Title GCT, General City

§ 36. Municipal improvements in streets, buildings not on mapped\nstreets. 1. A city having a population of less than one million. No\npublic municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed by\nany city having a population of less than one million in any street or\n…

§ 37. Subdivision review; approval of cluster development. 1.\nDefinitions. As used in this section:\n (a) "cluster development" shall mean a subdivision plat or plats,\napproved pursuant to this article, in which the applicable zoning\nordinance or local law is modified to prov…

§ 38. Court review. Any person or persons, jointly or severally\naggrieved by any decision of the planning board concerning such plat or\nthe changing of the zoning regulations of such land, or any officer,\ndepartment, board or bureau of the city, may obtain a review in the\nma…

§ 38-a. Removal of walls encroaching on streets. 1. If the front or\nother exterior wall of any building erected on or before the first day\nof January, nineteen hundred sixty, in any city encroaches not more than\nsix inches upon any street or highway, no action or proceeding t…

§ 39. Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article or\nthe application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged\ninvalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be\nconfined in its operation to the part, provision or application dire…

§ 4. Removal of appointive officers in cities of the third class. No\nofficer heretofore or hereafter appointed by the mayor of a city of the\nthird class, or nominated and appointed by such mayor by or with the\nconsent of the common council of such city, shall be removed or\ns…

§ 40. Definitions. When used in this article, the words "employing or\nmaster plumber" shall mean a person having a regular place of business\nand who, by himself or journeymen plumbers in his employ, performs\nplumbing work.\n

§ 40-a. Examining boards of plumbers in cities. The existing boards\nfor the examination of plumbers in cities of this state are continued\nand each shall be known as the examining board of plumbers. Such board\nin each city shall continue to consist of five persons to be appoin…

§ 41. Term of office; vacancies. The term of office of each member of\nsuch board shall be three years, from the first day of January following\nhis appointment. Vacancies occurring by expiration of a term shall be\nfilled by the mayor for a full term. Vacancies by death, remova…

§ 42. Compensation of members of board. The master and journeymen\nplumbers serving as members of such board shall receive such\ncompensation for their services as shall be determined by the board of\nestimate and apportionment or other similar body authorized by law to\nfix and…

§ 43. Qualifications. All members of such board shall be citizens and\nactual residents of the cities in which they are appointed, except in\nthe city of Niagara Falls where such members shall be citizens and\nactual residents of the county wherein the city is situated, the city…

§ 44. Powers and duties. The several examining boards of plumbers\nshall have power and it shall be their duty:\n 1. To meet at stated intervals in their respective cities; they shall\nalso meet whenever the board of health of such city or the mayor thereof\nshall in writing req…

§ 45. Examinations; conducting business without certificate\nprohibited. A person desiring or intending to conduct the trade,\nbusiness or calling of a plumber or of plumbing in a city of this state\nas employing or master plumber, shall be required to submit to an\nexamination …

§ 45-a. Corporations may conduct business. A domestic corporation\ndesiring or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a\nplumber or of plumbing in a city of this state, as employing or master\nplumber, may do so provided one or more officers of such corporation\n…

* § 45-b. Further requirements relating to the business of plumbing.\n1. No person otherwise qualified shall engage in the trade, business or\ncalling of a plumber or of plumbing in a city of this state as employing\nor master plumber until he has first procured from the board o…

* § 45-b. Further requirements relating to the business of plumbing.\n1. No person otherwise qualified shall engage in the trade, business or\ncalling of a plumber or of plumbing in a city of this state as employing\nor master plumber until he has first procured from the board o…

§ 46. Registration; when required. Every employing or master plumber\ncarrying on his trade, business or calling in any city of this state\nshall register his name and address at the office of the board of health\nor the examining board of plumbers if so designated by local law …

§ 47. Cancellation of registration; notice. Such registration may be\ncancelled by such board of health or the examining board of plumbers if\nso designated by local law for a violation of the rules and regulations\nfor the plumbing and drainage of such city duly adopted and enf…

§ 48. Inspectors; qualifications; notice. The local board of health or\nan official or board designated by local law of such city, as the case\nmay be shall detail, designate or appoint an inspector or inspectors of\nplumbing, subject, however, to the provisions or limitations o…

§ 49. Duties of inspectors; reports. The inspector or inspectors of\nplumbing appointed under the provisions of the preceding sections of\nthis article, in addition to the duties prescribed by law or ordinance\nand those which may be enjoined or required by the appointing power …

§ 5. Certain parades and processions forbidden; penalty. All\nprocessions or parades occupying or marching on any street of any city\nto the exclusion or interruption of other citizens in their individual\nright and use thereof, excepting the National Guard and the police and\nf…

§ 50. Expiration and renewals of certificates and licenses. All\ncertificates of registration issued under the provisions of the\npreceding sections of this article and all licenses authorizing\nconnections with street sewers or water mains shall expire on the\nthirty-first day …

§ 51. Notice of violation of rules. Whenever any inspector or other\nperson reports a violation of any such rules and regulations for\nplumbing and drainage, or a deviation from any officially approved plan\nor specification for plumbing and drainage filed with any board or\ndep…

§ 52. Notice, how served; proceedings when violated not removed. Such\nnotice may be served personally or by mail, and if by mail it may be\naddressed to such master plumber at the address registered by him, but\nthe failure of a master plumber to register will relieve the offic…

§ 53. Plumbing and drainage to be executed according to rules. The\nplumbing and drainage of all buildings, both public and private, in each\nof the cities of this state, shall be performed by persons authorized\nunder the rules and regulations adopted by the local board of exam…

