§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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. 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 […]
§ 20-c. Temporary investment of certain city funds in obligations of the United States. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city of the state, acting through its board of estimate or other analogous governing body, may authorize its comptroller or other chief fiscal officer, to set aside in a special fund, all or part […]
§ 20-d. Alternative procedure for acquisition of certain real property, personal property and franchises of omnibus lines within cities having a population of one million or more inhabitants. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general, special or local, cities with a population of one million or more inhabitants shall have the additional power to acquire […]
§ 20-e. State office buildings and other public improvements in certain cities. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general, special or local, every city is hereby authorized and empowered: (a) To acquire by purchase, gift or dedication, or by acquisition in the manner provided by the eminent domain procedure law, property within such city […]
§ 20-f. Transfer of development rights; definitions; conditions; procedures. 1. As used in this section: a. “Development rights” shall mean the rights permitted to a lot, parcel, or area of land under a zoning ordinance or local law respecting permissible use, area, density, bulk or height of improvements executed thereon. Development rights may be calculated […]
§ 20-g. Intermunicipal cooperation in comprehensive planning and land use regulation. 1. Legislative intent. This section is intended to illustrate the statutory authority that any municipal corporation has under article five-G of the general municipal law and place within land use law express statutory authority for cities, towns and villages to enter into agreements to […]
§ 21. Public or municipal purpose and general welfare defined. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the terms “public or municipal purpose,” and “general welfare,” as used in this article, shall each include the promotion of education, art, beauty, charity, amusement, recreation, health, safety, comfort and convenience, and the promotion, creation, development or expansion of […]
§ 21-b. Debt service in relation to certain municipal cooperative activities. If any joint indebtedness described in title one-A of article two of the local finance law is allocated and apportioned, or is excluded, under or pursuant to such title or any other provision of law for the purpose of determining the debt-contracting power of […]
§ 21-c. Passenger stations of railroad redevelopment corporations in certain cities. 1. Each city having a population of more than one million may from time to time contract with a railroad redevelopment corporation providing passenger service by rail to or from any passenger station within such city and currently certified by the state commissioner of […]
§ 21-d. Establishment of blood credit systems by cities. 1. Every city shall have the power to establish by executive order of the mayor or by resolution of the local governing body, a blood credit system for the purpose of providing blood and related benefits for employees of such city or of any corporation, agency […]
§ 21-e. Operating assistance for water-works corporations in certain cities. Each city having a population of more than one million may provide operating assistance to a water-works corporation subject to the provisions of the public service law which provides water service in such city for the purpose of reducing or eliminating disparity between rates charged […]
§ 21-f. Operating assistance for certain public utility services. Each city having a population of one million or more shall be authorized to make an appropriation, notwithstanding any provision of general, special or local law to the contrary, to a public utility service operated by such city in accordance with a local law adopted pursuant […]
§ 22. This grant in addition to existing powers. The powers granted by this article shall be in addition to and not in substitution for, all the powers, rights, privileges and functions existing in any city pursuant to any other provision of law.
§ 23. Powers hereby granted, how to be exercised. 1. The powers granted by this act are to be exercised by the officer, officers or official body vested with such powers by any other provision of law or ordinance (subject to amendment or repeal of any such ordinance) and in the manner and subject to […]
§ 24. Construction of this act. This article shall be construed, not as an act in derogation of the powers of the state, but as one intended to aid the state in the execution of its duties, by providing adequate power of local government for the cities of the state.
