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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 93-C - .

§   93-c.   The  appropriate  disbursing  or  fiscal  officer  of  any
  municipality or other political  subdivision  of  the  state  is  hereby
  authorized   to   deduct  from  the  salary  of  any  employee  of  such
  municipality or political subdivision such amount as such  employee  may
  specify  in  writing  filed  with  such appropriate disbursing or fiscal
  officer for payment to any credit union doing business in the  state  of
  New York, and to transmit the sums so deducted to the said credit union.
  The  disbursing  or  fiscal  officer  hereinbefore referred to is hereby
  authorized to make such rules and regulations governing the payments  to
  credit  unions  as  he deems necessary, such rules and regulations to be
  incorporated  in  the  employee's  written  authorization   of   payroll
  deduction,  filed  with  the  fiscal  or  disbursing  officer  of  every
  municipal corporation or other civil division or  political  subdivision
  of  the  state.  Any such written authorization may be withdrawn by such
  employee at any time by filing written notice of  such  withdrawal  with
  such  appropriate  disbursing or fiscal officer. As used in this section
  "credit union" means a non-profit organization  which  serves  only  its
  members and is chartered pursuant to the banking law of the state of New
  York,  or by the United States government pursuant to the federal credit
  union act.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 93-D - Payroll Payment by Banks or Trust Companies.

§  93-d.  Payroll  payment  by banks or trust companies. The governing
  body  of  any   municipal   corporation,   school   district,   district
  corporation,  town  or county improvement district, public authority, or
  public corporation may enter into a contract to provide for the  deposit
  of  the  periodic payroll of such corporations, districts or authorities
  in a bank or trust company for disbursal by them in accordance with  the
  provisions of section ninety-six-b of the banking law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 94 - Earnings of Municipal Corporations From Certain Municipally Operated Public Utility Services.

§  94.  Earnings  of  municipal  corporations from certain municipally
  operated public utility services. Any municipal corporation operating  a
  gas,  electric  or water public utility service may earn from and out of
  such operation an amount equivalent to taxes which the said service,  if
  privately  owned,  would  pay  to  such  municipal  corporation; and, in
  addition, such municipal corporation may  earn  from  and  out  of  such
  operation  a fair return on the value of the property used and useful in
  such public utility service, over  and  above  costs  of  operation  and
  necessary  and proper reserves.  Profits resulting from the operation of
  such a public utility service may be used for the payment of expenses or
  obligations  incurred  by  such  municipal  corporation  for   municipal
  purposes  or  for the payment of refunds to consumers. The provisions of
  this section shall not apply  to  any  gas,  electric  or  water  public
  utility service operated by the city of New York or any agency thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 94-A - Tax Equivalent Payments of the City of Jamestown Board of Public Utilities.

§  94-a.  Tax  equivalent  payments  of the city of Jamestown board of
  public utilities. Notwithstanding any law, rule  or  regulation  to  the
  contrary, in addition to the amount equivalent to taxes authorized to be
  earned  and  paid  pursuant  to section ninety-four of this chapter, the
  city of Jamestown is hereby authorized in the operation of its board  of
  public  utilities  electric  utility  service  to earn and pay from such
  operation to the Jamestown city school district an amount equivalent  to
  taxes  which  said service, if privately owned, would pay to such school
  district. The terms and conditions of any such tax  equivalent  payments
  shall be determined in accordance with agreements entered into from time
  to time between such school district and such board of public utilities.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 95 - Youth Agencies and Assistance.

§  95.  Youth  agencies and assistance. Any municipality as defined by
  section two hundred forty of  this  chapter  is  hereby  authorized  and
  empowered  to establish, maintain and operate a bureau or agency thereof
  for the purpose of coordinating  and  supplementing  the  activities  of
  public  and  private agencies devoted in whole or in part to the welfare
  and protection of youth therein, and to undertake and promote activities
  and establish, maintain and operate projects devoted in whole or in part
  to  providing  leisure-time  activities  for  youth  or  assistance   to
  children.  Any  municipality  as defined by section two hundred forty of
  this chapter may appropriate, raise and expend moneys for  the  purposes
  of  establishing,  maintaining and operating such bureau or such agency,
  and may also receive and expend  moneys  from  the  state,  the  federal
  government or private individuals, corporations or associations for such
  purposes.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 95-A - Programs for the Aging.

§  95-a.  Programs  for  the aging. Any county, city, town, village or
  school  district  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  establish,
  maintain and operate programs devoted in whole or in part to the welfare
  of  the  aging,  and  to  contract with private, nonprofit corporations,
  associations, institutions or agencies for the operation and maintenance
  of such programs.  Any  such  county,  city,  town,  village  or  school
  district  may  appropriate,  raise and expend moneys for the purposes of
  establishing,  maintaining  and  operating,  or  contracting   for   the
  operation  and  maintenance  of  such programs, and may also receive and
  expend  moneys  from  the  state,  the  federal  government  or  private
  individuals, corporations or associations for such purposes.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 96 - Municipal Community Garden Activities.

