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2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 132 - Deputy Commissioner.

§ 132. Deputy   commissioner.   The  deputy  commissioner  shall  have
  authority  to  administer  oaths  and  take  evidence,  affidavits   and
  acknowledgments  in  all  matters  and  proceedings  pertaining  to  the
  department. He shall have general supervision over the  records  of  the
  department  and  its officers and shall perform such other duties as may
  be prescribed by the commissioner or by  law  or  by  ordinance  of  the
  common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 133 - Rules, Orders and Regulations.

§ 133. Rules,  orders  and  regulations.  The  commissioner  of public
  safety shall make, adopt and enforce such reasonable rules,  orders  and
  regulations,  not  inconsistent with law, as may be reasonably necessary
  to effect a prompt and efficient exercise of all  the  powers  conferred
  and  the  performance  of  all  duties  imposed  by  law upon him or the
  department under his jurisdiction. He is  authorized  and  empowered  to
  make,  adopt,  promulgate  and  enforce  reasonable  rules,  orders  and
  regulations  for  the   government,   discipline,   administration   and
  disposition  of  the  officers  and  members  of  the  police  and  fire
  departments, and for the hearing, examination, investigation, trial  and
  determination  of charges made or prepared against any officer or member
  of said departments for neglect of  official  duty  or  incompetency  or
  incapacity  to perform his official duties or some delinquency seriously
  affecting his general character or fitness for the office, and  may,  in
  his  discretion,  punish any such officer or member found guilty thereof
  by reprimand, forfeiting and  withholding  pay  for  a  specified  time,
  supension during a fixed period or dismissal from office; but no officer
  or member of said departments shall be removed or otherwise punished for
  any  other  cause,  nor  until  specific  charges  in  writing have been
  preferred against and served upon him, and  he  shall  have  been  found
  guilty  thereof,  after reasonable notice and upon due trial before said
  commissioner in the form and manner prescribed by law and the rules  and
  regulations of the department.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 134 - Constitution of Police and Fire Departments.

§ 134. Constitution  of  police  and  fire departments. The police and
  fire departments shall, as to  their  membership  and  component  parts,
  remain  as  now constituted until the same shall be changed by action of
  the common council. The  common  council  has  power  at  all  times  by
  ordinance  to  determine  the  number of officers and members of each of
  said departments and the classes and grades into  which  they  shall  be
  divided,  except that it shall not have the power to diminish the number
  of the members of either of said departments as now fixed. The number of
  officers or members of either of said departments shall not be increased
  without the approval of the board of  estimate  and  apportionment.  The
  common  council  may  pass  ordinances not inconsistent with law for the
  government of the police and fire departments, and regulating the powers
  and duties  of  their  officers  and  members.  The  commissioner  shall
  appoint, as vacancies in said department occur, all officers and members
  thereof,  and classify and apportion them into grades to conform to such
  ordinances.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 135 - Membership.

§ 135. Membership.  No  person shall be appointed to membership in the
  police or fire departments of the city, or continue to  hold  membership
  therein, who is not a citizen of good moral character, who has ever been
  convicted  of  a  felony, who can not understandingly read and write the
  English language, and who shall not have resided in the city during  the
  two  years  next  preceding his appointment. The commissioner shall make
  all appointments, promotions and changes of status of the  officers  and
  members  of  the  police  and  fire  departments  in accordance with the
  provisions of the civil service law of the state,  except  as  otherwise
  provided herein. In making promotions, seniority and meritorious service
  in the department, as well as superior capacity, as shown by competitive
  examination, shall be taken into account. Individual acts of bravery may
  be  treated  as  acts  of  meritorious  service, and the relative weight
  therefor shall be fixed by the municipal civil  service  commission.  No
  member of the police or fire departments shall hold any other office nor
  be employed in any other department of the city government.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 136 - Terms of Office.

§ 136. Terms   of   office.   All  members  of  the  police  and  fire
  departments, subject to the  power  of  removal  hereinafter  specified,
  shall hold their respective offices during good behavior or until by age
  or  disease  they  shall  become  permanently incapacitated to discharge
  their duties.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 137 - Discipline.

