University of Roch ester may erty without limitation; ex ceptions. by law for compensation of assessors for each day actually engaged in such conference and also to all traveling and other expenses actually and necessarily incurred, payable by the particular tax district which he represents, but no additional compensation, other than expenses, shall be allowed or paid to any assessor who may be paid an annual salary for his services. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 150 AN ACT in relation to the property which may be held by the University of Rochester. Became a law March 16, 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. The University of Rochester, an educational corporation organized by charter granted by the regents of the university hold prop- of the state of New York, provisionally on January ten to thirtyone, eighteen hundred and fifty, and on February fourteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and absolutely on January tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, under the provisions of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen and amendments thereto, and located in the city of Rochester, New York, is hereby authorized and empowered to take, by purchase, gift, grant. devise, or any other manner, and to hold, any real or personal property, or interest therein, of any nature whatever, which, when acquired shall be used for, or the income thereof shall be applied to, or which may be or become necessary for the proper conduct and support of the several departments of education heretofore established, or hereafter to be established by it, notwithstanding any provisions of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen, or of any amendments thereto, or of section twelve of the general corporation law of the state of New York, or of any other law, which limit the clear yearly value of the real property acquired, or to be acquired by such corporation, to any specific amount, or limit the value, or amount of, or the yearly income of, the real or personal property which such corporation may take or hold. Provided, however, that all devises and bequests to said corporation shall be subject to the provisions of section seventeen of chapter eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter three hundred and one of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and any amendments hereafter made thereto. And provided further, that this act shall not be construed so as to affect any devise made by any testator who shall have died before its passage, nor the rights of any heir-at-law or next of kin of such testator. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 151 AN ACT to amend the conservation law, in relation to wild birds. Became a law March 16, 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. 647, Section 1. Section two hundred and nineteen of chapter six hun- L. 1911, dred and forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, § 219 entitled "An act relating to conservation of land, forests, waters, amended. parks, hydraulic power, fish and game, constituting chapter sixtyfive of the consolidated laws," as last amended by chapter two hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nineteen,1 is hereby amended to read as follows: 2 § 219. Certain wild birds protected. Wild birds other than the English sparrow, starling, crow, hawk, snow-owl, great gray owl, great horned owl, great blue heron, bittern, cormorant, crow black bird and kingfisher shall not be taken or possessed at any time, dead or alive, except under the authority of a certificate issued under this article. Red-winged blackbirds which are destroying any crop may be killed at any time during the months of June, July, August and September by the owner or occupant of any real property on which such crop is being grown, or by any person in the employ of such owner or occupant, but no part of the plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by this section or of any birds coming from without the state, whether belonging to the same or a different species from that native to the state of New York, provided such birds belong to the same family as those protected by this article, shall be sold or had in possession for sale. The provisions of this section shall not apply to game birds. for which an open season is provided in this article, birds or parts thereof collected or possessed in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and fifty-nine. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 152 AN ACT to amend the education law, relative to support of training classes. Became a law March 16, 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: (revision of Section 1. Section five hundred and two of chapter twenty-one L. 1909, of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relat- ch ing to education, constituting chapter sixteen of the consolidated L. 1910, laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and forty of the laws 1 Added by L. 1912, ch. 318. Previously amended by L. 1916, chs. 77, 521; L. 1917, ch. 486. 2 Word "cormorant new. ch. 140), § 502 amended. L. 1909, of nineteen hundred and ten, which section was last amended by The 1. To each academy and union free school district which has maintained a training class in accordance with the provisions of article thirty-one of this chapter and with the regulations prescribed by the commissioner of education, the sum of two thousand dollars; the teacher employed to teach a training class shall receive a minimum salary of eighteen hundred dollars per year, and such teacher shall not be considered as a teacher for the purpose of apportioning public money as provided by this chapter. The balance remaining after the payment of the compensation of the teacher may be applied to the payment of the cost of maintenance of such training class. The commissioner of education may in his discretion make an allowance to each academy and union free school district in such amount as he may deem advisable, not greater than the amount herein prescribed, notwithstanding the failure or default of such academy or union free school district in maintaining such training class with the number of members required and for the term prescribed by section seven hundred and ninety-one of this chapter. The number of training classes for which apportionments are to be made as provided in this section shall not in any one year exceed one hundred. 