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2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 3 - Officers and Elections › 3-308 - Separate Boards of Commissioners.

§ 3-308 Separate boards of commissioners. 1. The board of trustees may
  establish or abolish a board or boards of fire, ambulance, water, light,
  sewer, park or cemetery commissioners or a single municipal board having
  the  powers,  duties  and  responsibilities of two or more such separate
  boards.
2. The board of trustees may also  establish  or  abolish  a  separate
  board of police commissioners.
3.  The  board  of  trustees  shall establish the composition, powers,
  duties and responsibilities of each board of commissioners and may, from
  time to time, amend same.
4. Any board established hereunder shall be composed of not less  than
  three members, who shall perform their duties subject to the approval of
  the board of trustees.
5.  The mayor, subject to the approval of the board of trustees, shall
  appoint the  members  of  any  board  of  commissioners  and  the  first
  appointments  of  members  thereto  shall  be for terms so fixed that at
  least one will expire at the end of each official year commencing at the
  end of the current such year and continuing in succeeding year until the
  entire original appointments run out. No such  term  shall  exceed  five
  years.
6.   Commencing   with   the   first   annual  meeting  following  the
  establishment of any such board,  and  continuing  annually  thereafter,
  successors  to  former  appointees,  the term of whose offices have then
  expired, shall be appointed for a full term. The  length  of  such  term
  shall  be  determined  by  the  board  of trustees but in no event shall
  exceed five years.
7. A person who has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be
  eligible for appointment to any board of fire  commissioners.  Any  fire
  commissioner  who is convicted of arson in any degree during his term of
  office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.
8. The board of trustees may also abolish any  such  board  or  boards
  established  under  any prior provision of law. If not so abolished such
  board or boards shall  continue  and  the  commissioners  thereof  shall
  continue in office during their respective terms.
9.  Any  action  of  the  board  of  trustees  hereunder establishing,
  relating to or abolishing any such board or fixing the terms  of  office
  of  the members thereof shall be by resolution or local law adopted at a
  regular meeting by a majority vote of the entire board. No  such  action
  shall  be  taken unless a public hearing has first been held of which at
  least ten days public notice shall have been given by publication in the
  official village newspaper, or, if there be  none,  in  a  newspaper  of
  general circulation in the village.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 3 - Officers and Elections › 3-310 - Abolition of Separate or Municipal Boards.

§ 3-310 Abolition of separate or municipal boards.  If a resolution or
  local  law  is  adopted by the board of trustees abolishing any separate
  board,  the  abolition  of  such  board  or  boards  shall  take  effect
  immediately.    The  clerk  of  the  village  shall forthwith notify the
  members of such board or boards in writing and  they  shall  within  ten
  days  deliver to the clerk of the village its records, books and papers;
  and shall also within the same time deliver to the treasurer all  funds,
  and  to  the  mayor  all  other  property in its possession or under its
  control.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 4 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Officers › 4-404 - Taking of Affidavits by Village Officers.

§ 4-404 Taking of affidavits by village officers. The village clerk or
  any  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  may administer oaths and take
  affidavits upon any claim or account against the  village.  The  village
  clerk  may  also  administer  oaths  and take affidavits upon matters in
  connection with village business.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 4 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Officers › 4-406 - Permits; Franchises; Filing; Duty of Clerk.

§  4-406  Permits;  franchises;  filing;  duty  of  clerk.   Duplicate
  originals of every resolution, certificate or other instrument whereby a
  village, or any board or officer thereof, grants a franchise,  including
  a  privilege  or  consent  of  any kind, to a public service corporation
  shall be executed  and  deposited  with  the  village  clerk;  and  such
  franchise  shall not be operative for any purposes until so executed and
  deposited.  The village clerk, upon receiving the same, shall  file  one
  such  duplicate in his office with the records and papers of the village
  and shall immediately cause the other to be filed in the office  of  the
  clerk of the county in which the village is situated.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 4 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Officers › 4-408 - Treasurer.

