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N.Y. Village Law § 14-1426 Fees of commissioners
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§ 14-1426 Fees of commissioners. Each commissioner appointed by the county court is entitled to five dollars for each day necessarily spent in making such reapportionment, besides his actual necessary expenses. Such fees and expenses are a charge against the village, and must be…
N.Y. Village Law § 14-1428 Expense of construction; how raised
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§ 14-1428 Expense of construction; how raised. The expense of constructing a sewerage system may be raised in an entire amount or in smaller sums from time to time as the board of sewer commissioners may determine. If such expense or any part thereof is to be assessed upon prope…
N.Y. Village Law § 14-1430 Tax for unpaid assessments
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§ 14-1430 Tax for unpaid assessments. The board of trustees shall\ninclude in the annual tax levy the principal or interest accruing during\nthe same fiscal year upon bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness\nissued on account of default in the payment of local assessments u…
N.Y. Village Law § 14-1432 Levy of taxes and assessments to pay bonds issued for a sewerage system
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§ 14-1432 Levy of taxes and assessments to pay bonds issued for a sewerage system. The board of trustees of any village which shall have heretofore issued or may hereafter issue bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing in said village a sewerage system, whether i…
N.Y. Village Law § 14-1434 Assessments from year to year to pay bond maturities
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§ 14-1434 Assessments from year to year to pay bond maturities. Where a sewerage system to serve part of a village has been financed and constructed pursuant to a resolution of its board of trustees authorizing such improvement at the joint expense of such village, the United St…
N.Y. Village Law § 14-1436 Contracts with other municipalities, sewer districts, et cetera
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§ 14-1436 Contracts with other municipalities, sewer districts, et cetera. The board of sewer commissioners may contract for the connection of the sewerage system thereof with the sewerage system of another village, or of a town, or city, or of a sewer district or wastewater dis…
N.Y. Village Law § 14-1438 Sewer connections
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§ 14-1438 Sewer connections. 1. The board of sewer commissioners may cause a notice to be published in the official newspaper of the village requiring the owners or occupants of any and all property fronting or abutting on any street or portion thereof in or upon which any publi…
N.Y. Village Law § 15-1500 Acquisition of lands for cemeteries
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§ 15-1500. Acquisition of lands for cemeteries. The board of cemetery commissioners of a village may, in behalf of the village, accept by gift, grant or devise thereto, land for one or more village cemeteries within the village, or wholly within five miles of the boundaries ther…
N.Y. Village Law § 15-1502 Division into lots; conveyances of lots
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§ 15-1502 Division into lots; conveyances of lots. The board of cemetery commissioners shall have the supervision and control of all village cemeteries. It shall cause the same to be divided into lots, and provide for the conveyance thereof to individuals for the sole purpose of…
N.Y. Village Law § 15-1504 Rules and regulations
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§ 15-1504 Rules and regulations. The board of cemetery commissioners may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for: 1. The care, management and protection of the cemetery grounds. 2. The use, care and protection of lots in such cemeteries. 3. The conduct of persons within the c…
N.Y. Village Law § 15-1506 Assessment of lots
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§ 15-1506 Assessment of lots. 1. The board of cemetery commissioners of any village shall have, in addition to the powers granted by section 15-1502 of this chapter, the power to assess the owners of lots in any cemetery in its respective village subject to its jurisdiction and …
N.Y. Village Law § 15-1508 Abandonment of cemeteries
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§ 15-1508 Abandonment of cemeteries. a. Petition for removal of remains. The mayor of any village may submit a verified petition to a judge of a court of record seeking an order directing the removal of the remains of any deceased person or persons buried in a potter's field or …
N.Y. Village Law § 15-1510 Cemetery and funeral home combinations
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§ 15-1510 Cemetery and funeral home combinations. 1. No village shall, directly or indirectly: (a) sell, or have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real property dedicated to cemetery purposes or adjacent thereto to a funeral entity, or use any of its property for loca…
N.Y. Village Law § 16-1600 Reincorporation of special village under this chapter
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§ 16-1600 Reincorporation of special village under this chapter. A village incorporated by special law and subject to its provisions may be reincorporated under this chapter by adopting a proposition therefor. Such a proposition may be submitted at an annual election or at a spe…
N.Y. Village Law § 16-1602 Notice and conduct of election
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§ 16-1602 Notice and conduct of election. If the proposition is to be submitted at an annual election, notice thereof shall be given by the board of trustees by posting notices in five public places in the village, and publishing the same in the official newspaper at least twent…
N.Y. Village Law § 16-1604 Certificate of election
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§ 16-1604 Certificate of election. The officers conducting such election shall make a certificate thereof, showing the whole number of votes cast upon such proposition, and the number in favor of and against it, and within twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls of such…
