Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 33. Accounts of officers to be examined. 1. Inspection and\nexamination of certain accounts. The comptroller shall cause the\naccounts of all officers of each such municipal corporation, industrial\ndevelopment agency, district, agency and activity to be inspected and\nexamine…

§ 33-a. Examination of distribution of foreign fire insurance premium\ntax. The state comptroller may cause the records and accounts of any\nentity receiving and disbursing foreign fire insurance premium tax funds\ndistributed pursuant to sections nine thousand one hundred four …

§ 34. Powers and duties of examiners. 1. The comptroller and each\nexaminer of municipal affairs shall have power to examine into the\nfinancial affairs of every such municipal corporation, industrial\ndevelopment agency, district, agency, activity, any fire company as\ndefined …

§ 34-a. Buffalo city comptroller. 1. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law to the contrary, the Buffalo city comptroller shall\nhave the power to examine into the financial affairs of the Buffalo\npublic school district and audit all school district accounts as the\ncomptr…

§ 35. Filing of report of examination and notice thereof. 1. A report\nof such examination shall be made and shall be filed in the office of\nthe state comptroller and in the office of the clerk of the municipal\ncorporation, industrial development agency, district, agency or\na…

§ 350. Establishment and location of airport or landing field. 1. The\nlocal legislative body of a city, county, village or town, by\nresolution, may determine to establish, construct, equip, maintain and\noperate for such county, city, village or town an airport or landing\nfie…

§ 351. Acquisition of real property; bonds. Real property, or any\ninterest therein including an easement, needed by a county, city,\nvillage or town for an airport or landing field shall be acquired, by\npurchase, if the county, city, village or town is able to agree with the\n…

§ 352. Equipment, maintenance and operation. The local legislative\nbody of a city, or board of supervisors of a county, or board of\ntrustees of a village, or town board of a town, which has established an\nairport or landing field and has acquired, leased or set apart real\npr…

§ 352-a. Lease, contract or agreement for a definite term. No lease,\ncontract or agreement shall permit the construction of any building at a\nlocation or the use thereof in a manner obstructing or interfering with\nthe use of such airport as a public airport or landing field, …

§ 353. Approval of board of estimate required. Wherever under this\narticle the local legislative body of a city is authorized to take any\naction, the separate approval of such action by the board of estimate\nand apportionment or similar body of such city, if there be such a b…

§ 353-a. Joint airports for counties, cities, towns or villages. Two\nor more adjoining counties or two cities in the same county or adjoining\ncounties, or a city and one or more villages located within the same\ncounty or adjoining counties, or two or more villages, located wi…

§ 354. Annual appropriation. The local authorities of a county, city,\nvillage or town, to which this article is applicable having power to\nappropriate money therein may annually appropriate and cause to be\nraised by taxation in such county, city, village or town, a sum\nsuffi…

§ 355. Acquisition of rights and property surrounding airports. Any\ncounty, city, village or town which has established and is operating, or\nwill hereafter establish and operate, an airport, landing field or\nseaplane harbor, is hereby authorized to condemn, or acquire by purc…

§ 356. Protection of approaches to public airport. 1. It is hereby\ndeclared that a flight hazard within the flight hazard area as defined\nin section three hundred fifty-five of this chapter endangers the lives\nand property of users of the airport and of occupants of land in i…

§ 357. Federal aid for public airports. No county, town, city, village\nor authority in this state whether acting alone or jointly with another\ncounty, town, city, village or authority or with the state, shall submit\nto the administrator of civil aeronautics of the United Stat…

§ 36. Systems of accounts. The state comptroller may formulate and\nprescribe systems of keeping accounts for the municipal corporations,\ndistricts, agencies and activities specified in section thirty of this\nchapter. The comptroller, from time to time, whenever he shall deem …

§ 360. Powers granted to municipal corporations to establish, own and\noperate certain public utility services. 1. "Public utility service" as\nused in this article shall mean any service authorized to be furnished\nby any public utility company pursuant to article four of the p…

§ 361. Service beyond territorial limits. 1. Whenever a surplus of\nsuch public utility service exists over the amount thereof required by\nthe municipal corporation and the residents thereof, such municipality\nmay sell such surplus outside the municipal corporation to persons,…

§ 362. Financing the cost of public utility service. Any municipal\ncorporation may finance the cost of such public utility service in whole\nor in part by levying taxes in the same manner as taxes are levied\npursuant to law for any permanent improvement by such municipal\ncorp…

§ 363. Construction of public utility service. The purchase,\nacquisition, leasing, and construction of such public utility service\nshall, in so far as is practicable, be effected by such municipal\ncorporation in the same manner and by the same officers or boards as\nother aut…

§ 364. Provisions of public service law applicable. 1. Except as\nprovided in subdivision two of this section, all of the provisions of\narticle four of the public service law, so far as the same are\napplicable, shall apply to a municipal corporation furnishing a public\nutilit…

§ 365. Effect of unconstitutionality in part. If any section, clause\nor provision of this article shall be unconstitutional or invalid or\nineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not\nunconstitutional or invalid or ineffective it shall be valid and\neffective;…

§ 366. Inconsistent provisions superseded. The powers granted by this\narticle shall be in addition to and not in substitution for all the\npowers, rights, privileges and functions conferred or imposed upon any\nmunicipal corporation by any other law heretofore or hereafter enac…

§ 368. Exploration, development and production of natural gas fields\nby school districts. 1. "Natural gas producing facility" as used in this\narticle shall mean all real estate, fixtures, and personal property\noperated, owned, used or to be used for or in connection with or t…

§ 37. Statistical report of comptroller. The substance of the reports\nrequired by the provisions of this article shall be arranged by the\ncomptroller in such form as shall indicate the comparative receipts from\nthe various sources of revenue and the comparative costs of gover…