§  4-408  Treasurer.  The treasurer of each village shall be the chief
  fiscal officer of the village and it shall be his responsibility to:
a. have custody of all moneys  belonging  to  the  village,  and  keep
  accounts  of all receipts and expenditures in conformance with a uniform
  system of accounts formulated and prescribed by  the  state  comptroller
  pursuant to section thirty-six of the general municipal law.
b.  deposit, within ten days after receipt thereof, in the name of the
  village, in a bank or trust company designated by the board of trustees,
  all monies received by him;
c. he may sign checks with the facsimile signature of  the  treasurer,
  as  reproduced  by  a machine or device commonly known as a checksigner,
  when authorized by resolution or local law of the board of trustees;
d. pay out monies in  the  village  treasury  only  as  authorized  by
  sections  5-524  and  5-526  of  this  chapter, unless in pursuance of a
  judgment or order of a court. All such payments, except as authorized by
  section 5-526 shall be by check;
e. file in the office of the village clerk, within  sixty  days  after
  the  end  of the fiscal year, a statement showing in detail all revenues
  and expenditures during the previous fiscal  year  and  the  outstanding
  indebtedness  of  the  village  as of the end of the fiscal year, except
  that the village treasurer, if authorized by the board of trustees, may,
  within the time period prescribed  in  section  thirty  of  the  general
  municipal  law,  submit to the village clerk a copy of the annual report
  required by section thirty  of  the  general  municipal  law,  provided,
  however,  that  if the time for the filing of the annual report has been
  extended by the state comptroller as provided in the said statute,  then
  the  time  for  submitting  a  copy  of  the report to the village clerk
  similarly shall be extended. The board of  trustees  shall,  within  ten
  days,  cause  to  be published in the official newspaper either a notice
  that the annual financial statement has been filed and is available  for
  inspection  or  a  summary  of  such statement in a form approved by the
  state comptroller, with an endorsement thereon that details thereof  are
  on  file in the office of the village clerk. The board of trustees shall
  audit, or cause to be audited by an officer or employee of  the  village
  or  by  a certified public accountant or a public accountant engaged for
  that purpose, such report and supporting records;
f. shall also perform such other  duties  not  inconsistent  with  his
  office as shall be determined by resolution or local law of the board of
  trustees.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 4 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Officers › 4-410 - Village Justices; Accounts, Fees, and Fines.

§  4-410  Village justices; accounts, fees, and fines. 1.  The village
  justice:
a. shall not receive for his own benefit any fees, costs  or  expenses
  in any action or proceeding, but shall demand and receive the same fees,
  costs  and  expenses therein as are provided by law to be paid to a town
  justice in any civil matter and shall keep account thereof and of  fines
  collected by him;
b.  shall pay all such costs, fees and expenses and all fines or other
  money so paid to him on any proceeding during any calendar month to  the
  state  comptroller  within  the  first  ten  days of the month following
  collection. Such money, except as otherwise provided by  law,  shall  be
  the property of the village of which such justice is an officer;
c.  shall  report  the  fact that he has not received any costs, fees,
  expenses and fines during any month to the state comptroller within  the
  first ten days of the succeeding month.  Upon receipt of notice from the
  state  comptroller  that a justice has not properly reported or properly
  accounted for monies received by such justice, it shall be unlawful  for
  the  village to make any further payment of compensation to such justice
  until receipt of notice from the comptroller that  a  proper  accounting
  has been made;
d. shall not receive or disburse any monies unless he shall furnish or
  receive  a  proper  receipt  therefor, or make a memorandum or record of
  such transaction, in such form and detail as the state comptroller shall
  prescribe.
2. All the expenses of maintaining the village  court,  including  the
  fees  of  the  village  justice  if  he is not paid a salary, shall be a
  village charge. The fees allowable  to  villages  for  the  services  of
  magistrates  and  the  fees  allowable to other officers for services in
  criminal proceedings, for or on account of an offense which a  court  of
  special  sessions has not jurisdiction to try, shall be a county charge,
  if the magistrate had jurisdiction  of  the  proceedings  in  which  the
  services  were  rendered. A county shall pay any amount due to a village
  for the services of a village justice which are  a  county  charge  upon
  presentation  to it of a claim by the state comptroller for such charges
  each quarter.  If any fine legally payable to the state, shall have been
  erroneously paid to the village treasurer, the board  of  trustees  may,
  and  is hereby authorized to, appropriate in its next annual budget such
  sum as may be necessary to reimburse the state for such fine so paid.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 4 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Officers › 4-411 - Disposition of Fines and Penalties.

§  4-411  Disposition  of  fines  and  penalties.  Except as otherwise
  provided by law, all fines and penalties imposed for the violation of  a
  village  local law, ordinance or regulation shall be the property of the
  village, whether or not  the  village  has  established  the  office  of
  village  justice.  Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the
  disposition of mandatory surcharges, sex offender registration fees, DNA
  databank fees or crime victim assistance fees  as  provided  by  section
  60.35  of  the  penal  law,  or  of  mandatory surcharges as provided by
  section eighteen hundred nine of the vehicle  and  traffic  law,  or  of
  fines, penalties and forfeitures as provided by section eighteen hundred
  three of the vehicle and traffic law relating to traffic offenses.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 4 - Powers, Duties and Compensation of Officers › 4-414 - Assessments Other Than for Local Improvements.