§  96.  Municipal  community  garden  activities. 1. A municipality is
  authorized to hold land, however acquired, either in fee or of a  lesser
  interest,  or  by  lease,  contract  or agreement with the owners and to
  allow same to be used  for  community  gardening  under  the  terms  and
  conditions  established in article thirty-eight of the executive law, as
  applicable, for such period of time and under such further conditions as
  may be authorized by local law. Such use of land is a valid exercise  of
  municipal  powers.   A municipality may encourage individuals, community
  organizations and groups to use vacant lands  and  municipal  facilities
  for  such  period  of time and under such conditions as the municipality
  may determine for use in community garden programs,  including  but  not
  limited  to,  a  condition  that  users  possess liability insurance and
  accept liability for injury or damage resulting from use of  the  vacant
  public   land  for  community  gardening  purposes.  A  fee  related  to
  preparation of assigned lots may be charged participants.
2. A municipality may establish a  program  in  conjunction  with  the
  cooperative   extension   or  county  extension  association  for  ready
  identification  of  accessible  land  resources  in   the   municipality
  available for such programs.  Any community garden program should to the
  fullest  extent  practicable  be  community  in  scope in order that all
  interested families and individuals, who reside in the area, be afforded
  an equal opportunity  to  use  available  plots  subject  to  reasonable
  continuing tenure.
3.  A  municipal corporation may assist the development of a community
  garden by contributing, or providing at cost, from resources  under  the
  control  of  the municipality, upon agreement with the user of such land
  as approved pursuant to the local finance law: initial site preparation,
  including top  soil  and  grading;  water  systems;  perimeter  fencing;
  storage bins or sheds, and other necessary appurtenances or equipment.
4.  At  the  discretion  of  the  municipality,  fertilizer  including
  municipally produced  compost,  seeds,  or  tools  may  be  procured  in
  quantity  and  made  available  at  cost to community groups involved in
  garden projects. A tool lending  facility  may  be  established  by  the
  municipality  so  that  gardening  tools  are  available on an equitable
  rotating basis to all members of the community. Such assistance shall be
  a valid municipal purpose.
5. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this section,  a
  community  gardening  program  may  be  deemed part of a youth or senior
  citizen program.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 96-A - Use of Certain Lands for the Construction and Operation of Neighborhood Youth Centers.

* §  96-a.  Use of certain lands for the construction and operation of
  neighborhood  youth  centers.  1.   Notwithstanding   any   inconsistent
  provisions of law, the governing board of each municipal corporation may
  enter  into  a  contract  with  a public or private youth agency leasing
  lands, other than inalienable lands, owned by such municipal corporation
  for the purpose of the construction  thereon  of  a  neighborhood  youth
  center by such agency.
2.  At the expiration of the term specified in such contract, title to
  the neighborhood youth center and appurtenances thereto, free of any and
  all liens and encumbrances of any nature whatsoever, shall vest  in  the
  municipal corporation.
3. For the purposes of this section, the term "public or private youth
  agency" means any public or non-profit agency providing programs for the
  moral, physical, or mental improvement, or for the social well-being, of
  the youth of the municipal corporation.
* NB There are 2 § 96-a's
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 96-A*2 - Protection of Historical Places, Buildings and Works of Art.

* § 96-a. Protection of historical places, buildings and works of art.
  In  addition  to  any  power  or authority of a municipal corporation to
  regulate by planning or zoning laws and regulations or by local laws and
  regulations, the governing  board  or  local  legislative  body  of  any
  county,  city,  town  or village is empowered to provide by regulations,
  special conditions and restrictions  for  the  protection,  enhancement,
  perpetuation and use of places, districts, sites, buildings, structures,
  works  of  art,  and other objects having a special character or special
  historical or aesthetic interest or  value.  Such  regulations,  special
  conditions  and  restrictions  may  include  appropriate  and reasonable
  control of the use or appearance of neighboring private property  within
  public  view, or both. In any such instance such measures, if adopted in
  the exercise of the police power, shall be reasonable and appropriate to
  the purpose, or if constituting  a  taking  of  private  property  shall
  provide  for  due  compensation,  which  may  include  the limitation or
  remission of taxes.
* NB There are 2 § 96-a's
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 96-B - Tree Conservation.

