OF THE CITIES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ENACTED DURING THE YEAR 1926 PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 363 ROBERT MOSES SECRETARY OF STATE ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1927 A local law in relation to the use of Swan street, between State street and Washington avenue. Became a law April 20, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the focal legislative body of the city of Albany. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Albany as follows: Section 1. Swan street as now existing between State street and Washington avenue shall be used only as a public highway. No viaduct or other structure shall be placed thereon or thereover, nor shall any subway be constructed thereunder, without the consent of the common council. The title of the city of Albany to Swan street, as now existing between State street and Washington avenue, shall not be divested or in any wise impaired without the consent of the common council. § 2. Section one of chapter five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act to provide for the acquisition of land in the city of Albany, for a state office building, for clearing such lands of the structures thereon and initiating the construction of such building, and authorizing a state debt and making an appropriation therefrom for such purpose, and making an appropriation from the general fund for incidental expenses," is hereby superseded, and is hereby amended in the application thereof to the city of Albany so as to read as follows: "§ 1. A commission is hereby created, for the purposes of this act, to consist of the governor, who shall be chairman, the superintendent of public works, the state architect, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the chairman of the ways and means committee of the assembly. Such commission shall be known as the state office site and building commission, and may employ a secretary and necessary assistants in carrying out the provisions of this act. Such commission shall select a site, in the city of Albany for an office building for the use of the state and acquire the lands and buildings, embraced in such site, in the manner provided in this act. When it shall have selected such site, the commission shall deliver a general description thereof to the state engineer. Without the consent of the common council of the city of Albany no site so selected shall include any part of Swan street, as now existing between State street and Washington avenue, in said city." § 3. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 2 A local law in relation to the height of buildings hereafter constructed in the city of Albany. Became a law April 20, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Albany. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Albany as follows: Section 1. For the protection of the property, safety, health and comfort of the inhabitants of the city of Albany, the construction hereafter, without the consent of the common council of any building, the height of which, as defined by section 9 of part V of the building code of said city, shall exceed eighty-five feet, is hereby forbidden. § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately. CITY OF AMSTERDAM LOCAL LAW No. 1 A local law in relation to when expenditures are to be made by contract to lowest bidder. Became a law April 10, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Amsterdam. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Amsterdam as follows: Section 1. Whenever any expenditure to be made or incurred by the common council, or any commissioner or officer in behalf of the city, for work to be done, or materials or supplies to be furnished, except ordinary repairing of streets, the collection and disposal of ashes, refuse and garbage when the common council shall have determined that the whole or part thereof shall not be done by contract, and except the ordinary repairing of the sewer and water systems, shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, the common council shall advertise for and receive proposals therefor in such manner as it shall prescribe. Each such proposal shall be accompanied by such bond, cash deposit or certified check as the common council shall require, conditioned that the bidder will except and execute a written contract therefor, if the same is awarded him; and the contract therefor shall be let to the lowest bidder who shall give a bond or other security in such amount and with such surety or sureties as the common council may prescribe and approve, conditioned for the faithful performance of such contract. The common council shall have power to reject all bids or proposals and readvertise the same for letting. The notice of the letting of such contract shall describe generally the work and materials for which the contract will be let and the day and hour and place of the meeting of said common council at which proposals therefor will be opened. Specifications for the performance of any work and for the supply of any materials shall be prepared and set forth with sufficient detail to inform all persons proposing to bid therefor of the nature of the work to be done and of the materials to be supplied, and shall be open to inspection to all persons interested therein. If the common council, at a meeting at which there shall be present three-fourths of all the aldermen in office, shall by a resolution unanimously adopted and approved by the mayor determine it to be impracticable to procure such work or materials or both by contract, then the said common council shall designate and authorize the officer in the proper department to secure such work or purchase such materials but such expenditure without a public letting shall in no event exceed the sum of two thousand dollars. In case of public emergency involving accident or other injury by which the heating or |