2. The balance of the money appropriated for such purpose shall be apportioned to the cities of the state which maintain training schools in accordance with the provisions of articles twenty and thirty-one of this chapter and with the regulations prescribed by the commissioner of education, ratably according to the aggregate attendance of the pupils regularly admitted to such training schools. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 153 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to appropriations for a town house. Became a law March 16, 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 three hundred and forty of chapter sixtythree of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act 1 Previously amended by L. 1920, ch. 56. 2 Formerly "twelve hundred dollars." Remainder of sentence new. relating to towns, constituting chapter sixty-two of the consolidated laws, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 340. Appropriation for town house. The electors of any town in which there shall not be a town house, at any biennial town meeting, or at a special town meeting lawfully called by the town clerk, may vote by ballot any sum of money for the purchase of a site and the building of a town house, for the purchase of a site and a building already constructed thereon, or for the purpose of contributing to the erection of a building for the joint use of the town and of an incorporated village within its limits. A special town meeting shall not be called under this section within one year from the meeting at which a proposition for the purposes specified herein has been submitted. If such sum is not raised by tax in one instalment the town board of such town may borrow the sum necessary to purchase such site and build such house or to purchase such site and a building already constructed thereon2 by the issue of bonds to be signed by the supervisor and attested by the town clerk. Such bonds shall become due within twenty years from date of issue, and unless the whole amount of the indebtedness represented thereby is to be paid within five years from their date, they shall be so issued as to provide for the payment of the indebtedness in equal annual instalments, the first of which shall be payable not more than five years from their date. They shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum and shall be sold at not less than their par value. They shall be sold on sealed proposals or at public auction upon notice published in a paper printed in the town, if any, also in such other papers as may be designated by the town board and posted in at least five public places in the town, at least ten days before the sale, to the person who will take them at the lowest rate of interest. Such bonds shall be consecutively numbered from one to the highest number issued, and the town clerk shall keep a record of the number of each bond, its date, amount, rate of interest, when and where payable, and the purchaser thereof or person to whom they are issued. The board of supervisors of the county may cause the sum so voted or the amount of any bonds issued for such purpose to be collected with the other expenses of the town. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Words "for the purchase of a site and a building already constructed thereon," new. 66 2 Words or to purchase such site and a building already constructed thereon," new. CHAPTER 154 AN ACT authorizing and empowering the village of Menands in Albany county to file notice of its intention to purchase lands or structures, within its corporate limits, abandoned pursuant to section fifty-three of the public lands law, notwithstanding the expiration of the time provided by law for such filing. Became a law March 16, 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. Notwithstanding the provision in section fifty-four of the public lands law, which requires an incorporated village to file with the commissioners of the land office, within four months after the adoption of a resolution of abandonment provided for in section fifty-three of the public lands law, a written notice of its intention to purchase the whole or a part of the lands or structures described in such resolution, the village of Menands in Albany county, which was incorporated on the twenty-eighth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, may, within one month after this act takes effect, file with the commissioners of the land office a written notice of its intention to purchase the whole or a part of any lands or structures, within its corporate limits, abandoned by the adoption of a resolution by such commissions pursuant to section fifty-three of the public lands law and not heretofore sold and conveyed pursuant to section fifty-four of the public lands law and, upon the filing of such notice, such village of Menands shall be first entitled to purchase either the whole or a part of such lands or structures as may be indicated by such notice, provided such purchase is made within the time and upon the terms as to payment of the purchase price fixed by the commissioners of the land office. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 114a added to L. 1909. ch. 64. CHAPTER 155 AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to mailing tax bills. Became a law March 16, 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. Chapter sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to villages, constituting chapter sixty-four of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by adding a new section, to be section one hundred and fourteen-a, to read as follows: § 114-a. Mailing tax bills. The board of trustees of the village may adopt a resolution that, within twenty days after the com |