§  96-b. Tree conservation. 1. The legislature hereby finds that there
  is a direct relationship between  the  planting  of  trees,  shrubs  and
  associated  vegetation  in  sufficient number in populated areas and the
  health, safety, and welfare  of  communities,  and  as  related  to  the
  natural,  scenic,  and  aesthetic  values  of trees and the physical and
  visual qualities of the environment which municipalities are  authorized
  to protect. Trees and such vegetation abate noise, provide welcome shade
  to  people, preserve the balance of oxygen in the air by removing carbon
  dioxide and fostering air quality, and add color and  verdure  to  human
  construction.  They  also stabilize the soil and control water pollution
  by  preventing   soil   erosion   and   flooding,   yield   advantageous
  microclimatic  effects, and provide a natural habitat for wildlife.  The
  destructive and indiscriminate removal of trees and  related  vegetation
  causes  increased  municipal  costs for proper drainage control, impairs
  the benefits of occupancy of existing residential properties and impairs
  the stability and value of both improved and unimproved real property in
  the area of destruction, and adversely affects the health,  safety,  and
  general welfare of the inhabitants of the state.
2. In addition to any power or authority of a municipal corporation to
  regulate  by planning or zoning laws or regulations or by local laws and
  regulations, the local legislative body of any  county,  city,  town  or
  village   is   hereby  empowered  to  provide  for  the  protection  and
  conservation of trees and related vegetation.  Such legislative body may
  require appropriate conditions applicable to any activity involving  the
  removal  or  destruction of trees or the substantial alteration of grade
  level around trees may include, where appropriate, requirements that the
  activity be done as specified in an approved landscape plan and that the
  removed trees be replaced by the  planting  of  the  same  or  alternate
  species  of  trees,  and  may provide, in connection therewith, required
  plantings for screening purposes. Such regulations,  special  conditions
  and  restrictions, adopted in the exercise of the police power, shall be
  reasonable and appropriate to the purpose.  The municipality may require
  the posting of  a  performance  bond  to  assure  compliance  with  this
  section.  All charges and expenses incurred under this section by a town
  shall be a charge upon the taxable property of that  part  of  the  town
  outside any incorporated village.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 97 - Power of Municipalities to Furnish and Contract for Fire and Police Communication System.

§  97.  Power  of  municipalities to furnish and contract for fire and
  police communication system. In a county having  a  population  of  more
  than  five  hundred twenty-five thousand and less than six hundred fifty
  thousand according to the last decennial federal  census,  it  shall  be
  lawful  for  a city located therein, and for said county and any town or
  village located therein, to enter into a contract for  such  a  term  of
  years  as  deemed  advisable  for  the furnishing by said city to such a
  county, any town or village therein, broadcasting services,  auto  radio
  repair  service and services incidental to and in connection with a fire
  and police radio communication  system.  Such  system  of  communication
  shall be maintained and operated by the city. Each municipality electing
  to  have  such  service rendered by the city shall pay to such city such
  sum or sums as shall be agreed upon toward the cost of the operation and
  maintenance of such system. The contract shall state the type of service
  to be rendered, the amount to be  paid  therefor,  the  time  when  such
  payment  shall be made and shall contain such other terms and conditions
  as may be agreed upon between the parties thereto.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 98-A - Acquisition and Lease of Railroad Facilities.

§  98-a.  Acquisition and lease of railroad facilities. 1. Two or more
  cities, towns or villages in the same county or adjoining  counties  may
  jointly acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise, railroad
  rights-of-way and other railroad facilities and property, except rolling
  stock,  located  in such county or counties, and may lease the same to a
  railroad corporation, for periods not in excess of one year and expiring
  not later than the first day of July next succeeding the effective  date
  of such lease, subject to an agreement for the maintenance and operation
  of  such  rights-of-way,  facilities  and property for public use in the
  transportation of persons or property.
2. The local law, ordinance or resolution providing  for  such  action
  shall  be  adopted  by the governing board of each such municipality and
  shall create a committee, to be at all times composed of members of each
  of such boards, to acquire such rights-of-way, facilities and  property,
  in the name of the municipalities jointly, and as their joint agent, and
  may  specify  matters  as  to  which  the  action of the committee shall
  require the joint approval of such boards. The local law,  ordinance  or
  resolution  shall  also  prescribe  the  proportions of the cost of such
  project to be borne by the respective municipalities.
3. The acquisition and lease of  such  rights-of-way,  facilities  and
  property  are  hereby  declared  city,  town  and  village purposes. The
  expenses incurred in connection  herewith  shall  be  a  city,  town  or
  village charge, as the case may be, and may be paid for by appropriation
  of  moneys  available  therefor  or  may  be  financed  in whole or part
  pursuant to the local finance law. The period of probable usefulness  of
  any  indebtedness  contracted  pursuant  to this section shall be thirty
  years.
4. Such local law, ordinance or resolution may be amended from time to
  time with the  concurrence  of  each  of  such  boards,  and  additional
  municipalities  may  be included therein, in the same manner and subject
  to the same conditions as were applicable to the original municipalities
  participating therein.
5. In the event of the abandonment of such project, all rights-of-way,
  facilities and property acquired by the participating municipalities may
  be  sold  and  the  proceeds  distributed  in  the  same  proportion  as
  contributions were made.
6.  No  acquisition,  lease or agreement entered into pursuant to this
  section after the effective date of this subdivision shall be  effective
  until  the  terms and conditions thereof shall have been approved by the
  state commissioner of transportation.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 98-B - Municipal Assistance to Public Authorities Furnishing Transportation Services.

