Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 980-q. Severability. If any provision of any section of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such order or judgment shall be confined in its operation to the controversy in which…

§ 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 …

§ 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.

§ 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 employ…

§ 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.

§ 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 surve…

§ 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 alt…

§ 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 ac…

§ 99-g. Capital program. 1. Any municipal corporation, by resolution or ordinance of the governing board, may undertake the planning and execution of a capital program in accordance with the provisions of this section. 2. A capital program shall be a plan of capital projects pro…

§ 99-h. Participation in federal programs. 1. As used in this section the term "municipal corporation" shall mean a county, city, town, village, school district, or board of cooperative educational services of this state or a board of higher education in a city having a populati…

§ 99-i. Participation in programs to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean and include: a. "Municipal corporation". A county, city, town, village, or school district of the state, or a board of…

§ 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 ta…

§ 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 …

§ 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 …

§ 99-m. Cash bail and partially secured bail bond; fee for deposit of money. 1. When, pursuant to the provisions of title P of the criminal procedure law or the provisions of the family court act, a sum of money deposited in connection with a cash bail or a partially secured bai…

§ 99-n. Transfer and lease of ferry boats and buses. 1. As used in this section the term "municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village. 2. Notwithstanding any other law, general, special or local, a municipality, acting through its chief executive officer and its chi…

§ 99-o. Transfer and lease of mass commuting vehicles by the county of Suffolk. 1. As used in this section the term "county" shall mean the county of Suffolk. The term "mass commuting vehicle" means any bus, subway car, rail car, locomotive, or similar equipment used or to be us…

§ 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, …

§ 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…

§ 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, c…

§ 99-s. Transfer and sale of delinquent real estate tax receivables. 1. A city with a population of one million or more, acting through its finance commissioner, collector of taxes or other officer responsible for the collection of real estate taxes, may sell or transfer any por…

§ 99-t. Contracts with banks or trust companies for the collection of water or sewer user fees, charges, rates or rentals, or certain special assessments. 1. Notwithstanding any general, special or local law to the contrary, a municipal corporation having the responsibility for …

§ 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 …

§ 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 …

§ 99-w. Land for monument erection. 1. The following terms whenever used or referred to in this section shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context: (a) "military action or period of war" means the American Revolution; American Civ…

§ 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 h…

§ 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 maintenan…

§ 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 purs…

§ 990. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal theme districts act".

§ 990-a. Statement of legislative findings and declaration. Across the nation municipal theme districts have arisen to construct, renovate and geographically coordinate areas of a municipality into a common area for art, entertainment, education, culture or business. These areas…

§ 990-b. Definitions. As used in this article: (a) "Municipal theme district" shall mean a geographic area designated by a county, city, town or village, pursuant to section nine hundred ninety-d of this article, to be a theme district for the purpose of promoting, advancing or …

§ 990-c. Criteria for municipal theme district designation. Any county, city, town or village may designate, pursuant to section nine hundred ninety-d of this article, a theme district for the purpose of promoting, advancing or coordinating an approved theme. A theme district sh…

§ 990-d. Designation of municipal theme districts. Upon the application of a resident or business owner within a proposed theme district, any county, city, town or village may by resolution or local law designate a theme district for the purpose of promoting, advancing or coordi…

§ 990-e. Municipal theme district development plan. An application for the designation of a municipal theme district made pursuant to section nine hundred ninety-d of this article shall contain a municipal theme district development plan. Such municipal theme district developmen…

§ 990-f. Administration of municipal theme districts. The municipal theme district shall be administered by a seven person theme district board appointed by the county, city, town or village designating the district. The members of the board shall serve at the pleasure of the ap…

§ 990-g. Termination or revision of municipal theme district. A municipal theme district may be terminated or revised by the county, city, town or village designating the district.

§ 995-a. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Cybersecurity incident" means an event occurring on or conducted through a computer network that actually or imminently jeopardizes the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of computers, information or communicat…

§ 995-b. Reporting of cybersecurity incidents. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all municipal corporations and public authorities shall report cybersecurity incidents and when applicable, the demand of a ransom payment, to the commissioner of the di…

§ 995-c. Notice and explanation of ransom payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, each municipal corporation or public authority shall, in the event of a ransom payment made in connection with a cybersecurity incident involving the municipal corporat…

§ 996. Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Immigration authority" has the same meaning as such term is defined in section three hundred nineteen of the executive law. 2. "Immigration enforcement" has the same mean…

§ 996-a. Restriction on use of municipal government resources for immigration enforcement. 1. No municipal government employee shall use the resources of such municipal government including, but not limited to, time spent while on duty or any property or facilities owned or oper…