§  4-414  Assessments  other than for local improvements.  Whenever an
  owner of property is required by general special or local law to make an
  improvement, perform any work or do any act  on  such  property  in  the
  interest of public safety, health, comfort, and general welfare and such
  owner  shall  fail  to  make  the improvement or perform the work or act
  required and the board of trustees shall cause such improvement, work or
  act to be done on such property or a contract has been awarded  therefor
  by the board, the cost of such improvement, work or act may be assessed,
  levied and collected as may be provided by local law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-500 - Definitions.

§  5-500  Definitions.  For the purposes of this article the following
  terms shall be defined as follows: l. "Administrative unit"  shall  mean
  an  office,  department,  division,  bureau,  board, commission or other
  agency or specific activity of village government.
2. "Budget officer" shall mean the mayor or, in a  village  which  has
  adopted  the  village  manager  plan,  the village manager. The mayor or
  village manager, as the case may be, may  designate  any  other  village
  officer or employee to be budget officer, to serve at his pleasure.
3.  "Character  of  expenditure"  shall  mean the classification of an
  expenditure as to periods of benefit as follows: a. current expenses, b.
  debt retirement or c. capital projects.
4. "Fiscal year" shall mean the period commencing on the first day  of
  June  in  one calendar year and ending on the thirty-first day of May in
  the following calendar year, unless the board  of  trustees  shall  have
  established a different fiscal year pursuant to the provisions of former
  section  one  hundred seventeen of the village law as enacted by section
  fourteen of chapter eight hundred nine of the laws of  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-four  or  pursuant  to  section  5-510  of this article or section
  17-1729 of article seventeen.
5. "Fund" shall mean a group of accounts set aside for the purpose  of
  accounting  for  moneys  or  other  resources  of  general  functions or
  specific  activities  of  water  supply,  capital  projects   or   other
  activities of a village in accordance with a system of accounts.
6.  "System  of  accounts" shall mean a system prescribed by the state
  comptroller. In the case of water utilities it shall also mean a  system
  recommended  by  the  public  service  commission  or a system generally
  recognized as a national standard and  provided  either  such  alternate
  system  has  been approved by the state comptroller following receipt of
  an application and a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the board
  of trustees of a village authorizing the maintenance of  such  alternate
  accounting records for a water utility.
7.  "Object  of  expenditure"  shall  mean  the  classification  of an
  expenditure as to types of articles purchased or services rendered.
8. "Unappropriated unreserved fund balance" shall mean the  difference
  between  the total assets for a fund and the total liabilities, deferred
  revenues,  encumbered  appropriations,  amounts  appropriated  for   the
  ensuing  fiscal  year's budget, and amounts reserved for stated purposes
  pursuant to law, including reserve funds  established  pursuant  to  the
  general municipal law for the fund, as determined through application of
  the  system  of accounts prescribed by the state comptroller pursuant to
  section thirty-six of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-502 - Submission of Estimates.

§  5-502  Submission  of  estimates. l. On or before the eighth day of
  February in each year, or such other date as may be applicable  pursuant
  to  section 5-510 of this article, the budget officer shall give written
  notification to the head of  each  administrative  unit  that  he  shall
  submit  estimates,  schedules,  and  statements as hereinafter provided.
  Such notice shall specify the form in which such  information  shall  be
  submitted.
2.  On  or  before  the first day of March in each year, or such other
  date as may be applicable pursuant to section 5-510 of this  article  or
  section  17-1729  of  article  seventeen, and except as may be otherwise
  provided  in  subdivision  four  of  this  section,  the  head  of  each
  administrative  unit  shall  submit to the budget officer an estimate of
  revenues and expenditures of such administrative unit  for  the  ensuing
  fiscal  year. Such estimate shall show the sources of all revenue, shall
  itemize the character and object of each expenditure and  shall  contain
  such additional information as the budget officer shall prescribe.
3.  If  the  head  of  an  administrative unit shall fail to submit an
  estimate as herein provided, the budget officer shall forthwith  prepare
  an estimate for such administrative unit.
4.  An  estimate  shall  not  be  submitted  as  above  provided for a
  municipal electric, gas or steam utility service, but the head  of  such
  utility service shall submit in lieu thereof a statement showing:
a. The amount required for payment of installments of principal of and
  interest  on  indebtedness  incurred  for the purposes of the service to
  become due and payable during the next fiscal year; and
b. The estimated operating  and  non-operating  income  and  estimated
  expenditures for the next fiscal year, classified in accordance with the
  requirements  of  the public service commission, but in such detail only
  as the board of trustees shall require; and
c. A proposed schedule of salaries and wages to be paid  for  personal
  services.
5.  The board of trustees of a village which owns and operates a water
  utility and which maintains an alternate system of accounts approved  by
  the  state comptroller as defined in subdivision six of section 5-500 of
  this article may require that a statement shall be submitted in lieu  of
  an  estimate  as  in  the  case  of  a municipal electric, gas, or steam
  utility service.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-504 - Preparation and Filing of Tentative Budget.

