Title GMU, General Municipal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 121-a. Creation of village and town police department in certain\ntowns and villages. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, general\nor special, the town board or boards of a town or towns in the same\ncounty and the board or boards of trustees of an incorporated village …

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

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

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

§ 122-c. Transport of police work dogs injured in the line of duty. An\nemergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical service\ntechnician may transport any police work dog, as defined in section\n195.06-a of the penal law, injured in the line of duty to a veterinary\n…

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

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

§ 125. Issuance of building permits. No city, town or village shall\nissue a building permit without obtaining from the permit applicant\neither:\n 1. proof duly subscribed that workers' compensation insurance and\ndisability benefits coverage issued by an insurance carrier in a…

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

§ 126. Establishment of public general hospitals. The governing board\nof any county, town, city or village may by resolution determine that\nthere shall be in said county, town, city or village a public general\nhospital for the care and treatment of the sick and in any county …

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

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

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

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

§ 127. Appointment and terms of office of managers. 1. Except as\nprovided in subdivision two, when a governing board of a county, town,\ncity or village shall have determined to establish a public general\nhospital for the care and treatment of the sick, the board of\nsuperviso…

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

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

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

§ 129-a. Erie county; county hospital superintendent and county\nhospital board of managers. In the county of Erie, the county executive\nwhen authorized by the charter may appoint the county hospital\nsuperintendent and the county hospital board of managers for terms as\nare sp…

§ 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\neducation law the board of managers of any hospital under this article\nmay establish and maintain in connection therewith and as a part of the\npublic hospital a school of nursing. The board may, in its discre…

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

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

§ 134. Existing county, town, city or village public general\nhospitals. Whenever a county, town, city or village has, previous to the\npassage of this act, established a public general hospital, the\ngoverning board of said county, town, city or village may by resolution\nprovi…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 139-c. Sheltered workshops. Any municipal corporation may equip and\nmaintain sheltered workshops established by any non-profit organization\nchartered by the board of regents and approved by the state education\ndepartment for the purpose of providing suitable training and re…

§ 139-d. Storage and display of firearms, ammunition and explosives.\n1. Any municipal corporation may by local law or ordinance regulate the\nstorage, possession and display of firearms, ammunition or explosives.\nSuch regulations may provide for:\n (a) the establishment and en…

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

§ 140. Trusts for public parks, playgrounds, libraries and public\nbuildings. It shall be lawful to grant and devise real estate, and to\ngive and bequeath personal property to trustees and their successors in\ntrust, for the purpose of creating, continuing and maintaining,\nacc…

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

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

§ 143. Management and appropriation of property. Trustees created\nunder the provisions of this article shall have the custody and\nmanagement of all the property of such corporation, and shall\nappropriate the same, so far as the terms, provisions and conditions of\nthe donatio…

§ 144. Parks, playgrounds and libraries to be free. All parks,\nplaygrounds and libraries existing under this article shall be free and\nopen to the public for use and enjoyment, subject only to such\nreasonable rules and regulations as the trustees from time to time shall\nadop…

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

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

§ 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\npurposes of this section:\n (a) "Demonstration" shall mean a pre-planned gathering of twelve or\nmore persons who are invited or organized by an organizer to convene for\nthe purpose of a public exhibition includi…