§ 137. Discipline.  If  a charge may be made by any person against any
  officer or member of the police or fire departments  that  he  has  been
  negligent  or  derelict in the performance of his official duties, or is
  incompetent or without capacity to perform the same or is guilty of some
  delinquency seriously affecting his general character or fitness for the
  office, the charge must be in writing, in the  form  prescribed  by  the
  rules  and  regulations of the commissioner of public safety, and a copy
  thereof  must  be  served  upon  the  accused  officer  or  member.  The
  commissioner  shall  then proceed to hear, try and determine the charge.
  The accused shall have the right to be present at his trial  and  to  be
  heard  in  person and by counsel and to give and furnish evidence in his
  defense. All trials shall be open to the public.  The  commissioner  has
  power  to  issue  subpoenas,  in  his  name, to compel the attendance of
  witnesses, and shall upon the oral application of the  accused  issue  a
  subpoena  on  the behalf of the accused, leaving the space for the names
  of his witnesses blank that  he  may  fill  in  their  names,  upon  any
  proceeding  authorized  by  the rules and regulations of the department,
  and any person served with a subpoena is bound to attend in obedience to
  the command thereof; and the commissioner shall compel the attendance of
  witnesses and compel them to testify in the same manner as in  the  case
  of  any  officer  or board authorized by law to issue subpoenas and take
  testimony. If the accused shall be  found  guilty  of  the  charge  made
  against him, the commissioner may punish him by reprimand, by forfeiting
  and  withholding  pay  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  thirty  days, by
  suspension without pay during a period not to exceed thirty days, or  by
  dismissal  from  office.   At any time within one year after the date of
  dismissal, any officer or member dismissed may make application  to  the
  commissioner  for reinstatement. Such application must be in writing and
  contain a release of the city from all claims for back compensation. The
  commissioner may, in his discretion, rehear and redetermine the  charges
  and  reinstate  such  officer or member, with or without an allowance of
  the whole or a part of the time since such dismissal to  be  applied  on
  his  time of service in the department, or may affirm such dismissal. At
  any time within one year after this chapter takes effect or  within  one
  year  after  the  date  of  resignation,  an  officer  or member who has
  resigned may make application to the commissioner for reinstatement  and
  the  commissioner  may,  in  his discretion, reinstate him, but the time
  between the date of resignation and reinstatement shall not apply on his
  time of service in the department.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 138 - Appeal From Determination of Commissioner.

§ 138. Appeal  from  determination  of  commissioner. In case any such
  officer or member is aggrieved by the determination of the  commissioner
  on  any trial of charges, as specified in the preceding section, he may,
  within thirty days after the rendering of such  determination,  take  an
  appeal  therefrom  on  questions of law to the appellate division of the
  supreme court. An appeal taken, as prescribed herein, shall be perfected
  by the service of notice of appeal  upon  the  commissioner.  He  shall,
  within  ten  days thereafter, make and file with the county clerk of the
  county  in  which  the  city  is  situated  a  complete  return  of  the
  proceedings  on  such trial. For the use of the parties and the court on
  such appeal, the appellant shall cause a certified or stipulated copy of
  said return to be printed and issued and  all  the  rules  and  statutes
  concerning  the  correction  and  service  and  use of a printed case on
  appeal shall as far as appropriate  be  applicable  to  the  correction,
  service and use on appeal of said records.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 140 - Pension Funds.

§ 140. Pension   funds.   The   provisions   of   law   governing  the
  establishment and maintenance  of  pension  funds  for  the  benefit  of
  members  of  the police and fire departments shall be unimpaired by this
  chapter. The mayor, comptroller and commissioner of  public  safety  and
  their  successors  in  office shall constitute the trustees of each such
  fund and shall have  the  care,  control,  management  and  distribution
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 141 - Chief of Police.

§ 141. Chief  of  police. The chief of police shall have the power and
  it shall be his duty  to  enforce  all  rules  and  regulations  of  the
  commissioner  of  public  safety  relating  to the police department; to
  commit any person charged with a criminal offense until  an  examination
  shall  be had before the proper magistrate; to administer oaths and take
  affidavits in respect to all matters pertaining to his official  duties,
  and  to  perform  such  other  duties  as  may be prescribed by law, the
  commissioner of public safety, or ordinance of the common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 142 - Powers and Duties of Members of Police Department.

§ 142. Powers  and duties of members of police department. The members
  of the police department, other than surgeons, in criminal matters  have
  all  the  powers of police officers under the general laws of the state,
  and they shall also have the power and it shall be their duty to  arrest
  any  person  found  by them violating any of the penal ordinances of the
  city or laws of the state, and to take such  person  before  the  proper
  city  magistrate.  Such person shall be dealt with in the same manner as
  if he had been arrested upon a warrant theretofore duly issued  by  such
  magistrate. They shall report violations of law and ordinances coming to
  their  knowledge  in  any  way under regulations to be prescribed by the
  commissioner of public safety. They shall also have, in every other part
  of the state, in criminal matters all the powers of constables  and  any
  warrant  for  search or arrest issued by any magistrate of the state may
  be executed by them in any part of the  state  according  to  the  tenor
  thereof  without  indorsement.  They shall possess such other powers and
  perform such other duties as may be provided by law or ordinance of  the
  common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 143 - Service of Process.