§  5-504  Preparation and filing of tentative budget.  Upon receipt of
  the estimates of the  head  of  each  administrative  unit,  the  budget
  officer  shall  prepare a tentative budget. He may also prepare a budget
  message explaining the main features of the budget and  containing  such
  additional information as he may deem advisable. He shall furnish a copy
  of  the  tentative budget and the budget message, if any, to each member
  of the board of trustees and he shall reproduce for public  distribution
  as  many copies as he may deem necessary. On or before the twentieth day
  of March, or such other date as may be applicable  pursuant  to  section
  5-510  of this article or section 17-1729 of article seventeen, he shall
  file in the office of the village clerk the tentative budget, the budget
  message, if any, and the estimates, schedules and  statements  submitted
  by the heads of the administrative units.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-510 - Change in Fiscal Years.

§  5-510  Change  in  fiscal  years.  l.  The board of trustees of any
  village may, by resolution, adopt a fiscal year to commence on the first
  day of August and end on the thirty-first day of July.  If the board  of
  trustees  shall  so  adopt  a fiscal year commencing on the first day of
  August as aforesaid, all of the provisions of this article  and  of  the
  real  property  tax  law  fixing times or dates within which or by which
  certain acts shall be performed in relation to the  preparation  of  the
  assessment  roll,  the  preparation  of  the  budget  and  the  levy and
  collection of taxes and special  assessments  shall  be  correspondingly
  changed  so that the collection of taxes shall commence on the first day
  of the fiscal year.
2. The board of trustees of a village which has elected,  pursuant  to
  former  section  one  hundred seventeen of the village law as enacted by
  section fourteen of chapter eight hundred nine of the laws  of  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-four,  to  retain its fiscal year or which has adopted or
  hereafter adopts, pursuant to this section, a fiscal year commencing  on
  the  first  day  of August may, at any time determine, by resolution, to
  change to a fiscal year commencing on the first day of June.
3. The board of trustees of a village which has enacted a local law as
  provided in subdivision three of section fourteen  hundred  two  of  the
  real  property  tax  law  may,  by  resolution,  adopt  a fiscal year to
  coincide with the fiscal year of the town  or  towns  or  county  within
  which  the village is located. If the board of trustees shall adopt such
  a fiscal year, all of the provisions of this article  and  of  the  real
  property  tax law fixing times or dates within which or by which certain
  acts shall be performed in relation to the preparation of the budget and
  the levy and collection  of  taxes  and  special  assessments  shall  be
  correspondingly  changed  so that the collection of taxes shall commence
  on the first day of the fiscal year.
4. A certified copy of a resolution adopting a new fiscal  year  shall
  be  filed within ten days in the office of the state department of audit
  and control at Albany, New York.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-512 - Financing Interim Fiscal Period.

§  5-512  Financing interim fiscal period. l. Whenever the fiscal year
  of a village is changed  by  action  of  the  board  of  trustees  taken
  pursuant to section 5-510 of this article, the current fiscal year shall
  be automatically extended to include the interim period between the last
  day of the current fiscal year and the first day of the new fiscal year,
  unless the board of trustees shall elect to treat such interim period as
  a  separate  fiscal  year,  as  provided  in  subdivision  three of this
  section.
2. The board of trustees may raise all or part of the amount necessary
  to pay the obligations and other expenses of the village for the interim
  period by the issuance of obligations pursuant to the local finance law;
  provided, however, that revenues and other income resulting from special
  assessments for capital projects or from operation of revenue  producing
  undertakings,  enterprises  and  utilities, including but not limited to
  water supply, sewerage, electric, steam or gas,  for  which  obligations
  may  become due during the interim period shall be applicable to payment
  of obligations and expenses therefor as provided  by  law  and  to  that
  extent bonds or notes shall not be issued therefor.
3.  The  board of trustees may treat such interim period as a separate
  fiscal year, in which case all of the provisions of this article and  of
  the  real  property  tax law relative to the preparation of a budget and
  the assessment, levy and collection of taxes shall apply to such interim
  period; provided, however, that the amount to be raised by tax  on  real
  estate  in  any  such  interim  period  shall not exceed the limitations
  prescribed by article eight of the constitution, divided by  twelve  and
  multiplied by the number of months contained in such interim period.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-514 - Limitation of Tax Levy.

