Title VIL, Village

§ 3-304 Changing number of trustees. The board of trustees by resolution or local law, subject to permissive referendum, may change the number of trustees. Such action shall be in accordance with the following: a. If the number of trustees be increased, the additional trustees s…

§ 3-306 Official undertakings. The board of trustees on behalf of the village or the board in control of a village owned utility plant shall post an official undertaking in such sum and form, and with such sureties as the board of trustees or the board in control of the village …

§ 3-308 Separate boards of commissioners. 1. The board of trustees may establish or abolish a board or boards of fire, ambulance, water, light, sewer, park or cemetery commissioners or a single municipal board having the powers, duties and responsibilities of two or more such se…

§ 3-310 Abolition of separate or municipal boards. If a resolution or local law is adopted by the board of trustees abolishing any separate board, the abolition of such board or boards shall take effect immediately. The clerk of the village shall forthwith notify the members of …

§ 3-312 Filling of offices and vacancies by election or appointment. 1. Elective offices shall be filled at the general village election next preceding the expiration of the terms thereof. 2. Appointive offices shall be filled at the annual meeting immediately following the expi…

§ 4-400 Mayor. 1. It shall be the responsibility of the mayor: a. To preside at the meetings of the board of trustees, and may have a vote upon all matters and questions coming before the board and he shall vote in case of a tie, however on all matters and questions, he shall vo…

§ 4-402 Clerk. The clerk of each village shall, subject to the direction and control of the mayor: a. have custody of the corporate seal, books, records, and papers of the village and all the official reports and communications of the board of trustees; b. act as clerk of the bo…

§ 4-404 Taking of affidavits by village officers. The village clerk or any member of the board of trustees may administer oaths and take affidavits upon any claim or account against the village. The village clerk may also administer oaths and take affidavits upon matters in conn…

§ 4-406 Permits; franchises; filing; duty of clerk. Duplicate originals of every resolution, certificate or other instrument whereby a village, or any board or officer thereof, grants a franchise, including a privilege or consent of any kind, to a public service corporation shal…

§ 4-408 Treasurer. The treasurer of each village shall be the chief fiscal officer of the village and it shall be his responsibility to: a. have custody of all moneys belonging to the village, and keep accounts of all receipts and expenditures in conformance with a uniform syste…

§ 4-410 Village justices; accounts, fees, and fines. 1. The village justice: a. shall not receive for his own benefit any fees, costs or expenses in any action or proceeding, but shall demand and receive the same fees, costs and expenses therein as are provided by law to be paid…

§ 4-411 Disposition of fines and penalties. Except as otherwise provided by law, all fines and penalties imposed for the violation of a village local law, ordinance or regulation shall be the property of the village, whether or not the village has established the office of villa…

§ 4-412 The board of trustees. 1. General powers of the board of trustees. a. In addition to any other powers conferred upon villages, the board of trustees of a village shall have management of village property and finances, may take all measures and do all acts, by local law, …

§ 4-414 Assessments other than for local improvements. Whenever an owner of property is required by general special or local law to make an improvement, perform any work or do any act on such property in the interest of public safety, health, comfort, and general welfare and suc…

§ 5-500 Definitions. For the purposes of this article the following terms shall be defined as follows: l. "Administrative unit" shall mean an office, department, division, bureau, board, commission or other agency or specific activity of village government. 2. "Budget officer" s…

§ 5-502 Submission of estimates. l. On or before the eighth day of February in each year, or such other date as may be applicable pursuant to section 5-510 of this article, the budget officer shall give written notification to the head of each administrative unit that he shall s…

§ 5-504 Preparation and filing of tentative budget. Upon receipt of the estimates of the head of each administrative unit, the budget officer shall prepare a tentative budget. He may also prepare a budget message explaining the main features of the budget and containing such add…

§ 5-506 Form and content of tentative budget. 1. The tentative budget shall consist of the following schedules and statements: a. A schedule of appropriations for all expenses authorized or required by law, other than expenses of operation of a municipal electric, gas or steam u…

§ 5-508 Adoption of budget. l. The village clerk shall present the tentative budget to the board of trustees at a regular or special meeting to be held on or before the thirty-first day of March or such other date as may be applicable pursuant to section 5-510 of this article or…

§ 5-510 Change in fiscal years. l. The board of trustees of any village may, by resolution, adopt a fiscal year to commence on the first day of August and end on the thirty-first day of July. If the board of trustees shall so adopt a fiscal year commencing on the first day of Au…

§ 5-512 Financing interim fiscal period. l. Whenever the fiscal year of a village is changed by action of the board of trustees taken pursuant to section 5-510 of this article, the current fiscal year shall be automatically extended to include the interim period between the last…

§ 5-514 Limitation of tax levy. I. The amount which may be raised by general village tax on real estate in any fiscal year for village purposes, shall be the same amount as a village may raise under the provisions of article eight of the constitution. 2. If any joint indebtednes…

§ 5-516 Lien of special assessment. 1. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, in any case in which a special or local assessment is levied against real property a lien shall attach as of the time when the assessment is confirmed by the body authorized to finally d…

§ 5-518 Collection of special assessments. 1. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, all special or local assessments levied against real property shall be collected as in this section provided. 2. Whenever an expenditure is made or a contract awarded for a purpos…