§ 143. Service  of  process.  All  criminal  process  for  any offense
  committed within the city, and all process to recover or to enforce  any
  penalty  for the violation of any city ordinance issued out of any court
  or by any magistrate within the city, and  every  process,  subpoena  or
  bench warrant issued by the district attorney of the county in which the
  city is situated, relating to any offense committed within the city, and
  every  process, subpoena or warrant issued by any coroner of such county
  in any inquest held in the city relative to the death of any person, may
  be served by any member of the police department.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 145 - Department of Health.

§ 145. Department  of  health. The commissioner of public safety shall
  exercise all the powers and be charged with  all  the  duties  conferred
  upon or required of local boards of health by the laws of this state, so
  far  as the same pertain to cities, with the exceptions, limitations and
  additions herein contained.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 146 - Health Officer.

§ 146. Health  officer.  No person shall be eligible to appointment as
  health officer unless he shall be a physician and surgeon duly  licensed
  to  practice under the laws of this state, and who has practiced as such
  for at least ten years. The health officer shall possess such powers and
  perform such duties as shall  be  delegated  to  or  prescribed  by  the
  commissioner of public safety or by ordinance of the common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 147 - Deputy Health Officer.

§ 147. Deputy  health officer. The health officer by the authority and
  under the direction of the commissioner of public safety may  appoint  a
  deputy,  to  hold office during his pleasure. He may, when authorized by
  the commissioner and subject to the approval of the  board  of  estimate
  and  apportionment, appoint such other assistants and employ such health
  and sanitary experts as may be required to carry into effect the powers,
  decisions, orders and directions vested in said commissioner and  health
  officer  by  this chapter and otherwise by law. The compensation of such
  deputy, assistants and experts  shall  be  fixed  by  the  commissioner,
  subject to the approval of the board of estimate and apportionment.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 148 - Appeals From Orders of Health Officer.

§ 148. Appeals  from orders of health officer. Any person aggrieved by
  an order, decision or  direction  of  the  health  officer,  may  appeal
  therefrom  to  the  commissioner,  who may affirm, reverse or modify the
  order, decision or direction appealed from. Such appeal must be made  by
  serving  on  the  health  officer  a written notice of appeal within two
  days, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, or within such  further  time
  as  shall  be  allowed  by the commissioner after the appellant receives
  notice of the order, decision or direction  appealed  from.  Within  two
  days  after  receiving such notice of appeal, Sundays and legal holidays
  excepted, the  health  officer  shall  make  a  written  return  to  the
  commissioner  of the facts and evidence on which such an order, decision
  or direction is founded. Upon receipt of such return, or if no return be
  made within the time specified, the commissioner shall forthwith proceed
  to hear and determine the matter. Upon such appeal the commissioner need
  not be confined to the evidence contained  in  the  return  but  in  his
  discretion  may  take  additional  evidence.  Until  the decision of the
  appeal be made, the order, decision or direction appealed from shall  be
  suspended.  In  case  of failure to sustain the appeal, the commissioner
  may, in his discretion, impose costs not exceeding ten dollars upon  the
  appellant.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 149 - Inspection of Public Buildings.

§ 149. Inspection   of   public  buildings.  The  health  officer  and
  superintendent of buildings may inspect and  advise  as  to  the  proper
  heating,  ventilation and drainage of public buildings under the control
  of the city or any of its departments, and in case any such building  is
  in  use  or  in  process  of erection without, in the opinion of either,
  proper arrangements for heating,  ventilation  or  drainage,  he  shall,
  subject  to  the  right  of  appeal herein provided, stop the use or the
  erection of such buildings, direct such  arrangements  to  be  made  and
  restrain further work upon the building until they are made.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 150 - Approval of Plans for Sewers and Drains.

§ 150. Approval  of  plans for sewers and drains. All plans for sewers
  and drains shall be submitted to the health  officer  for  his  approval
  before  contracts are let for the construction of the same, and, in case
  he shall disapprove the  same,  such  sewer  and  drains  shall  not  be
  constructed  unless, on appeal to the commissioner, he shall approve the
  same. The health officer has power,  subject  to  the  right  of  appeal
  herein  provided,  to  stop the construction or use of drains and sewers
  which are not properly constructed or properly used, or which are not in
  accordance with plans previously approved and adopted.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 152 - Actions to Restrain Nuisances.

§ 152. Actions  to restrain nuisances. The commissioner is authorized,
  by and with the advice and consent of the corporation  counsel,  in  the
  name  of  the  city,  to  maintain  actions  to  restrain the threatened
  performance of any act contrary to his orders, directions, decisions  or
  ordinances  or  those  of  the superintendent of public buildings or any
  violation of the rules and regulations of the  department  of  buildings
  and  to restrain and abate nuisances; and for the purpose of obtaining a
  temporary  injunction  in  any  such  action  no  undertaking  shall  be
  required.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 153 - Duty in Case of Peril to Public Health.

