Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 160. Acquisition of lands for cemetery purposes. It shall be lawful for the common council of any city, or the trustees of any incorporated village in this state, although such cemetery is disconnected from and out of the limits of any city or village, to acquire by deed, devi…

§ 161. Title may be acquired by condemnation. If the said common council or board of trustees shall be unable to agree with the owner of such lands for the purchase thereof, the said common council or board of trustees may proceed to acquire the title thereto in the manner presc…

§ 162. Conveyance by unincorporated cemetery association to city, town or village. An unincorporated cemetery association may convey and transfer its real property held for burial purposes, together with its other assets, to a city having a population of less than one million in…

§ 163. Lot owners' rights. Lots in such cemeteries shall be held indivisible, and upon the decease of a proprietor of such lot the title thereto shall descend to his or her heirs-at-law or devisees, subject, however to the following limitations and conditions: If survived by a s…

§ 164. Abandonment of cemeteries in cities of less than one million. Upon a verified petition presented to a judge of a court of record by the common council of any city of less than one million, the judge to whom said verified petition was presented shall make an order to show …

§ 165. Maintenance and cleanup of abandoned cemeteries. 1. Any municipal corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to establish volunteer cemetery maintenance and cleanup programs to maintain and cleanup abandoned cemeteries wholly contained within such municipal corporatio…

§ 165-a. Voluntary municipal assistance to public cemetery corporations. Any municipal corporation may appropriate and provide funding to a public cemetery corporation as defined in article fifteen of the not-for-profit corporation law. In lieu of or in addition to providing fun…

§ 166. Cemetery and funeral home combinations. 1. No municipal corporation shall, directly or indirectly: (a) sell, or have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real property dedicated to cemetery purposes or adjacent thereto to a funeral entity, or use any of its proper…

§ 180. Ordinances to regulate use of bicycles. The governing boards of municipal corporations as defined in section two of this chapter, may adopt local laws to regulate the use of bicycles on the public highways, streets, avenues, walks, parks and public places within their lim…

§ 181. Ordinances to regulate taxicabs and limousines. The municipal officers and boards in the several cities, towns and villages of this state now having the authority to enact ordinances, may adopt ordinances regulating: 1. The registration and licensing of taxicabs and may l…

§ 182. Local regulation of transportation network companies. 1. Every county, and any city with a population of one hundred thousand or more as of the last decennial census, may prohibit the pick-up of any person by a transportation network company as defined by article forty-fo…

§ 185. Short title; purpose of article. This article shall be known and may be cited as the games of chance licensing law. The legislature hereby declares that the raising of funds for the promotion of bona fide charitable, educational, scientific, health, religious and patrioti…

§ 186. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Municipality" shall mean any city, town or village within this state. 2. "Board" shall mean New York state gaming commission created pursuant to section one hundred two of the…

§ 187. Local option. Subject to the provisions of this article, and\npursuant to the direction contained in subdivision two of section nine\nof article one of the constitution of the state, the legislature hereby\ngives and grants to every municipality the right, power and autho…

§ 188. Local laws and ordinances. 1. The common council or other local legislative body of any municipality may, either by local law or ordinance, provide that it shall be lawful for any authorized organization, upon obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided, to condu…

§ 188-a. Powers and duties of the board. The board shall have the power and it shall be its duty to: 1. Supervise the administration of the games of chance licensing law and to adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations governing the issuance and amendment of licenses thereun…

§ 189. Restrictions upon conduct of games of chance. The conduct of games of chance authorized by local law or ordinance shall be subject to the following restrictions irrespective of whether the restrictions are contained in such local law or ordinance, but nothing herein shall…

§ 189-a. Authorized supplier of games of chance equipment. * No person, firm, partnership, corporation or organization, shall sell or distribute supplies or equipment specifically designed or adapted for use in conduct of games of chance without having first obtained a license t…

§ 189-b. Declaration of state's exemption from operation of provisions of 15 U.S.C. (1172). Pursuant to section two of an Act of Congress of the United States entitled "An act to prohibit transportation of gambling devices in interstate and foreign commerce," approved January se…

§ 189-c. Legal shipments of gaming devices into New York state. All shipments into this state of gaming devices, excluding slot machines and coin operated gambling devices, as defined in subdivision seven-a of section 225.00 of the penal law, the registering, recording and label…

§ 190. Application for license. 1. To conduct games of chance. (a) Each applicant for a license shall, after obtaining an identification number from the board, file with the clerk or department, a written application therefor in a form to be prescribed by the board, duly execute…

§ 190-a. Raffles; license not required. 1. Notwithstanding the licensing requirements set forth in this article and their filing requirements set forth in subdivision four of section one hundred ninety of this article, an authorized organization may conduct a raffle without comp…

§ 191. Investigation; matters to be determined; issuance of license; fees; duration of license. 1. The clerk or department shall make an investigation of the qualifications of each applicant and the merits of each application, with due expedition after the filing of the applicat…

§ 192. Hearing; amendment of license. 1. No application for the issuance of a license to conduct games of chance or lease premises to an authorized organization shall be denied by the clerk or department, until after a hearing, held on due notice to the applicant, at which the a…

§ 193. Form and contents of license; display of license. 1. Each license to conduct games of chance shall be in such form as shall be prescribed in the rules and regulations promulgated by the board, and shall contain a statement of the name and address of the licensee, of the n…

