CITY OF LITTLE FALLS

LOCAL LAW No. 1*

A local law abolishing the department of assessment and taxation.

Became a law December 10, 1927. Received the approval of a majority of the qualified voters voting at the general election November 8, 1927. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Little Falls.

Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Little Falls as follows:

1. The department of assessment and taxation as created and established by an ordinance of the common council, dated August second, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, passed under and pursuant to the provisions of chapter three hundred of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one is hereby abolished, to take effect on January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, at midnight.

2. In its place are hereby created three offices of assessor, said three offices to be filled by one incumbent each as follows:

During the month of January, nineteen hundred and twentyeight, the common council shall appoint one assessor for a term commencing February first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twentynine, one assessor for a term commencing February first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and one assessor for a term commencing February first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-three; said three appointments to be made in the same manner and with the same force and effect as if to fill a vacancy in an elective office occurring otherwise than by expiration of term except that the terms of office of each shall be as herein provided.

3. Thereafter an assessor shall be elected every two years for a term of six years to succeed the assessor whose term expires.

4. The three assessors thus chosen and their successors and each of them shall have all the powers conferred upon the assessor or assessors or board of assessors by the charter of the city of Little Falls, and all the rules, regulations and ordinances of said city and the general laws of the state of New York applicable thereto, and shall be subject to all the liabilities, obligations and restrictions imposed thereby and shall perform in every respect all the duties provided by said charter and said rules and regulations and ordinances and said state laws for assessors to perform at the same time and in the same manner and with the same force and effect as provided thereby.

5. Each assessor shall receive the annual salary of five hundred dollars.

* Numbered 2 by city of Little Falls.

6. Any and all provisions of the charter of the city of Little Falls, being chapter five hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as amended, which are inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.

7. This local law shall be submitted for the approval of the electors at the next general election in said city of Little Falls and shall take effect immediately upon its approval by an affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors voting on said proposition at said general election.

CITY OF LONG BEACH

LOCAL LAW No. 1

A local law repealing and superseding chapter four hundred forty-four of the laws of 1914, entitled "An act to authorize a city of the second or third class to adopt a simplified form of government."

Became a law August 9, 1927, with the approval of the Mayor, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Long Beach.

Be it enacted by the council of the city of Long Beach as follows: Section 1. Chapter four hundred and forty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and fourteen of the state of New York, entitled "An act to authorize a city of the second or third class to adopt a simplified form of government," and which is found in the "unconsolidated laws," and which act is known as "the optional city government law," and each and every section and provision of said act, be and the same is and are in all respects, and in each and every respect, repealed and superseded by the within local law, in so far as same, or any part of same, applies, and/or has any application to the city of Long Beach.

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§ 2. No section, and no provision, and no part of any section or provision, of chapter four hundred and forty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and fourteen, of the State of New York, entitled An act to authorize a city of the second or third class to adopt a simplified form of government," and which act is found in the "unconsolidated laws," and which act is known as "the optional city government law," shall, in any respect, or to any extent, or in any wise, apply, or have any application to the city of Long Beach.

§ 3. This local law shall take effect immediately.

CITY OF MECHANICVILLE

LOCAL LAW No. 1

▲ local law in relation to the salary of the members of the city council. Became a law January 10, 1927, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

Be it enacted by the city council of the city of Mechanicville as follows:

Section 1. The provisions of section thirteen of the charter of the city of Mechanicville, fixing the annual salary of the mayor at three hundred dollars ($300), is hereby superseded, and such salary is hereby fixed at seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) per year.

§ 2. The provisions of section fourteen of the charter of the city of Mechanicville, as amended, fixing the annual salary of the commissioner of accounts of the city of Mechanicville at two thousand dollars ($2,000), is hereby superseded, and such salary is hereby fixed at twenty-two hundred dollars ($2,200) per year.

§ 3. The provisions of section fifteen of the charter of the city of Mechanicville, fixing the salary of the commissioner of finance at three hundred dollars ($300), is hereby superseded, and such salary is hereby fixed at five hundred dollars ($500) per year.

§ 4. The provisions of section sixteen of the charter of the city of Mechanicville, as superseded and re-enacted by local law, fixing the annual salary of the commissioner of public works at eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800), is hereby superseded and such salary is hereby fixed at two thousand dollars ($2,000) per year.

§ 5. The provisions of section seventeen of the charter of the city of Mechanicville, fixing the salary of the commissioner of public safety at three hundred dollars ($300), is hereby superseded and such salary is hereby fixed at five hundred dollars ($500) per year.

§ 6. All laws and parts of laws in anywise conflicting herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 7. This local law shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

LOCAL LAW No. 2

A local law in relation to assessment for local improvements. Became a law March 28, 1927, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

Be it enacted by the city council of the city of Mechanicville as follows:

Section 1. Section thirty-one of chapter one hundred and seventy of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Mechanicville," is hereby superseded

and enacted as a local law, amended and made to read as follows:

The expense of constructing, of sewers, receivers, sidewalks, repairing of sidewalks, grading, regrading and paving of streets, in the laying of water mains, the providing of either new or additional sources of water supply or the expense of any other public improvement may be raised in an entire amount or in smaller amounts from time to time as the council may determine. If any portion of such expense is to be borne by the city, bonds or certificates of indebtedness may be issued therefor. If such expense or any part thereof is to be assessed upon the property benefited, or upon any street railway occupying any portion of such street to be improved, the council may assess the same or the installments to be raised in accordance with the apportionment and ratio established by the council. Notice of such assessment shall be given to the owners and all parties so interested and subject to such assessment, who may pay the same within ten days after the service of such notice or at their election in five annual installments of equal amount, and with interest at six per centum on such deferred payments, the first of which shall become due and payable ten days after the service of such notice, and the remaining installments with interest shall be paid annually thereafter, and if the same are not so paid the same shall be subject to the penalties prescribed for and to be collected on the deferred payment of taxes and assessments to be computed from the first due date, and such assessment shall be and continue to remain a lien against the premises so affected, and a debt due to such city until all such installments of principal and interest and penalties are paid. At the expiration of such period of ten days bonds or certificates of indebtedness may be issued for the correct amount of such assessments then remaining unpaid.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its adoption.

LOCAL LAW No. 3*

A local law entitled: A local law in relation to the liability of the city on contracts made without appropriation.

Became a law December 12, 1927, with the approval of the Mayor, no petition protesting. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville. Be it enacted by the city council of the city of Mechanicville as follows:

Section 1. Section eighty-four of chapter one hundred and seventy of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled An act to incorporate the city of Mechanicville," is hereby superseded and enacted as a local law, amended and made to read as follows:

No liability without appropriation. Except as otherwise specifically provided, the city expenditures in any one year shall not be Numbered 4 by the city of Mechanicville.