§ 153. Duty  in  case  of peril to public health. In case of great and
  imminent peril to the public health of the city, by reason of  impending
  pestilence,  it shall be the duty of the commissioner, with the sanction
  of the common council, if it be practicable to  convene  that  body  for
  prompt  action,  or  if  not, when approved by the board of estimate and
  apportionment, to take such measures, and to do, order, or cause  to  be
  done,  such  acts, and to make such extraordinary expenditures in excess
  of the sum appropriated to the department of  health  from  moneys  made
  available  pursuant  to  section  seventy-six of this chapter or section
  29.00 of the local finance law, for the preservation and  protection  of
  the  public  health,  as he may deem necessary and proper. Such peril to
  public health shall be deemed to exist only when and for such period  as
  the  commissioner  and  the  board  of  estimate  and  apportionment, by
  unanimous vote, shall determine.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 155 - Subordinates.

§ 155. Subordinates.  The superintendent of buildings may appoint such
  subordinates  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  board  of  estimate  and
  apportionment  to hold office during his pleasure, and who shall receive
  such compensation as shall be fixed by said board.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 156 - Duties of Superintendent.

§ 156. Duties  of  superintendent.  In  addition  to the duties of the
  superintendent of buildings prescribed herein, or otherwise by law,  the
  common  council  shall  by  ordinance prescribe his duties, and he shall
  have  such  power  and  authority  in  regard  to  the  supervision  and
  inspection  of the erection, construction or alteration of buildings and
  other structures as shall be conferred by  ordinance,  not  inconsistent
  with  the  other  laws  of the state. The common council shall also have
  power to establish  by  ordinance,  and  from  time  to  time  amend,  a
  "building  code,  "  providing  for all matters concerning, affecting or
  relating to the construction, alteration, repair or removal of buildings
  and  structures  heretofore  or  hereafter  erected;  but  no  ordinance
  amending,  repealing  or  modifying  such building code or any provision
  thereof shall be passed by the common council until  notice  shall  have
  been  published for at least ten days in the official paper or papers of
  the city that on a day stated in such notice, the  common  council  will
  consider  the  adoption  of  a proposed ordinance amending, repealing or
  modifying the building code, or a part thereof, generally or in  respect
  of a specified subject, and that a copy of such proposed ordinance is on
  file in the office of the city clerk.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 9 - Department of Public Safety › 157 - Application of Chapter Limited.

§ 157. Application of chapter limited. Where, by special or local laws
  affecting  the  city, a superintendent of buildings is provided for, the
  provisions of this chapter shall not affect the manner  of  appointment,
  tenure  or  term  of  office,  removal or salary or compensation of such
  superintendent, or impair any of the powers or duties  possessed  by  or
  conferred upon him under or by virtue of such special or local laws.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation › 160 - Department of Assessment and Taxation; Powers and Duties of Assessors.

§ 160. Department  of  assessment  and  taxation; powers and duties of
  assessors.   The assessors shall  be  the  head  of  the  department  of
  assessment and taxation. They shall appoint, to hold office during their
  pleasure,  such  deputies,  clerks,  assistants  and subordinates as the
  board of estimate and apportionment shall prescribe. The  assessors  and
  their deputies shall possess all the powers conferred, be subject to all
  the  obligations  imposed and perform all the duties appertaining to the
  office of assessors in the towns  of  the  state  in  reference  to  the
  assessment  of property within the city, except as otherwise provided by
  law. They shall perform all the duties now provided by law in  reference
  to  the  assessment  of  property  for  the purpose of levying taxes and
  assessments for local improvements, imposed according to law.  It  shall
  also  be their duty to install scientific systems of assessment with tax
  maps, unit rules and such other systems and records as may be  necessary
  and  to gather and file useful and available information that appertains
  to the value of property subject to their assessment.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation › 161 - Description of Premises.

