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16 – Term of Service; How Reckoned.

§ 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.

§ 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 […]

12 – Money for Celebration of Legal Holidays in Cities.

§ 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.

§ 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.

§ 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 […]

5 – Certain Parades and Processions Forbidden; Penalty.

§ 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 and use thereof, excepting the National Guard and the police and fire departments, and the associations of veteran soldiers, are forbidden, unless […]

6 – Swearing Witnesses.

§ 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 of such common council, or to examine any officer of the city, in relation to the discharge of his official duties, or to the receipt or […]

7 – Summoning Witnesses.

§ 7. Summoning witnesses. The chairman or any other member of any such committee in his name shall have power to subpoena witnesses.