New York General Municipal Law Article 6 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

• 120 - Contracts for Purification of Water and Sewerage.
  The local authorities of the several counties, cities, towns and villages of the state having charge of the supply of water and the care of...
• 120-a - Contracts for Sewerage Disposal.
  The respective municipalities and districts may contract with each other, or they may jointly or severally contract with a third person, corporation or municipality, either...
• 120-b - Supervision of Sewage System.
  If the public works herein provided be constructed and operated by the municipalities acting jointly, the local authorities of the contracting municipalities or districts having...
• 120-c - Obligations and Privileges Relating to Sewerage Contracts.
  Such sewer system, extension or part thereof shall, when accepted under such contract, and such works, plants or stations, may if so provided therein, pass...
• 120-d - Officers of Meeting.
  In order to facilitate business procedure, the local authorities of the several municipalities or districts meeting jointly for the purposes herein provided shall, at a...
• 120-e - By Whom Proposed District Represented.
  Until a sewer district of a town is organized as provided by the town law, the supervisor, or a member of the town board appointed...
• 120-f - Contract; How Executed.
  No municipality or district acting jointly as herein provided shall be bound by any contract or agreement unless such contract or agreement be signed and...
• 120-g - Apportionment of Cost.
  Before any such contract for construction mentioned in section one hundred and twenty-c shall become effective, such local authorities shall determine the part or proportion...
• 120-h - Further Provisions As to Apportionment of Cost.
  Each of the contracting municipalities or districts shall pay its just and proportionate share for the public improvement authorized by this act and the general...
• 120-i - Means of Payment.
  The indebtedness created for such public works may be paid by each contracting municipality, including a sewer district of a town, partly by assessment on...
• 120-k - Payments; How Made.
  It shall be lawful for the governing body or board having control of the finances of such contracting municipality, in lieu of issuing the bonds...
• 120-l - Letting of Contracts.
  1. Whenever any work to be performed or materials to be furnished in or about any improvement to be made by two or more municipalities...
• 120-m - Application of Other Laws to Procedure.
  Except where inconsistent with this act, or otherwise permitted hereunder the apportionment of local assessments and the manner of payment of the expenses of construction...
• 120-n - Maps and Plans of Sewers.
  Before taking any proceedings for the construction of any sewer or of any system of sewers or of any addition thereto or alteration thereof, such...
• 120-o - Definitions.
  The words "joint meeting" as used in this act shall be construed to mean the meeting or assembly of the members of the governing bodies...
• 120-p - Referendum in Cities and Villages.
  In any such city or village, whether acting severally or jointly, a copy of such contract, for construction mentioned in section one hundred twenty-c, with...
• 120-q - Rules and Regulations.
  Such person, persons or corporation operating and maintaining such system or contracting for the removal of sewage as herein provided shall be subject to such...
• 120-r - Cancellation of Sewerage Contracts for Neglect.
  In the event of such person, persons or corporation failing and neglecting to keep said system of sewage in a good healthy and effective condition...
• 120-s - Joint Meeting for Acquisition and Operation of Property.
  The joint meeting representing any two or more of such municipalities, as aforesaid, shall have power with their consent and on their behalf and by...
• 120-t - Town and Village May Establish a Joint Water District.
  The board of trustees of an incorporated village and the town board of a town may, notwithstanding the provisions of any law, general or special,...
• 120-u - Mutual Aid for Water Service.
  1. As used in this section: (a) "Municipal corporations," "municipality" or "municipal" means and includes any city, village, district corporation or public benefit corporation, which...
• 120-v - Contracts for Disposal of Sewage Outside the State.
  A public corporation or improvement district in this state may contract for the disposal of its sewage with a municipality, public corporation or improvement district...
• 120-w - Contracts and Agreements for Solid Waste Management, Collection and Disposal.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Municipality" means a town, city, county, or village or any designated public agency thereof, or a garbage...
• 120-x - Agreements for Joint Acquisition, Construction and Operation of Public Docks.
  A town and one or more villages situated wholly or partly within such town are hereby empowered to enter into an agreement for the joint...
• 120-z - Sewer Hook-Ups by Private Contractors.
  Whenever a contractor retained or hired to connect or hook-up a private property with a sewer system in a city, town or village, requires that...
• 120-Aa - Source Separation and Segregation of Recyclable or Reuseable Materials.
  1. The legislature hereby finds that it is in the public interest, in order to further the purposes of the state policy on solid waste...
• 120-Bb - Town of Huntington Solid Waste Management Resource Recovery Facility; Tax Exemption; Other Contractual Provisions Related to Towns of Huntington and
  Smithtown. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of article twenty-eight of the tax law, or of any other general, special or local law respecting taxation, the...
• 120-Cc - Enforcement of Unpaid Solid Waste Collection And/or Disposal Fee.
  1. Any municipal corporation may adopt a local law providing that unpaid fees or charges for municipal or municipally contracted solid waste collection and/or disposal...
• 121 - Establishment and Maintenance of Free Public Baths.
  Any city, village or town may establish and maintain free public baths, and any city, village or town may appropriate of its funds for the...
• 121-a - Creation of Village and Town Police Department in Certain Towns and Villages.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, general or special, the town board or boards of a town or towns in the same county and the...
