Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 489. Charge for admission and participation; amount of prizes; award of prizes. Except in the conduct of limited period bingo, not more than five dollars shall be charged by any licensee for admission to any room or place in which any game or games of bingo are to be conducted…

§ 490. Advertising of bingo games. A licensee may advertise the conduct of an occasion of bingo to the general public by means of newspaper, radio, circular, handbill and poster, by one sign not exceeding sixty square feet in area, which may be displayed on or adjacent to the pr…

§ 491. Statement of receipts, expenses; additional license fees. 1. Within seven days after the conclusion of any occasion of bingo, the authorized organization that conducted the same, and such authorized organization's members who were in charge thereof, and when applicable th…

§ 492. Examination of books and records; examination of managers, etc.; disclosure of information. The governing body of the municipality and the control commission shall have power to examine or cause to be examined the books and records of 1. Any authorized organization which …

§ 493. Appeals from municipal governing body to control commission. Any applicant for, or holder of, any license issued or to be issued under this article aggrieved by any action of the governing body of the municipality to which such application has been made or by which such l…

§ 494. Exemption from prosecution. No person or corporation lawfully conducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo or permitting the conduct upon any premises owned or leased by him or it under any license lawfully issued pursuant to this article, shall be liable to prose…

§ 495. Offenses; forfeiture of license; ineligibility to apply for license. Any person, association or corporation who or which shall: (1) make any false statement in any application for any license authorized to be issued under this article; (2) pay or receive, for the use of a…

§ 495-a. Unlawful bingo or game. 1. For the purposes of this section, "bingo" or "game" shall mean and include a specific game or chance, commonly known as bingo or lotto, in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card conforming to numbers o…

§ 496. Article inoperative until adopted by voters. Except as provided in section 495-a, the provisions of this article shall remain inoperative in any municipality unless and until a proposition therefor submitted at a general or special election in such municipality shall be a…

§ 497. Amendment and repeal of local laws and ordinances. Any such local law or ordinance may be amended, from time to time, or repealed by the common council or other local legislative body of the municipality which enacted it and such amendment or repeal, as the case may be, m…

§ 498. Delegation of authority. The governing body of a municipality may delegate to an officer or officers thereof designated by it for that purpose any of the authority granted to it hereby in relation to the issuance, amendment and cancellation of licenses, the conduct of inv…

§ 498-a. Powers and duties of mayors or managers of certain cities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, whenever the charter of any city, or any special or local law, provides that the mayor or manager of such city is the chief law enforcement officer thereof, t…

§ 499. Severability. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any municipality, person or circumstances shall be adjudged unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this article or the application thereof to other municipaliti…

§ 5. Payment of fines, civil penalties, rent, rates, taxes, fees, charges and other amounts by credit card. (a) The following terms, when used or referred to in this section, shall have the following meaning: 1. "Credit card" means any credit card, credit plate, charge card, cha…

§ 5-a. Electronic or wire transfers. 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, whenever an officer of a local government, as that term is defined in section ten of this article, is authorized or directed pursuant to law to disburse or transfer on behalf of the local gove…

§ 5-b. Collection of fines, civil penalties, rent, rates, taxes, fees,\ncharges and other amounts via the internet. 1. The governing board of\nany local government, as that term is defined in section ten of this\narticle, may, by local law, ordinance or resolution, determine tha…

§ 50. Cause of action not barred. A cause of action in law or equity against any municipality in the state of New York, or its proper officers, arising from the action of such municipality in derogation of its previous grant or covenant, where a previous action shall not have su…

§ 50-a. Municipal liability for negligent operation of vehicles. 1. Every city, town and village shall be liable for the negligence of a person duly appointed by the governing board or body of the municipality, or by any board, body, commission or other officer thereof, to opera…

§ 50-b. Municipal liability for negligent operation of vehicles or other facility of transportation. 1. Every county, city, town, village and other subdivision of government, notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, general, special or local or any limitation containe…

§ 50-c. Liability for negligent operation of certain vehicles in the performance of duty by police officers and paid firefighters. 1. Every city, town, village and fire district, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local or the limitation conta…

§ 50-d. Municipal liability for malpractice of certain physicians, resident physicians, internes, dentists, podiatrists and optometrists in public institutions. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, or limitation contained in the provis…

§ 50-e. Notice of claim. 1. When service required; time for service; upon whom service required. (a) In any case founded upon tort where a notice of claim is required by law as a condition precedent to the commencement of an action or special proceeding against a public corporat…

§ 50-f. Recording of notice of claim. 1. Wherever a notice of claim is required by section fifty-e of this chapter as a condition precedent to the commencement of an action or proceeding against a municipal corporation or any authority or commission heretofore or hereafter conti…

§ 50-g. Recording of notice of defect. 1. Wherever any statute, city charter or local law provides that no civil action shall be maintained against a city for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or …

§ 50-h. Examination of claims. 1. Wherever a notice of claim is filed against a city, county, town, village, fire district, ambulance district or school district the city, county, town, village, fire district, ambulance district or school district shall have the right to demand …