§   98-b.   Municipal  assistance  to  public  authorities  furnishing
  transportation services.  Every city, village, town or county not wholly
  contained within a city the whole or  any  part  of  which  is  directly
  served by a transportation facility operated by a public authority shall
  be  empowered  to make unconditional grants of money or property to such
  public authority for the purpose of assisting it in meeting its  capital
  or  operating expenses, provided such money does not consist of borrowed
  funds and such property has not been acquired by  the  use  of  borrowed
  funds.  Such  purpose  is hereby declared to be a city, county, town and
  village purpose. The term "transportation  facility,"  as  used  herein,
  shall include rapid transit, commuter railroad, omnibus, marine, airport
  and  aviation facilities. The provisions of this section are intended as
  enabling legislation only and shall not be interpreted as implying  that
  absent  their enactment a municipality would lack the power to authorize
  any such grant; but they shall not be interpreted as an authorization to
  public authorities generally to accept such grants.
The acceptance of any such grant  by  a  public  authority  shall  not
  operate  to make such authority an agency of the municipality making the
  grant.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99 - Regulation of Open Wells, Cesspools, Basins or Sumps.

§  99.  Regulation  of  open  wells,  cesspools,  basins or sumps. The
  governing board of any city, town or village may by local law, ordinance
  or resolution regulate the construction,  maintenance  or  use  of  open
  wells,  cesspools,  cisterns,  re-charging basins, catch basins or sumps
  and  may  require  that  such  installations  be  suitably  covered   or
  surrounded  with  protective  fencing.  Provision  shall be made in such
  local laws, ordinances  or  resolutions  for  punishment  of  violations
  thereof.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the state water
  power  and  control commission of any jurisdiction which that commission
  may now or hereafter have pursuant to the provisions of the conservation
  law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-A - Use of Municipally Operated Dumping Ground by Another Municipality.

§  99-a.  Use  of  municipally  operated  dumping  ground  by  another
  municipality. One municipality may contract with any other  municipality
  for  the  use of a municipally operated public dump or dumping ground on
  such terms as may be agreed upon.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-B - Receipts for Money Received; Records of Money Disbursed by Check.

§  99-b.  Receipts  for  money received; records of money disbursed by
  check.  1. Every public officer or employee who shall receive payment of
  money for or on behalf of  any  municipality,  school  district,  public
  corporation  or  political  subdivision  of  which  he  is an officer or
  employee shall, where no other  evidence  satisfactory  for  purpose  of
  audit  is  available, issue a receipt to the person paying the same.  He
  shall also retain a copy of such receipt, which receipt and copy or stub
  thereof shall be numbered consecutively.  The receipt shall be  in  such
  form  as  the  state  comptroller, in the exercise of his supervision of
  municipal accounts, may approve.
2. Whenever, pursuant to  law,  a  local  government,  as  defined  in
  section  ten  of  this  chapter, or any of its officers or employees, is
  required to receive, retain and/or produce for examination  or  audit  a
  cancelled  check  or checks drawn on an account of the local government,
  the local government, officer or employee may, if so authorized  by  the
  governing  body  of the local government, receive, retain and/or produce
  proper alternative documentation in the form of check images supplied by
  the payor bank or trust company in lieu of cancelled checks drawn on the
  accounts of the local government. Such  check  images  shall  show  both
  sides  of  each check and shall be considered the equivalent of original
  cancelled  checks  for  purposes  of   record   keeping   and   auditing
  requirements.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-C - Agreements for Joint Building Inspectors by Municipal Corporations.

§   99-c.  Agreements  for  joint  building  inspectors  by  municipal
  corporations.  It shall be lawful for two or more municipal corporations
  to  engage  jointly  one  building  inspector  and  make  an   agreement
  specifying how such inspector shall be paid for his services.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-D - Planning for Future Capital Improvements.

