Title GCT, General City

§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "General City\nLaw."\n

§ 10. Licenses to adult blind persons. The mayor of any city shall\nhave the power to issue a license to any adult blind person for the\nvending of goods, or newspapers in such places as he or she may set\naside for this purpose. The license shall be issued for a term of one\nye…

§ 11. Use of soft coal in public institutions. No public institution\nmaintained by the state within the corporate limits of any city of the\nsecond class, shall use or burn bituminous coal in the operation of any\nof its departments, provided that the local ordinances of any su…

§ 116. Certificates of deposit. The legislative body of a city may\nauthorize and empower its chief fiscal officer, in his discretion, to\nissue certificates of deposit, each in the sum of ten dollars, or any\nmultiple thereof, and at such a rate of interest, if any, as he shall…

§ 12. Money for celebration of legal holidays in cities. The common\ncouncil of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside\neach year such sums it may deem proper for the purpose of providing for\nthe due and proper observance of any legal holiday in such city.\n…

§ 12-a. Money for tercentennial celebrations. The common council of\nany city is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside such sums as\nit may deem proper in order to celebrate the due and proper observance\nof tercentennial celebrations commemorating the founding of the\n…

§ 120. Creation; board; employees. The governing body of each city\nhaving a population of fifty thousand or more is hereby authorized to\ncreate a city drug control authority. Such authority shall consist of\nnot less than five nor more than nine members who shall be appointed …

§ 121. Powers of the authority. The authority, by and through its\nboard, shall have the following functions, powers and duties:\n 1. To coordinate and assist in activities in the city relating to drug\ncontrol;\n 2. To establish in-patient and out-patient treatment facilities f…

§ 122. Reports of the authority. The authority shall make an annual\nreport to the governing body of the city. When it deems advisable, the\nauthority may make interim reports to the governing body of the city\nwith its recommendations, in order to afford the governing body of t…

§ 123. Acquisition of real property; financing of expenditures. Real\nproperty required for any of the purposes set forth in this article\nshall be acquired by the governing body of the city on behalf of the\nauthority.\n Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to p…

§ 13. Moneys for Memorial and Veterans days; how expended. The moneys\nappropriated by a city for observance of Memorial and Veterans days\ntherein pursuant to section twelve of this chapter shall be expended\nunder the direction of a board composed of the mayor and the commande…

§ 13-a. Moneys for maintaining the conference of mayors and other city\nofficials of the state of New York and any of its activities. The common\ncouncil of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend\nannually, from moneys raised by taxation in such city, a sum to m…

§ 13-b. Publicity fund. Any city may establish a publicity fund of\nsuch amount as the city council or other governing body may by\nresolution direct, to be expended for the purpose of advertising the\nadvantages of such city as a winter and summer resort, or for the\ncommemorat…

§ 13-c. Power of cities to provide moneys to replace revenues from\nexcise taxes. The common council or other governing body of any city, in\nwhich the trafficking in liquor is prohibited wholly or partly may\nraise, as long as the trafficking in liquor is prohibited, an amount …

§ 13-e. Expenses of meeting rooms for veterans' and other\norganizations. Any city may appropriate and make available a sum of\nmoney not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one year for each\nchapter, post, camp or garrison, as the case may be, of the Grand Army\nof the Repub…

§ 13-f. Moneys for maintaining the municipal electric utilities\nassociation of the state of New York and any of its activities. The\ncommon council of any city or the board in control of any electric\nutility owned and operated by the city is hereby authorized to\nappropriate a…

§ 13-g. Moneys for maintaining the New York State Assessors\nAssociation and any of its activities. The common council of any city is\nhereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually a sum to meet its\nproportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining\…

§ 13-h. Moneys for maintaining statewide associations of local\nofficials and any of their activities. The common council of any city is\nhereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually a sum to meet its\nproportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaini…

§ 130. Contracts with corporations for supply of gas. The municipal\nofficers authorized by law to contract in behalf of any city of the\nfirst class, for the lighting of its streets may, from time to time, in\nthe manner, upon the terms and with the conditions hereinafter provi…

§ 131. Letting of contract to be public. Every such contract shall be\nlet at public letting as required by law, and as a consideration for the\nexecution and performance thereof, shall expressly provide for and\nsecure to such city, prices lower than any now prescribed therein …

§ 132. Contract to provide for reduction of price. Every such contract\nshall also provide and require that during the term therein specified\nthe corporation party thereto may and shall supply gas to the\ninhabitants of such city at prices lower than those now or then charged\n…

§ 14. Permits for erection of booths and arches. The mayor of any city\nof the first class or the commissioner of transportation in the city of\nNew York, may, in his discretion, grant temporary permits for the\nerection of booths, stands, arches, overhead passageways, or flagst…

§ 140. Establishment of hospitals. A city of the first class shall\nhave power whenever its board of health shall deem it necessary for the\npromotion of the health of its inhabitants, to establish, equip and\nmaintain, outside of its corporate limits, and not within the limits …

§ 141. Selection of site. Whenever a city having a population of more\nthan three hundred thousand inhabitants shall desire to exercise the\npower conferred by this article it shall through its board of health,\nselect such locality outside of its corporate limits, but within th…