§  5-514  Limitation of tax levy. I. The amount which may be raised by
  general village tax on real  estate  in  any  fiscal  year  for  village
  purposes,  shall  be  the  same  amount as a village may raise under the
  provisions of article eight of the constitution.
2. If any joint indebtedness described in title one-A of  article  two
  of  the  local finance law is allocated and apportioned, or is excluded,
  under or pursuant to such title or any other provision of  law  for  the
  purpose  of  determining  the  debt-contracting power of a county, city,
  town, village or school district, such allocation and apportionment,  or
  exclusion,  shall  not  limit  the  amount  to  be raised in any village
  outside the limitations applicable to  villages  set  forth  in  article
  eight  of  the  constitution  to  provide  for  the  interest on and the
  principal of any greater proportionate share of such debt service  which
  the  village  has  agreed  or  is  required to provide. The total of the
  amounts which may be so raised by all participating public  corporations
  outside  any  limitation  imposed by or pursuant to article eight of the
  constitution to provide for their respective portions of any payment  of
  principal or of interest on joint indebtedness shall not exceed the full
  amount  required  to be provided by all of such participants to make any
  such payment.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-516 - Lien of Special Assessment.

§  5-516  Lien  of  special assessment. 1. Any provision of law to the
  contrary notwithstanding, in any  case  in  which  a  special  or  local
  assessment is levied against real property a lien shall attach as of the
  time  when the assessment is confirmed by the body authorized to finally
  determine the amount of such assessment, and shall continue  until  paid
  or  cancelled  as  herein below provided, which lien shall have the same
  priority as a village tax.
2. Whenever an assessment remains unpaid and is included in the annual
  tax levy, as provided in  section  5-518,  the  lien  thereof  shall  be
  cancelled  as  of  the date upon which the annual tax becomes a lien and
  the lien of the annual tax shall include the amount of such  assessment,
  with penalties.
3.  Whenever  an  assessment  remains unpaid and is thereafter divided
  into annual installments so as to retire obligations as they mature, the
  lien thereof shall be cancelled as of the date of such division  and  at
  that  time  a  lien in the amount of the first installment shall attach,
  which  lien  shall  continue  until  cancelled  by  inclusion  of   such
  installment  in  the  next  succeeding  annual  tax  levy, in the manner
  provided above.  Subsequent installments, unless prepaid as provided  in
  section  5-518  of  this  article,  shall become liens on the respective
  anniversary dates of such division and such liens shall be cancelled  in
  the same manner.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-522 - Lapse of Appropriations.

§  5-522  Lapse of appropriations. l. Each appropriation to the extent
  that it shall not have been expended or obligated, shall  lapse  at  the
  close  of  the  fiscal year for which made, except that an appropriation
  for a capital project shall continue in force  until  the  purposes  for
  which it was made shall have been accomplished or abandoned.
2. For the purposes of this section "capital project" shall mean
a.  any  physical  public betterment or improvement or any preliminary
  studies and surveys relative thereto,
b. land or rights in land,
c. any furnishings, machinery, apparatus or equipment for any physical
  public betterment or improvement when such betterment or improvement  is
  first constructed or acquired, or
d. any combination of paragraphs a, b, and c.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-525 - Purchasing of Products for Public Use.

§  5-525  Purchasing  of  products for public use. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of section one hundred three of the  general  municipal  law,
  when  purchasing products the officer, board or agency of a village may,
  wherever recycled products meet contract specifications and the price of
  such products is reasonably competitive, purchase such products. For the
  purpose  of  this  section  and  until  July  first,  nineteen   hundred
  ninety-six,  "recycled  product"  shall  mean any product which has been
  manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one  of
  section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets
  secondary material content requirements adopted by the office of general
  services  under  subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of
  the state finance law for products available to the village under  state
  contract  or,  if  no  such  contract for such product is available, any
  product which meets the secondary material content requirements  adopted
  by  the  village with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the
  village.  After  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-six,  "recycled
  product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which
  is  manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one
  of section two hundred sixty-one of the economic  development  law,  and
  which  meets  the  requirements of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of
  the environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated  pursuant
  thereto. For the purpose of this section, "reasonably competitive" shall
  mean  that  the  cost  of  the  recycled  product does not exceed a cost
  premium of ten percent above the cost of a comparable  product  that  is
  not  a  recycled  product or, if at least fifty percent of the secondary
  materials utilized in the manufacture of that product is generated  from
  the  waste  stream  in  New York state, the cost of the recycled product
  does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the  cost  of  a
  comparable product that is not a recycled product.
Whenever  such  officer,  board  or agency shall purchase or cause the
  purchase of printing on recycled paper pursuant to this section,  he  or
  she  shall  require  the  printed material to contain the official state
  recycling emblem established pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section
  27-0717   of   the   environmental   conservation  law  and  regulations
  promulgated pursuant thereto if such paper  has  been  approved  by  the
  department  of environmental conservation as satisfying the requirements
  of such statute and regulations, or, if  such  paper  has  not  been  so
  approved,  require  the  printed material to include a printed statement
  which  indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer  and  post-consumer
  recycled material content of such paper.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-526 - Petty Cash Account.

