New York General Municipal Law Article 5 - POWERS, LIMITATIONS AND LIABILITIES

• 70 - Payment of Judgments Against Municipal Corporation.
  When a final judgment for a sum of money shall be recovered against a municipal corporation, and the execution thereof shall not be stayed pursuant...
• 70-a - Liability for Expenses Incurred in Enforcing Lawful Required Payment of Moneys to State Agencies.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or of any law, general, special or local, whenever any municipal corporation is required by law to provide...
• 71 - Liability for Damages by Mobs and Riots.
  A city or county shall be liable to a person whose property is destroyed or injured therein by a mob or riot, for the damages...
• 71-a - Injury or Death of Person Aiding a Police Officer or Peace Officer.
  A person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid a police officer or peace officer in effectuating or securing an arrest or in preventing...
• 71-b - Operation of Snowmobiles.
  1. With respect to injuries arising from the operation of snowmobiles, no civil action shall be maintained against any municipal corporation or an officer thereof...
• 72 - Acquisition of Lands for Erection of Monuments.
  The governing board of a municipal corporation, or the trustees of a monument association, may acquire not to exceed three acres of land, for the...
• 72-a - Acquisition and Development of Forest Lands.
  The governing board of a county, town or village may severally acquire for such county, town or village, by purchase, gift, lease or condemnation, and...
• 72-b - Acquisition of Lands and Erection of Memorial Buildings.
  The governing board of a town or village may acquire lands and erect a memorial building, or lands with buildings thereon and remodel such buildings...
• 72-c - Expenses of Members of the Police Department and Other Peace Officers in Attending Police Training Schools.
  The board or body of a county, city, town or village authorized to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments therefrom,...
• 72-d - Acquisition of Lands for Park and Parkway Purposes or for District Headquarters for the State Department of Transportation, and Dedication of the Same
  in the town of Babylon. The governing board of any municipal corporation in the town of Babylon or the town board of such town may...
• 72-e - Acquisition of Lands for Park and Parkway Purposes and Dedication of the Same by the Counties of Broome, Monroe and Erie.
  The board of supervisors of the county of Broome, Monroe or Erie may acquire by purchase, gift, devise or acquisition pursuant to the provisions of...
• 72-f - Acquisition of Lands for Parkway and Airport Purposes and Dedication of the Same by Counties and Municipal Corporations.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or the provisions of this article, the governing board of any municipal corporation or the...
• 72-g - Expenses of Volunteer Firefighters Attending Training Schools and Instruction Courses.
  1. The chief officer of the fire department of a municipal corporation or fire district, subject to any rules or regulations governing such department, may...
• 72-h - Sale, Lease and Transfer to Municipal Corporations of Certain Public Lands.
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter, the supervisors of a county, the town board of a...
• 72-i - Acquisition of Lands and Erection of Memorial Buildings by Adjoining Villages.
  The governing boards of two or more villages, of which at least one boundary of any one adjoins that of any other, may, upon the...
• 72-j - Parking Garages and Parking Spaces; Public Off-Street Loading Facilities.
  1. The governing board or other appropriate authority of a municipal corporation may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation or otherwise, in accordance with...
• 72-k - Parking Facilities and Appurtenances Within or Outside of the State Highway Right of Way.
  * The governing body of any county, city, town or village is hereby authorized and empowered to authorize and direct such of its officers or...
• 72-k*2 - Notification of Change in Use of Property Used for Recreational Purposes.
  * 72-k. Notification of change in use of property used for recreational purposes. 1. Whenever an owner of real property used for recreational purposes desires...
• 72-l - Navigation and Flood Control Improvements in Cooperation With the Federal Government.
  Any municipal corporation acting through its governing board or other appropriate authority may; (1) cooperate with the federal government as authorized in the rivers and...
• 72-m - Appropriations for Bicentennial Celebration.
  * A municipal corporation may after a public hearing appropriate annually a sum that it deems appropriate for the purpose of defraying the expenses of...
• 72-m*2 - Emergency Transportation Plans.
  * 72-m. Emergency transportation plans. Within sixty days after this section becomes law any transportation authority and any city, county or municipality operating a public...
• 72-n - Air Space and Air and Subsurface Areas.
  1. Any municipal corporation acting through its governing board may, in addition to those powers granted it by any other provision of law and notwithstanding...
