Title GMU, General Municipal

§ 81. Peddling and hawking farm produce. The governing board of a municipal corporation shall not by ordinance or otherwise regulate or prohibit the pursuit or exercise of hawking and peddling farm produce except hay and straw within the limits of any such municipal corporation,…

§ 810. Additional definitions. As used in sections eight hundred eleven and eight hundred twelve of this article: 1. The term "political subdivision" shall mean a county, city, town or village having a population of fifty thousand or more and shall include a city with a populati…

§ 811. Promulgation of form of annual statement of financial disclosure; authority of governing body with respect to persons subject thereto. 1. (a) The governing body of each political subdivision may, not later than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, and the governing…

§ 812. Financial disclosure for local elected officials and certain officers and employees of counties, cities, towns and villages. 1. (a) Any political subdivision or other county, city, town or village to which all of the provisions of this section are made applicable, whether…

§ 82. Levy to pay a final judgment; to be in addition to amount authorized by law; money to be paid to judgment creditor. If a final judgment for a sum of money, or directing the payment of money shall have been, or shall hereafter be recovered against any county, town, city or …

§ 83. Limitation as to amount of money to be raised; special provision in New York city. No restriction or limitation imposed by law as to the sum to be raised in any year in any city or village shall apply to the moneys to be raised for the purposes specified in the last preced…

§ 84. Refunding illegal assessments. Whenever an assessment for a local improvement has been annulled by the judgment or order of any court any sum of money which has been heretofore or shall be hereafter paid thereon, may be refunded with interest from the time of such payment.…

§ 85. Service charge on returned checks. 1. The governing body of a municipal corporation may by resolution provide for the imposition of a charge to be added to any account owing to the municipal corporation where a tendered payment of such account was dishonored by a bank or d…

§ 85-a. Taxation of transient merchants. The legislative body of a city, the town board of a town or the board of trustees of a village has power to provide that a tax shall be levied upon all persons or corporations conducting transient retail business therein, and may provide …

§ 850. Short title. This chapter may be cited as the "New York State Industrial Development Agency Act."

§ 852. Policy and purposes of article. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state to promote the economic welfare, recreation opportunities and prosperity of its inhabitants and to actively promote, attract, encourage and develop recreation, economically sound commerce…

§ 854. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context otherwise\nrequires:\n (1) "Agency"--shall mean an Industrial Development Agency created\npursuant to this act.\n (2) "Bonds"--shall mean the bonds, notes, interim certificates and\nother obligations issued by the agenc…

§ 856. Organization of industrial development agencies. 1. (a) Upon the establishment of an industrial development agency by special act of the legislature, the governing body of the municipality for whose benefit such agency is established shall file within six months after the…

§ 857. Video recordings of open meetings and public hearings. The agency shall, to the extent practicable, stream all open meetings and public hearings on its website in real-time. The agency shall post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings on its website wit…

§ 858. Purposes and powers of the agency. The purposes of the agency shall be to promote, develop, encourage and assist in the acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, equipping and furnishing industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, commercial, research, …

§ 858-a. Compensation, procurement and investment. 1. The compensation of an officer or full-time employee of the agency (but not including part-time employees or consultants, including accountants, attorneys and bond counsel to the agency) shall not be contingent on the grantin…

§ 858-b. Equal employment opportunities. 1. Each agency shall ensure that all employees and applicants for employment are afforded equal employment opportunity without discrimination. 2. Except as is otherwise provided by collective bargaining contracts or agreements, new employ…

§ 859. Financial records. 1. (a) Each agency shall maintain books and records in such form as may be prescribed by the state comptroller. (b) Within ninety days following the close of its fiscal year, each agency or authority shall prepare a financial statement for that fiscal y…

§ 859-a. Additional prerequisites to the provisions of financial assistance. Prior to providing any financial assistance of more than one hundred thousand dollars to any project, the agency must comply with the following prerequisites: 1. The agency must adopt a resolution descr…

§ 859-b. Special procedure for the provision of financial assistance to continuing care retirement communities. 1. Any applicant for financing of a continuing care retirement community shall present a completed application for a certificate of authority and documentation establi…

§ 86. Regulation of commercial and business activities on Memorial day and Independence day. The municipal officers and boards in the several cities, towns and villages of this state now having the authority to enact ordinances and local laws, may adopt ordinances or local laws …

§ 86-a. Regulation of installation of portable electrical equipment used for amusement devices. The governing body of any city, town or village in this state, may adopt ordinances or local laws making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to install or cause to be inst…

§ 860. Moneys of the agency. The agency shall have power to contract with the holders of any of its bonds or notes as to the custody, collection, securing, investment and payment of any moneys of the agency or any moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of bonds or not…

§ 861. Notification of budget. Each agency shall mail or deliver to the chief executive officer and the governing body of the municipality for whose benefit the agency was established and make available for public inspection and comment its proposed budget for the forthcoming fi…