§  5-526  Petty  cash  account.  l.  The  board  of  trustees  may, by
  resolution,  establish  a  revolving  petty   cash   account   for   any
  administrative  unit  or  officer in such amount as is deemed necessary.
  Any such petty cash account shall continue in  existence  from  year  to
  year until abolished by like action.
2.  Expenditures  from  a  petty  cash  account  may  be made only for
  payment, in advance of audit and upon receipt of properly itemized bills
  for materials, supplies or services furnished to  the  village  for  the
  conduct of its affairs and upon terms calling for the payment of cash to
  the  vendor  upon  the delivery of any such materials or supplies or the
  rendering of any such services. Any such bill in an amount of more  than
  five dollars shall also be certified or verified.
3.  A  list  of  all  expenditures  made from such petty cash account,
  together with the bills supporting such expenditures, shall be presented
  periodically to the auditing board or village auditor for audit.
4. The auditing board or auditor, as the case may be, shall direct the
  village  treasurer  to  reimburse  such  petty  cash  account  from  the
  appropriate  budgetary item or items, in an amount equal to the total of
  such bills which shall be so audited and allowed.
5. Any of such bills or any portion of any  such  bills  as  shall  be
  disallowed  upon  audit  shall  be the personal liability of the officer
  responsible for the use of the petty cash account from which payment  on
  account thereof was made, and such officer shall promptly reimburse such
  petty  cash  account  in  the  amount  of  such  disallowances.  If such
  reimbursement has not been made by the time  of  the  first  payment  of
  salary to such officer after the action of the auditing board or village
  auditor  in  disallowing  an  amount  so  expended, such amount shall be
  withheld from such salary payment and, if necessary,  subsequent  salary
  payments, and paid into such petty cash account until an amount equal to
  the  amount so disallowed has been repaid to the petty cash account. Any
  bond or undertaking filed by any such officer shall be available to  the
  village  for recovery of any losses incurred by reasons of the operation
  of any such petty cash account.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 5 - Finances › 5-528 - Appropriations to Maintain Municipal Conferences and Associations.

§   5-528   Appropriations   to  maintain  municipal  conferences  and
  associations. l.  The  board  of  trustees  of  any  village  is  hereby
  authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum
  to  meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of
  maintaining and continuing the conference of mayors and other  municipal
  officials  of  the  state  of New York and any of its activities in this
  state for the purpose of devising practical ways and means for obtaining
  greater economy and efficiency in the government thereof.
2. The board of trustees of  any  village  is  hereby  authorized  and
  empowered  to  include  annually  in the budget and raise by taxation in
  such village, a sum sufficient to defray the proportionate share of such
  village to meet the actual and necessary  expenses  of  maintaining  and
  continuing  a  conference  of  village  officials of the villages in the
  county in which such village is located  or  a  conference  composed  of
  village  officials of villages located in an area of adjoining counties,
  and any of its activities in this state, for  the  purpose  of  devising
  practical  ways and means of promoting and obtaining greater economy and
  efficiency in the government of such village.
3. The board in control of an electric utility, owned and operated  by
  the  village  is  hereby  authorized  to  pay  from  the proceeds of the
  operation of said utility its proportionate  share  of  the  actual  and
  necessary  expenses of maintaining and continuing the municipal electric
  utilities association  of  the  state  of  New  York,  and  any  of  its
  activities in this state, for the purpose of devising practical ways and
  means  for  obtaining greater economy and efficiency in the operation of
  municipally owned electric light plants.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-600 - Definitions.

§  6-600  Definitions.  The term "street" as used in this article also
  includes a highway, road, avenue, lane or alley which the public have  a
  right  to  use;  and  the  term  "pavement" includes a macadam, asphalt,
  brick, concrete or other similarly improved roadbed, and is only applied
  to the portion of the street between the sidewalks or  established  curb
  lines.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-602 - Separate Highway District.

§ 6-602 Separate highway district. The streets and public grounds of a
  village  constitute  a  separate  highway  district  and  are  under the
  exclusive control and supervision of the  board  of  trustees  or  other
  officers  of  the village when such control is delegated to them by such
  board.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-604 - Care of Bridges.

§ 6-604 Care of bridges. If the board of trustees of a village has the
  supervision  and  control  of  a  bridge  therein,  it shall continue to
  exercise such control under this  chapter.  In  any  other  case,  every
  public  bridge  within  a  village  shall  be  under  the control of the
  superintendants of highways of the town in which the bridge is wholly or
  partly situated, or such other officer as may be designated  by  special
  law,  and  the expense of constructing and repairing such bridge and the
  approaches thereto is a town charge,  unless  the  village  assumes  the
  whole or part of such expense.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-606 - When Village May Construct or Repair Bridges.