§ 161. Description  of premises. In the assessment of any lands in the
  city for any purpose, it shall be sufficient to state the name of one of
  the owners of such lands if the owner  or  owners  or  any  of  them  be
  residents of the city and known to the assessors; if the owner or owners
  be unknown to the assessors or if they be nonresidents and the ownership
  is  unknown  to  the  assessors,  then  the assessment may be designated
  unknown, and there shall be stated the number of the lot and the  block,
  if  subdivided  into lots and blocks and so designated upon the city map
  last adopted by the common council, or the number of  the  lot  or  farm
  lot,  if  not  so subdivided into blocks and lots and so designated, and
  also the street and number of any building thereon; but if the  land  be
  vacant  or  the  building  thereon be not numbered, then the name of the
  street on which it fronts and a brief description of the premises  shall
  be given. In case no inhabited building be on the land and the residence
  of  the  owner  be  unknown, such owner may be designated as unknown. No
  assessment hereafter made in said city  shall  be  held  to  be  invalid
  because  the  same  may  be  made  out  in terms against owner or owners
  unknown or the estate of a deceased person, naming such person,  or  the
  executor,  administrator, heirs or devisees of a deceased person, naming
  such person, or any of them or against a company  or  a  firm  name,  or
  against  a  person  in  whom  is the record title, though not the actual
  title of the property, or for any cause  arising  through  ignorance  or
  mistake as to the names of the owner or owners of the property assessed,
  whether  individually  or  a  corporation,  provided  such  property  is
  sufficiently described on the assessment-rolls  to  reasonably  identify
  and  indicate to a person familiar with the same the particular property
  which  it  was  intended  to  assess.  Every  assessment-roll  shall  be
  considered  as referring to the last adopted map, unless it be otherwise
  stated therein.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation › 162 - Rebates and Deficiencies.

§ 162. Rebates  and  deficiencies.  In  all  cases  of  assessment for
  improvements the assessors shall include in the  apportionment  all  the
  expenses  connected  with  or  which  were incident to the making of the
  improvement and assessment.    Whenever  the  amount  apportioned  shall
  exceed  the  actual  cost  of  the  improvement,  including all expenses
  connected therewith or incidental thereto, the comptroller shall certify
  the amount of the surplus to the  assessors  and  they  shall  thereupon
  declare  a  rebate  and  the  excess  shall  be refunded pro rata to the
  persons who paid their assessments.   If the  amount  assessed  for  any
  improvement  shall be insufficient to cover the cost of the improvement,
  including all expenses connected therewith and incidental  thereto,  the
  comptroller  shall  certify  the  amount of the deficiency to the common
  council and assessors,  and  the  common  council  and  assessors  shall
  forthwith  cause to be assessed and levied the amount of such deficiency
  pro rata upon the property included within the original  assessment  and
  the same shall be assessed, levied and collected in like manner as other
  assessments of a like character.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation › 163 - Assessment Not Invalidated by Irregularities.

§ 163. Assessment  not invalidated by irregularities. No assessment or
  tax shall  be  vacated,  set  aside,  canceled,  annulled,  reviewed  or
  otherwise  questioned  or  affected  by  reason  of any error, omission,
  irregularity or defect, not actually fraudulent, in any of the steps  or
  proceedings  required  to  be  had or taken as preliminary to, or in the
  making of, the assessment, or in the levying or collection of  the  tax,
  nor  in  relation  to or in connection with any proposal, designation of
  materials, contract, work or improvement for or on account of which such
  assessment was made or tax imposed. But all property shall be liable  to
  assessment  and  all  assessments  shall  be valid and of full force and
  effect notwithstanding any such error, omission, irregularity or defect.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation › 164 - Right to Review Assessment or Tax for Local Improvement Limited.

§ 164. Right  to  review  assessment  or  tax  for  local  improvement
  limited.  No action or proceeding to set aside, vacate, cancel or  annul
  any  assessment  or  tax  for  a  local improvement shall be maintained,
  except for total want of jurisdiction to levy and assess the same on the
  part of the officers, board or body authorized by law to make such  levy
  or  assessment  or to order the improvement on account of which the levy
  or assessment was made. No action or proceeding shall be  maintained  to
  modify  or  reduce  any  such  assessment  or  tax  except  for fraud or
  substantial error  by  reason  of  which  the  amount  of  such  tax  or
  assessment  is  in  excess of the amount which should have been lawfully
  levied or assessed.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 10 - Department of Assessment and Taxation › 166 - Consolidation of Separate Proceedings.

§ 166. Consolidation  of separate proceedings. Two or more persons may
  unite in commencing and prosecuting the proceedings to vacate or  modify
  assessments;  and  when  two  or  more  persons  have commenced separate
  proceedings to vacate or modify assessments for  the  same  improvement,
  the  court  before  whom  the  same are commenced or pending, or a judge
  thereof at special term or chambers may, by order, upon due  application
  and notice, consolidate such separate proceedings into one proceeding.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare › 170 - Commissioner; Deputy.

