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N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 166 Consolidation of separate proceedings
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§ 166. Consolidation of separate proceedings. Two or more persons may unite in commencing and prosecuting the proceedings to vacate or modify assessments; and when two or more persons have commenced separate proceedings to vacate or modify assessments for the same improvement, t…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 167 State lands
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§ 167. State lands. Nothing herein contained shall affect any assessment upon lands owned by the state nor be deemed to repeal or modify any of the provisions of section twenty-one of the public lands law.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 17 Additional fees or compensation not to be paid
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§ 17. Additional fees or compensation not to be paid. No officer of the city, except corporation counsel, a justice of a city court, acting as clerk of said court, city marshal, marshal of a city or municipal court, commissioners of deeds and city officers acting as commissioner…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 170 Commissioner; deputy
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§ 170. Commissioner; deputy. The commissioner of public welfare may appoint one or more deputies, and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In case of the absence or disability of the commissioner or of a vacancy in the office, …
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 171 Powers and duties of commissioner
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§ 171. Powers and duties of commissioner. The commissioner of charities shall have the general care, management, administration and supervision of the charities, almshouses, hospitals, houses of correction, orphan asylums and all other similar institutions, the control or govern…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 173 City owner of supplies
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§ 173. City owner of supplies. The city shall continue to be the owner of supplies furnished to any poor person or applicant for relief until the same are consumed. If any person to whom the same shall be furnished shall sell or exchange the same for money or intoxicating liquor…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 174 Liability of city
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§ 174. Liability of city. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to make the city liable for the support or relief of any poor person when it is not otherwise so liable.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 18 Official undertakings
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§ 18. Official undertakings. No person elected or appointed to a city office shall enter upon or continue in the discharge of the duties of his office until he shall have executed and filed with the city clerk the official undertaking, if any, required to be given and the same s…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 180 Jurisdiction of police court
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§ 180. Jurisdiction of police court. If, under the general or local laws, there now exists or shall hereafter be established in the city a court of criminal jurisdiction known as the police court, it shall have the jurisdiction and powers hereinafter provided.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 181 Police justice
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§ 181. Police justice. There shall be one justice of the court to be known as the police justice. Said office shall be filled by election by the electors of the city at the city election. The term of the police justice shall be six years and he shall receive an annual salary, to…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 182 Vacancy, how filled
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§ 182. Vacancy, how filled. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term, in the office of police justice, the same shall be filled, for the balance of the unexpired term, at the next city election happening not less than thirty days after such vacancy occurs…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 183 Jurisdiction and powers
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§ 183. Jurisdiction and powers. The police court shall have, in the first instance, exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all charges of misdemeanor, committed within the city and shall also have exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all complaints and charges for vi…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 184 Further jurisdiction
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§ 184. Further jurisdiction. The police justice shall also possess all the powers and jurisdiction of a magistrate, which are or may be conferred by law upon justices of the peace, concerning offenses committed within the city. He shall possess such other powers and perform such…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 186 Office hours
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§ 186. Office hours. It shall be the duty of the police justice to be present at the police court rooms at such times and during such hours as the public interest may require, unless necessarily detained therefrom.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 187 Clerk
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§ 187. Clerk. The police justice shall have a clerk of the court, who shall be the confidential appointee of said justice, and who shall have the power to take informations upon which warrants for the arrest of persons charged with the commission of crimes may be issued by said …
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 188 Trial by jury
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§ 188. Trial by jury. In the police court, at the time of interposing any plea which forms an issue of fact, the defendant may demand a trial by jury, and unless so demanded then a trial by jury is waived.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 189 Jurors and juries
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§ 189. Jurors and juries. Jurors for the trial of an action in which a jury has been demanded shall be drawn and summoned and a trial jury shall be procured in all respects in accordance with the provisions of the justice court act. A police officer shall have all the powers and…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 19 Holding more than one office
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§ 19. Holding more than one office. No person shall, at the same time, hold more than one city office. Upon the acceptance by a city officer of a second office the office first held by him shall thereupon become vacant. The term "city officer" as used herein, however, shall not …
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 191 Pay of jurors
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§ 191. Pay of jurors. Jurors in the police court shall receive the same compensation as jurors in justice's court held by justices of the peace except that in the police court of the city of Albany jurors shall receive such compensation as may be provided by the board of estimat…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 2 Term city defined
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§ 2. Term city defined. The term "city," when used in this chapter, means a city of the second class.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 20 Charges against city officers
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§ 20. Charges against city officers. Whenever it is provided herein, or otherwise by law, that an officer of the city shall hold office during good behavior or shall be removed only upon charges, such charges shall be for disability for service or neglect or dereliction of offic…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 200 Corporation counsel
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§ 200. Corporation counsel. The corporation counsel shall be the head of the department of law. He may appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a first assistant and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In case of the absen…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 201 Duties of the corporation counsel
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§ 201. Duties of the corporation counsel. The corporation counsel shall be and act as the legal adviser of the common council and of the several officers, boards and departments of the city. He shall appear for and protect the rights and interests of the city in all actions, sui…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 202 Costs
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§ 202. Costs. Neither the corporation counsel, deputy, clerk, or any other subordinate or assistant, shall receive any fee or compensation of any kind, other than the salary fixed by law or by the board of estimate and apportionment.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 203 Account of moneys collected
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§ 203. Account of moneys collected. The corporation counsel shall pay over at once to the city treasurer, for and on behalf of the city, all moneys collected by him for and on behalf of the city, including fines and penalties.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 204 Certification and approval of contracts and conveyances
