Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 239-l. Coordination of certain municipal zoning and planning actions; legislative intent and policy. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section and sections two hundred thirty-nine-m and two hundred thirty-nine-n of this article, the following terms shall apply: (a) "Cou…

§ 239-m. Referral of certain proposed city, town and village planning and zoning actions to the county planning agency or regional planning council; report thereon; final action. 1. Definitions. As used herein: (a) The term "proposed" as used in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of p…

* § 239-n. Referral of certain proposed subdivision plats to the county planning agency or regional planning council; report thereon; final action. 1. Definitions. As used herein: (a) The term "proposed" as used in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision thr…

* § 239-n. Intergovernmental relations councils. 1. Any county outside the city of New York, city, town, village, school district, board of cooperative educational services, or fire district or any combination thereof, may create by agreement an intergovernmental relations counc…

§ 239-nn. Rights and duties of neighboring municipalities in planning and zoning matters. 1. Legislative intent and purpose. It is the intent and purpose of this section to encourage the coordination of land use development and regulation among adjacent municipalities in order t…

§ 239-o. Creation, appointment and terms. The governing board of any county, city, village or town may by resolution create a commission on human rights. The governing board shall determine the number of members of such commission, the terms of the members, the manner of appoint…

§ 239-p. Officers and employees; expenses. The commission shall have the power and authority to employ an executive director, a secretary and such attorneys, experts and other employees as may be necessary, within the amount made available by the local governing board. Each coun…

§ 239-q. General duties and powers. 1. It shall be the duty of the commission: (a) To foster mutual respect and understanding among all ages, races, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing g…

§ 239-r. General obligations. A commission on human rights created under the provisions of section two hundred thirty-nine-o of this article shall discharge the following obligations. (a) To receive complaints of alleged discrimination because of an individual's age, race, creed…

§ 239-s. New York city commission on human rights. Nothing in this article shall be deemed to limit or reduce the powers of the New York city commission on human rights, and with respect to such powers, the jurisdiction of the New York city commission on human rights in relation…

§ 239-t. Filing copies. One copy each of any resolution, ordinance or local law which has been, or which may hereafter be adopted, creating a commission on human rights, or any amendment thereto, shall, on or before September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, or within five d…

§ 239-u. Creation of drug abuse prevention council. 1. The local legislative body of any county, city, town, village or community boards, as such term is defined in article fifty-two-A of the education law, may by resolution create one or more drug abuse prevention councils. Suc…

§ 239-x. Creation of conservation advisory council. 1. The local legislative body of any city, town or village may create a conservation advisory council, hereafter called the council, to advise in the development, management and protection of its natural resources. Such council…

§ 239-y. Designation of council as conservation board. 1. As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: a. "Open area". Any area characterized by natural scenic beauty or, whose existing openess, natural condition or present state of…

§ 239-z. Creation of landlord-tenant relations council. 1. The local legislative body of any city, town or village may by resolution create a landlord-tenant relations council hereinafter called the council, to advise, counsel, mediate problems and disputes and to improve relati…

§ 24. Corporation for the benefit of the city of New York. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of state or local law, the city of New York is hereby authorized to provide for the creation of a single not-for-profit corporation subject to section fourteen hundred eleven of the not-f…

§ 240. Application of article. This article shall apply to cities of the second and third class, to any county outside of the city of New York, and to towns and villages. The term "municipality," as used in this article, includes only a city of the second and third class, any co…

§ 241. Dedication or acquisition of land or buildings for playgrounds or neighborhood recreation centers. The board of estimate and apportionment of a city, or if there be no such board, the common council, board of aldermen or corresponding legislative body, or the governing bo…

§ 242. Administration, equipment and operation. The authority to establish and maintain playgrounds and neighborhood recreation centers may be vested in the park board or other existing body or in a recreation commission as the board of estimate and apportionment, common council…

§ 243. Recreation commission. 1. If the board of estimate and apportionment, or if there be no such board, the common council, board of aldermen, or corresponding legislative body, or the governing board of any such county, town or village shall determine that the power to equip…

§ 244. Organization of commission. The members of a recreation commission established pursuant to this article shall elect from their own number a chairman and secretary and other necessary officers to serve for one year, and may employ such persons as may be needed, as authoriz…

§ 244-a. Acceptance of donations. A recreation commission or other authority in which is vested the power to equip, operate and maintain playgrounds and neighborhood recreation centers pursuant to this article may accept any grant or devise of real estate or any gift or bequest …

§ 244-b. Joint playgrounds or neighborhood recreation centers. Any two or more such municipalities may jointly acquire property for and operate and maintain playgrounds or neighborhood recreation centers and may make and perform agreements in connection therewith. Any school dis…

§ 244-c. Proposition for establishment or maintenance of recreation system. The term "recreation system," as used in this section means playgrounds and neighborhood recreation centers as referred to in this article. The local legislative body of a city or the governing body of a…

§ 244-d. Joint recreation commission. 1. Two or more municipalities which have established recreation commissions, as provided in section two hundred forty-three of the general municipal law, may join for the purpose of establishing a joint recreation commission. 2. The board of…

§ 245. Expenses incurred under article. All expenses incurred under this article coming within the annual appropriation therefor (as provided in section two hundred and forty-six of this article) shall be a charge against the municipality incurring the same, payable from the cur…

§ 246. Annual appropriation. The local authorities of a municipality having power to appropriate money therein may annually appropriate and cause to be raised by taxation in such municipality a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this article.