§ 50-i. Presentation of tort claims; commencement of actions. 1. No action or special proceeding shall be prosecuted or maintained against a city, county, town, village, fire district or school district for personal injury, wrongful death or damage to real or personal property a…

* § 50-j. Liability of police officers for negligence in the performance of duty. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, charter or code to the contrary, every city, county, town, village, authority or agency shall be liable for, and shall assume…

* § 50-j. Civil actions against correction employees. 1. As used in this section: a. "Member" means any active or retired member of the uniformed force as well as any person employed by or retired from the correction department of a city. It also means any employee of such depar…

§ 50-k. Civil actions against employees of the city of New York. 1. As used in this section: a. "Agency" shall mean a city, county, borough, or other office, position, administration, council, department, division, bureau, board, community board, commission, institution or agenc…

§ 50-l. Civil actions against employees of the Nassau county police department. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, code or charter, the county of Nassau shall provide for the defense of any civil action or proceeding brought against a duly appointed police officer …

§ 50-m. Civil actions against police and peace officers of Suffolk county; defense and indemnification. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or local law, code or charter, Suffolk county, upon discretionary adoption of a local law, ordinance, resolutio…

§ 50-n. Civil actions against peace officers, sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the county of Nassau. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, code or charter, the county of Nassau shall provide for the defense of any civil action or proceeding brought agai…

§ 500. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the "urban renewal law."

§ 501. Policy and purposes of article. There exist in many municipalities within this state residential, non-residential, commercial, industrial or vacant areas, and combinations thereof, which are slum or blighted, or which are becoming slum or blighted areas because of substan…

§ 502. Definitions. As used in this article and article fifteen-A of this chapter, the following terms shall mean: 1. "Governing body." (a) In a city, the board of aldermen, common council, commission or other body vested by its charter or other law with jurisdiction to enact or…

§ 503. Powers of municipalities. Every municipality is hereby authorized to plan and undertake one or more urban renewal projects and shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate such project or projects and the purposes and provisions of this articl…

§ 503-a. Cooperation with agencies. For the purpose of aiding an agency established pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen-A of this chapter a municipality may: 1. Delegate to such agency such of its powers enumerated under section five hundred three of this article as it…

§ 503-b. Transfer of projects. Notwithstanding any provision of this article, or of any general, special or local law or charter to the contrary, a municipality may, upon the establishment of a municipal urban renewal agency pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen-A of thi…

§ 504. Site designation. An area shall be designated by the governing body, or by the commission where so authorized to act by the governing body, on its own initiative or on petition of the owners in fee of not less than fifty-one per cent of the land (excluding publicly owned …

§ 504-a. Abandoned dwellings and mortgage foreclosures in Nassau, Suffolk or Westchester county. 1. Following site designation, pursuant to section five hundred four of this article, a municipality or an urban renewal or community development agency in Nassau, Suffolk or Westche…

§ 505. Urban renewal plan and approval thereof. 1. Following the designation of an area pursuant to section five hundred four of this article, the agency shall prepare or cause to be prepared an urban renewal plan for such area in its entirety or, where the designated area is of…

§ 506. Acquisition of property. 1. (a) A municipality, acting through its governing body, may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the appropriate general, special or local law applicable to the acquisition of …

§ 507. Disposition of property. 1. In addition to employing any other lawful method of utilizing or disposing of any real property, and appurtenances thereto or any interest therein owned by a municipality or acquired by it pursuant to section five hundred six of this article, a…

§ 508. State loans. 1. The commissioner may, in the name of the state, make or contract to make loans to a municipality to assist such municipality to establish and carry out one or more programs of urban renewal. No such loan shall be made where the municipality has contracted …

§ 509. Periodic subsidies. 1. The commissioner may, in the name of the state, make or contract to make periodic subsidies to a municipality to assist such municipality in carrying out one or more programs of urban renewal, subject to the limitations contained in the first paragr…

§ 51. Prosecution of officers for illegal acts. All officers, agents,\ncommissioners and other persons acting, or who have acted, for and on\nbehalf of any county, town, village or municipal corporation in this\nstate, and each and every one of them, may be prosecuted, and an ac…

§ 510. State capital grants. 1. In lieu of making or contracting to make a loan or periodic subsidy, or both, pursuant to sections five hundred eight and five hundred nine of this article, the commissioner may in the name of the state, (a) in the case of municipalities which hav…

§ 511. Authority of municipality; other terms of contract. 1. Any municipality is authorized to enter into agreement with the state to receive such loans, periodic subsidies and state capital grants to assist such municipality to establish and carry out one or more programs of u…

§ 512. Approval of program by commissioner. No contract for a state loan and periodic subsidy or for a state capital grant shall be executed until the program for which such aid is sought has been approved by the commissioner.

§ 513. Findings by the commissioner. 1. No loan, subsidy or grant shall be made by the state for an urban renewal program unless the commissioner shall find that: (a) the municipality or agency, as the case may be, has entered into a contract to receive capital grants, or loans …