by
  ordinance may define and prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 97 - City Engineer.

§ 97. City  engineer.  No  person  shall be eligible to appointment as
  city engineer unless he be a civil engineer  of  at  least  five  years'
  practical experience in his profession. He shall appoint, to hold office
  during  his  pleasure,  a  deputy  and such other subordinates as may be
  prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 98 - Duties of City Engineer.

§ 98. Duties  of  city  engineer.  It  shall  be  the duty of the city
  engineer to perform all the ordinary engineering and surveying  services
  in  the  affairs  and  business  of the city and to supervise, under the
  general direction of the commissioner of public works, all the work done
  for the city in which the skill of his profession  may  be  required  or
  useful.  He  shall,  under  the  direction of the commissioner of public
  works  and  the  ordinances  of  the  common   council,   act   as   the
  superintendent of public buildings, bridges, docks and wharves. He shall
  perform  such  other  duties as may be prescribed by the commissioner of
  public works or by ordinance of the common council. He shall devote  his
  time exclusively to the service of the city.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 99 - Alteration of Grades and Names of Streets.

§ 99. Alteration  of  grades  and  names  of streets. The grade of any
  street shall not be fixed or established  except  by  direction  of  the
  common  council.  The  grade of a street heretofore or hereafter legally
  established shall not be changed, except  by  direction  of  the  common
  council,  and  except  also  upon  compensation  for damages done, to be
  ascertained in and by the proceedings provided by law  for  ascertaining
  damages  for  lands taken for the opening of streets. The common council
  shall not alter the name of any street except by ordinance. No ordinance
  altering the name of any street shall be passed by  the  common  council
  until  such ordinance shall have been published at least once in each of
  two successive weeks in the official paper or papers.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 100 - Apportionment of City's Expense of Improvements.

§ 100. Apportionment  of  city's  expense  of improvements. The common
  council may,  by  ordinance  approved  by  the  board  of  estimate  and
  apportionment,  fix  and  determine  the  amount  and  proportion of the
  expense which shall be borne by the city at large for opening, altering,
  grading, curbing or paving a  street,  or  for  constructing  therein  a
  public  sewer  which  is not less than two feet in diameter.  The amount
  and proportion of the expense of such improvements which shall be  borne
  by  the  city at large shall be included in the budget and raised by tax
  the same as other general city charges or may be  financed  pursuant  to
  the  local  finance  law.    An  amount sufficient to pay, when due, any
  obligations  issued  to  pay  the  portion  of  the  expense   of   such
  improvements  borne  by  the  city  at  large, together with the accrued
  interest thereon, shall be included in the tax budget and raised by  tax
  the  same  as  other  general city charges, and such obligations as they
  mature, together with the interest thereon, shall be  paid  out  of  the
  moneys  so  raised  by tax.   The proportion of the expense which is not
  borne by the city shall  be  assessed  and  charged  upon  the  property
  affected by such improvement in the form and manner provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 101 - Discontinuance of Streets.

§ 101. Discontinuance  of  streets.  Whenever the common council shall
  contemplate the discontinuance of any street, it shall cause a notice to
  be published for ten days in the official newspaper or newspapers of the
  city of its intention so to do, and that all persons interested  may  be
  heard in reference thereto at a time stated in such notice.  If it shall
  be determined to discontinue the street and any person shall claim to be
  damaged  by  such discontinuance, such alleged damages, unless agreed to
  by the commissioner of  public  works  and  approved  by  the  board  of
  estimate  and  apportionment,  must be ascertained and determined in the
  manner provided by law for ascertaining damages for lands taken for  the
  opening of streets.  An ordinance discontinuing any street shall require
  the  affirmative  vote of three-fourths of all the members of the common
  council.  Whenever a street, or any part thereof, the fee of which is in
  the city, shall be discontinued, the lands embraced within the limits of
  such street, or any part thereof,  may  be  exchanged  for  other  lands
  within  the  limits  of  the city, upon such terms and conditions as the
  common council may by ordinance prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 7 - Department of Public Works › 103 - Acquisition of Lands.

§ 103. Acquisition  of  lands.  Whenever  any  real estate or interest
  therein shall be required for any municipal purpose, except as otherwise
  provided by law, the commissioner of public works may  acquire  for  the
  city  the  necessary  land  and real estate by gift or by purchase, at a
  price approved by the board of estimate and  apportionment,  or  by  the
  proceedings  specified  in  the  eminent domain procedure law, or in the
  case of property  required  for  street  purposes,  by  the  proceedings
  provided  by  law  for  acquiring  and ascertaining damages for property
  taken for purposes of street openings.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 8 - Department of Contract and Supply › 121 - Proposals.