§ 370. Establishment. 1. The legislative body of a city, village or\ntown, may by ordinance or local law authorize the court having\njurisdiction of traffic cases to establish a traffic violations bureau\nto assist the court in the disposition of infractions in relation to\ntraf…

§ 370-a. Definitions. For the purpose of this article:\n 1. "Traffic and parking violations agency" shall mean a department of\nthe Nassau county government established pursuant to subdivision two of\nsection three hundred seventy of this article or a department in the\nSuffolk …

* § 371. Jurisdiction and procedure. 1. A traffic violations bureau\nso established may be authorized to dispose of violations of traffic\nlaws, ordinances, rules and regulations when such offenses shall not\nconstitute the traffic infraction known as speeding or a misdemeanor o…

§ 371-a. Additional jurisdiction and procedure related to the\nadjudication of certain notices of liability. A traffic violations\nbureau established pursuant to subdivision one and a traffic and parking\nviolations agency established pursuant to subdivision two of section\nthre…

§ 372. Fines. The court shall designate the fines to be paid for\noffenses which may be satisfied at the bureau as hereinbefore stated,\nprovided such fines are within the limits established as penalties for\nsuch offenses.\n

§ 373. Records. A traffic violations bureau as herein authorized shall\nkeep a record of all violations of which each person has been guilty,\nwhether such guilt was established in court or in the bureau, and also a\nrecord of all fines collected and the disposition thereof. It …

§ 374. Traffic prosecutor selection and oversight. (a) The executive\ndirector of the Nassau county traffic and parking violations agency, and\nthe executive director of the Suffolk county traffic and parking\nviolations agency, appointed pursuant to subdivision (b) of this\nsec…

§ 374-a. Traffic prosecutor selection and oversight. (a) The executive\ndirector of the Buffalo traffic violations agency, appointed pursuant to\nsubdivision (b) of this section, shall select and may contract with or\nhire one or more persons who are attorneys, duly admitted to …

§ 374-b. Traffic prosecutor selection and oversight. (a) The executive\ndirector of the Rochester traffic violations agency, appointed pursuant\nto subdivision (b) of this section, shall select and may contract with\nor hire one or more persons who are attorneys, duly admitted t…

§ 38. Expense of examination. The expenses of examining the accounts\nof any municipal corporation, industrial development agency, district,\nagency or activity shall be paid out of such appropriation as shall be\nmade to carry the provisions of this article into effect.\n

§ 380. Code and ordinance violations; administrative adjudication. 1.\nAny municipality having a population of more than three hundred thousand\nbut less than three hundred fifty thousand may adopt a local law\nestablishing an administrative adjudication hearing procedure under …

§ 381. Director. a. The head of the bureau shall be the director who\nshall be the chief administrative law judge of the bureau and shall have\nall the powers of an administrative law judge pursuant to this section.\nThe director shall be appointed by the chief executive officer…

§ 382. Administrative law judges. a. The director shall appoint\nadministrative law judges who shall be attorneys admitted to practice in\nthe state of New York for at least three years and shall have such other\nqualifications as may be prescribed by the director. The director …

§ 383. Jurisdiction to impose civil penalties. a. Such local law may\nauthorize such bureau to (1) conduct proceedings for the adjudication of\nthose code or ordinance violations described in section three hundred\neighty of this article for which civil penalties may be imposed,…

§ 384. Commencement of proceedings; default judgments. a. The bureau\nshall conduct the proceedings authorized by local law in accordance with\nthis section and with rules promulgated by the director.\n b. Such proceedings shall be commenced by the service of notice of\nviolatio…

§ 385. Administrative appeals panel. a. There shall be one or more\nadministrative appeals panels within the bureau. Each panel shall\nconsist of three administrative law judges. In no event shall the\nadministrative law judge from whom such appeal of a decision,\ndetermination …

§ 386. Judicial enforcement. Any order or subpoena or any final\ndecision or determination rendered by the bureau shall be subject to\nenforcement by the judiciary in an action or proceeding commenced in a\ncourt of competent jurisdiction by the prevailing party including the\nm…

§ 387. Restriction on collateral use. Decisions, determinations and\norders issued by the bureau shall not be cited, and shall not be\nconsidered precedent nor be given any force or effect in any criminal\nproceeding.\n

§ 39. Investment policies for local governments. 1. Each local\ngovernment, which for purposes of this section shall include counties,\ncities, towns, villages, school districts including boards of\ncooperative educational services and district corporations, within the\nmeaning …

§ 4. Investigation of expenditures of towns and villages. If\ntwenty-five freeholders in any town or village shall present to a\njustice of the supreme court of the judicial district in which such town\nor village is situated, an affidavit, stating that they are freeholders\nand…

§ 400. Short title. This article may be cited as the\n"revenue-producing undertaking law. "\n

§ 401. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, unless a different\nmeaning clearly appears from the context:\n (a) The term "undertaking" shall include the following\nrevenue-producing undertakings, whether now existing or hereafter\nacquired or constructed: Causeways, tunne…

§ 402. Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy\nof this state that any municipality acquiring, constructing,\nreconstructing, improving, bettering or extending an undertaking\npursuant to this article shall manage such undertaking in the most\nefficient man…

§ 403. Additional powers of municipality. In addition to the powers\nwhich it may now have, any municipality shall have power under this\narticle; (a) to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right\nof eminent domain, to construct, reconstruct, improve, better or ext…

§ 403-a. Future acquisition or construction of undertakings by towns\nprohibited. Any provision of this article to the contrary\nnotwithstanding, no town, on and after the effective date of this\nsection, shall have the power to acquire or construct any undertaking\npursuant to …