Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 120-r. Cancellation of sewerage contracts for neglect. In the event of such person, persons or corporation failing and neglecting to keep said system of sewage in a good healthy and effective condition after due notice in writing of not less than sixty days, from any municipal…

§ 120-s. Joint meeting for acquisition and operation of property. The joint meeting representing any two or more of such municipalities, as aforesaid, shall have power with their consent and on their behalf and by its own proper officers to enter into any contract and to acquire…

§ 120-t. Town and village may establish a joint water district. The board of trustees of an incorporated village and the town board of a town may, notwithstanding the provisions of any law, general or special, upon the adoption of propositions therefor duly submitted in such vil…

§ 120-u. Mutual aid for water service. 1. As used in this section: (a) "Municipal corporations," "municipality" or "municipal" means and includes any city, village, district corporation or public benefit corporation, which owns and operates a water system for domestic, commercia…

§ 120-v. Contracts for disposal of sewage outside the state. A public corporation or improvement district in this state may contract for the disposal of its sewage with a municipality, public corporation or improvement district located in another state upon such terms and condit…

§ 120-w. Contracts and agreements for solid waste management, collection and disposal. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Municipality" means a town, city, county, or village or any designated public agency thereof, or a garbage or sanitary district established under …

§ 120-x. Agreements for joint acquisition, construction and operation of public docks. A town and one or more villages situated wholly or partly within such town are hereby empowered to enter into an agreement for the joint acquisition, construction and operation of a public doc…

§ 120-z. Sewer hook-ups by private contractors. Whenever a contractor retained or hired to connect or hook-up a private property with a sewer system in a city, town or village, requires that all or a portion of the cost of such connection for hook-up be paid in advance of comple…

§ 121. Establishment and maintenance of free public baths. Any city, village or town may establish and maintain free public baths, and any city, village or town may appropriate of its funds for the purpose of establishing such free public baths.

§ 121-a. Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, general or special, the town board or boards of a town or towns in the same county and the board or boards of trustees of an incorporated village or …

§ 121-b. Care of children admitted to certain places of amusement in certain cities, villages and towns under a local law or ordinance. The board of aldermen, common council or other legislative body of a city having a population of less than one million, or of any village or to…

§ 122. Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited; exception for cities with a population of one million or more. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, in any city, county, town or village of this state wherein exists, or is hereafter create…

§ 122-b. General ambulance services. 1. Any county, city, town or village, acting individually or jointly, may provide an emergency medical service, a general ambulance service or a combination of such services for the purpose of providing prehospital emergency medical treatment…

§ 122-c. Transport of police work dogs injured in the line of duty. An emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical service technician may transport any police work dog, as defined in section 195.06-a of the penal law, injured in the line of duty to a veterinary clin…

§ 123. Erection and operation of life-saving apparatus. Any municipal corporation may furnish, erect and locate such life-saving apparatus, appliances and paraphernalia, and do all things necessary for the practical operating of the same as they may deem advisable, along the sho…

§ 124. Inspection of building elevators in Nassau county. 1. All elevators in buildings in Nassau county shall be inspected periodically for the purposes of public safety. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision three hereof, each city, town or village shall inspect, or caus…

§ 125. Issuance of building permits. No city, town or village shall issue a building permit without obtaining from the permit applicant either: 1. proof duly subscribed that workers' compensation insurance and disability benefits coverage issued by an insurance carrier in a form…

§ 125-a. Posting signs on dead-end roads. It shall be the duty of every municipal corporation and person charged with the duty of maintaining any street or other roadway whenever such street or other roadway terminates in a dead end or at the embankment of a river, lake, canal, …

§ 126. Establishment of public general hospitals. The governing board of any county, town, city or village may by resolution determine that there shall be in said county, town, city or village a public general hospital for the care and treatment of the sick and in any county not…

§ 126-a. Joint hospitals for cities, towns or villages. Two cities in the same county or adjoining counties, or a city and one or more villages located within the same county or adjoining counties or two or more villages located within the same county or adjoining counties or tw…

* § 126-b. Public hospitals for chronically ill. 1. (a) The governing board of a county or city may by resolution determine that there shall be in such county or city a public hospital for the care and treatment of the chronically ill and make provision for the establishment and…

* § 126-b. Establishment of Broome county nursing home. 1. The board of supervisors of Broome county may establish, as hereinafter in this section provided, a nursing home to be approved by the state commissioner of health. All expenditures incurred by the state commissioner of …

§ 126-c. Appointment to board of managers of county hospital. When a county operates a county hospital, the local governing body of such county may appoint one of its own members to the board of managers of such county hospital.

