Jurisdiction of actions against the city. § 262. The supreme court shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all actions or special proceedings wherein The City of New York is made a party defendant. And all such actions shall be tried in that county wholly or partly embraced within The City of New York in which the cause of action arose, or in the county of New York, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial in the cases provided by law. L. 1882, ch. 410, § 1103. See Mussen v. Ausable Granite Works, 63 Hun, 268; Getman v. The Mayor, 66 id. 236. Service of process. § 263. All process and papers for the commencement of actions and legal proceedings against The City of New York shall be served either upon the mayor, the comptroller or the corporation counsel. L. 1882, ch. 410, § 1105. Issuance of execution. 264. No execution shall be issued upon any judgment recovered against The City of New York until after ten days' notice, in writing, of the recovery of such judgment shall have been given to the comptroller. L. 1882, ch. 410, § 1106. CHAPTER VIII. POLICE DEPARTMENT. SEC. 270. Police board; commissioners; salary. 271. Police board; authority; bureau of elections. 272. Id.; to make and enforce rules and regulations. 273. Boards and offices abolished and forces consolidated. 274. Police department; powers and authority transferred to. 275. Property to vest in the city of New York and be managed by police department. 276. Police force; composition. 277. Id.; members of former forces in New York city transferred. 278. Id.; members of former forces in Brooklyn transferred. 279. Id.; members of former force in Long Island City transferred. 280. Id.; members of former force in Richmond county transferred. 281. Police board; authority over members transferred by preceding sections; rank of transferred members. 282. Id.; authority over employes of former boards; duties and salaries of such employes. 283. Id; power to appoint and remove members and employes; salaries and fines. 284. Police force; qualifications of members; publishing names and residence of applicants and appointees. 285. Id.; warrant of appointment; oath. 286. Id.; chief of police; first appointment. 287. Id.; other officers; first appointments. 288. Id.; promotions. 289. Id.; increase of. 290. Id.; central office; bureau of detectives. 291. No member of department to be interested in other office. 292. Chief of police; duties and powers. 293. Id.; absence or disability of. 294. Police surgeons; duties and districts. 295. Police board; president and treasurer. 296. Id.; duties of treasurer; bond; deputy treasurer. 297. Id.; to pay salaries and discharge obligations of department. 298. Id.; copy of minutes, when evidence. 299. Salaries of officers and members of force. 300. Police board; rules, etc., for government and discipline of police department and police force; dismissals. 301. Police commissioners, etc., may issue subpoenas; who may administer oaths. 302. Police board; punishments by; limitation of suits for reinstate ments, etc. SEC. 303. Police force; resignations and absences on leave. 304. Id.; regulations of civil service commissioners. 305. Police board; rewards to informers. 306. Police force; gratuities and political contributions forbidden; may be permitted to retain rewards. 307. Id.; detail of policeman at polls. 308. Id.; special patrolmen; when may be appointed; military assistance. 309. Police board; detail persons to attend courts. 310. Police department to co-operate with department of health. 311. Police force; arrests for violation of health laws. 312. Id.; detail of officers and men to assist department of health. 313. Id.; detail of officers and men to assist the department of public parks. 314. Id.; detail of officers and men to assist the department of bridges. 315. Id.; duties of. 316. Id.; general powers over certain trades. 317. Id.; may examine pawnbroker's books. 318. Id.; suppression of gaming and other houses. 319. Rules and regulations as to navigable waters within the city limits. 320. Police board; to furnish station houses, etc., and fix boundaries of precincts; headquarters. 321. Id.; to provide accommodations for detention of witnesses. 323. Id.; may maintain and operate telegraph and telephone lines, and use same in assisting department of health. 324. Id.; may use boats; establish mounted patrol, sell old property, etc. 325. Applications for medical attendance; registered physicians. 326. Compensation of registered physician; certificate, etc. 327. Physician to report to department of health. 328. Nearest physician to be called; penalty for refusal to attend 329. List of registered physicians to be posted. 330. Hours of service of registered physicians. 331. Stolen property; property clerk; employment of and duties. 332. Id.; return of property to person accused. 333. Id.; claim to, by another person. 334. Unclaimed, lost, stolen, etc., property, to be registered and advertised. 335. Id.; to be sold if unclaimed. 336. Stolen property desired as evidence in criminal court. 337. Police force; arrests without warrant. 338. Id.; returns of arrests; accused to be taken before a magistrate. 339. Penalty for personating policeman, and for willful neglect of police. 340. Misdemeanor for persons not members of police force to serve crim inal process. 