• 72-o - Expenses of Volunteer Fire Officers and Firefighters Appearing Before a Court or Other Tribunal.
  1. The chief officer of the fire department of a municipal corporation or fire district, subject to any rules or regulations governing such department, may...
• 72-p - Lease of Real Property by a Municipality.
  * Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter, whenever a municipal corporation enters into a lease of real...
• 72-p*2 - Establishment of Farmers' Markets.
  * 72-p. Establishment of farmers' markets. 1. The governing body of any municipal corporation may establish one or more farmers' markets, as defined in section...
• 72-r - Adopt-a-Beach Stewardship Program.
  1. The governing body of any municipality may enter into stewardship agreements with any person or persons for the purposes of preserving, maintaining, or enhancing...
• 73 - Cities and Villages May Hold Property in Trust for Certain Purposes.
  Real and personal estate may be granted and conveyed to the corporation of any city or village of this state, to be held in trust...
• 74 - Condemnation of Real Property.
  A municipal corporation authorized by law to take and hold real property for the uses and purposes of the corporation, may, if it is unable...
• 74-b - Payment of Moving and Relocation Expenses of Residential and Commercial Owners and Tenants of Appropriated Property.
  1. The chief fiscal officer of every municipal corporation shall establish and may amend rules and regulations authorizing the payment of reasonable and necessary moving...
• 74-c - Taking of Billboards.
  1. If any local law, ordinance or resolution adopted by a municipal corporation in the exercise of its police power shall require the removal of...
• 75 - Limitation on Acquisition of Water Rights in Dutchess County.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, a municipal or other corporation shall not have power to acquire by condemnation for the purpose...
• 76 - Limitation on Acquisition of Water Rights in Westchester and Putnam Counties.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, a municipal or other corporation not situated within the county of Westchester or the county of...
• 77 - Leases of Public Buildings to Posts of Veteran Organizations, Organizations of Volunteer Firemen, and Child Care Agencies.
  1. A municipal corporation may lease, for not exceeding five years, to a post or posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans of...
• 77-a - Construction and Maintenance of Memorial Building or Monument by County or City.
  A county, or a city by resolution adopted by the governing board of such municipality by a two-thirds vote of its members, may construct and...
• 77-b - Expenses of Certain Public Officers and Employees Attending Conventions, Conferences and Schools.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean: (a) Municipality. A city, county, town, village, school district, cooperative educational services district,...
• 77-c - Per Diem Meal Allowances for Travel on Official Business.
  Whenever a municipality is authorized or required to reimburse its officers, employees, or the volunteer members or officers of the fire department of the municipality,...
• 77-d - Traveling Expenses for Applicants for Public Employment.
  The governing board of each county, city, town, village, school district, fire district or other district corporation may, by local law, ordinance or resolution, authorize...
• 77-e - Baseball Field Fence Leases in Yates County.
  Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter to the contrary, the village of Penn Yan, Yates county, may...
• 77-f - Sports Field Fence Leases in the Town of Sweden, Monroe County.
  Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter to the contrary, the town of Sweden, Monroe county, may lease...
• 77-g - Sports Field Fence Leases in the City of Rye, Westchester County.
  Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter to the contrary, the city of Rye, Westchester county, may lease...
• 78 - Insurance of Property.
  Public officers having by law the care and custody of the public buildings and other property of a municipal corporation, may insure the same at...
• 78-b - Demolition and Removal of Unsafe Structures.
  The governing body of any city, town, or village may commence a special proceeding in a court of competent jursidiction to collect the costs of...
• 80 - Discrimination Against Non-Residents.
  Any restriction or regulation imposed by the governing board of a municipal corporation upon the inhabitants of any other municipal corporation within this state, carrying...
• 80-a - Purchasing of Products for Municipal Use.
  1. As used in this section: a. "Practicable" means capable of being used without violating the following criteria: performance, availability at a reasonable price, availability...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 88*2 - Catv Franchises Prohibited.
  * 88. Catv franchises prohibited. 1. As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another...
• 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...
• 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...
• 90 - Payment of Overtime Compensation to Public Officers or Employees.
  The governing board of each municipal corporation or other civil division or political subdivision of the state, or in the city of New York, the...
• 91 - Payment of Rewards for Apprehension and Conviction of a Person or Persons Guilty of Felony or Misdemeanor.