§ 127. Appointment and terms of office of managers. 1. Except as provided in subdivision two, when a governing board of a county, town, city or village shall have determined to establish a public general hospital for the care and treatment of the sick, the board of supervisors o…

§ 128. General powers and duties of managers. The board of managers shall: 1. Elect from among its members annually a president, a vice-president, and a secretary. It shall appoint a superintendent of the hospital, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, and who shal…

§ 128-a. Petty cash fund. 1. The board of managers of a public general hospital may, by resolution, establish a revolving petty cash fund for any officer in such amount as the board may determine. Any such petty cash fund shall continue in existence from year to year until aboli…

§ 129. General powers and duties of superintendent. The superintendent shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital and, subject to the by-laws, rules and regulations thereof, and to the general control of the board of managers, shall: 1. Equip the hospital with all nece…

§ 129-a. Erie county; county hospital superintendent and county hospital board of managers. In the county of Erie, the county executive when authorized by the charter may appoint the county hospital superintendent and the county hospital board of managers for terms as are specif…

§ 130. Admission and maintenance of patients. 1. The provisions of\nthis section shall not apply to any person admitted for the care and\ntreatment of tuberculosis, as defined and provided for in the public\nhealth law.\n 2. Whenever a patient shall have been admitted to such ho…

§ 131. Training school for nurses. Subject to the provisions of the education law the board of managers of any hospital under this article may establish and maintain in connection therewith and as a part of the public hospital a school of nursing. The board may, in its discretio…

§ 132. Room for detention and examination of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill. The board of managers may provide a suitable room for the temporary detention, observation and care of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill and shall do so upon the direction…

§ 133. Visitation and inspection. Members of the board of managers shall be admitted to every part of the hospital and premises, and shall have access to all books, papers, accounts and records pertaining to the hospital and shall be furnished with copies, abstracts and reports …

§ 134. Existing county, town, city or village public general hospitals. Whenever a county, town, city or village has, previous to the passage of this act, established a public general hospital, the governing board of said county, town, city or village may by resolution provide t…

§ 135. Application of preceding sections. Sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive, of this chapter shall not apply to the city of New York.

§ 135-a. Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the aged. 1. Any municipal corporation maintaining a hospital, sanitorium, home for the indigent or aged or facility for the chronically ill, may establish and maintain workshops in connection therewith for the p…

§ 135-b. Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria. Any municipal corporation maintaining a public general hospital or a hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis under the provisions of…

§ 135-c. Prenatal and maternity care. The authorities of any municipal corporation charged by law with the duty and power of making appropriations may, in their discretion, appropriate moneys for prenatal care and maternity protection and may prescribe by whom and under what ter…

§ 136. Regulation of automobile junk yards. 1. Legislative intent. A clean, wholesome, attractive environment is declared to be of importance to the health and safety of the inhabitants and the safeguarding of their material rights against unwarrantable invasion and, in addition…

§ 139-c. Sheltered workshops. Any municipal corporation may equip and maintain sheltered workshops established by any non-profit organization chartered by the board of regents and approved by the state education department for the purpose of providing suitable training and retra…

§ 139-d. Storage and display of firearms, ammunition and explosives. 1. Any municipal corporation may by local law or ordinance regulate the storage, possession and display of firearms, ammunition or explosives. Such regulations may provide for: (a) the establishment and enforce…

§ 139-e. Posting of sanitary inspection grade. 1. As used in this section "internet-based food delivery service provider" shall mean any food service establishment that accepts food orders for delivery from customers via the internet or mobile application, or any third party web…

§ 140. Trusts for public parks, playgrounds, libraries and public buildings. It shall be lawful to grant and devise real estate, and to give and bequeath personal property to trustees and their successors in trust, for the purpose of creating, continuing and maintaining, accordi…

§ 141. Trustees a corporation. Whenever any grant, gift, devise or bequest shall have been made, under the provisions of this article, such trustees shall thereupon become and be a body politic and corporate with the name which shall have been specified by the donor in making th…

§ 142. Eligibility of trustees. In case of the death of a trustee or of his resignation, removal from office, or inability to discharge the duties of his office, his place shall be deemed to be vacant, and may be filled by the remaining trustees; and, in default of their so maki…

§ 143. Management and appropriation of property. Trustees created under the provisions of this article shall have the custody and management of all the property of such corporation, and shall appropriate the same, so far as the terms, provisions and conditions of the donations w…

§ 144. Parks, playgrounds and libraries to be free. All parks, playgrounds and libraries existing under this article shall be free and open to the public for use and enjoyment, subject only to such reasonable rules and regulations as the trustees from time to time shall adopt an…

§ 145. Subject to visitation of supreme court. All corporations existing under this article, together with their books and vouchers, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of the justices of the supreme court, or of any person or persons who shall be appointed by the …

§ 146. Devises and bequests restricted. This article shall not be construed or held to authorize any devise or bequest whatever of more than one-half of the estate of the testator or testatrix over and above the payment of debts, liabilities and expenses, in case he or she shall…

§ 148. Burial of members of the armed forces of the United States and\ntheir families; headstones. 1. Burial. (a) The board of supervisors in\neach of the counties, or the board of estimate in the city of New York,\nshall designate some proper person, association or commission, …

§ 149. Permits in certain circumstances. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Demonstration" shall mean a pre-planned gathering of twelve or more persons who are invited or organized by an organizer to convene for the purpose of a public exhibition including a …