341. Exemption from military and jury duty, and civil process. 342. Steam boilers; inspection of; not to be operated without certificate. 343. Id.; no person to use, or act as engineer for, without certificate. 344. Id.; record of inspections to be kept. 345. Id.; over-pressure forbidden; owner neglecting to report boiler. 346. Police board; licenses for public exhibitions. 347. Id.; licenses to emigrant boarding-houses; bond. SEC. 350. Id.; special patrolmen for district telegraph companies. 351. Police pension fund; police boards trustees of; powers over. 352. Id.; funds to be paid trustees; exemption from execution and process; false swearing in pension claims. 353. Id.; of what it consists. 354. Id.; pensions classified. 355. Id.; when members of force entitled to pension; amount and duration. 356. Id.; when certain pensions terminate; equalizing existing pensions. 357. Id.; certificate of disability; department may make rules. 358. Elections; powers transferred to police board; board and offices abolished. 359. General bureau of elections; control of; branches. 360. Id.; management; superintendent. 361. Id.; appointment of chiefs of branches and assistants; salaries of assistants; detailing members of police force. 362. Id.; officers' terms and salaries; removals. 363. Id.; employes continued in service. 364. Id.; appropriation for expenses of. 365. Id.; superintendent the chief executive officer; annual report. 366. Id.; chiefs of branches; duties; location of offices. 367. Id.; election expenses a charge against the city. 368. Id.; existing records and property transferred to custody of. 369. Id.; superintendent to destroy registers of electors, etc. 370. Id.; application of preceding section. 371. Disposition of proceeds of sales. Police board; commissioners; salary. $270. The head of the police department shall be called the police board. Said board shall consist of four persons, to be known as police commissioners of The City of New York. They shall be appointed by the mayor, and shall hold their respective offices as provided in chapter four of this act. No more than two of said commissioners shall, when either of them is appointed, belong to the same political party, or be of the same political opinion on state and national politics. The salary of each of said police commissioners shall be five thousand dollars a year. L. 1882, ch. 410, §§ 37, 52; L. 1895, ch. 569, § 1. Police board; authority; bureau of elections. $271. The said police board shall have cognizance and control of the government, administration, disposition and discipline of the said police department, and of the police force of said department, and it shall also have cognizance and control of the bureau of elections hereinafter mentioned, and said bureau of elections shall be a part of said police department. L. 1882, ch. 410, §§ 250, 260. Id.; to make and enforce rules and regulations. 272. The said police board shall make, adopt and enforce such rules, orders and regulations, and do all such other acts as may b: reasonably necessary to effect a prompt and efficient exercise of all powers conferred by law, and the performance of all duties imposed by law upon the said board or the said department, or upon any part of or person in said department. But said board shall do no act which is contrary to or inconsistent with this act. L. 1882, ch. 410, § 250. See cases cited under $300, post. Boards and offices abolished and forces consolidated. $273. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, the police department, the board of police and the offices of the police commissioners of the city of New York, provided for by the New York city consolidation act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the acts amendatory thereof, the office of commissioner of police and excise of the city of Brooklyn, the board of police commissioners for Long Island City and the board of commissioners of police for the county of Richmond are hereby abolished. The respective police forces and departments heretofore existing in the said cities and the said county, including the park police of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, and the park police of the city of Brooklyn, and the police force of the New York and Brooklyn bridge are hereby consolidated into one department and force to be constituted, controlled and administered as provided in this chapter. Police department; powers and authority transferred to. 274. All the rights, powers, authority, duties and obligations, immediately heretofore by law vested in or imposed upon the police departments, or either of the boards or commissioners mentioned in the last above section, shall forthwith by force of and as an effect of this chapter be transferred to and continue in the police department created by this act except in so far as the same shall be contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. All the rights, powers, authority duties and obligations relative to, or connected with the appointment, control or cognizance of any police force immediately heretofore by law vested in or imposed upon the commissioners of public parks in the city of New York, the department of parks of the city of Brooklyn, and the board of trustees of the New York and Brooklyn bridge, shall forthwith, by force of, and as an effect of this |