CITY OF PORT JERVIS

LOCAL LAW No. 1

A local law in relation to the general legislative powers of the common council; fund from which expenditures are payable.

Became a law March 25, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Port Jervis.

Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Port Jervis as follows:

Section 1. Section fifty-six of chapter seven hundred and fiftythree of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, known as the charter of the city of Port Jervis, is hereby superseded, and enacted as local law, amended to read as follows:

§ 56. General legislative powers; fund from which expenditures are payable. The general legislative powers of said city for all proper municipal purposes, except such powers as may be vested in other boards or officers, shall be vested in the common council thereof. The common council shall provide for lighting the streets, public buildings and public places of said city, the. expenses of which shall be payable from the lighting fund: for the construction, maintenance, improvement, repairing and cleaning of the docks, streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, culverts, bridges, gutters, public grounds and parks of the city and improving the channels of all streams passing through the city, for removing obstructions therefrom and for covering the same by arches and keeping them in repair, and for the paving, macadamizing and sprinkling the streets, the city's share of which expenditure shall be payable from the highway fund: for the construction, maintenance, improvement, repairing and cleaning of the sewers, the city's share of which expenditure shall be payable from the sewer fund for the maintenance of the fire department, as provided in this act, the expenses of which shall be payable from the fire department fund: for the maintenance of the police department, as provided in this act, the expenses of which shall be payable from the police fund: for the furnishing of pure and wholesome water for public purposes of said city and for the extinguishment of fires and for providing hydrants therefor, the expenses of which shall be payable from the water fund: for the support of the poor of the city, the expenses of which shall be payable from the poor fund: shall provide city office room for the various officers of said city as is herein provided, and may furnish necessary office room for any of the other officers of said city: shall furnish necessary office furniture, books and stationery to all the officers of said city and reimbuse all officers of said city for disbursements necessarily made for the benefit of said city: shall keep in proper repair all the public buildings of the city; may require all officers of the city to furnish reports and information of estimates whenever

deemed proper by the common council: may employ a pound keeper, a sealer of weights and measures, a keeper of public scales and such other employees of the city, as may be necessary to execute the work which the common council has authorized or required, or caused to be executed, and if not otherwise provided herein, may fix their compensation. All expenditures made or incurred by the common council or any board or officer of said city, not chargeable under this act to any other city fund, shall be payable from the general fund: the expense incurred for each local improvement which is chargeable to neighboring property owners and collectible by local assessment, if advanced by the city in anticipation of the collection of a local assessment, shall be payable from the general fund.

The common council shall also have power to prescribe and define such powers and duties of officers of said city as are not specified in this act, and are not inconsistent therewith; to call special meetings of the inhabitants of said city whenever in its judgment the public interests require the same and to carry into effect all lawful resolutions, adopted at any of said meetings or at any regular or special meetings.

The common council may, at any time, issue bonds for the payment of a judgment that may be recovered against the city after its creation. The issuance of such bonds shall, in all respects, be subject to the same conditions and limitations as the issuance of other bonds is elsewhere provided for in this act.

Whenever the common council shall resolve, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members, that an extraordinary expenditure ought, for the benefit of the city, to be made for any specific purpose set forth in the resolution, it shall make an estimate of the sum necessary therefor and for all such purposes, if there be more than one, and publish such resolutions and estimate once in each week for two successive weeks in the official newspaper, together with a notice that at a time and place therein specified a special election of the taxpayers of the city will be held to decide whether the amount of such expenditures shall be raised by tax. All provisions of law prescribing the duties of inspectors of elections and false swearing and fraudulent voting thereat, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the special elections held hereunder, and the members of the common council shall act as the inspectors of such elections. Every elector who shall have been assessed and taxed upon the last assessment-roll of the city before said special election, or whose wife was so assessed, and no other person shall be entitled to vote at such election. The election shall be by ballot, and each ballot shall contain a brief statement of each purpose for which such expenditure is required and the amount thereof, and be in the form required by the election law for holding elections upon questions submitted. The inspectors shall, at the time and place designated as aforesaid, sit without intermission, from one o'clock, p. m., to seven o'clock, p. m., to receive the ballots cast at such special election, and shall deposit the same in a