§ 142. Jurisdiction of local board of health. All hospitals or\ninstitutions now or hereafter established or maintained by any city of\nthe first class for the regular or special treatment of persons\nsuffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis shall be\nsubject t…

§ 15. Firefighters moving from one city to another. The firefighters\nof the different cities of this state, in case of removal from one city\nto another, shall be allowed the time which they have served as such\nfirefighters in the city they left, in the city to which they have…

§ 16. Term of service; how reckoned. When any such firefighter shall\nhave served as such for so long a time thereafter as shall make the\nwhole term of service the same as required by law of firefighters\nresiding in the city removed to, he shall be entitled to all the\nprivile…

§ 16-a. Volunteer members of fire companies. 1. Except as otherwise\nprovided in a city charter or other special or local law, volunteer\nmembers of a fire company shall be elected and appointed as provided in\nthis section.\n 2. The board of fire commissioners or other body or …

§ 16-b. Computation of pensions in certain retirement funds.\nNotwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general or special, the\nmembers of every teachers' retirement system in all cities of the state\nshall, when retired pursuant to the law governing such system, receive…

§ 16-c. Minimum service retirement benefits for certain sanitation\ndepartment employees in cities and who are members of pension or\nretirement systems maintained by such cities. 1. For the purposes of\nthis section the uniformed force of a city department of sanitation or\nsim…

§ 161. Bills of lading; penalty for altering. A person guilty of\naltering with intent to defraud, any original bill of lading issued by\nthe person, firm or corporation by whom the coal was loaded into the\nvessel in which such coal is transported to any city of the first or\ns…

§ 17. Operation of crematories for disposal of garbage. A crematory in\nany city or within ten miles of the corporate limits of any city, owned\nor controlled by any person or corporation or by a city, for the\ntreatment or consuming of garbage or other refuse matter or offal, d…

§ 170. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto\nannexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.\n

§ 171. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect\nimmediately.\n

§ 18. License to operate moving picture apparatus. It shall not be\nlawful for any person or persons, save as excepted in section eighteen-a\nof this article, to operate any moving picture apparatus and its\nconnections in a city of the first class unless such person or persons\…

§ 18-a. Nothing contained in section eighteen shall be considered to\napply to any so-called miniature motion picture apparatus which uses\nonly an enclosed incandescent electric lamp and approved acetate of\ncellulose or slow-burning films, and is of such construction that film…

§ 18-b. Admission of children to theatres. The local legislative body\nof any city by a majority vote may provide by local law, subject to the\nprovisions of this section, for the licensing of theatres in such city\nwherein there shall be exhibited those films which have been li…

§ 18-c. The common council in all cities of the third class shall have\nthe power, upon application, in writing, of the property owners, owning\nat least two-thirds of the number of feet fronting or abutting upon the\nstreet and along the line of any proposed improvement for the…

§ 18-d. Duty of street vendors to keep the sidewalk and street clean.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, any city which has a local\nlaw or ordinance in relation to responsibility for maintenance of\nsidewalk and street cleanliness shall apply such law or ordinance or\…

§ 19. General grant of powers. 1. Every city is granted power to\nregulate, manage and control its property and local affairs and is\ngranted all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction necessary and proper\nfor carrying such power into execution. No enumeration of powers in thi…

§ 2. Term of office of city supervisors. 1. The term of office of\neach supervisor hereafter elected in a city shall, notwithstanding the\nprovisions of such city charter, be two years, and a supervisor shall\nonly be elected in such city each second year thereafter, except to f…

§ 2-a. Succession to certain city offices. 1. In every city in which\nthe mayor and president or presiding officer of the local legislative\nbody are elected at the same time and for the same term by the electors\nof the entire city, in case of the removal from office of the may…

§ 2-b. Definition. The term "infant" or "minor", as used in this\nchapter, shall mean a person who has not attained the age of eighteen\nyears.\n

§ 20. Grant of specific powers. Subject to the constitution and\ngeneral laws of this state, every city is empowered:\n 1. To contract and be contracted with and to institute, maintain and\ndefend any action or proceeding in any court.\n 2. To take, purchase, hold and lease real…

§ 20-a. Purchasing department or agency. Each city, except a city of\nthe first class having a population of one million or more inhabitants,\nis hereby authorized and empowered to create and establish by ordinance\nof the common council or similar legislative body and to mainta…

§ 20-b. Cities authorized to impose taxes on utilities.\nNotwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, any city of\nthis state, acting through its local legislative body, is hereby\nauthorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in any\nsuch city …

§ 20-c. Temporary investment of certain city funds in obligations of\nthe United States. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city\nof the state, acting through its board of estimate or other analogous\ngoverning body, may authorize its comptroller or other chief fis…

§ 20-d. Alternative procedure for acquisition of certain real\nproperty, personal property and franchises of omnibus lines within\ncities having a population of one million or more inhabitants.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, general, special or local,\ncities with …

§ 20-e. State office buildings and other public improvements in\ncertain cities. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general,\nspecial or local, every city is hereby authorized and empowered:\n (a) To acquire by purchase, gift or dedication, or by acquisition in\nthe …

§ 20-f. Transfer of development rights; definitions; conditions;\nprocedures. 1. As used in this section:\n a. "Development rights" shall mean the rights permitted to a lot,\nparcel, or area of land under a zoning ordinance or local law respecting\npermissible use, area, density…