  The governing board of any municipal corporation shall have power to offer, appropriate and pay rewards of not more than one thousand dollars for information...
• 91-a - Arson Investigation.
  1. Every municipal corporation, the office of fire prevention and control, and any two or more municipal corporations jointly, are hereby authorized and empowered to...
• 92 - Vacations, Sick Leaves and Leaves of Absence of Officers and Employees.
  1. The governing board of each county, city, town, village, school district, and of each fire district or other district corporation and of each civil...
• 92-a - Medical, Surgical and Hospital Services or Insurance for Officers, Employees and Retired Officers and Employees of Public Corporations and Their Famil
  92-a. Medical, surgical and hospital services or insurance for officers, employees and retired officers and employees of public corporations and their families. 1. As used...
• 92-b - Audit of Claims Under Certain Contracts for Administering Medical Assistance.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section three hundred sixty-nine of the county law or any other law, general, special or local, relating to the audit and...
• 92-c - Emergency Service Volunteer; Paid Leave.
  Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, public officers and employees of municipal corporations and school districts who are certified by the American Red...
• 92-d - Sick Leave for Officers and Employees With a Qualifying World Trade Center Condition.
  Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, officers and employees of the state, a public authority or any municipal corporation outside of...
• 93 - Payment of Certain Insurance Premiums for Officers and Employees of Municipal Corporations and Agencies or Instrumentalities Thereof.
  1. The fiscal or disbursing officer of every municipal corporation is hereby authorized to deduct from the wage or salary of any officer or employee...
• 93-a - Written Statement of Deductions to Accompany Payment of Salary or Wages to Officers or Employees in Certain Cases.
  On and after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-four, the chief fiscal officer of every municipal corporation may, upon request in writing therefor, cause to be...
• 93-b - Deductions From Wages or Salaries of Civil Service Employees.
  1. The fiscal or disbursing officer of every municipal corporation or other civil division or political subdivision of the state is hereby authorized to deduct...
• 93-c - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
  93-c. The appropriate disbursing or fiscal officer of any municipality or other political subdivision of the state is hereby authorized to deduct from the salary...
• 93-d - Payroll Payment by Banks or Trust Companies.
  The governing body of any municipal corporation, school district, district corporation, town or county improvement district, public authority, or public corporation may enter into a...
• 94 - Earnings of Municipal Corporations From Certain Municipally Operated Public Utility Services.
  Any municipal corporation operating a gas, electric or water public utility service may earn from and out of such operation an amount equivalent to taxes...
• 94-a - Tax Equivalent Payments of the City of Jamestown Board of Public Utilities.
  Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, in addition to the amount equivalent to taxes authorized to be earned and paid pursuant to...
• 95 - Youth Agencies and Assistance.
  Any municipality as defined by section two hundred forty of this chapter is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and operate a bureau or...
• 95-a - Programs for the Aging.
  Any county, city, town, village or school district is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and operate programs devoted in whole or in part...
• 96 - Municipal Community Garden Activities.
  1. A municipality is authorized to hold land, however acquired, either in fee or of a lesser interest, or by lease, contract or agreement with...
• 96-a - Use of Certain Lands for the Construction and Operation of Neighborhood Youth Centers.
  * 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, the governing board of each municipal corporation may enter into a contract with a public or private...
• 96-a*2 - Protection of Historical Places, Buildings and Works of Art.
  * 96-a. Protection of historical places, buildings and works of art. In addition to any power or authority of a municipal corporation to regulate by...
• 96-b - Tree Conservation.
  1. The legislature hereby finds that there is a direct relationship between the planting of trees, shrubs and associated vegetation in sufficient number in populated...
• 97 - Power of Municipalities to Furnish and Contract for Fire and Police Communication System.
  In a county having a population of more than five hundred twenty-five thousand and less than six hundred fifty thousand according to the last decennial...
• 98 - Operation and Maintenance of Railroad Passenger Stations in Certain Municipalities.
  1. For the purposes of this section only, "municipality" means (i) a county not wholly contained within a city, (ii) a city having a population...
• 98-a - Acquisition and Lease of Railroad Facilities.
  1. Two or more cities, towns or villages in the same county or adjoining counties may jointly acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise, railroad...
• 98-b - Municipal Assistance to Public Authorities Furnishing Transportation Services.