§  6-606  When  village may construct or repair bridges. A village may
  assume the control, care and maintenance of a bridge or  bridges  wholly
  within its boundaries, upon the adoption of a resolution of the board of
  trustees   therefor;  such  action,  however,  shall  be  subject  to  a
  permissive referendum as provided  in  this  chapter  or  the  board  of
  trustees may enter into an agreement with the town, in which any part of
  such village is situated, to construct or repair a bridge in any part of
  the  village  included in such town, at the joint expense of the village
  and town, which agreement shall fix the portion to be paid by each. Such
  action of the board  of  trustees  shall  be  subject  to  a  permissive
  referendum as provided in this chapter.
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit the power of villages
  to  enter  into  agreements  for  the construction and repair of bridges
  pursuant to the provisions of article five-G of  the  general  municipal
  law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-608 - When Village May Relinquish Care of Bridges.

§  6-608  When  village  may relinquish care of bridges.   Any village
  which has the supervision, control, care and maintenance of  any  bridge
  or  bridges  wholly  within its boundaries, or which has entered into an
  agreement with a town as provided in sections 6-604 and  6-606  of  this
  chapter, may with the consent of the town board of the town within which
  any  such  bridge  is  situated,  by resolution of the board of trustees
  subject to a permissive referendum as defined in this chapter, terminate
  the right of such village to supervise, control, care for  and  maintain
  such  bridge  or  bridges, or cancel any such agreements made by it with
  such superintendants of highways, and  thereafter  every  public  bridge
  within  the  boundaries  of said village shall be under the supervision,
  control, care of and maintenance of the superintendants of  highways  of
  the  town  as  provided  in  section 6-602 of this chapter. Such action,
  however, shall in no way cancel or interfere with the  validity  of  any
  obligation  or  indebtedness  of  the village incurred during the period
  that  the  village  exercised  the  supervision,   control,   care   and
  maintenance  of  such  bridge or bridges, or during the period that said
  agreement was operative.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-610 - Dedication of Streets.

§  6-610  Dedication of streets. An owner of land in a village who has
  laid out a street thereon may dedicate such street, or any part thereof,
  or an easement therein, to the village for a public street, or an  owner
  may  dedicate  for  such  purpose land not laid out as a street. Upon an
  offer in writing by the owner to make such a dedication,  the  board  of
  trustees  may,  by  resolution,  determine to accept a dedication of the
  whole or any part of the land described in such offer or  the  whole  or
  any  part  of  such street, to be described in such resolution. Upon the
  adoption of such a resolution the owner may execute and deliver  to  the
  village clerk a proper conveyance of the land to be dedicated. The board
  of   trustees   may  by  resolution,  accept  the  conveyance,  and  the
  conveyance, shall thereupon be recorded in  the  office  of  the  county
  clerk.  Upon the acceptance of the conveyance the land described therein
  shall become and be a public street of the village. No street less  than
  two rods in width shall be accepted by dedication, unless the resolution
  adopting  same is passed by unanimous vote of the board of trustees. All
  offers of dedication must be entered at length in  the  minutes  of  the
  board of trustees.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-614 - Notice of Meeting of Board.

§  6-614 Notice of meeting of board. Upon adoption of a resolution the
  board shall immediately give notice of a hearing  thereon  at  specified
  time  and  place  to  consider the resolution, and such hearing shall be
  conducted as provided in article  twenty-one  herein.  The  notice  must
  state  the  general object of the resolution and if it be for the laying
  out of a street, a general description of its proposed  course,  and  in
  any  other  case,  the  name  of  the  street  proposed  to  be changed,
  discontinued or accepted.  If  the  street  to  be  laid  out,  altered,
  widened,  narrowed, discontinued or accepted shall cross a railroad such
  notice shall be served upon the railroad company as required by  section
  ninety of the railroad law.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-618 - Streets on Boundary Lines.

§  6-618  Streets  on  boundary  lines. Whenever a street is on a line
  between two villages, or between a village  and  a  city  or  town,  the
  highway  or street commissioners of such adjoining municipalities shall,
  on or before the first day of May in each year, meet at a time and place
  to be determined by them, and divide such street. The  officers  present
  at such meeting shall allot a part of the street to each municipality in
  such  manner that the labor and expense of keeping such street in repair
  may be equal as nearly as practicable. The officers making such division
  shall, within ten days thereafter, file in the office of  the  clerk  of
  each municipality a certificate showing the part of such street allotted
  to each.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-620 - Sidewalks, Payment for Construction.