§  99-d.  Planning for future capital improvements. 1. Notwithstanding
  the provisions of any general, special or local law, the governing board
  or other  appropriate  authority  of  a  municipal  corporation,  school
  district  or  district  corporation  may  authorize  the  preparation of
  surveys,  preliminary  plans  and  detailed  plans,  specifications  and
  estimates  necessary  for planning for a capital improvement which it is
  contemplated might be undertaken in the future and may provide  for  the
  manner in which the cost thereof shall be financed, subject, however, to
  the   applicable  provisions  of  any  general,  special  or  local  law
  respecting the issuance of bonds or notes.
2. The total amount of bonds or capital notes which may be  authorized
  in  any  fiscal  year  of  the municipal corporation, school district or
  district corporation to finance such advance planning pursuant  to  this
  section shall not exceed the maximum amount of budget notes which it may
  issue  in  such year pursuant to subdivision two or subdivision three of
  paragraph a of section 29.00 of the local finance law, as the  case  may
  be,  provided,  however,  that  for  the  purposes  of this subdivision,
  amounts which are to be paid in  the  first  instance  from  improvement
  district  assessments  shall be included in computing "the amount of the
  annual budget" of a town or a county in accordance with section 29.00 of
  such law.
3. If the advance  planning  is  undertaken  for  the  purpose  of  an
  existing  or  proposed  county  or  town  improvement  district,  or any
  extension thereof, the existing district, or the proposed district  when
  created,  or  the  extension thereof, shall reimburse the county or town
  for the cost of such advance planning, including  any  interest  on  any
  obligations  issued to finance such cost. The amount so reimbursed shall
  be applied first to the payment of any outstanding obligations issued to
  finance such expenditure.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-E - Section Heading Enacted as Heading to Sb 1.

§   99-e.   1.   Operation,  improvement  and  maintenance  of  parks.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law,  or
  of  any  charter,  ordinance,  rule  or regulation, any county, except a
  county wholly included within a city and except a county operating under
  an alternative form of county government or under a county charter,  may
  undertake to operate, maintain and improve public parks and recreational
  facilities theretofore established by a municipal corporation within its
  boundaries  on land owned by such municipal corporation. Such county and
  any municipal  corporation  located  therein  may,  when  authorized  by
  majority  vote of the whole number of the members of its governing body,
  enter into an agreement for the aforesaid purpose  for  a  term  not  to
  exceed thirty years, upon such other terms and conditions as such bodies
  shall  determine.  Such  operation, maintenance and improvement shall be
  county purposes  and  the  board  of  supervisors  of  such  county  may
  appropriate and expend county funds for such purposes.
2.  After  such  an  agreement  has  been  executed,  employees of the
  municipal corporation so contracting with the county, who at the time of
  the execution of such agreement  were  employed  in  the  operation  and
  maintenance of the parks and recreational facilities covered by any such
  agreement,  shall  be  transferred  to  the  employ of the county in the
  manner set forth in section seventy of the civil service law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-F - Comprehensive Sewer and Water Studies.

§  99-f.  Comprehensive  sewer  and  water  studies.  1. Any municipal
  corporation may apply for and expend state aid for comprehensive studies
  and reports, designate an appropriate official, department,  bureau,  or
  agency  therefor  and  to  administer such studies, and contract for the
  accomplishment of such  studies,  pursuant  to  section  twelve  hundred
  sixty-three-a  of  the public health law and part five-A of article five
  of the conservation law. Any such comprehensive study  undertaken  by  a
  town  may  include  an  area within any village partly or wholly located
  within the town, provided that the board of trustees of any such village
  shall have consented to such inclusion.
2. The governing board of any municipal corporation may confer upon an
  appropriate official, department, bureau or agency the duty of  planning
  for the sewer and water needs of the municipality.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-J - Control of Aquatic Plant Growth.

§  99-j.  Control of aquatic plant growth. Every municipal corporation
  is, and any two or  more  municipal  corporations  jointly  are,  hereby
  authorized and empowered to take such action as may be required to adopt
  plans and specifications and enter into a contract or contracts, or take
  such  other  action as may be required for the control of aquatic growth
  as it may deem to be necessary or desirable, in  the  case  of  a  joint
  project  by two or more municipal corporations, the share of the cost of
  such project or activity to be borne by each such municipal  corporation
  shall  be  fixed by contract. The expenditure of moneys for such purpose
  by a municipal corporation shall be deemed a  lawful  municipal  purpose
  and  the  moneys  appropriated  therefor shall be raised by tax upon the
  taxable real property within  the  municipal  corporation  in  the  same
  manner  as  moneys  for  other lawful municipal purposes. Each municipal
  corporation is hereby authorized to accept and disburse grants of public
  or private money or other aid paid or made available  by  the  state  or
  federal government for any such purpose.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-K - Fees to Jurors or Witnesses.