§ 247. Acquisition of open spaces and areas. 1. Definitions. For the\npurposes of this chapter an "open space" or "open area" is any space or\narea characterized by (1) natural scenic beauty or, (2) whose existing\nopenness, natural condition, or present state of use, if retaine…

§ 25. Treatment of capital costs and certain fund balances of the city of New York; revenue stabilization fund of such city. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special state law or local law to the contrary, including but not limited to the New York city charter, t…

§ 250. Lost and found property. The governing boards of municipal corporations may by resolution enact rules and regulations for administering the provisions of article seven-b of the personal property law and may provide the following: (a) the designation of a public officer to…

§ 251. Agreements between municipal corporations. 1. Two or more municipal corporations may by agreement provide for discharge by the police department of one of them, on behalf of the other or others, of the duties provided in subdivisions three, four, five, six, seven and eigh…

§ 275. Picnic parks and/or roadside rest areas. The governing body of any county, city, town or village is hereby authorized and empowered to authorize and direct such of its officers or agencies as it shall designate to enter into agreements with the state superintendent of pub…

§ 277. Adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline, roadway or lake programs. 1. The governing body of any county, city, town or village is hereby authorized and empowered to authorize and direct such of its officers or agencies as it shall designate to enter into adopt-a-municipal park, …

§ 280. Establishment or extension of residential or residential and recreational areas in the Lake George park. 1. The legislature hereby declares that the preservation, protection, development and proper use of real property in the Lake George park is a matter of interest to al…

§ 281. Procedure. 1. Petition. Such petition for the establishment of a residential or a residential and recreational area for such purpose or purposes shall be signed by at least twenty owners of taxable real property situate within the proposed area owning in the aggregate at …

§ 282. Entry, publication, posting and effective date of ordinance; review by proceeding under article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules. 1. Every ordinance or local law and every amendment to an existing ordinance or local law (including any map incorporated the…

§ 283. Variances and amendments. 1. The village board of any village or the town board of any town in which one or more residential or residential and recreational areas have been established pursuant to this article may establish rules, regulations and procedures by or pursuant…

§ 284. Enforcement and remedies. 1. The village board of any village or the town board of any town, as the case may be, in which a residential or residential and recreational area has been established pursuant to this article, in which the use of buildings, structures and land f…

§ 290. Establishment of community facilities and programs for the elderly. The local legislative body of a city, town or village may, by resolution, determine to establish, construct, equip, maintain and operate for such city, town or village, a facility for housing, or for othe…

§ 291. Acquisition of real property. When the legislative body shall have resolved to establish a facility and programs for the elderly, it may use for such purpose real property owned by the county, town, city or village which, in its judgment, is not needed for any other publi…

§ 292. Equipment, maintenance and operation. The local legislative body of a county, town, city or village which has resolved to establish programs for the elderly and has acquired, leased or set apart real property for such purpose may, itself or through a municipal agency, com…

§ 3. Compensation for property of a municipal corporation, school\ndistrict or district corporation taken by eminent domain. Where property\nof a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation is\ntaken in the exercise of the power of eminent domain for a purpose…

§ 3-a. Rate of interest on judgments and accrued claims against\nmunicipal corporations. 1. Except as provided in subdivisions two, four\nand five of this section, the rate of interest to be paid by a municipal\ncorporation upon any judgment or accrued claim against the municipa…

§ 3-b. Limitation on real estate tax in New York city. 1. The amount to be raised by tax on real estate in any fiscal year commencing on or after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-four by the city of New York and the counties contained therein for city and county purposes, in a…

§ 3-c. Limit upon real property tax levies by local governments. 1. Unless otherwise provided by law, the amount of real property taxes that may be levied by or on behalf of any local government, other than the city of New York and the counties contained therein, shall not excee…

§ 30. Reports. 1. Except as hereinafter provided, every municipal corporation and school, fire, improvement and special district shall annually make a report of its financial condition to the comptroller. Such report shall be made by the chief fiscal officer of each municipal co…

§ 30-a. Reports from entities receiving foreign fire insurance premium tax. Every entity receiving and disbursing foreign fire insurance premium tax funds distributed pursuant to sections nine thousand one hundred four and nine thousand one hundred five of the insurance law, the…

§ 300. Municipal websites. 1. All municipal corporations having a population, as shown by the latest preceding decennial federal census, equal to or greater than one thousand five hundred persons, shall maintain an official website with a ".gov" domain name that is accessible to…

§ 31. Form of reports. The reports shall be in the form to be prescribed by the comptroller and shall contain: 1. A statement of the receipts of such municipal corporation, industrial development agency, district, agency or activity from all sources and of all accounts or revenu…

§ 32. Comptroller to furnish blank forms. The comptroller shall annually furnish to the officers required to make reports by the provisions of this article other than officers of a school district subject to the jurisdiction of a district superintendent under the provisions of a…