§  6-620  Sidewalks,  payment  for construction. Whenever the owner or
  occupant of lands adjoining a street  constructs  along  such  street  a
  sidewalk  of  stone,  cement,  brick  or  other  similar materials to be
  approved by the board of trustees, and the  board  consents  to  bear  a
  portion  of  the  expense of construction thereof, the board of trustees
  may pay to such owner or occupant a sum to be  fixed  by  the  board  of
  trustees  not  exceeding one-half of the actual and necessary expense of
  constructing such sidewalk.  Before  the  board  of  trustees  shall  so
  consent  to  bear  a  portion of the expense of construction of any such
  sidewalk, it shall fix the proportionate amount that shall  be  paid  by
  the  village  for  all walks of the same kind which may thereafter, with
  such consent, be constructed therein; and such proportionate amount  may
  be changed from time to time thereafter by the board of trustees, but at
  no  time  within  one  year from the date of the last fixing or changing
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-622 - Pavements.

§  6-622  Pavements.  The  board of trustees may cause a street in the
  village or a part thereof, to be graded and paved or repaved  wholly  at
  the  expense  of  the village, or wholly at the expense of the owners of
  the adjoining land or partly at the expense of each. If  the  street  or
  part thereof is wholly within the village, but the exterior line thereof
  constitutes  the  village  boundary, such improvements may be made as to
  the part of such street within the village either wholly at the  expense
  of  the village or wholly at the expense of the owners of adjoining land
  within and without the village or partly at the expense of each.  Before
  any such street or portion thereof is graded or paved, wholly or  partly
  at  the  expense of the owners of the adjoining land, a hearing shall be
  held and notice thereof given as  hereinbefore  provided  for.  If  such
  expense, or any part thereof, is to be assessed upon adjoining land, the
  board of trustees may apportion it upon the lands and assess the same as
  a  whole  or  by installments.   Provided, however, where a street is so
  improved wholly at the expense of the owners of the adjoining land,  the
  cost  thereof  shall  be assessed in proportion, as nearly as may be, to
  the benefit which each lot or parcel will derive therefrom.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-624 - Acquisition of Lands for Parks, Squares, Athletic Fields and Playgrounds.

§  6-624  Acquisition of lands for parks, squares, athletic fields and
  playgrounds. The board of trustees may, on behalf of the village, accept
  by grant or devise a gift of land for a public  park,  square,  athletic
  field  or  playground, within the village or wholly within five miles of
  the boundaries thereof, or may, if such land is outside of  the  village
  and  wholly  within  three  miles  of  the  boundaries thereof, upon the
  adoption  of  a  resolution  by  unanimous  vote  purchase   such   land
  accordingly.  If  unable  to  agree  with  the  owners  for the purchase
  thereof, the board of trustees on behalf  of  the  village  may  acquire
  title  thereto  by condemnation. If such land is within the village, the
  board of trustees on behalf of the village may upon the  adoption  of  a
  resolution,  purchase  such land accordingly, or if unable to agree with
  the owners for the  purchase  thereof,  may  acquire  title  thereto  by
  condemnation.  The  board  of  trustees  may  lease  in  the name of the
  village, lands within the village or outside of such village and  wholly
  within three miles of the boundaries thereof for a public park, athletic
  field  or  playground  and  may  equip the same with suitable buildings,
  structures and apparatus and may thereafter  maintain  and  improve  the
  same  at  the  expense  of the village. The amount of such rent shall be
  paid in annual installments commencing with the date of the lease.  Upon
  the  acquition of land for the purposes of this section, either by gift,
  purchase or lease, the board may establish and maintain the same for its
  intended purposes and shall have the power to perform all the duties  of
  a separate board of park commissioners as provided for in this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-626 - Streets by Prescription.

§  6-626  Streets  by prescription. All lands within the village which
  have been used by  the  public  as  a  street  for  ten  years  or  more
  continuously,  shall be a street with the same force and effect as if it
  had been duly laid out and recorded as such.
2023 New York Laws › VIL - Village › Article 6 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds › 6-628 - Liability of Village in Certain Actions.

§ 6-628 Liability of village in certain actions. No civil action shall
  be  maintained  against the village for damages or injuries to person or
  property sustained  in  consequence  of  any  street,  highway,  bridge,
  culvert,  sidewalk  or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe,
  dangerous or obstructed or for damages or injuries to person or property
  sustained solely in consequence of the existence of snow or ice upon any
  sidewalk, crosswalk, street, highway, bridge or culvert  unless  written
  notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition or of
  the  existence of the snow or ice, relating to the particular place, was
  actually given to the village clerk and there was a failure  or  neglect
  within  a  reasonable time after the receipt of such notice to repair or
  remove the defect, danger or obstruction complained of, or to cause  the
  snow or ice to be removed, or the place otherwise made reasonably safe.