N.Y. Village Law § 16-1606 Effect of reincorporation
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§ 16-1606 Effect of reincorporation. If the proposition be adopted, the reincorporation of the village under this chapter shall take effect immediately upon the filing of the certificate of election in the office of the village clerk and the secretary of state. From and after su…
N.Y. Village Law § 16-1608 Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed
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§ 16-1608 Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed. All villages in the state incorporated by special laws and subject to their provisions which have attempted to reincorporate under the provisions of chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and nin…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1700 Application
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§ 17-1700 Application. This article shall apply to any village which has been or may hereafter be incorporated to embrace the entire territory of a town, to any village which has annexed or may hereinafter annex territory to embrace the entire territory of a town, and to any tow…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1702 Effect of alteration of town boundaries
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§ 17-1702 Effect of alteration of town boundaries. 1. The boundaries of a village incorporated or which has annexed territory to embrace the entire territory of a town, shall be deemed to embrace the entire territory of such town as such territory may thereafter be extended, dim…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1703 Filling of village offices, election of officers
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§ 17-1703. Filling of village offices, election of officers. 1. Upon the filing of the certificate of incorporation of each village which has been incorporated to embrace the entire territory of a town in the office of the clerk of the town, the town board of such town shall con…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1703-A Filling of town offices; election of officers
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§ 17-1703-a Filling of town offices; election of officers. 1. In any village as to which a town is created to be coterminous with such village, and in any village which after July first, two thousand twelve annexes territory to embrace the entire territory of a town, there shall…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1704 Succession of powers and duties
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§ 17-1704 Succession of powers and duties. In every such village, all the powers and duties imposed by law upon the town board of the town or upon any officer of the town or commissioners or boards of any district in relation to any water district, or any lamp or street lighting…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1706 Succession of powers and duties relating to public bridges and highways
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§ 17-1706 Succession of powers and duties relating to public bridges and highways. In every such village all powers and duties granted to or imposed upon the town board of a town, or upon any officer of a town, in relation to any public bridge or bridges, street or streets, high…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1708 Trustees as town board
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§ 17-1708 Trustees as town board. 1. In any village which has been or may hereafter be incorporated to embrace the entire territory of a town the town board of such town may, upon its own motion, and shall on a petition signed and acknowledged by not less than fifty taxpayers of…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1710 Bond or undertaking by town and village officer
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§ 17-1710 Bond or undertaking by town and village officer. In every such village where one individual holds more than one office either under the village, town or other law, whether elective or appointive, in which it is required that he shall give a bond or undertaking he may g…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1712 Water districts
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§ 17-1712 Water districts. In every such village any water districts created or organized under the provisions of the town law, shall continue and the board of trustees shall be and they are hereby vested with the full management and control of such districts, and the water syst…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1714 Establishment and maintenance of hospitals
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§ 17-1714 Establishment and maintenance of hospitals. 1. For the purpose of enabling such villages to procure federal aid under the provisions of the national industrial recovery act in the establishment of hospitals, the board of trustees of any village which has been or may he…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1716 Lamp or street lighting districts
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§ 17-1716 Lamp or street lighting districts. In every such village any lamp or street lighting districts created or organized under the provisions of the town law, shall continue and the board of trustees shall be and they are hereby vested with the full management and control o…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1718 Sewer districts
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§ 17-1718 Sewer districts. 1. In every such village any sewer district created or organized under the provisions of the town law shall continue, and the board of trustees shall be and they are hereby vested with the management and control thereof, and of the sewer systems constr…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1719 Wastewater disposal districts
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§ 17-1719 Wastewater disposal districts. All of the provisions of section 17-1718 of this article, relating to the continuance of sewer districts, shall apply to the continuance of wastewater disposal districts.
