copies of the assessment rolls delivered to him by the board of assessors, and the school tax in the other, or either copy of such assessment roll as the supervisor shall find most convenient. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 309 AN ACT creating a commission to prepare and report preliminary plans, including estimates and proposed assessment areas, for sanitary trunk sewers and sanitary outlet sewers in the county of Westchester, and providing for the payment of the expenses of such commission. Became a law April 1, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Commission; members; employees. The Westchester county sanitary sewer commission which shall consist of the members of the Westchester county park commission is hereby created. The commission shall elect a chairman and vice chairman from among its members. No member of the commission shall receive any compensation for his services as a member of the commission but each member shall be entitled to receive his actual disbursements and expenses in performing the duties of his office. The commission shall elect a secretary who need not be a member of the commission. The commission may employ and at pleasure discharge such engineering and other clerical assistants as may be necessary within the amounts appropriated as herein provided. § 2. Powers and duties. The commission after making the necessary studies and investigation shall from time to time prepare preliminary plans and maps of such proposed assessment areas in the county of Westchester which in the judgment of such commission require therein the construction of sanitary trunk sewers and sanitary outlet sewers including disposal and filtration plants and such other sewer appurtenances as may be necessary therefor. Such plans and maps shall show: (1) the proposed location of the sanitary trunk sewer and sanitary outlet sewer including such disposal and filtration plants and such other sewer appurtenances as may be necessary for the sanitary sewer area for which it is prepared; (2) the area which in the judgment of the commission is benefited thereby; (3) a suitable description of such area and (4) such other information as the commission shall deem necessary including estimates of cost of same. In determining the area which the commission deems benefited for any such sanitary trunk sewer and sanitary outlet sewer the commission shall hold such public hearings thereon as they deem necessary after giving such reasonable notice thereof as in the judgment of the commission seems proper. In order to carry out the purposes of this act, the commission and its employees may enter upon private lands. § 3. Reports. The commission after the completion of each plan and map or upon the completion of all of the plans and maps showing such proposed assessment area or areas shall report the same to the board of supervisors of the county of Westchester, together with such recommendations and proposed legislation, if any, as it shall deem proper. § 4. Appropriations; reimbursement of same. The board of supervisors of the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to appropriate in any year, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, such sum or sums as such board deems proper. The commission, however, shall in its reports to the board of supervisors of the county of Westchester specify what proportion of the appropriations as made by said board, in its judgmeat, is chargeable to the respective proposed sanitary sewer districts and if at any time any such sanitary sewer district is authorized created the amounts so stated shall constitute a part of the cost of the construction of the sanitary trunk sewer and sanitary outlet sewer therein and shall be refunded to the county of Westchester out of the first moneys raised for such purpose. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 310 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the equipment of motor vehicles. Became a law April 2, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ch, 30, amended. Section 1. Subdivision one of section two hundred and eighty- L. 1909, six of chapter thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine. 286. entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty- subd. 1 five of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, and last amended by chapter five hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one,1 is hereby amended to read as follows: 1. Every motor vehicle, operated or driven upon the public Equipment. highways of the state, shall be provided with adequate brakes and steering mechanism in good working order and sufficient to control such vehicle at all times when the same is in use, and a suitable and adequate horn or other device for signaling, which horn or device shall produce a sound sufficiently loud to serve as a danger warning but shall not be used other than as a reasonable warning nor be unnecessarily loud or harsh. Every such motor vehicle, also, shall have a suitable muffler or device to prevent unnecessary noise from exhaust gases, and the use of so-called 1 Previously amended by L. 1917, ch. 785; L. 1918, ch. 540; L. 1921, ch. 85. stickers Posters or "cut outs" is prohibited. The use or placing of posters or stickers prohibited. on windshields or rear windows of motor vehicles, other than those authorized by the commissioner of motor vehicles, is hereby prohibited. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1909, Number plates. In effect July 1, 1925. CHAPTER 311 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to number plates on motor vehicles. Became a law April 2, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Subdivision one of section two hundred and eightythree of chapter thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter twentyfive of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, and last amended by chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four,1 is hereby amended to read as follows: 1. No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state unless such vehicle shall have a distinctive number assigned to it by the commissioner and a number plate issued by the commissioner with a number, and other identification matter if any, corresponding to that of the certificate of registration conspicuously displayed, one on the front and one on the rear of such