CHAPTER XIV.

Art Commission.

Section 292. The art commission shall be composed of:

The mayor, ex-officio;

The president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ex-officio; The president of The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations, ex-officio;

The president of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, ex-officio; and

Six members appointed by the mayor as hereinafter provided, of whom one shall be a painter, one a sculptor, and one an architect; of the remaining three members none shall be a member of any profession in the fine arts. All shall be residents of the city. The term of office of each member appointed by the mayor shall be three years. Each head of a department shall be entitled to sit and vote as a member of the commission whenever it shall have under consideration any matter relating to his department.

The board of trustees of each institution herein named may designate in writing, filed with the mayor, a member of such board to sit and vote as a member of the commission in the absence of the president of such institution.

§ 293. At least twenty days before the expiration of the term of office of a member appointed by the mayor, or within ten days after the happening of a vacancy otherwise than by expiration of term, the mayor shall request the Fine Arts Federation of New York to submit a list of not less than three persons, each of whom shall possess the qualifications of the outgoing member, or of the member whose office shall have become vacant, as the case may be. Appointments by the mayor shall be made from such lists; but if in any instance the Fine Arts Federation shall fail to submit a list within ten days after being requested so to do, the mayor may appoint without such nomination. An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term.

$294. The members of the commission shall serve as such without compensation and shall elect a president, vice-president and secretary from their number, each to serve for one year or until his successor shall be elected. The commission may adopt

its own rules of procedure. Five members shall constitute, a quorum.

§ 295. The city shall not purchase or take by gift, bequest or otherwise, any work of art unless the same or a design thereof shall have been first approved by the commission. No work of art shall be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon, any street, park, public building or other property belonging to the city until the same and its proposed location shall have been approved by the commission. When required by the commission, a complete model of a proposed work of art shall be submitted to it. No work of art in the possession of the city shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way without the approval of the commission; but in case the immediate removal or relocation of any such work of art shall be deemed necessary by the mayor, the commission shall be deemed to have approved thereof unless it shall, within forty-eight hours after notice from the mayor, notify him of its disapproval of such removal or relocation. The term "work of art" as used herein shall apply to and include paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues, bas-reliefs or other sculptures, monuments, fountains, arches or other structures of a permanent character intended for ornament or commemoration.

§ 296. 1. No building, bridge, approach, gate, fence, lamp or other structure shall be erected upon any street or land belonging to the city unless the design thereof shall have been first approved by the art commission.

2. No arch, bridge, structure or approach, the property of any person, intended to extend or extending over or upon any street, park or property belonging to the city shall be erected or altered without the approval of the commission.

3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as intended. to impair the power of the park board to refuse its consent to the acceptance or erection of public monuments, memorials or works of any sort in any park.

APPENDIX III.

TABLE OF SOURCES.

SHOWING THE DERIVATION OF SUCH SECTIONS OF THE PROPOSED CHARTER AS ARE TAKEN FROM THE EXISTING CHARTER AND THE CONSOLIDATION ACT (LAWS 1882, CHAP. 410), AND ALSO DESIGNATING THE NEW SECTIONS.

ABBREVIATIONS.

P. C.- Present Charter, L. 1901, ch. 466.

C. A.- Consolidation Act, L. 1882, ch. 410.
Cf.- Compare.

Consol.- Consolidated.

L.- Laws.

Ch. Chapter.

Subd. Subdivision.

Tit.- Title.

Art. Article.

L. 1897, ch. 378.- First Greater New York Charter.

Code Civ. Proc.- Code of Civil Procedure.

CHAPTER I.

§ 1. Cf. P. C. § 1.

C. A. § 1.

§ 2. Cf. P. C. § 3.

C. A. § 26.

See also Consol. L. 1909, ch. 53.

§ 3. P. C. § 4.

C. A. § 27.

§ 4. P. C. §§ 4, 5.

C. A. § 27.

§ 5. P. C. §§ 462, 1010, 1466, 756, 864.

C. A. § 803.

General Construction Law, Consol. L. 1909, ch. 22, § 37.

§ 6. P. C. § 71. See also §§ 205, 220.

C. A. §§ 170, 186.

§ 7. P. C. § 73.

§ 8. P. C. § 72. 9. P. C. § 83.

§ 10. P. C. § 86. C. A. § 720.

§ 44. P. C. § 94.

C. A. §§ 30, 31, 52.

CHAPTER IV.

Cf. Brooklyn Charter, L. 1888, ch. 583, tit. III, § 3; L. 1873, ch. 863, tit. III, § 11; L. 1854, ch. 384, tit. III, § 2.

§ 56. New.

§ 57. New, but cf. P. C. §§ 151, 246 (added by L. 1907, ch. 601). C. A. § 125. § 58. New.

§ 59. New. Cf. P. C. & 56.

C. A. § 97.

§ 60. P. C. § 226.

C. A. § 189.

Subd. 3 and part of subds. 2 and 5, new.

§ 61. Subd. 1. P. C. § 226.

C. A. § 189.

2. P. C. § 900.

C. A. & 829.

3. P. C. §§ 907, 249.

C. A. § 214.

L. 1897, ch. 378, § 247.