§  99-k.  Fees  to  jurors  or  witnesses.  Notwithstanding  any other
  provision of law, no fees are payable to a  juror  or  witness  for  his
  service  or  attendance  in  a  local  criminal  court,  except that the
  governing board of any city, town of the first class or village  of  the
  first  class  is  hereby  authorized  and  may  provide  for  payment of
  compensation to jurors only, in a local criminal court in criminal cases
  in any such city, town of the first class or village of the first class.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-L - Fees in Criminal Actions and Other Proceedings.

§  99-l.  Fees in criminal actions and other proceedings. 1. Towns and
villages, for their own respective benefits shall be entitled to receive
for the services of the town court and the  village  court  in  criminal
actions and other proceedings:
(a)  For all services in each case of a misdemeanor or other offenses,
including misdemeanors and  moving  violations  under  the  vehicle  and
traffic  law, instituted in and triable in such a court, wherein a fine,
if imposed, would be the property of the state, fifteen dollars.
(b) For all services in each criminal proceeding instituted before and
triable by such a court, wherein  a  fine,  if  imposed,  would  be  the
property of the state, fifteen dollars.
(c) For all services in any case in which the court acts upon a felony
complaint, to be paid by the county, ten dollars.
(d)  For  all  services in any case in which the defendant is held for
appearance before another court, no fee.
(e) For endorsing a warrant from another county, no fee.
(f) For furnishing copies of papers in any proceeding, at the rate  of
twenty-five cents per folio of one hundred words.
(g) For return to any appeal to be paid by the county, ten dollars.
(h)  For  examination of any information and depositions and issuing a
search warrant, including  any  disposition  upon  the  return  thereof,
fifteen dollars.
(i)  For  issuing a license suspension or revocation order pursuant to
paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section eleven hundred  ninety-three
of  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law, providing the license suspension or
revocation order  is  forwarded  to  the  commissioner  along  with  the
certificates required in sections five hundred thirteen and five hundred
fourteen  of the vehicle and traffic law within ninety-six hours, or for
suspending a license  pursuant  to  clause  a  of  subparagraph  one  of
paragraph  (e) of subdivision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three
of such law, providing the license and  the  certificate  of  magistrate
required  in  section five hundred thirteen of such law are forwarded to
the commissioner within ninety-six hours, fifteen dollars.
* 2. The county of Nassau shall be entitled to receive the amounts set
forth in subdivision one of this section for the services of the  Nassau
county  traffic  and  parking  violations agency and for all services in
each case of a parking violation, instituted and triable in such agency,
wherein a fine is imposed, a surcharge of ten dollars.
* NB Effective until December 31, 2025
* 2. The county of Nassau shall be entitled to receive the amounts set
forth in subdivision one of this section  for  the  services  of  Nassau
county traffic and parking violations agency.
* NB Effective December 31, 2025
3.  The county of Suffolk shall be entitled to receive the amounts set
forth in subdivision one of this section for the services of the Suffolk
county traffic and parking violations agency.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-P - Municipality, District Corporation or School District as Reciprocal Insurer.

§  99-p.  Municipality,  district  corporation  or  school district as
  reciprocal  insurer.  Any  county,   town,   city,   village,   district
  corporation  (as defined in paragraph three of section 2.00 of the local
  finance law), or school district and board  of  cooperative  educational
  services,  may  become  a  subscriber  to a municipal reciprocal insurer
  formed under article sixty-one of the insurance law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-Q - Facilities for the Unified Court System.

§  99-q.  Facilities for the unified court system. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of any general, special or local law, charter or ordinance to
  the contrary, a municipality which is a political subdivision  specified
  in  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  two  of  section thirty-nine of the
  judiciary law may upon the approval of its governing board:
1. Sell, convey, lease, exchange or otherwise make  available  to  any
  person,  firm,  association,  corporation  or agency, including a public
  body, the title to or an interest  in  real  property,  and  enter  into
  contracts   therefor,  for  the  design,  construction,  reconstruction,
  rehabilitation or improvement of facilities provided or to  be  provided
  for the purposes of the unified court system of the state; and
2.  Acquire  by  purchase,  lease,  sublease  or  other  agreement the
  facilities provided or to be provided for the purposes  of  the  unified
  court system of the state.
All  contracts entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section
  shall be subject to the provisions of sections one hundred one  and  one
  hundred three of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-R - Contracts for Services.