§ 170. Commissioner;  deputy.  The  commissioner of public welfare may
  appoint one or more deputies, and such  other  subordinates  as  may  be
  prescribed  by  the  board of estimate and apportionment. In case of the
  absence or disability of the commissioner or of a vacancy in the office,
  a deputy shall discharge the duties of the office until the commissioner
  returns,  his  disability  ceases  or  the  vacancy   is   filled.   The
  commissioner, and the deputies before entering upon the discharge of the
  duties of their respective offices, shall each execute and file with the
  city  clerk  an  official  undertaking  in  such  penal  sum  as  may be
  prescribed by the common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare › 171 - Powers and Duties of Commissioner.

§ 171. Powers   and   duties  of  commissioner.  The  commissioner  of
  charities shall have the general care,  management,  administration  and
  supervision   of   the   charities,  almshouses,  hospitals,  houses  of
  correction, orphan asylums  and  all  other  similar  institutions,  the
  control  or  government of which belongs or is intrusted to the city. He
  shall make regulations for the expenditure of  the  moneys  appropriated
  for the support or relief of the poor and for the general supervision of
  such  expenditures.  He shall investigate fully the circumstances of all
  persons alleged to be destitute or without proper means of  support,  or
  without  proper  guardianship, or who are in danger of becoming or are a
  public burden in any  respect;  and  also  the  circumstances  of  their
  relatives  or other persons whose duty it is to relieve or maintain them
  or contribute to their support; also to institute and prosecute any  and
  all  actions  and  proceedings  authorized  by law to compel any and all
  persons liable for the care, maintenance, education or  support  of  any
  such  destitute  or  dependent  persons  to  contribute  thereto, and to
  indemnify the city  and  public  against  any  expenditures  on  account
  thereof.  He  shall  also  prosecute  any and all bonds, undertakings or
  recognizances given for any of the purposes herein mentioned or  in  any
  manner  relating thereto. Any and all moneys recovered in any such suit,
  action or proceeding or otherwise  paid  to  or  received  by  the  said
  commissioner  on  account of the care, maintenance, relief, education or
  support of any such persons shall be deposited by the commissioner  with
  the  city  treasurer  as a trust fund, and the same shall be applied and
  expended by the said commissioner for the purpose on  account  of  which
  the  same  were paid. Any surplus remaining in said fund at the close of
  the fiscal year shall be treated  as  an  unexpended  balance  of  money
  appropriated  for such department. The commissioner shall furnish to and
  file with the comptroller a monthly statement in detail of all  receipts
  and  expenditures, including the aid and relief granted by him, with the
  names and addresses of all recipients.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 11 - Department of Public Welfare › 173 - City Owner of Supplies.

§ 173. City owner of supplies. The city shall continue to be the owner
  of  supplies  furnished to any poor person or applicant for relief until
  the same are consumed. If any person to whom the same shall be furnished
  shall sell or exchange the same for money or intoxicating liquors or  in
  any  way  dispose  of  the  same other than in the manner directed, such
  conduct shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 180 - Jurisdiction of Police Court.

§ 180. Jurisdiction  of  police  court. If, under the general or local
  laws, there now exists or shall hereafter be established in the  city  a
  court  of criminal jurisdiction known as the police court, it shall have
  the jurisdiction and powers hereinafter provided.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 181 - Police Justice.

§ 181. Police  justice.  There shall be one justice of the court to be
  known as the police justice. Said office shall be filled by election  by
  the  electors  of  the city at the city election. The term of the police
  justice shall be six years and he shall receive an annual salary, to  be
  fixed  by  the  board  of estimate and apportionment, provided, however,
  that if the city does not have or is not authorized by law to have  more
  than  one  officer  possessing  the  jurisdiction  of a court of special
  sessions, such salary shall  be  fixed  at  not  less  than  thirty-five
  hundred  dollars  per annum.  If a police justice in any city shall have
  served as such for more than twelve  consecutive  years,  the  board  of
  estimate  and  apportionment  may,  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of
  section seventy-four of  this  chapter,  increase  the  salary  of  such
  justice, from time to time, during his term of office, to take effect at
  the  time  of  any such increase or from the first day of January of the
  current calendar year, as the board may determine. No  person  shall  be
  eligible  for  election  to the office of police justice unless he be an
  elector and has been an attorney of the supreme court of the  state  for
  five  years.  In case of the absence or disability of the police justice
  or of a vacancy in the office, any city judge or judge of the  municipal
  court  shall  perform  the duties of the office until the police justice
  returns, his disability ceases or the vacancy is filled. In the city  of
  Albany,  in the case of the absence, disability or unavailability of the
  police justice or of a vacancy in the office, the recorder of  the  city
  or  any  justice of the city court of Albany shall perform the duties of
  the office of police justice until such justice returns, his  disability
  ceases or the vacancy is filled.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 182 - Vacancy, How Filled.