  Every city, village, town or county not wholly contained within a city the whole or any part of which is directly served by a transportation...
• 99 - Regulation of Open Wells, Cesspools, Basins or Sumps.
  The governing board of any city, town or village may by local law, ordinance or resolution regulate the construction, maintenance or use of open wells,...
• 99-a - Use of Municipally Operated Dumping Ground by Another Municipality.
  One municipality may contract with any other municipality for the use of a municipally operated public dump or dumping ground on such terms as may...
• 99-b - Receipts for Money Received; Records of Money Disbursed by Check.
  1. Every public officer or employee who shall receive payment of money for or on behalf of any municipality, school district, public corporation or political...
• 99-c - Agreements for Joint Building Inspectors by Municipal Corporations.
  It shall be lawful for two or more municipal corporations to engage jointly one building inspector and make an agreement specifying how such inspector shall...
• 99-d - Planning for Future Capital Improvements.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the governing board or other appropriate authority of a municipal corporation, school district or...
• 99-e - Section Heading Enacted As Heading to Sb 1.
  99-e. 1. Operation, improvement and maintenance of parks. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, or of any charter, ordinance, rule or...
• 99-f - Comprehensive Sewer and Water Studies.
  1. Any municipal corporation may apply for and expend state aid for comprehensive studies and reports, designate an appropriate official, department, bureau, or agency therefor...
• 99-g - Capital Program.
  1. Any municipal corporation, by resolution or ordinance of the governing board, may undertake the planning and execution of a capital program in accordance with...
• 99-h - Participation in Federal Programs.
  1. As used in this section the term "municipal corporation" shall mean a county, city, town, village, school district, or board of cooperative educational services...
• 99-i - Participation in Programs to Promote Progress and Scholarship in the Humanities and the Arts.
  1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean and include: a. "Municipal corporation". A county, city, town, village, or school district of...
• 99-j - Control of Aquatic Plant Growth.
  Every municipal corporation is, and any two or more municipal corporations jointly are, hereby authorized and empowered to take such action as may be required...
• 99-k - Fees to Jurors or Witnesses.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no fees are payable to a juror or witness for his service or attendance in a local criminal court,...
• 99-l - Fees in Criminal Actions and Other Proceedings.
  1. Towns and villages, for their own respective benefits shall be entitled to receive for the services of the town court and the village court...
• 99-m - Cash Bail and Partially Secured Bail Bond; Fee for Deposit of Money.
  1. When, pursuant to the provisions of title P of the criminal procedure law or the provisions of the family court act, a sum of...
• 99-n - Transfer and Lease of Ferry Boats and Buses.
  1. As used in this section the term "municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village. 2. Notwithstanding any other law, general, special or...
• 99-o - Transfer and Lease of Mass Commuting Vehicles by the County of Suffolk.
  1. As used in this section the term "county" shall mean the county of Suffolk. The term "mass commuting vehicle" means any bus, subway car,...
• 99-p - Municipality, District Corporation or School District As Reciprocal Insurer.
  Any county, town, city, village, district corporation (as defined in paragraph three of section 2.00 of the local finance law), or school district and board...
• 99-q - Facilities for the Unified Court System.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, charter or ordinance to the contrary, a municipality which is a political subdivision specified in...
• 99-r - Contracts for Services.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the governing board of any municipal corporation may enter into agreements and/or contracts with any state...
• 99-s - Transfer and Sale of Delinquent Real Estate Tax Receivables.
  1. A city with a population of one million or more, acting through its finance commissioner, collector of taxes or other officer responsible for the...
• 99-t - Contracts With Banks or Trust Companies for the Collection of Water or Sewer User Fees, Charges, Rates or Rentals, or Certain Special Assessments.
  1. Notwithstanding any general, special or local law to the contrary, a municipal corporation having the responsibility for the collection of water or sewer user...
• 99-u - Municipal Cooperation Agreements for Counties.
  The county legislative body in any county may: 1. enter into municipal cooperation agreements, as provided in article five-G of this chapter, with one or...
• 99-v - Veterans Affairs; Display of Events.
  Each county, city, town or village may adopt a local law to provide a bulletin board to be conspicuously displayed in such county, city, town...
• 99-w - Land for Monument Erection.
  1. The following terms whenever used or referred to in this section shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears in the...

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