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§ 204. Certification and approval of contracts and conveyances. No written contract providing for the payment of two hundred dollars or more, entered into by the city or any of its officers, boards or departments, shall become effective or be acted under until there shall be ind…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 205 Compromise of claims
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§ 205. Compromise of claims. The corporation counsel shall, whenever he considers that the interests of the city will be subserved thereby, enter into an agreement in writing, subject to the approval of the board of estimate and apportionment, to compromise and settle any claim …
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 206 Judgments against the city
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§ 206. Judgments against the city. The amount of any judgment recovered against the city and payable by it, remaining unpaid, with the interest due thereon, in case the time to appeal therefrom has expired and no appeal has been taken, or a certificate of no appeal therefrom has…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 21 Office hours
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§ 21. Office hours. Unless otherwise provided by law, the city offices shall be kept open for the transaction of business each day in the year, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from ten o'clock in the forenoon until four o'clock in the afternoon, except that the offices of c…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 210 Supervisors
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§ 210. Supervisors. Supervisors shall have the powers and perform the duties of supervisors of towns under the general laws of the state, and other laws applicable thereto.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 211 Sealer of weights and measures
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§ 211. Sealer of weights and measures. The sealer of weights and measures shall, within the city, have the powers and perform the duties of sealers of weights and measures of towns under the general laws of the state. He shall supervise the weighing of coal and perform such othe…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 22 Officers, trustees of public property
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§ 22. Officers, trustees of public property. The common council and the several members thereof, and all officers and employees of the city are hereby declared trustees of the property, funds and effects of said city respectively, so far as such property, funds and effects are o…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 23 Annual reports of departments
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§ 23. Annual reports of departments. The several heads of departments shall present to the mayor annually, on or before the first Monday of December, a report of their proceedings during the preceding year. The mayor shall transmit the same to the common council with any recomme…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 240 Additional allowances
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§ 240. Additional allowances. No allowance or compensation, in addition to the salary or compensation prescribed by law or authorized by this chapter or otherwise by law, shall be paid to any officer or employee of the city or to any person paid out of the city funds, nor shall …
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 241 Books and papers to be public records
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§ 241. Books and papers to be public records. All books, papers and documents filed with or constituting a part of the records or proceedings of any officer, board or department of the city, shall be deemed to be public records and shall, during office hours, be open to public i…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 242 Inhabitants not incompetent; place of trial of actions and proceedings
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§ 242. Inhabitants not incompetent; place of trial of actions and proceedings. Upon the trial of any issue or the prosecution of any proceeding, or upon the taking or making of any inquisition, appraisal or award, or upon the judicial investigation of any facts whatever, to whic…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 243 Witnesses not to be excused from testifying
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§ 243. Witnesses not to be excused from testifying. In any criminal proceeding before a court or grand jury or in any investigation or inquiry before the common council, or any committee thereof, or before any officer conducting an investigation, touching the knowledge of such w…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 244 Liability of city in certain actions; commencement of actions
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§ 244. Liability of city in certain actions; commencement of actions. No civil action shall be maintained against the city for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out o…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 245 Definition of words
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§ 245. Definition of words. The word "his," as used in this chapter shall, in all proper cases, be held to include and be co-extensive with the words "her," "it" and "their;" the word "person," shall be held to include and be co-extensive with the words "persons," "company," "jo…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 250 Construction
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§ 250. Construction. The provisions of this chapter have reference only to a city of the second class. This chapter is intended to be and shall be deemed and held in all courts and jurisdictions to be a public act of which the courts shall take judicial notice. This chapter shal…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 251 Saving clause
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§ 251. Saving clause. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to repeal any statute of the state or ordinance of the city or rule or regulation of the board of health, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, and the same shall remain in full force and …
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 252 Laws repealed
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§ 252. Laws repealed. The following acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed: 1. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule annexed, that portion thereof specified in the last column. 2. All acts or parts of acts and ordinances of the city, in so far as inconsistent with the provi…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 253 When to take effect
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§ 253. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 3 Corporate powers
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§ 3. Corporate powers. The citizens of the state of New York, from time to time inhabitants of the territory comprised within the boundaries of the city, shall continue to be a municipal corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name, and the same shall in that name be a bod…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 30 Legislative power
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§ 30. Legislative power. The legislative power of the city is vested in the common council thereof, and it has authority to enact ordinances, not inconsistent with law, for the government of the city and the management of its business, for the preservation of good order, peace a…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 31 Members; president; organization of council
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§ 31. Members; president; organization of council. The aldermen of the city shall constitute the common council thereof. The members of the common council shall meet in the room provided for the purpose on the second day of January after their election, or if that be Sunday, the…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 32 City clerk
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§ 32. City clerk. The common council shall choose a clerk to hold office during the term for which its members were elected, unless sooner removed by a vote of three-fourths of all the members of the common council. He shall be the city clerk and shall attend the meetings of the…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 33 Meetings
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§ 33. Meetings. The common council shall hold regular meetings at times to be determined by it from time to time. The president of the common council, or a majority of its members, may call a special meeting of the common council by causing a written notice thereof, specifying t…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 34 Powers
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§ 34. Powers. The common council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings and be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its members. Its meetings shall be public and its records open to public inspection, and a majority of all its members shall constitu…
N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 35 Legislative acts
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§ 35. Legislative acts. All the legislative acts of the common council shall be by ordinances, and on the passage of every ordinance, the yeas and nays of the members voting thereon shall be entered in full upon the journal. The passage of an ordinance shall require the affirmat…