§ 182. Vacancy, how filled. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than
  by  expiration  of term, in the office of police justice, the same shall
  be filled, for the balance of the  unexpired  term,  at  the  next  city
  election  happening not less than thirty days after such vacancy occurs.
  Until such vacancy shall be so filled, the mayor may appoint a qualified
  attorney to fill the same, who shall hold office until the first day  of
  January after the election at which his successor is elected.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 183 - Jurisdiction and Powers.

§ 183. Jurisdiction  and  powers.  The police court shall have, in the
  first instance, exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all  charges
  of  misdemeanor, committed within the city and shall also have exclusive
  jurisdiction to  try  and  determine  all  complaints  and  charges  for
  violation  of city ordinances, and shall have the power and jurisdiction
  now or hereafter conferred upon local criminal courts by  section  10.30
  of  the  criminal  procedure  law. But any charge of misdemeanor pending
  before said police court or police justice may be  removed  to  a  court
  sitting  with  a grand jury by the same method now or hereafter provided
  in sections 170.20 and 170.25 of  the  criminal  procedure  law;  but  a
  complaint  or  charge  for  a violation of a city ordinance shall not be
  removed.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 184 - Further Jurisdiction.

§ 184. Further jurisdiction. The police justice shall also possess all
  the  powers  and  jurisdiction  of  a  magistrate,  which  are or may be
  conferred by  law  upon  justices  of  the  peace,  concerning  offenses
  committed  within  the  city.  He  shall  possess  such other powers and
  perform such other duties as are now or may be conferred or  imposed  by
  law.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 187 - Clerk.

§ 187. Clerk.  The police justice shall have a clerk of the court, who
  shall be the confidential appointee of said justice, and who shall  have
  the  power  to  take  informations upon which warrants for the arrest of
  persons charged with the commission of crimes  may  be  issued  by  said
  justice.    The  clerk  shall  also  have  the  power  to issue and sign
  subpoenas,  to  administer  oaths  to  witnesses,  to  make   and   sign
  executions, commitments and certificates of conviction and to certify to
  and  sign  copies  thereof for the execution of any judgment rendered in
  police court, as police justice or as a court of special  sessions.  The
  clerk  of the court shall receive all penalties and other moneys or fees
  payable in such court, and shall pay the same  into  the  city  treasury
  once  in  each  week,  and  shall file with the comptroller, monthly, an
  itemized statement of the same. The said justice shall have  such  other
  clerical  assistance  as  the  board  of  estimate and apportionment may
  prescribe; and, if said board creates the office of deputy  clerk,  then
  said  deputy clerk shall have the same powers as the clerk of the court.
  All clerks appointed by the justice shall  serve  during  his  pleasure.
  Said  appointments  shall  be in writing and filed with the clerk of the
  county in which the city is located and with the city clerk. Said  clerk
  and  deputy, if any, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of
  their respective offices shall each execute and file with the city clerk
  an official undertaking in such penal sum as may be  prescribed  by  the
  common council.  The police justice may appoint, and at pleasure remove,
  a  police  court  attendant,  who  shall perform such services as may be
  required of him by the police justice and shall be subject to the  order
  and  control  of said justice and of no other person. He shall be in the
  exempt class of the civil service, and  shall  receive  such  salary  as
  shall  be  fixed  by the board of estimate and apportionment. The police
  justice may appoint a member of the police department to said  position,
  and  in  such  case said appointee shall be paid upon the certificate of
  the police justice from the same fund as other police officers, and when
  he shall retire from office he shall be reassigned to duty by the  chief
  of police to the rank from which he came.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 189 - Jurors and Juries.

§ 189. Jurors and juries. Jurors for the trial of an action in which a
  jury  has  been  demanded  shall  be drawn and summoned and a trial jury
  shall be procured in all respects in accordance with the  provisions  of
  the  justice  court act.  A police officer shall have all the powers and
  duties of a constable under those provisions.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 12 - Judiciary › 191 - Pay of Jurors.

§ 191. Pay  of  jurors.  Jurors  in the police court shall receive the
  same compensation as jurors in justice's court held by justices  of  the
  peace except that in the police court of the city of Albany jurors shall
  receive  such  compensation  as may be provided by the board of estimate
  and apportionment of the city of Albany.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 13 - Department of Law › 200 - Corporation Counsel.

§ 200. Corporation  counsel. The corporation counsel shall be the head
  of the department of law.  He may appoint, to  hold  office  during  his
  pleasure,  a  first  assistant  and  such  other  subordinates as may be
  prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In  case  of  the
  absence or disability of the corporation counsel, or of a vacancy in the
  office,  the  first  assistant  shall discharge the duties of the office
  until the corporation counsel returns,  his  disability  ceases  or  the
  vacancy  is  filled.  The corporation counsel and first assistant before
  entering upon the discharge of the duties of their  respective  offices,
  shall  each execute and file with the city clerk an official undertaking
  in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 13 - Department of Law › 201 - Duties of the Corporation Counsel.

