CITY OF NEW ROCHELLE LOCAL LAW No. 1 A local law in relation to public hearings before the mayor on local laws. Became a law February 17, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New Rochelle. Be it enacted by the council of the city of New Rochelle as follows: Section 1. Whenever a local law, after its passage by the council of the city of New Rochelle, shall be presented to the mayor for approval, he shall forthwith fix a day for a public hearing concerning such local law and cause public notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given. Such notice shall be given by publication, for two successive days in a daily newspaper, published in the city, to be designated by the mayor. Such hearing shall be held not earlier than five days after the day of the last 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 opportunity 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 council of the city of New Rochelle 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 the charter of the city of New Rochelle in relation to the creation of the position of captains in the police department. Became a law March 26, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New Rochelle. Be it enacted by the council of the city of New Rochelle as follows: Section 1. Section three hundred and twenty-four of chapter five hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of the state of New York, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled, "An act to provide a charter for the city of New Rochelle," as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 324. Uniformed force. There shall be a chief of police appointed as hereinbefore provided, a captain or captains, a lieutenant or lieutenants, a sergeant or sergeants, and such number of patrolmen as the board of police commissioners may determine. The present chief of police shall be continued as chief of police under this act; the present sergeant or sergeants shall be the lieutenant or lieutenants; the present roundsman or roundsmen shall be the sergeant or sergeants; and the patrolmen, the patrolmen under this act. Whenever vacancies in the department occur the board of police commissioners shall fill the vacancies by appointment. The board of police commissioners may in its discretion establish three grades of patrolmen, to be known as grade A, grade B, and probationary patrolmen and may in its discretion promote or degrade any patrolman from one grade to another in accordance with his record for efficiency. The board shall fix the salaries for the several grades and of the other officers and members of the police force, except the chief of police, subject to the approval of the board of estimate and apportionment; but no salaries shall be fixed at less than the salary now paid for corresponding grades and officers in said department. No person shall be appointed chief of police, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, patrolman or special policeman by the board, or shall continue to hold office as such, who is not a citizen of the United States, or who has been convicted of crime, or who cannot speak, read and write the English language, or who, with the exception of the chief of police, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, and specials, is at the time of his appointment more than thirty-two years of age. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CITY OF NEW YORK LOCAL LAW No. 1 A local law to provide for the appointment of a commissioner of bill drafting. Became a law May 17, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New York. Be it enacted by the municipal assembly of the city of New York as follows: Section 1. A commissioner of bill drafting of the municipal assembly shall be appointed by the mayor and the president of the board of aldermen, acting as presiding officers of both branches of the municipal assembly. He shall hold office until his successor shall be appointed. Such appointment shall be evidenced by certificate of such appointing officers filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of New York. Such commissioner shall be versed in bill drafting and shall be an attorney and counsellor-at-law and admitted to practice in the courts of the state for at least ten years. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York to furnish him with suitable offices and equipment. He shall have such assistants, stenographers and help as are necessary for the performance of his duties and his salary and their salaries shall be fixed by the board of aldermen, upon the recommendation of the board of estimate and apportionment as provided in section fifty-six of the charter of the city of New York. § 2. The commissioner of bill drafting shall draft or aid in drafting and revising all local laws and resolutions and amendments thereto upon the request of a member or committee of the municipal assembly. He shall make researches and examinations as to any subject of proposed legislation upon request of either branch or of a committee of the municipal assembly. § 3. This law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 2 A local law for the appointment of an additional marshal in the city of New York. Became a law May 24, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New York. Be it enacted by the municipal assembly of the city of New York as follows: Section 1. There shall be an additional city marshal in and for the second district, borough of The Bronx, whose powers and duties shall be the same as the powers and duties of city marshals now existing. Such city marshal shall be appointed by the mayor on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, for a term of six years and on the first day of May in every sixth year thereafter. Any person appointed after the commencement of a term, as herein provided, shall hold until the expiration of such term. A vacancy in such office shall be filled by appointment by the mayor for the unexpired term. § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 3 A local law to amend and supersede sections thirteen hundred and twentyseven and thirteen hundred and twenty-eight of chapter nineteen-a of the Greater New York charter governing the powers of the commissioner of the tenement house department in the appointment and removal of deputy commissioners for the department and in the establishment of divisions thereof. Became a law May 24, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New York. Be it enacted by the municipal assembly of the city of New York as follows: Section 1. Sections thirteen hundred and twenty-seven and thirteen hundred and twenty-eight of the Greater New York charter, being chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, as amended, are hereby amended and superseded to read as follows: § 1327. Deputy commissioners. The commissioner shall have power to appoint and in his discretion to remove not more than three deputies, to be known as first deputy, second deputy, and third deputy, and shall define their duties. The first deputy shall during the absence or disability of the commissioner possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the commissioner except the power of making appointments. In the absence or disability of both the commissioner and the first deputy, the second deputy shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the commissioner, except the power of making appointments. In the absence or disability of the commissioner, the first deputy and the second deputy, the third deputy shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the commissioner, except the power of making appointments. The salaries of the first deputy shall be four thousand seven hundred dollars a year; of the second deputy four thousand five hundred dollars and of the third deputy four thousand five hundred dollars. § 1328. Bureaus; divisions of department for Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond. There shall be in the tenement house department (1) a new building bureau; (2) an inspection bureau; (3) a bureau of records; and such other bureaus as the commissioner may deem necessary. A separate division of the department may be established in the borough of Brooklyn, with jurisdiction over tenement houses in the borough of Brooklyn, and also in the discretion of the commissioner over tenement houses in the boroughs of Queens or Richmond, or both. A separate division of the department may be established in the borough of the Bronx, with jurisdiction over tenement houses in the borough of the Bronx. The commissioner may designate deputy commissioners or some other officers of the department as the executive heads of such divisions, who shall perform such duties and possess such powers as may be delegated to them by the commissioner. A branch of each of the bureaus above specified may be established in each of such divisions. § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 4 A local law to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to the powers and duties of the deputy commissioner in the department of purchase. Became a law June 29, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New York. Be it enacted by the municipal assembly of the city of New York as follows: Section 1. Section four hundred and forty-nine-a of the Greater New York charter, chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as revised by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, and added by chapter eight hundred and ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby amended and superseded so as to read as follows: § 449-a. There shall be a department of purchase, the head of which shall be called the commissioner of purchase. The commissioner of purchase shall be appointed by the mayor, and his salary shall be such as may be fixed from time to time pursuant to the provisions of section fifty-six of this act. The commissioner of purchase may appoint a deputy commissioner and delegate to him any and all the powers and duties of the commissioner and such deputy commissioner shall possess, during the absence or disability of the commissioner, all the powers and perform all of the duties of the commissioner, a secretary of the department and such other employees as may be lawfully provided. § 2. Section four hundred and forty-nine-c of said Greater New York charter, added by chapter eight hundred and ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby amended and superseded to read as follows: § 449-c. The commissioner of purchase may advertise for proposals or bids for furnishing materials, supplies and equipment for such departments, boards, bureaus and offices, under contract at public letting, pursuant to the provisions of this act covering the letting of such contracts, and also obtain proposals or bids without advertising when such is permissible under the provisions of section |