§  99-r.  Contracts for services. Notwithstanding any other provisions
  of law to the contrary, the governing board of any municipal corporation
  may enter  into  agreements  and/or  contracts  with  any  state  agency
  including  any  department, board, bureau, commission, division, office,
  council, committee, or  officer  of  the  state,  whether  permanent  or
  temporary,  or  a  public  benefit corporation or public authority, or a
  soil and  water  conservation  district,  and  any  unit  of  the  state
  university  of  New York, pursuant to and consistent with sections three
  hundred fifty-five and sixty-three hundred  one  of  the  education  law
  within or without such municipal corporation to provide or receive fuel,
  equipment,  maintenance  and  repair,  supplies,  water  supply,  street
  sweeping or maintenance, sidewalk maintenance, right-of-way maintenance,
  storm water and other drainage, sewage  disposal,  landscaping,  mowing,
  technology  services,  or  any  other services of government. Such state
  agency, soil and water conservation  district,  or  unit  of  the  state
  university  of  New  York,  within  the limits of any specific statutory
  appropriation authorized and made available therefor by the  legislature
  or  by  the  governing  body responsible for the operation of such state
  agency, soil and water conservation  district,  or  unit  of  the  state
  university  of  New York may contract with any municipal corporation for
  such services as herein provided and may provide, in  agreements  and/or
  contracts  entered  into  pursuant  to  this section, for the reciprocal
  provision of services or other consideration of approximately equivalent
  value, including, but not limited to, routine and/or emergency services,
  monies, equipment, buildings and facilities, materials or  a  commitment
  to  provide future routine and/or emergency services, monies, equipment,
  buildings and facilities or materials. Any such contract may be  entered
  into  by  direct negotiations and shall not be subject to the provisions
  of section one hundred three of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-U - Municipal Cooperation Agreements for Counties.

§  99-u.  Municipal  cooperation  agreements  for counties. The county
  legislative body in any county may:
1. enter into municipal cooperation agreements, as provided in article
  five-G of this chapter, with one or more other counties for the creation
  of a task force to determine  the  needs  for  mutual  aid  response  to
  natural   or  manmade  disaster,  widespread  outbreak  of  communicable
  disease, mass casualty incident or terrorist attack; to formulate a plan
  for such mutual aid; and implement such plan; and
2. appropriate and expend such sums  as  it  may  deem  necessary  and
  proper   for   the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  such  municipal
  cooperation agreements.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-V - Veterans Services; Display of Events.

§  99-v. Veterans services; display of events. Each county, city, town
  or village may adopt a local law to  provide  a  bulletin  board  to  be
  conspicuously  displayed  in such county, city, town or village building
  holding its local legislative body or municipal offices.  Such  bulletin
  board  shall  be  used  by  veterans  organizations,  the New York state
  department of veterans' services, the county veterans service agency  or
  city  veterans  service agency to display information regarding veterans
  in such county, city, town or village. Such information may include, but
  not be limited to, benefits or upcoming veterans related events  in  the
  community.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-X - Prohibit Symbols of Hate.

§  99-x. Prohibit symbols of hate. 1. A municipality shall not sell or
display any symbols of hate or any similar image, or  tangible  personal
property,  inscribed  with  such  an image unless the image appears in a
book, digital medium, museum, or  otherwise  serves  an  educational  or
historical purpose.
2.  For  the  purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
(a) "Symbols of hate" shall include, but not be limited to, symbols of
white  supremacy,  neo-Nazi  ideology  or  the  Battle   Flag   of   the
Confederacy.
(b)  "Municipality"  shall mean any county, town, village, city, board
of cooperative educational services,  other  special  district,  or  any
office or agency thereof.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-Y - Internet Access and Communications.

§  99-y. Internet access and communications. The governing body of any
  county, city, town or village is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to
  establish,    construct,    and    maintain    broadband   and   related
  telecommunications infrastructure, or to contract for  the  construction
  and  maintenance  of  such  services  with  a  corporation  or nonprofit
  organization,  and  for  the  maintenance,  care,  and  replacement   of
  infrastructure  in  connection  therewith,  if such governing body finds
  that such facilities are necessary. For the purposes  of  this  section,
  "nonprofit  organization"  shall  mean  a  corporation having tax exempt
  status under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States  internal  revenue
  code,   or   any  organization  incorporated  under  the  not-for-profit
  corporation law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 99-Z - Municipal Officers or Employees Prohibited From Displaying Political Advertisements on Public Property.