§ 201. Duties  of  the  corporation  counsel.  The corporation counsel
  shall be and act as the legal adviser of the common council and  of  the
  several  officers,  boards  and departments of the city. He shall appear
  for and protect the rights and interests of the  city  in  all  actions,
  suits  and  proceedings  brought  by  or against it or any city officer,
  board or department, including the commissioner of charities in bastardy
  proceedings; and such officer, board  or  department  shall  not  employ
  other  counsel.  The  corporation counsel may, however, with the written
  consent of the mayor, employ counsel, at such  compensation  as  may  be
  approved  by  the  board of estimate and apportionment, to assist him in
  the argument and conduct of important cases or proceedings in which  the
  city  or  any  officer,  board  or department thereof is interested or a
  party.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 13 - Department of Law › 204 - Certification and Approval of Contracts and Conveyances.

§ 204. Certification  and  approval  of contracts and conveyances.  No
  written contract providing for the payment of  two  hundred  dollars  or
  more,  entered  into  by  the  city  or  any  of its officers, boards or
  departments, shall become effective or be acted under until there  shall
  be  indorsed  thereon  by  the  corporation  counsel  or an assistant, a
  certificate to the effect that the city  officer,  board  or  department
  which  has  executed  the  same on behalf of the city, had authority and
  power to make such contract, and that such contract is  in  proper  form
  and  properly  executed; he shall approve all deeds, conveyances, leases
  and abstracts of title  affecting  property  acquired,  conveyed  to  or
  leased  by  the city; and he shall attend to all the law business of the
  city and discharge such other duties as may  be  prescribed  by  law  or
  ordinance of the common council.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 13 - Department of Law › 205 - Compromise of Claims.

§ 205. Compromise  of  claims. The corporation counsel shall, whenever
  he considers that the interests of the city will be  subserved  thereby,
  enter into an agreement in writing, subject to the approval of the board
  of  estimate  and  apportionment,  to  compromise  and  settle any claim
  against the city, which agreement shall constitute  a  valid  obligation
  against the city; and the amount therein provided to be paid shall, with
  interest  thereon from its date, be included in the next city tax budget
  and be collected and paid the same in all respects as a judgment against
  the city. If, however, before the adoption of the city tax budget  there
  shall  be  received by the city treasurer from any source any moneys not
  otherwise appropriated, the amount in the agreement provided to be  paid
  out of such moneys so received, so far as they will satisfy the same.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 13 - Department of Law › 206 - Judgments Against the City.

§ 206. Judgments   against  the  city.  The  amount  of  any  judgment
  recovered against the city and payable by it, remaining unpaid, with the
  interest due thereon, in case the time to appeal therefrom  has  expired
  and  no  appeal  has been taken, or a certificate of no appeal therefrom
  has been given by the corporation counsel, or in case such  judgment  is
  finally affirmed, or an appeal taken and the execution thereon shall not
  be stayed, shall be reported to the common council immediately after the
  same  shall  have  become  payable, as aforesaid; and the amount thereof
  shall be included in the next city tax budget. Such judgments  shall  be
  paid  in  the  order of their recovery out of the moneys first paid into
  the city treasury on account of the annual taxes or, prior thereto,  out
  of  the proceeds of tax anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the
  collection of such taxes or out of the proceeds  of  budget  notes.  If,
  however,  there  be any moneys in the treasury to the credit of any fund
  derived from city revenues,  other  than  taxation,  in  excess  of  the
  estimated  revenues  from  such  source, and not otherwise appropriated,
  sufficient to satisfy judgments against the city, the comptroller  shall
  issue  warrants  for  the payment of such judgments out of said funds in
  the order of their recovery. Until the moneys applicable to the  payment
  of  a  judgment  have  been  raised  and paid into the city treasury and
  payment of the judgment has  been  refused,  no  execution  shall  issue
  against  the city unless the amount of such judgment shall not have been
  included in the tax budget.
2023 New York Laws › SCC - Second Class Cities › Article 14 - Supervisors; Sealer of Weights and Measures › 211 - Sealer of Weights and Measures.

§ 211. Sealer  of  weights  and  measures.  The  sealer of weights and
  measures shall, within the city, have the powers and perform the  duties
  of  sealers  of  weights and measures of towns under the general laws of
  the state. He shall supervise the weighing  of  coal  and  perform  such
  other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed by law or ordinance of the common
  council. He shall receive a salary, to be fixed by the board of estimate
  and apportionment, and no fees shall be charged or collected by  him  or
  by the city for his services.