New York General City Law Article 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 2 - Term of Office of City Supervisors.
  1. The term of office of each supervisor hereafter elected in a city shall, notwithstanding the provisions of such city charter, be two years, and...
• 2-a - Succession to Certain City Offices.
  1. In every city in which the mayor and president or presiding officer of the local legislative body are elected at the same time and...
• 2-b - Definition.
  The term "infant" or "minor", as used in this chapter, shall mean a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
• 3 - Members of Common Council; Appointments to Other City Offices.
  No member of the common council of any city shall, during the period for which he was elected, be capable of holding under the appointment...
• 3-a - Liability of City Officials.
  No official of any city of this state who shall deposit any moneys coming into his hands by virtue of his office in any bank,...
• 3-b - Deposit of City Funds.
  Funds of a city shall be deposited and secured in the manner provided by section ten of the general municipal law.
• 3-c - Unlawful Offers or Agreements by Municipal Officials or Omnibus Lines With Respect to Omnibus Line Operations.
  1. No officer, employee or agent of any city or any person acting on his behalf shall, directly or indirectly, make an offer to or...
• 3-d - Receipts and Disbursements of Payrolls.
  By resolution duly adopted, the common council or other legislative body of the city, may determine to enter into a contract to provide for the...
• 4 - Removal of Appointive Officers in Cities of the Third Class.
  No officer heretofore or hereafter appointed by the mayor of a city of the third class, or nominated and appointed by such mayor by or...
• 5 - Certain Parades and Processions Forbidden; Penalty.
  All processions or parades occupying or marching on any street of any city to the exclusion or interruption of other citizens in their individual right...
• 6 - Swearing Witnesses.
  Whenever the common council of a city shall have appointed a committee of members of their body upon any subject or matter within the jurisdiction...
• 7 - Summoning Witnesses.
  The chairman or any other member of any such committee in his name shall have power to subpoena witnesses.
• 8 - Law Applicable to Conduct of Elections At Which Ballot Questions are Submitted to All the Voters of a City.
  The provisions of the election law or any other law relating to the submission of questions at general elections, so far as the same are...
• 10 - Licenses to Adult Blind Persons.
  The mayor of any city shall have the power to issue a license to any adult blind person for the vending of goods, or newspapers...
• 11 - Use of Soft Coal in Public Institutions.
  No public institution maintained by the state within the corporate limits of any city of the second class, shall use or burn bituminous coal in...
• 12 - Money for Celebration of Legal Holidays in Cities.
  The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside each year such sums it may deem proper for the purpose...
• 12-a - Money for Tercentennial Celebrations.
  The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and set aside such sums as it may deem proper in order to celebrate...
• 13 - Moneys for Memorial and Veterans Days; How Expended.
  The moneys appropriated by a city for observance of Memorial and Veterans days therein pursuant to section twelve of this chapter shall be expended under...
• 13-a - Moneys for Maintaining the Conference of Mayors and Other City Officials of the State of New York and Any of Its Activities.
  The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually, from moneys raised by taxation in such city, a sum to...
• 13-b - Publicity Fund.
  Any city may establish a publicity fund of such amount as the city council or other governing body may by resolution direct, to be expended...
• 13-c - Power of Cities to Provide Moneys to Replace Revenues From Excise Taxes.
  The common council or other governing body of any city, in which the trafficking in liquor is prohibited wholly or partly may raise, as long...
• 13-e - Expenses of Meeting Rooms for Veterans' and Other Organizations.
  Any city may appropriate and make available a sum of money not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one year for each chapter, post, camp...
• 13-f - Moneys for Maintaining the Municipal Electric Utilities Association of the State of New York and Any of Its Activities.
  The common council of any city or the board in control of any electric utility owned and operated by the city is hereby authorized to...
• 13-g - Moneys for Maintaining the New York State Assessors Association and Any of Its Activities.
  The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually a sum to meet its proportionate share of the actual and...
• 13-h - Moneys for Maintaining Statewide Associations of Local Officials and Any of Their Activities.
  The common council of any city is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend annually a sum to meet its proportionate share of the actual and...
• 14 - Permits for Erection of Booths and Arches.
  The mayor of any city of the first class or the commissioner of transportation in the city of New York, may, in his discretion, grant...
• 15 - Firemen Moving From One City to Another.
  The firemen of the different cities of this state, in case of removal from one city to another, shall be allowed the time which they...
• 16 - Term of Service; How Reckoned.
  When any such fireman shall have served as such for so long a time thereafter as shall make the whole term of service the same...
• 16-a - Volunteer Members of Fire Companies.
  1. Except as otherwise provided in a city charter or other special or local law, volunteer members of a fire company shall be elected and...
• 16-b - Computation of Pensions in Certain Retirement Funds.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general or special, the members of every teachers' retirement system in all cities of the state shall, when...
• 16-c - Minimum Service Retirement Benefits for Certain Sanitation Department Employees in Cities and Who are Members of Pension or Retirement Systems Maintai
  16-c. Minimum service retirement benefits for certain sanitation department employees in cities and who are members of pension or retirement systems maintained by such cities....
• 17 - Operation of Crematories for Disposal of Garbage.
  A crematory in any city or within ten miles of the corporate limits of any city, owned or controlled by any person or corporation or...
• 18 - License to Operate Moving Picture Apparatus.
  It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, save as excepted in section eighteen-a of this article, to operate any moving picture apparatus...
• 18-a - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
  18-a. Nothing contained in section eighteen shall be considered to apply to any so-called miniature motion picture apparatus which uses only an enclosed incandescent electric...
• 18-b - Admission of Children to Theatres.
  The local legislative body of any city by a majority vote may provide by local law, subject to the provisions of this section, for the...
• 18-c - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
  18-c. The common council in all cities of the third class shall have the power, upon application, in writing, of the property owners, owning at...
• 18-d - Duty of Street Vendors to Keep the Sidewalk and Street Clean.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any city which has a local law or ordinance in relation to responsibility for maintenance of sidewalk and street...

Last modified: February 3, 2019