§ 54. Office room; expenses a city charge. Each of such examining\nboards of plumbers shall have power to procure suitable quarters for the\ntransaction of business, to provide the necessary books and stationery\nand to employ a clerk to keep such books and record the transactio…

§ 55. Violations, how punished. Any person violating any of the\nprovisions of this article, or any rules or regulations of the board of\nhealth or of the examining board of plumbers in any city regulating the\nplumbing and drainage of buildings in such city, shall be guilty of …

§ 56. Issue of licenses to connect with sewers and water mains\nrestricted. The commissioner of public works of any city, or the officer\nor officers acting in a like capacity in any of the cities of this\nstate, and having charge of the sewers and water mains therein, shall\nno…

§ 56-a. Use by the state, individuals and corporations outside\ncorporate limits. 1. Any city having a population of fifty thousand or\nless may sell to a public or private corporation, or to an individual,\nthe right to make connection with its sewer system for the purpose of\n…

§ 57. Article limited. 1. This article shall not apply to any of the\nfollowing cities: New York, Binghamton, Schenectady, Elmira, Hornell,\nOlean, Poughkeepsie and Cortland.\n 2. This article, with the exception of section fifty-six-a thereof,\nshall not apply to the city of Gl…

§ 6. Swearing witnesses. Whenever the common council of a city shall\nhave appointed a committee of members of their body upon any subject or\nmatter within the jurisdiction of such common council, or to examine any\nofficer of the city, in relation to the discharge of his offic…

§ 60. Supervision of plastering by building department. The building\ndepartment of every city of the first class shall have jurisdiction over\nall plastering except where it conflicts with the duties of any other\ndepartment or conflicts with any law conferring on any other dep…

§ 61. Three coat work required on lath. All plastering in tenements,\napartments, hospitals, schools and other public buildings when on lath\nshall be known as three coat work, namely, scratch coat, brown coat and\nfinish.\n

§ 62. Key space. All ceilings, stud partitions and furred walls in\ntenements, apartments, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings\nwhere plastered with lime on wood lath shall have not less than\nthree-eighths space between lath. All grounds and jambs shall mean not\nles…

§ 63. First coat or scratch coat. First or scratch coat shall be of\nfirst quality to be scratched thoroughly to make a key to retain second\ncoat; and shall be thoroughly dry or set before applying second coat.\n

§ 64. Second coat. Second coat or brown mortar shall be of first\nquality. All browning must be straight, true with no unevenness or\nirregularity of surface.\n

§ 65. Finishing. When white mortar, or any other material of a like\ncharacter is used for finish coat, it shall be laid on regular and\ntroweled to a smooth surface showing neither deficiencies or brush\nmarks.\n

§ 66. Cornices or coves. All cornices or coves shall be run straight,\ntrue and smooth.\n

§ 67. Patent plasters. When patent plasters, such as ivory, acme,\nwindsor, et cetera, are used, lathing, if of wood lath, shall not be\nless than one-quarter inch key space. First coat shall be thoroughly\nscratched to make key to retain second coat, and shall be set before\nse…

§ 68. Nothing in this article contained shall affect the multiple\ndwelling law and the enforcement of the provisions thereof by the city\nof New York.\n

§ 7. Summoning witnesses. The chairman or any other member of any such\ncommittee in his name shall have power to subpoena witnesses.\n

§ 8. Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions\nare submitted to all the voters of a city. The provisions of the\nelection law or any other law relating to the submission of questions at\ngeneral elections, so far as the same are applicable and not\nincons…

§ 81. Zoning board of appeals. 1. Appointment of members. The mayor or\nin a city having a city manager, the city manager of any city to which\nsubdivisions twenty-four and twenty-five of section twenty of this\nchapter are applicable, shall appoint a board of appeals consisting…

§ 81-a. Board of appeals procedure. 1. Meetings, minutes, records.\nMeetings of such board of appeals shall be open to the public to the\nextent provided in article seven of the public officers law. Such board\nof appeals shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote o…

§ 81-b. Permitted action by board of appeals. 1. Definitions. As used\nin this section:\n (a) "Use variance" shall mean the authorization by the zoning board of\nappeals for the use of land for a purpose which is otherwise not allowed\nor is prohibited by the applicable zoning r…

§ 81-c. Article seventy-eight proceeding. 1. Application to supreme\ncourt by aggrieved persons. Any person or persons, jointly or severally\naggrieved by any decision of the board of appeals or any officer,\ndepartment, board or bureau of the city, may apply to the supreme cour…

§ 81-d. Incentive zoning; definitions, purposes, conditions,\nprocedures. 1. Definitions. As used in this section:\n (a) "Incentives or bonuses" shall mean adjustments to the permissible\npopulation density, area, height, open space, use, or other provisions\nof a zoning ordinan…

§ 81-e. Article not applicable to certain cities. The provisions of\nthis article shall not apply to any city having a population in excess\nof one million except that any such city may by local law provide that\nthis article or any section thereof may apply to such city.\n

§ 81-f. Planned unit development zoning districts. A city legislative\nbody, except in a city having a population of more than one million\npersons, is hereby authorized to enact, as part of its zoning local law\nor ordinance, procedures and requirements for the establishment an…

§ 83. Amendments, alterations and changes in district lines. 1. The\ncommon council may from time to time on its own motion or on petition,\nafter public notice and hearing, which hearing may be held by the\ncouncil or by a committee of the council or by the planning board, amen…