§ 121. Proposals.  No  contract shall be let, except after the receipt
  of sealed bids or proposals therefor, and no bids or proposals shall  be
  received  at any time other than at a regular meeting of said board, and
  unless they conform to the rules of the board and the general ordinances
  of the common council. All bids or proposals must be indorsed  with  the
  title  of  the  work  or materials to which they relate, the name of the
  bidder and his residence. It shall be the duty of  each  member  of  the
  board to be present at the time and place mentioned in the public notice
  for  the  receipt  and  opening  of bids or proposals, and such meetings
  shall be open to the public. After all the bids or proposals  have  been
  presented,  but  not  until  one-half  hour after the time stated in the
  public notice for holding the meeting, all bids or  proposals  shall  be
  opened  by some member of the board or by its secretary, publicly and in
  the presence of the bidders and other  persons  there  present,  and  an
  abstract  of all of such bids or proposals, with the prices and security
  offered, shall be transcribed in a book kept for that  purpose,  without
  any  change,  correction  or  addition whatever. A majority of the board
  need not be present when such bids or proposals are  opened.  The  board
  may  reject  all bids or proposals received at any meeting and advertise
  again for new bids or proposals to be received  at  another  meeting  as
  above  prescribed.  No  person  submitting,  or on whose behalf a bid or
  proposal is submitted, nor the principal or  sureties  on  any  bond  or
  security  accompanying  the  same,  shall  have the right to withdraw or
  cancel any such bid, proposal,  or  bond  until  the  board  shall  have
  awarded  the  contract  for which such bid or proposal is made, and such
  contract shall have been duly executed.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 8 - Department of Contract and Supply › 123 - Secretary of the Board; Commissioner of Supplies.

§ 123. Secretary  of the board; commissioner of supplies. The board of
  contract and supply shall appoint a secretary to hold office during  its
  pleasure,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to keep a full journal of all the
  proceedings of the board and to perform such additional duties as may be
  required by the board, or by law or ordinance  of  the  common  council.
  Where any work or repairs needed to be done, or materials or supplies to
  be furnished for any office, court, board or department shall not exceed
  two  hundred and fifty dollars in cost, the board of contract and supply
  may by general or special rule  authorize  the  commissioner  of  public
  works,  or  the  commissioner  of public safety, or the secretary of the
  board, or any of them, to give written orders therefor and purchase  the
  same.  No  materials or supplies shall be purchased for, or delivered by
  or upon the order of the commissioner to any officer, board, court, body
  or department of the city, except upon the requisition in  writing  from
  the  officer,  board,  body or head of the department for which the same
  are required. The commissioner shall require a receipt in  writing  from
  each  officer,  board,  body  or head of the department for all supplies
  delivered to him or it by the commissioner or on his order, and he shall
  approve, in writing, all claims  for  any  such  materials  or  supplies
  purchased  by him, before the same shall be presented to the comptroller
  for audit.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 130 - Commissioner of Public Safety; Appointees.

§ 130. Commissioner  of public safety; appointees. The commissioner of
  public safety shall be the head of the department of public  safety.  He
  may  appoint,  to  hold  office  during his pleasure, a deputy, a health
  officer and a superintendent of buildings. Whenever a vacancy occurs  in
  the  office  of the chief of police or chief of the fire department, the
  commissioner of public safety,  shall  appoint,  in  his  discretion,  a
  person  deemed by him to be suitable and competent to fill the same. The
  chief of police and chief of the fire department shall each hold  office
  during  good  behavior,  or  until permanently incapacitated or unfit to
  discharge  his  duties.    The  commissioner  may  appoint  such   other
  subordinates  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  board  of  estimate  and
  apportionment to hold office,  except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law,
  during  his  pleasure.  In  case  of  the  absence  or disability of the
  commissioner or a vacancy in the office, the deputy shall discharge  the
  duties  of  the  office  until  the commissioner returns, his disability
  ceases or the vacancy is filled. Before entering upon the  discharge  of
  the duties of their respective offices, the commissioner, deputy, health
  officer,  superintendent  of buildings, chief of police and chief of the
  fire department shall each execute and  file  with  the  city  clerk  an
  official  undertaking  in  such  penal  sum  as may be prescribed by the
  common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 131 - Duties of Commissioner.

§ 131. Duties of commissioner. The commissioner of public safety shall
  have   cognizance,   jurisdiction,   supervision   and  control  of  the
  government, administration, disposition and  discipline  of  the  police
  department, fire department, buildings department and health department,
  and  of  the officers and members of said departments, and shall possess
  and exercise fully and exclusively all powers  and  perform  all  duties
  pertaining   to  the  government,  maintenance  and  direction  of  said
  departments, and  the  apparatus  and  property  thereof  and  buildings
  furnished therefor, and shall have the general direction and supervision
  of  the  expenditure  of all moneys appropriated to said departments. He
  shall possess such other powers and perform such other duties as may  be
  prescribed by the law or by ordinance of the common council.