20-A – Purchasing Department or Agency.
§ 20-a. Purchasing department or agency. Each city, except a city of the first class having a population of one million or more inhabitants, is hereby authorized and empowered to create and establish by ordinance of the common council or similar legislative body and to maintain a purchasing department or agency. Such department or agency […]
20-B – Cities Authorized to Impose Taxes on Utilities.
§ 20-b. Cities authorized to impose taxes on utilities. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, any city of this state, acting through its local legislative body, is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in any such city a tax such as was imposed by section one hundred […]
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§ 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 lamp and approved acetate of cellulose or slow-burning films, and is of such construction that films ordinarily used on full-sized commercial picture apparatus cannot be used therewith.
18-B – Admission of Children to Theatres.
§ 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 licensing of theatres in such city wherein there shall be exhibited those films which have been licensed by the education department of the […]
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§ 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 least two-thirds of the number of feet fronting or abutting upon the street and along the line of any proposed improvement for the construction of an improved system of […]
18-D – Duty of Street Vendors to Keep the Sidewalk and Street Clean.
§ 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 cleanliness shall apply such law or ordinance or provisions similar thereto to any licensed or unlicensed street […]
16-B – Computation of Pensions in Certain Retirement Funds.
§ 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 […]
19 – General Grant of Powers.
§ 19. General grant of powers. 1. Every city is granted power to regulate, manage and control its property and local affairs and is granted all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction necessary and proper for carrying such power into execution. No enumeration of powers in this or any other law shall operate to restrict the […]
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. 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 […]
20 – Grant of Specific Powers.
§ 20. Grant of specific powers. Subject to the constitution and general laws of this state, every city is empowered: 1. To contract and be contracted with and to institute, maintain and defend any action or proceeding in any court. 2. To take, purchase, hold and lease real and personal property within and without the […]