§ 5-520 General budgetary controls. 1. A separate account shall be kept for each appropriation. Each such account shall show the amount appropriated, the several amounts expended thereform and the unexpended balance. 2. No expenditure shall be made, nor shall any contract which …

§ 5-522 Lapse of appropriations. l. Each appropriation to the extent that it shall not have been expended or obligated, shall lapse at the close of the fiscal year for which made, except that an appropriation for a capital project shall continue in force until the purposes for w…

§ 5-524 Audit and payment of claims. l. The term "claim", as used in this section, shall include all bills, accounts and demands for the payment of money, of whatever nature, asserted against the village. 2. In a village which has not established the office of auditor, the board…

§ 5-525 Purchasing of products for public use. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law, when purchasing products the officer, board or agency of a village may, wherever recycled products meet contract specifications and the price …

§ 5-526 Petty cash account. l. The board of trustees may, by resolution, establish a revolving petty cash account for any administrative unit or officer in such amount as is deemed necessary. Any such petty cash account shall continue in existence from year to year until abolish…

§ 5-528 Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and associations. l. The board of trustees of any village is hereby authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum to meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaini…

§ 5-530 Villages authorized to impose taxes on utilities. 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, any village is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in any such village a tax such as was imposed by section one hundred ei…

§ 5-532 Inconsistent local laws. No local laws shall be adopted changing, amending or superseding any of the provisions of this article.

§ 6-600 Definitions. The term "street" as used in this article also includes a highway, road, avenue, lane or alley which the public have a right to use; and the term "pavement" includes a macadam, asphalt, brick, concrete or other similarly improved roadbed, and is only applied…

§ 6-602 Separate highway district. The streets and public grounds of a village constitute a separate highway district and are under the exclusive control and supervision of the board of trustees or other officers of the village when such control is delegated to them by such boar…

§ 6-604 Care of bridges. If the board of trustees of a village has the supervision and control of a bridge therein, it shall continue to exercise such control under this chapter. In any other case, every public bridge within a village shall be under the control of the superinten…

§ 6-606 When village may construct or repair bridges. A village may assume the control, care and maintenance of a bridge or bridges wholly within its boundaries, upon the adoption of a resolution of the board of trustees therefor; such action, however, shall be subject to a perm…

§ 6-608 When village may relinquish care of bridges. Any village which has the supervision, control, care and maintenance of any bridge or bridges wholly within its boundaries, or which has entered into an agreement with a town as provided in sections 6-604 and 6-606 of this cha…

§ 6-610 Dedication of streets. An owner of land in a village who has laid out a street thereon may dedicate such street, or any part thereof, or an easement therein, to the village for a public street, or an owner may dedicate for such purpose land not laid out as a street. Upon…

§ 6-612 Street improvement or acceptance. The board of trustees may by resolution provide for laying out, altering, widening, narrowing, discontinuing or accepting the dedication of a street in the village.

§ 6-614 Notice of meeting of board. Upon adoption of a resolution the board shall immediately give notice of a hearing thereon at specified time and place to consider the resolution, and such hearing shall be conducted as provided in article twenty-one herein. The notice must st…

§ 6-616. Changing grade of street or bridge. 1. If a village has exclusive control and jurisdiction of a street or bridge therein, it may change the grade thereof. If such change of grade shall injuriously affect any building or land adjacent thereto, or the use thereof, the cha…

§ 6-618 Streets on boundary lines. Whenever a street is on a line between two villages, or between a village and a city or town, the highway or street commissioners of such adjoining municipalities shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, meet at a time and place t…

§ 6-620 Sidewalks, payment for construction. Whenever the owner or occupant of lands adjoining a street constructs along such street a sidewalk of stone, cement, brick or other similar materials to be approved by the board of trustees, and the board consents to bear a portion of…

§ 6-622 Pavements. The board of trustees may cause a street in the village or a part thereof, to be graded and paved or repaved wholly at the expense of the village, or wholly at the expense of the owners of the adjoining land or partly at the expense of each. If the street or p…

§ 6-624 Acquisition of lands for parks, squares, athletic fields and playgrounds. The board of trustees may, on behalf of the village, accept by grant or devise a gift of land for a public park, square, athletic field or playground, within the village or wholly within five miles…

§ 6-626 Streets by prescription. All lands within the village which have been used by the public as a street for ten years or more continuously, shall be a street with the same force and effect as if it had been duly laid out and recorded as such.

§ 6-628 Liability of village in certain actions. No civil action shall be maintained against the village for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, …

§ 6-630 Provisions governing the improvement of highways in villages. l. The term "highway improvement," as used in this section, shall mean the filling, excavating, grading, paving, draining and the laying of curbs, gutters, sidewalks upon or otherwise improving a state highway…

§ 6-632 Incumbering streets; encroachments. 1. May regulate the use of sidewalks, stores, house and other building fronts; may regulate and prohibit the erection and construction of any stoop, steps, platform, curb pumps, bay windows, stairs, cellar, area, areaway, descent to or…

§ 7-700 Grant of power. For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the board of trustees of a village is hereby empowered, by local law, to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other …