§ 194. Control and supervision; suspension of identification numbers and licenses; inspection of premises. 1. The officer or department, shall have and exercise rigid control and close supervision over all games of chance conducted under such license, to the end that the same ar…

§ 195. Sunday; conduct of games on. Except as provided in section one hundred ninety-five-b of this article, no games of chance shall be conducted under any license issued under this article on the first day of the week, commonly known and designated as Sunday, unless it shall b…

§ 195-a. Participation by persons under eighteen. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to play any game or games of chance conducted pursuant to any license issued under this article. Persons under the age of eighteen years may be permitted to attend game…

§ 195-b. Frequency of games. No game or games of chance, shall be conducted under any license issued under this article more often than twelve times in any calendar year. No particular premises shall be used for the conduct of games of chance on more than twenty-four license per…

* § 195-c. 1. Persons operating games; equipment; expenses; compensation. No person shall operate any game of chance under any license issued under this article except a bona fide member of the authorized organization to which the license is issued, or a bona fide member of an o…

§ 195-d. Charge for admission and participation; amount of prizes; award of prizes. 1. A fee may be charged by any licensee for admission to any game or games of chance conducted under any license issued under this article. The clerk or department may in its discretion fix a min…

§ 195-e. Advertising games. A licensee may advertise the conduct of games of chance to the general public by means of newspaper, circular, handbill and poster, and by one sign not exceeding sixty square feet in area, which may be displayed on or adjacent to the premises owned or…

§ 195-f. Statement of receipts, expenses; additional license fees. 1. Within seven days after the conclusion of any license period other than a license period for a raffle, or as otherwise prescribed by the board, the authorized organization which conducted the same, and its mem…

§ 195-g. Examination of books and records; examination of officers and employees; disclosure of information. The clerk or department and the board shall have power to examine or cause to be examined the books and records of: 1. Any authorized organization which is or has been li…

§ 195-h. Appeals from the decision of an officer, clerk or department to board. Any applicant for, or holder of, any license issued or to be issued under this article aggrieved by any action of an officer, clerk or department, to which such application has been made or by which …

§ 195-i. Exemption from prosecution. No person, firm, partnership, corporation or organization lawfully conducting, or participating in the conduct of games of chance or permitting the conduct upon any premises owned or leased by him or it under any license lawfully issued pursu…

§ 195-j. Offenses; forfeiture of license; ineligibility to apply for license. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or organization who or which shall: (1) make any material false statement in any application for any license authorized to be issued under this article; (2) p…

§ 195-k. Unlawful games of chance. 1. Any person, association, corporation or organization holding, operating, or conducting a game or games of chance is guilty of a misdemeanor, except when operating, holding or conducting: (a) In accordance with a valid license issued pursuant…

§ 195-l. Article inoperative until adopted by voters. Except as provided in section one hundred ninety-five-k of this article, the provisions of this article shall remain inoperative in any municipality unless and until a proposition therefor submitted at a general or special el…

§ 195-m. Amendment and repeal of local laws and ordinances. Any such local law or ordinance may be amended, from time to time, or repealed by the common council or other local legislative body of the municipality which enacted it by a two-thirds vote of such legislative body and…

§ 195-n. Manufacturers of bell jars; reports and records. * 1. Distribution; manufacturers. For business conducted in this state, manufacturers licensed by the board to sell bell jar tickets shall sell only such tickets to distributors licensed by the board. Manufacturers of bel…

§ 195-o. Distributor of bell jars; reports and records. * 1. Distribution; distributors. Any distributor licensed in accordance with section one hundred eighty-nine-a of this article to distribute bell jar tickets shall purchase bell jar tickets only from licensed manufacturers …

§ 195-p. Transfer restrictions. Not-for-profit, charitable or religious organizations authorized to sell bell jar tickets in accordance with this article shall purchase bell jar tickets only from distributors licensed by the board. No not-for-profit, charitable, or religious org…

§ 195-q. Bell jar compliance and enforcement. In the case of bell jars, the licensee, upon filing financial statements of bell jar operations, shall also tender to the board a sum in the amount of five percent of the net proceeds as defined in this paragraph, from the sale of be…

§ 195-r. Severability. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any municipality, person or circumstances shall be adjudged unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this article or the application thereof to other municipali…

§ 2. Definitions. The term "municipal corporation," as used in this chapter, includes only a county, town, city and village. The term "governing board" includes the board of supervisors of a county, the town board of a town, the common council of a city, and the board of trustee…

§ 20. Special population census: population data. 1. Any county on behalf of all cities, towns and villages therein or any county, city, town, or village on its own behalf is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the United States bureau of the census to supervise a s…

§ 200. Defining qualifications of exempt volunteer firefighters. An exempt volunteer firefighter is hereby declared to be a person who as a member of a volunteer fire company duly organized under the laws of the state of New York shall have at any time after attaining the age of…

§ 200-a. Volunteer firefighters serving in more than one fire company or fire department. When any person has served as a volunteer firefighter as provided in section two hundred of this article, for less than five years, and while in good standing in the company or department o…

§ 200-aa. Training stipend for volunteer firefighters. 1. For purposes\nof this section:\n (a) "fire company" shall have the same meaning as defined in section\nthree of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law.\n (b) "training stipend" means payment of a nominal fee to a volunte…