vehicle, each securely fastened so as to prevent the same from swinging and to be placed not higher than fortyeight inches and not lower than twelve inches from the ground. The number plate on the front shall be affixed in such manner that the view thereof from the front shall not be obstructed in any way. by the bumper, if any, or other fixture or device, or by any part of the motor vehicle. § 2. This act shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five. 2 Following sentence new. 1 Previously amended by L. 1911, ch. 491; L. 1917, ch. 174; L. 1921, ch. 580. • Formerly "eighteen inches." • Following sentence new. ، L CHAPTER 312 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to number plates issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles to be displayed on motor vehicles. Became a law April 2, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: added to Section 1. Section two hundred and eighty-three of chapter Subd. 4 thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act L. 1909, relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the con- ch.830, solidated laws," as added by chapter three hundred and seventyfour of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten and last amended by chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision to read as follows: plates to state; 4. All number plates hereafter issued shall remain the property Number of the state and the issuance of any number plates shall convey remain to the recipient thereof only the right to use the same lawfully. property of Number plates used unlawfully may be seized by direction of the return. commissioner. If a motor vehicle for which number plates have been issued is dismantled, junked or abandoned during the period for which such number plates are valid or if the certificate of registration of such motor vehicle is suspended or revoked, the owner of such vehicle shall forthwith return such number plates to the commissioner at the expense of the state. § 2. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred In effect and twenty-six. Jan. 1, 1926, AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to registration of motor vehicles by manufacturers and dealers. Became a law April 2, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section two hundred and eighty-four of chapter L. 1909, thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act ch2830, relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the con- amended. solidated laws," as added by chapter three hundred and seventyfour of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, and last amended by chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four,1 is hereby amended to read as follows:2 1 Previously amended by L. 1911, ch. 491; L. 1917, ch. 174; L. 1921, chs. 580, 593; L. 1922, ch. 317. Subd. 1 was amended by L. 1925, ch. 184, ante; the amendments effected by said ch. 184 are incorporated in subd. 1 as here amended. Subd. 3 was amended by L. 1925, ch. 33, ante; the amendments effected by said ch. 33 are not incorporated in subd. 3 as here amended. 2 Section materially amended. § 284. Registration and number plates for manufacturers and dealers. 1. Every person, firm, association or corporation actually engaged in the business of manufacturing or of buying and selling motor vehicles, may, instead of registering each motor vehicle owned and operated by such person, firm, association or corporation apply to the commissioner for a single registration as manufacturer or dealer, as the case may be, and for number plates. The application shall be upon a blank to be furnished by the commissioner in such form as he shall determine and shall be verified. The applicant shall furnish such proof as the commissioner may deem necessary that the applicant is a manufacturer or dealer and entitled to the privilges of this section. The application shall be accompanied with the payment of a registration fee of fifteen dollars. Two number plates of the same kind shall constitute a set. The first set shall be furnished without the payment of any fee in addition to the registration fee. The fees for other sets shall be five dollars each. The application shall be filed and registered in the same manner as provided in this chapter for the registration of a motor vehicle. The commissioner, or agent, shall thereupon assign a distinctive manufacturer's or dealer's registration number to the applicant and issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration with and for each sepa rate set of number plates. Each certificate shall, in addi tion to the general registration number, recite any and all distinctive words, numbers or marks on the set of plates for which such certificate is issued. The commissioner, or agent, shall also promptly deliver to the applicant, at a place within the state to be designated by him in the application, the set or sets of number plates to which he is entitled. The applicant shall be provided with the one set furnished with his application and such additional set* for which he shall have paid the fees above provided. Fach number plate shall be of metal, and the manufacturer's or dealer's general registration number shall be set forth thereon together with the initials "N. Y." The size of a manufacturer's or dealer's plate and of the numerals of such general registration number shall be the same as for a number plate described in section two hundred and eighty-three. All of such plates may contain such other identification matter as the commissioner may deem proper. The provisions of subdivision two of section two hundred and eighty-three shall apply to such number plates. Additional number plates, in sets, with the corresponding certificates, may be obtained from the commissioner, or agent, at any time, upon the payment of a fee of five dollars per set, except that the commissioner may limit the total number of dealers' plates to be issued to any particular dealer in excess of five. A duplicate of any manufacturer's or dealer's number plate, in case of loss or destruction, which fact shall be proven by the affidavit of the manufacturer or dealer, may be obtained from the commissioner or agent, for one dollar. 2. Except as otherwise provided in the next section, no person shall operate or drive, or cause to be operated or driven, on the * So in original. [Should be "sets."] |