special ballot box to be provided by the city. If the right to vote of any person offering to vote at such special election be challenged by any other person entitled to vote thereat, an inspector of the election shall administer to him the following oath: "You do swear that you are or your wife is a taxpayer of the city of Port Jervis; that you are an elector of said city and that you have not voted at this election?" After he shall take such oath and if he or his wife shall be assessed upon the assessment-roll aforesaid his vote shall be received. The common council shall canvass the votes cast immediately after closing the polls and immediately make a certificate, stating the whole number of ballots voted at such election, and the whole number for and against each special tax, and cause the result of the election so certified to be entered in its minutes. The common council shall cause the sum or sums of money thus voted to be assessed, levied and raised with and in addition to other taxes in and upon the next assessment-roll. No more than one such election shall be held in the city in any one year, except by the unanimous vote of the common council. After such special tax or taxes shall have been authorized as herein provided, the common council may proceed to authorize the expenditure of the amount thereof for the purpose or purposes specified in its published statement aforesaid, and sanctioned by such election. The common council may borrow, if necessary, the amount so voted in anticipation of the collection of said tax, and the amount so raised or borrowed shall be expended only for the purpose or purposes for which the special tax was voted, and shall be repaid within one year from the proceeds of the tax. § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

LOCAL LAW No. 2

A local law in relation to empowering the city of Port Jervis to prohibit or regulate the placing and maintenance of tanks and other containers for the storage, and pumps and other appliances for the distribution of gasoline or other motor fuel within the boundaries or beneath the surface of any street, sidewalk or other public place in said city.

Became a law May 25, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Port Jervis.

Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Port Jervis as follows: Section 1. In addition to other powers conferred upon it by law, the city of Port Jervis is hereby empowered to prohibit or regulate, to restrict, locate and relocate the placing and maintenance of tanks and other containers for the storage, and pumps and other appliances for the distribution of gasoline or other motor fuel within the boundaries or beneath the surface of any street, sidewalk or other public place in said city; to at any time remove or cause to be removed such tanks, containers, pumps and other

appliances as now are or hereafter may be placed within the boundaries or beneath the surface of any such street, sidewalk or other public place; for purposes of revenue or regulation, to require of applicants for permission to so place and maintain such tanks, containers, pumps or other appliances the payment of license fees and the giving of bonds; and to adopt ordinances carrying into effect the powers granted to said city by this or any other provision of law, fixing the amount of such license fees and the penalty and other terms and conditions of such bonds and prescribing penalties for violations of such ordinances.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

CITY OF RENSSELAER

LOCAL LAW No. 1

A local law in relation to public hearings before the mayor on local laws. Became a law January 29, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Rensselaer.

Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Rensselaer as follows: Section 1. Whenever a local law after its passage by the common council shall be presented to the mayor for approval, he shall forthwith fix a date for a public hearing concerning such local law and give public notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given. Such notice shall be given by publication once in the official newspaper of the city. Such hearing shall be held not earlier than five days after the date of publication of such notice. Such notice shall contain the title of the local law and an explanatory statement concerning the same. The mayor shall attend at the time and place appointed for such hearing and afford an apportunity for a public hearing concerning such local law. Such hearing may be adjourned from time to time, but an adjournment shall not operate to extend the time of the mayor to approve such local law or return it to the common council with his objections, pursuant to the city home rule law.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

LOCAL LAW No. 2

A local law to amend chapter sixty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Rensselaer" in relation to the appointment and terms of office of the officers and members of the police department, and officers and employees of the fire department. Became a law February 15, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Rensselaer.

Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Rensselaer as follows: Section 1. Sections two hundred and thirty-two, two hundred and thirty-three and two hundred and forty-three of chapter sixtynine of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Rensselaer" are hereby superseded and enacted as local law, amended, respectively, to read as follows:

§ 232. Appointees of board. The board of public safety, shall within ten days after the adoption of this law appoint a chief of police in place of the present chief of police. The police and fire department shall as to component parts otherwise remain as now