CITY OF DUNKIRK LOCAL LAW No. 1* A local law in relation to the qualifications of the judge of municipal court of said city. Became a law November 17, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Dunkirk. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Dunkirk as follows: Section 1. That section two hundred and twenty-four of article nineteen of an act to consolidate and revise the several acts relative to the city of Dunkirk as amended, being the charter of the city of Dunkirk, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: § 224. Judge's qualifications. The municipal court judge shall be an attorney and counselor of the supreme court of the state of New York, of not less than three years' standing, and a resident elector of the city of Dunkirk, and shall not hold any other elective or appointive office. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. *Numbered 3 by city of Dunkirk. CITY OF GLENS FALLS LOCAL LAW No. 1 A local law in relation to public hearings before the mayor on local laws. Became a law August 5, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. the local legislative body of the city of Glens Falls. Passed by Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Glens Falls as follows: Section 1. Whenever a local law after its passage by the common council 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 the official papers published in the city, to be designated by the common council. 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 common council with his objection, pursuant to the city home rule law. § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 2 A local law in relation the powers of the board of water commissioners. Became a law August 5, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Glens Falls. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Glens Falls as follows: Section 1. The board of water commissioners shall have power to employ a superintendent, prescribe and define his duties and fix his salary, to employ necessary servants and laborers and fix their compensation; to provide the city with an adequate and wholesome supply of water for public and domestic use. After first so providing the city with such water if there shall be a surplus of water remaining in the city's water supply or source of supply, to contract for and sell, at a profit to the city, all or any part of such surplus when and so long only as such surplus shall exist, to a municipality or municipalities located within five miles of a boundary line of the city or to individuals for use within one mile of such a boundary line or a water main of the city, but any such contract shall provide that the vendee shall take such water within the city or at a boundary thereof or at its water mains, and no delivery of water shall be made except as provided in such contract; to make contracts for and buy pipes, mains, hydrants, conductors, pumps and land, and other property necessary to be used in maintaining and extending the water system and distributing and supplying water to the city and its inhabitants; to protect the water supply and sources thereof against contamination and to such end acquire lands, rights, privileges and other property necessary therefor; to devise plans for the extension and perfection of and additions to the water system and water supply, and acquire lands, rights, easements, privileges and other property necessary therefor; to make contracts for the construction of new dams for the creation of reservoirs and the storage of water for distributive purposes, and to add to, repair, construct or reconstruct any dam or dams which now or hereafter shall form a part of the city water system; to replace pipes and mains, and extend the same, and to do and perform any act or thing necessary to protect, maintain, preserve and extend the water system and water supply of the city. In case said board of water commissioners desire to acquire any real estate or interest therein, for any purpose aforesaid, and are unable to agree with the owner or owners thereof upon a price. therefor, then they may acquire the same in the name of the city and in the manner provided by the condemnation law and to such end they are empowered by themselves, their agents and servants to enter in and upon lands, to make surveys and estimates, but shall be liable to pay any and all damages done to such land thereby. § 2. Section ninety-five of chapter twenty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight, entitled: "An act to incorporate the city of Glens Falls," as amended by chapter five hundred and fifty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby superseded. § 3. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 3 A local law in relation to the definition of the official and fiscal year. Became a law October 6, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Glens Falls. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Glens Falls as follows: Section 1. The official year of the city shall commence on the first day of January in each year. The fiscal year of the city shall commence on the first day of December and end on the first* day of November of each year. § 2. The provision of section five of the charter of the city of Glens Falls fixing the official year of the city to commence at noon on the first Monday of April in each year, and the fiscal year of the city to commence on the first day of March and end on the last day of February of each year is hereby superseded. § 3. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 4 A local law in relation to when expenditures not to be made. Became a law October 6, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Glens Falls. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Glens Falls as follows: Section 1. No expenditures shall be made, indebtedness incurred, or contract entered into by the city, during the month of December, except for current expenses. § 2. The provisions of section two hundred and two of the charter of the city of Glens Falls is hereby superseded. § 3. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 5 A local law in relation to when common council may borrow money. Became a law October 6, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Glens Falls. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Glens Falls as follows: Section 1. The common council may, by resolution, authorize the chamberlain to borrow money in the name of the city of Glens Falls at any time in the fiscal year, after the first day of January and prior to the annual levy of taxes as in anticipation of taxes already levied or to be levied for the current fiscal year. The total amount so borrowed must not exceed one per centum of the total valuation of the property assessed upon the annual assessment roll of the last preceding year and it must be payable within such year. § 2. The provisions of section one hundred and ninety-four of the charter of the city of Glens Falls is hereby superseded. § 3. This local law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 6 A local law in relation to requiring departments and officers to report and certify estimates to the common council. Became a law October 6, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Glens Falls. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Glens Falls as follows: Section 1. On or before the last day of October in each year, the board of health and commission created herein, the commissioner of charities and such other officers as the common council shall designate, shall estimate in detail the expenses and income of their respective departments for the next fiscal year and shall certify such estimates to the common council. The city judges shall present an estimate of the amount of fines and penalties that, in their judgment, will probably be received by the city judges during the next fiscal year. The city clerk shall also make a detailed statement by items of all the expenses of the city as estimated by him for the next fiscal year. The city clerk in his report shall also make a statement in detail of all judgments against the city then remaining, and an itemized statement of the principal and interest of all bonded and other indebtedness of the city that will fall due during the next fiscal year. The city chamberlain, in his report, shall also make a statement in detail of the amount of unpaid taxes and local assessments heretofore assessed and remaining unpaid, and the amount which in his judgment will probably be received by the city therefrom during the next fiscal year, all expenditures made or incurred by the city and chargeable to the property owners or other persons and remaining unpaid, and the amount which in his judgment will probably be received by the city during the next fiscal year. The common council shall estimate in detail the expense and income of all other departments and of each fund for the next fiscal year. The common council shall cause such estimates and statements to be published in the official newspapers of the city on or before the second Tuesday in November. At any meeting not later than the fifteenth day of the month of May next following it shall revise such estimates and determine the entire amount necessary to be raised to defray the expenses of the city for the fiscal year. Said common council may by a vote of two-thirds of its members approve or reduce or increase any of the estimates of the various boards or officers aforesaid, and shall on or before July twentieth of each year, levy the aggregate amount taxed, ascertained and determined, also any special tax which shall have been voted to be raised with the annual tax levy. Each of the officers and boards specified in this act shall, at the close of the fiscal year, make a written report to the common council of all expenditures made or incurred by said officers for said board during such year, showing separately and by items the amount expended from each fund which may be drawn on by such board, and the balance standing |