§ 862. Restrictions on funds of the agency. (1) No funds of the agency shall be used in respect of any project if the completion thereof would result in the removal of an industrial or manufacturing plant of the project occupant from one area of the state to another area of the …

§ 862-a. Additional restrictions on funds of the agency in connection with continuing care retirement communities. No resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds, notes or other obligations of the agency, or for providing financial assistance in any respect, for any continuing …

§ 864. Bonds of the agency. (1) The agency shall have the power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue negotiable bonds for any of its corporate purposes without limitation as to amount. The agency shall have power from time to time and whenever it deems refunding e…

§ 866. Notes of the agency. The agency shall have power from time to time to issue notes and from time to time to issue renewal notes (herein referred to as notes) maturing not later than five years from their respective original dates for any purpose or purposes for which bonds…

§ 868. Agreements of the municipality and state. The municipality is authorized to, and the state does hereby, pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds or notes that neither the municipality nor the state, respectively, will limit or alter the rights, hereby vested in t…

§ 87. Support and maintenance of charitable and other institutions. Boards of estimate and apportionment, common councils, boards of aldermen, boards of supervisors, town boards, boards of trustees of villages and all other boards or officers of counties, cities, towns and villa…

§ 870. State and municipality not liable on bonds or notes. The bonds or notes and other obligations of the authority shall not be a debt of the state or of the municipality, and neither the state nor the municipality shall be liable thereon, nor shall they be payable out of any…

§ 872. Bonds and notes as legal investment. The bonds and notes are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance…

§ 874. Tax exemptions. (1) It is hereby determined that the creation of the agency and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state of New York and is a public purpose, and the agency shall be regarded as performing a g…

§ 875. Special provisions applicable to state sales and compensating use taxes and certain types of facilities. 1. For purposes of this section: "state sales and use taxes" means sales and compensating use taxes and fees imposed by article twenty-eight or twenty-eight-A of the t…

§ 876. Tax contract by the state. The state covenants with the purchasers and with all subsequent holders and transferees of bonds or notes issued by the agency pursuant to this title, in consideration of the acceptance of and payment for the bonds or notes, that the bonds and n…

§ 878. Remedies of bondholders and noteholders. (1) In the event that the agency shall default in the payment of principal or of interest on any issue of the bonds or notes after the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and such default shall c…

* § 88. Disposition of stray or unwanted dogs by municipality. 1. A municipality may by local law or ordinance provide that stray or unwanted dogs be given to an agency which trains seeing eye dogs or to a police department which trains dogs as guards. 2. The agency or departmen…

* § 88. Catv franchises prohibited. 1. As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning. (a) "Catv company". Any individual, partnership, association or corporation owning, controlling, …

§ 88-a. Merit award board to reward employees for suggestions. 1. Any city, county, town, village, school district or board of cooperative educational services is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a merit award board for the purpose of rewarding its employees for sugg…

§ 880. Actions against the agency. (1) In an action against the agency founded upon tort, the complaint shall contain an allegation that at least thirty days have elapsed since the demand, claim or claims upon which the action is founded were presented to a member of the agency …

§ 882. Termination of the agency. Whenever all of the bonds or notes issued by the agency shall have been redeemed or cancelled, and all straight-lease transactions have been terminated, the agency shall cease to exist and all rights, titles, and interest and all obligations and…

§ 883. Conflicts of interest. All members, officers, and employees of an agency or industrial development authority established by this chapter or created by the public authorities law shall be subject to the provisions of article eighteen of this chapter.

§ 884. Public bidding. The provisions of any law relating to the requirement of public bidding with respect to the construction of public facilities or projects shall not be applicable to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, equipping and furn…

§ 886. Title not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective. If any section, clause or provision of this title shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, it shall be valid and effective …

§ 888. Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded. Insofar as the provisions of this title are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, or of any local laws of the municipality, the provisions of this title shall be controlling except in cases…

§ 89. Payment of debts of illegal corporations. Whenever an attempt has been or is hereafter made to create a municipal corporation, either by special act of the legislature or by proceedings taken under the general laws of the state, and such corporation has chosen officers and…

* § 890. Wayne county industrial development agency. For the benefit of the county of Wayne and the inhabitants thereof, an industrial development agency, to be known as the WAYNE COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, is hereby established for the accomplishment of any or all of…

* § 890-a. City of Dunkirk industrial development agency. For the benefit of the city of Dunkirk and the inhabitants thereof, an industrial development agency, to be known as the CITY OF DUNKIRK INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, is hereby established for the accomplishment of any o…

* § 890-b. County of Cattaraugus industrial development agency. 1. For the benefit of the county of Cattaraugus and the inhabitants thereof, an industrial development agency, to be known as the COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, is hereby established for the ac…

* § 890-c. Counties of Warren and Washington industrial development agency. For the benefit of the counties of Warren and Washington and the inhabitants thereof, an industrial development agency, to be known as the COUNTIES OF WARREN AND WASHINGTON INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY,…