§ 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 in such places as he or she may set aside for this purpose. The license shall be issued for a term of one […]
§ 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 the operation of any of its departments, provided that the local ordinances of any such city forbid the use thereof.
§ 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 of providing for the due and proper observance of any legal holiday in such city.
§ 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 the due and proper observance of tercentennial celebrations commemorating the founding of the community.
§ 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 the direction of a board composed of the mayor and the commanders and quartermasters of the Grand Army posts, the […]
§ 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 meet the actual and necessary expenses […]
§ 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 for the purpose of advertising the advantages of such city as a winter and summer resort, or for the commemoration programs of historical events, or otherwise, […]
§ 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 as the trafficking in liquor is prohibited, an amount not exceeding the revenue derived from excise […]
§ 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 or garrison, as the case may be, of the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Spanish War Veterans, […]
§ 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 appropriate and expend annually from moneys derived from the […]
§ 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 necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the New York State Assessors Association and any […]
§ 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 necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing any state-wide, non-profit association of local officials whose activities […]
§ 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 temporary permits for the erection of booths, stands, arches, overhead passageways, or flagstaffs for the stringing of flags or banners, upon […]
§ 15. Firefighters moving from one city to another. The firefighters of the different cities of this state, in case of removal from one city to another, shall be allowed the time which they have served as such firefighters in the city they left, in the city to which they have removed, upon producing a […]
§ 16. Term of service; how reckoned. When any such firefighter shall have served as such for so long a time thereafter as shall make the whole term of service the same as required by law of firefighters residing in the city removed to, he shall be entitled to all the privileges and exemptions secured […]
§ 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 appointed as provided in this section. 2. The board of fire commissioners or other body or officer having control of the fire department […]
§ 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 retired pursuant to the law governing such system, receive a pension, if lawfully entitled thereto, based on the average annual compensation […]
§ 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. 1. For the purposes of this section the uniformed force of a city department of sanitation or similar department or agency shall be deemed to consist of sanitationman, assistant […]
§ 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 by a city, for the treatment or consuming of garbage or other refuse matter or offal, dead animals or fish, shall […]
§ 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 and its connections in a city of the first class unless such person or persons so operating such apparatus is duly licensed […]
