* § 72-m. Emergency transportation plans. Within sixty days after this section becomes law any transportation authority and any city, county or municipality operating a public transportation system and any county within the geographical territory of any transportation authority shall prepare and publicize a plan for transportation to be followed in the event mass transportation […]
§ 72-n. Air space and air and subsurface areas. 1. Any municipal corporation acting through its governing board may, in addition to those powers granted it by any other provision of law and notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, lease to any person, firm or corporation for business, commercial, private or other […]
§ 72-o. Expenses of volunteer fire officers and firefighters appearing before a court or other tribunal. 1. The chief officer of the fire department of a municipal corporation or fire district, subject to any rules or regulations governing such department, may authorize reimbursement for the volunteer officers or members of the department who appear before […]
* § 72-p. Lease of real property by a municipality. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter, whenever a municipal corporation enters into a lease of real property the lease agreement shall provide that the tenant may not assign the lease to a third party unless such assignment […]
* § 72-p. Establishment of farmers’ markets. 1. The governing body of any municipal corporation may establish one or more farmers’ markets, as defined in section two hundred sixty of the agriculture and markets law, for public purposes and in the exercise of its public powers. 2. Such municipal corporation shall have the power, charge […]
§ 72-r. Adopt-a-beach stewardship program. 1. The governing body of any municipality may enter into stewardship agreements with any person or persons for the purposes of preserving, maintaining, or enhancing its publicly-owned beach, shoreline area or portion thereof in accordance with the policies of this section. 2. The stewardship agreement shall provide that the beach […]
§ 73. Cities and villages may hold property in trust for certain purposes. Real and personal estate may be granted and conveyed to the corporation of any city or village of this state, to be held in trust for any purpose of education, or the diffusion of knowledge, or for the relief of distress; or […]
§ 74. Condemnation of real property. A municipal corporation authorized by law to take and hold real property for the uses and purposes of the corporation, may, if it is unable to agree with the owners for the purchase thereof, acquire title to such property by condemnation.
§ 74-b. Payment of moving and relocation expenses of residential and commercial owners and tenants of appropriated property. 1. The chief fiscal officer of every municipal corporation shall establish and may amend rules and regulations authorizing the payment of reasonable and necessary moving expenses of occupants of property acquired by condemnation or agreement, such payments […]
§ 74-c. Taking of billboards. 1. If any local law, ordinance or resolution adopted by a municipal corporation in the exercise of its police power shall require the removal of any legally erected and maintained billboard or like outdoor advertising device, which is leased or rented for profit in areas zoned industrial or manufacturing, just […]
§ 75. Limitation on acquisition of water rights in Dutchess county. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, a municipal or other corporation shall not have power to acquire by condemnation for the purpose of increasing or improving its water supply, any stream or water, situated outside the boundaries of such municipal corporation, […]
§ 76. Limitation on acquisition of water rights in Westchester and Putnam counties. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, a municipal or other corporation not situated within the county of Westchester or the county of Putnam shall not have power to acquire by condemnation, for the purpose of increasing or improving the […]
§ 77. Leases of public buildings to posts of veteran organizations, organizations of volunteer firefighters, and child care agencies. 1. A municipal corporation may lease, for not exceeding five years, to a post or posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, American Legion, Catholic War Veterans, […]
§ 77-a. Construction and maintenance of memorial building or monument by county or city. A county, or a city by resolution adopted by the governing board of such municipality by a two-thirds vote of its members, may construct and maintain a memorial building, park or a monument at a place within the municipality or upon […]
§ 77-b. Expenses of certain public officers and employees attending conventions, conferences and schools. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean: (a) Municipality. A city, county, town, village, school district, cooperative educational services district, improvement district, soil conservation district, public library, community college, fire district. (b) Governing Board. A common […]
§ 77-c. Per diem meal allowances for travel on official business. Whenever a municipality is authorized or required to reimburse its officers, employees, or the volunteer members or officers of the fire department of the municipality, for their actual and necessary expenses for meals in conjunction with travel on official business, the governing board of […]
§ 77-d. Traveling expenses for applicants for public employment. The governing board of each county, city, town, village, school district, fire district or other district corporation may, by local law, ordinance or resolution, authorize the payment of the actual and necessary travel expenses, including meals and lodging, of an applicant for any office or position […]
§ 77-e. Baseball field fence leases in Yates county. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter to the contrary, the village of Penn Yan, Yates county, may lease municipal baseball field fences, annually, at a nominal rent, to a not-for-profit corporation or organization, organized under the laws of […]
§ 77-f. Sports field fence leases in the town of Sweden, Monroe county. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter to the contrary, the town of Sweden, Monroe county, may lease any and all sports field fences at the Sweden Town Park annually, at a nominal rent, to […]
§ 77-g. Sports field fence leases in the city of Rye, Westchester county. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law or of any charter to the contrary, the city of Rye, Westchester county, may lease any and all sports field fences at Disbrow Park, Gagliardo or Recreation Park annually, at a nominal […]