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1720 Fire districts; preservation of fire districts, fire protection districts and fire alarm districts
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§ 17-1720 Fire districts; preservation of fire districts, fire protection districts and fire alarm districts. 1. In every such village any fire districts created or organized under the provisions of the county law, shall be merged in and consolidated with such village and shall …
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1722 Assessment-roll; completion; notice, tax
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§ 17-1722 Assessment-roll; completion; notice, tax. 1. The board of trustees of any village which embraces the entire territory of any town in a county in which the town assessor or assessors are required to complete the assessment-roll of such town on or before the first day of…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1722-A Single assessment roll for both town and village purposes
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§ 17-1722-a Single assessment roll for both town and village purposes. 1. Except in the town and village of Mount Kisco, Westchester county, and notwithstanding the provisions of section 17-1722 of this chapter or of any general, special, local or other law to the contrary, in a…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1724 Taxation and assessment
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§ 17-1724 Taxation and assessment. In every such village all property shall be assessed for taxation for state, county, town, village and district purposes, in the manner provided by the laws applicable to the county in which such village may be situated.
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1726 Obligations and property
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§ 17-1726 Obligations and property. The outstanding obligations, contracts, and bonds of any such town or of any district therein, incurred, made or issued for the purpose of improving the highways thereof, or constructing overhead or undergrade crossings, or constructing sidewa…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1728 Town budgets
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§ 17-1728 Town budgets. In every such town, the town board shall annually, during the month of December, or such other date as may be applicable pursuant to section 17-1729 of this article, prepare and file with the clerk of such village an itemized statement in writing of the e…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1729 Change in fiscal years
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§ 17-1729 Change in fiscal years. 1. The board of trustees of any\nvillage in which a majority of the electors has approved a proposition\nsubmitted to the voters in accordance with subdivision three of section\n17-1708 or of any village in which a proposition has been submitted…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1730 Officers
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§ 17-1730 Officers. In any such village a person otherwise qualified to hold a village office shall not be disqualified by reason of holding a town office, whether elective or appointive.
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1732 Trees and shrubs and shade tree commission
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§ 17-1732 Trees and shrubs and shade tree commission. In any such village the board of trustees may annually raise by taxation and appropriate and expend for planting, care and preservation of trees and shrubs in and upon the public highways and public places thereof a sum not e…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1734 Town assessment-roll official
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§ 17-1734 Town assessment-roll official. The assessment-roll prepared by the board of assessors of such a town shall be the official assessment-roll for the town and each special tax district and school district or portion thereof, so far as it relates to property lying within t…
N.Y. Village Law § 17-1735 Town legislation to carry over
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§ 17-1735 Town legislation to carry over. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary in any village which has been or may hereafter be incorporated to embrace the entire territory of a town, and in any village which has annexed territory to embrace the entire ter…
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1800 Change of name
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§ 18-1800 Change of name. The name of a village may be changed upon the adoption of a proposition therefor at an annual or special election. The proposition must contain the proposed new name, and be accompanied by written notice to the United States Postal Service of such chang…
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1802 Taxes to pay interest and principal of town highway bonds
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§ 18-1802 Taxes to pay interest and principal of town highway bonds. The board of trustees of a village which has had or may hereafter have its boundaries extended when authorized by a majority vote of the electors thereof at a referendum duly called therein, in behalf of said v…
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1804 Diminishing boundaries
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§ 18-1804 Diminishing boundaries. The boundaries of a village may be diminished by excluding from its corporate limits territory not adjacent to nor benefited by either street or sidewalk improvements, electric lights, sewers, water works system or fire protection, when any of s…
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1820 Establishment of a commission for village manager
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§ 18-1820 Establishment of a commission for village manager. The board of trustees of any village may, as an alternative to the adoption of a local law establishing the position of village manager, adopt a local law providing for the creation of a commission to study and prepare…
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1822 Establishment of commission by petition
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§ 18-1822 Establishment of commission by petition. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty of the municipal home rule law, a proposed local law creating a commission as provided in section 18-1820 of this article shall be submitted to referendum providing such proposed …
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1824 Form of proposition
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§ 18-1824 Form of proposition. The proposition submitting such local law to the electors of the village shall be in substantially the following form: Shall local law number..........of nineteen............creating a commission to prepare a local law establishing the position of …
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1826 Powers and duties of the commission
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§ 18-1826 Powers and duties of the commission. The commission created pursuant to this article shall have all the powers, duties and responsibilities set forth in the local law creating such commission and shall immediately, upon final appointment of all members, proceed to disc…
N.Y. Village Law § 18-1828 Vote on commission report
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§ 18-1828 Vote on commission report. A commission appointed pursuant to this article shall report to the board of trustees within the time provided in the local law creating such commission unless the board of trustees, on its own motion, elects to extend such time, but in no ev…