Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 33. Accounts of officers to be examined. 1. Inspection and examination of certain accounts. The comptroller shall cause the accounts of all officers of each such municipal corporation, industrial development agency, district, agency and activity to be inspected and examined by…

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

§ 34. Powers and duties of examiners. 1. The comptroller and each examiner of municipal affairs shall have power to examine into the financial affairs of every such municipal corporation, industrial development agency, district, agency, activity, any fire company as defined in s…

§ 34-a. Buffalo city comptroller. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Buffalo city comptroller shall have the power to examine into the financial affairs of the Buffalo public school district and audit all school district accounts as the comptrolle…

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

§ 350. Establishment and location of airport or landing field. 1. The local legislative body of a city, county, village or town, by resolution, may determine to establish, construct, equip, maintain and operate for such county, city, village or town an airport or landing field f…

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

§ 352. Equipment, maintenance and operation. The local legislative body of a city, or board of supervisors of a county, or board of trustees of a village, or town board of a town, which has established an airport or landing field and has acquired, leased or set apart real proper…

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

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

§ 353-a. Joint airports for counties, cities, towns or villages. Two or more adjoining counties or two cities in the same county or adjoining counties, or a city and one or more villages located within the same county or adjoining counties, or two or more villages, located withi…

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

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

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

§ 357. Federal aid for public airports. No county, town, city, village or authority in this state whether acting alone or jointly with another county, town, city, village or authority or with the state, shall submit to the administrator of civil aeronautics of the United States …

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

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

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

§ 362. Financing the cost of public utility service. Any municipal corporation may finance the cost of such public utility service in whole or in part by levying taxes in the same manner as taxes are levied pursuant to law for any permanent improvement by such municipal corporat…

§ 363. Construction of public utility service. The purchase, acquisition, leasing, and construction of such public utility service shall, in so far as is practicable, be effected by such municipal corporation in the same manner and by the same officers or boards as other authori…

§ 364. Provisions of public service law applicable. 1. Except as provided in subdivision two of this section, all of the provisions of article four of the public service law, so far as the same are applicable, shall apply to a municipal corporation furnishing a public utility se…

§ 365. Effect of unconstitutionality in part. If any section, clause or provision of this article shall be unconstitutional or invalid or ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or invalid or ineffective it shall be valid and effective; and…

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 371-a. Additional jurisdiction and procedure related to the adjudication of certain notices of liability. A traffic violations bureau established pursuant to subdivision one and a traffic and parking violations agency established pursuant to subdivision two of section three hu…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 387. Restriction on collateral use. Decisions, determinations and orders issued by the bureau shall not be cited, and shall not be considered precedent nor be given any force or effect in any criminal proceeding.

§ 39. Investment policies for local governments. 1. Each local government, which for purposes of this section shall include counties, cities, towns, villages, school districts including boards of cooperative educational services and district corporations, within the meaning of t…

§ 4. Investigation of expenditures of towns and villages. If twenty-five freeholders in any town or village shall present to a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district in which such town or village is situated, an affidavit, stating that they are freeholders and hav…

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

§ 401. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) The term "undertaking" shall include the following revenue-producing undertakings, whether now existing or hereafter acquired or constructed: Causeways, tunnels, v…

§ 402. Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that any municipality acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, improving, bettering or extending an undertaking pursuant to this article shall manage such undertaking in the most efficient manner …

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

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