§  99-z.  Municipal  officers  or employees prohibited from displaying
political advertisements on public property. 1.  For  purposes  of  this
section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a)  "Municipal  officer  or  employee" shall have the same meaning as
defined pursuant to section eight hundred of this chapter,  except  that
it  shall also include members of any volunteer fire department which is
part of such municipality.
(b) "Political advertisement"  shall  mean  any  poster,  sign,  flag,
banner,  picture,  sticker,  patch, bumper sticker, article of clothing,
accessory or any other item meant to  advertise  or  promote  a  certain
individual for political office.
2.  A  municipal officer or employee, whether paid or unpaid, shall be
prohibited from displaying or causing  to  be  displayed  any  political
advertisement on or within any public building occupied in the discharge
of  official  duties  by an individual employed or holding office in the
government of such municipality, or on any public flag  pole,  monument,
sign  or  any  other  permanent structure that such municipal officer or
employee interacts with as part of their official capacity,  or  on  any
uniform,  accessory or other gear worn or used by a municipal officer or
employee as part of their official capacity, as well as on or within any
municipally owned vehicle, vehicle owned by a volunteer fire company, or
any equipment owned by a municipality or fire department.
3. This section shall not apply when such  a  political  advertisement
appears  in  a  book,  digital  medium,  museum,  or otherwise serves an
educational or historical purpose, or in  instances  where  the  certain
individual  who  is  the  subject  of  such  political  advertisement is
deceased.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 100 - Definitions.

§ 100. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "Political  subdivision"  means  a  municipal  corporation, school
  district, district corporation  and  board  of  cooperative  educational
  services.
2. "Fire company" means:
a.  A  volunteer fire company of a county, city, town, village or fire
  district fire department, whether or  not  any  such  company  has  been
  incorporated under any general or special law,
b.  A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters
  and which was incorporated under or is  subject  to  the  provisions  of
  section  fourteen  hundred  two  of  the not-for-profit corporation law,
  which is not included within paragraph a above, if such  corporation  is
  by law under the general control of, or recognized as a fire corporation
  by, the governing board of a city, town, village or fire district, or
c.  A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters
  and which  was  incorporated  under,  or  established  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of, any general or special law, which is not included within
  paragraphs a and b above, if  such  corporation  is  by  law  under  the
  general  control  of,  or  recognized  as  a  fire  corporation  by, the
  governing board of a city, town, village, fire district  or  a  district
  corporation other than a fire district.
3.  "Voluntary  ambulance service" means a voluntary ambulance service
  as defined in article thirty of the public health law and  possessing  a
  valid  statement of registration or possessing a valid ambulance service
  certificate pursuant to article thirty of the public health law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 100-A - Declaration of Policy.

§  100-a.  Declaration  of  policy.    It is hereby declared to be the
  policy of this state  that  this  article  shall  be  construed  in  the
  negotiation  of contracts for public works and public purchases to which
  political subdivisions or and district therein  is  a  party  so  as  to
  assure  the  prudent and economical use of public moneys for the benefit
  of all the inhabitants of the state and to facilitate the acquisition of
  facilities and commodities of maximum quality  at  the  lowest  possible
  cost.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5-A - Public Contracts › 102 - Deposits on Plans and Specifications.

§  102.  Deposits  on plans and specifications. 1. Notwithstanding any
  inconsistent provision  of  any  general,  special  or  local  law,  the
  officer, board or agency of any political subdivision or of any district
  therein, charged with the duty of preparing plans and specifications for
  and  awarding  or  entering into contracts for the performance of public
  work, may require, as a deposit to guarantee the  safe  return  of  such
  plans  and  specifications,  the  payment  of  a fixed sum of money, not
  exceeding one hundred dollars for  each  copy  thereof,  by  persons  or
  corporations desiring a copy thereof. Any person or corporation desiring
  a  copy of such plans and specifications and making the payment required
  by this section shall be furnished  with  one  copy  of  the  plans  and
  specifications.
2. If a proposal is duly submitted by any person or corporation making
  the deposit required by subdivision one and such proposal is accompanied
  by   a  certified  check  or  other  security  in  accordance  with  the
  requirements contained in the plans and specifications or in the  public
  advertisement  for bids, and if the copy of the plans and specifications
  used by such person or corporation, other than the successful bidder, is
  returned in good condition within thirty days following the award of the
  contract covered by such plans and specifications or  the  rejection  of
  the  bid  of such person or corporation, the full amount of such deposit
  for one copy of the plans and specifications shall be returned  to  such
  person   or   corporation,  including  the  successful  bidder.  Partial
  reimbursement, in an amount equal to the full amount of such deposit for
  one  set  of  plans  and  specifications  per  unsuccessful  bidder   or
  non-bidder  less  the  actual  cost  of  reproduction  of  the plans and
  specifications as determined by the officer,  board  or  agency  of  any
  political  subdivision or of any district therein, charged with the duty
  of preparing the plans and specifications, shall be made for the  return
  of  all  other  copies of the plans and specifications in good condition
  within thirty days following the award of the contract or the  rejection
  of the bids covered by such plans and specifications.