• 121-b - Care of Children Admitted to Certain Places of Amusement in Certain Cities, Villages and Towns Under a Local Law or Ordinance.
  The board of aldermen, common council or other legislative body of a city having a population of less than one million, or of any village...
• 122 - Refusal to Take Persons to Hospital Prohibited; Exception for Cities With a Population of One Million or More.
  1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, in any city, county, town or village of this state wherein exists, or...
• 122-b - General Ambulance Services.
  1. Any county, city, town or village, acting individually or jointly, may provide an emergency medical service, a general ambulance service or a combination of...
• 122-c - Transport of Police Work Dogs Injured in the Line of Duty.
  An emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical service technician may transport any police work dog, as defined in section 195.06-a of the penal law,...
• 123 - Erection and Operation of Life-Saving Apparatus.
  Any municipal corporation may furnish, erect and locate such life-saving apparatus, appliances and paraphernalia, and do all things necessary for the practical operating of the...
• 124 - Inspection of Building Elevators in Nassau County.
  1. All elevators in buildings in Nassau county shall be inspected periodically for the purposes of public safety. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision three...
• 125 - Issuance of Building Permits.
  No city, town or village shall issue a building permit without obtaining from the permit applicant either: 1. proof duly subscribed that workers' compensation insurance...
• 125-a - Posting Signs on Dead-End Roads.
  It shall be the duty of every municipal corporation and person charged with the duty of maintaining any street or other roadway whenever such street...
• 126 - Establishment of Public General Hospitals.
  The governing board of any county, town, city or village may by resolution determine that there shall be in said county, town, city or village...
• 126-a - Joint Hospitals for Cities, Towns or Villages.
  Two cities in the same county or adjoining counties, or a city and one or more villages located within the same county or adjoining counties...
• 126-b - Public Hospitals for Chronically Ill.
  * 1. (a) The governing board of a county or city may by resolution determine that there shall be in such county or city a...
• 126-b*2 - Establishment of Broome County Nursing Home.
  * 126-b. Establishment of Broome county nursing home. 1. The board of supervisors of Broome county may establish, as hereinafter in this section provided, a...
• 126-c - Appointment to Board of Managers of County Hospital.
  When a county operates a county hospital, the local governing body of such county may appoint one of its own members to the board of...
• 127 - Appointment and Terms of Office of Managers.
  1. Except as provided in subdivision two, when a governing board of a county, town, city or village shall have determined to establish a public...
• 128 - General Powers and Duties of Managers.
  The board of managers shall: 1. Elect from among its members annually a president, a vice-president, and a secretary. It shall appoint a superintendent of...
• 128-a - Petty Cash Fund.
  1. The board of managers of a public general hospital may, by resolution, establish a revolving petty cash fund for any officer in such amount...
• 129 - General Powers and Duties of Superintendent.
  The superintendent shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital and, subject to the by-laws, rules and regulations thereof, and to the general control...
• 129-a - Erie County; County Hospital Superintendent and County Hospital Board of Managers.
  In the county of Erie, the county executive when authorized by the charter may appoint the county hospital superintendent and the county hospital board of...
• 130 - Admission and Maintenance of Patients.
  1. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person admitted for the care and treatment of tuberculosis, as defined and provided for...
• 131 - Training School for Nurses.
  Subject to the provisions of the education law the board of managers of any hospital under this article may establish and maintain in connection therewith...
• 132 - Room for Detention and Examination of Persons Who are Suspected of Being Mentally Ill.
  The board of managers may provide a suitable room for the temporary detention, observation and care of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill...
• 133 - Visitation and Inspection.
  Members of the board of managers shall be admitted to every part of the hospital and premises, and shall have access to all books, papers,...
• 134 - Existing County, Town, City or Village Public General Hospitals.
  Whenever a county, town, city or village has, previous to the passage of this act, established a public general hospital, the governing board of said...
• 135 - Application of Preceding Sections.
  Sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive, of this chapter shall not apply to the city of New York.
• 135-a - Workshops in Connection With Hospitals and Facilities for the Aged.
  1. Any municipal corporation maintaining a hospital, sanitorium, home for the indigent or aged or facility for the chronically ill, may establish and maintain workshops...
• 135-b - Departments of Occupational Therapy in Connection With Public General Hospitals and Tuberculosis Hospitals or Sanatoria.
  Any municipal corporation maintaining a public general hospital or a hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis under the provisions of any general or...
• 135-c - Prenatal and Maternity Care.
  The authorities of any municipal corporation charged by law with the duty and power of making appropriations may, in their discretion, appropriate moneys for prenatal...
• 136 - Regulation of Automobile Junk Yards.
  1. Legislative intent. A clean, wholesome, attractive environment is declared to be of importance to the health and safety of the inhabitants and the safeguarding...
• 139-c - Sheltered Workshops.
  Any municipal corporation may equip and maintain sheltered workshops established by any non-profit organization chartered by the board of regents and approved by the state...
• 139-d - Storage and Display of Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives.
  1. Any municipal corporation may by local law or ordinance regulate the storage, possession and display of firearms, ammunition or explosives. Such regulations may provide...

Last modified: February 3, 2019