CITY OF LONG BEACH

LOCAL LAW No. 1

A local law to provide for public hearings on local laws, pursuant to section thirteen of article one of the city home rule law.

Became a law September 9, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. 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. Before voting upon a proposed enactment of a local law, the mayor of the city of Long Beach shall fix a day for a public hearing thereon, and shall cause public notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given as hereinafter specified.

§ 2. Such notice shall be given the city clerk by causing the same to be published once in the official newspaper at least five days prior to the day fixed for such hearing. Such notice shall contain the title of the proposed law and shall briefly refer to the subject matter thereof.

§ 3. The mayor of the city of Long Beach will attend at the time and place appointed for such hearing and shall afford an opportunity for a public hearing concerning such local law. § 4. This local law shall take effect immediately.

LOCAL LAW No. 2

A local law in relation to appointment of city officials; by whom appointed; their term of office.

Became a law October 24, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. 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. The appointive officers of the city of Long Beach shall be a city treasurer, a city clerk, a corporation counsel, a city physician and health officer, a commissioner of charities, one fire commissioner, two city tax assessors, a commissioner of public works and one or more deputy commissioners of public works who may also be superintendent of public works, a building commissioner, one chief of police, one or more city marshals, a city engineer, one or more superintendents of departments and library trustees, not to exceed five in number, as determined by the council. All of such officers and such other officers and deputies as shall be provided for by ordinance shall be appointed by the mayor only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council. Any deputy or official appointed or

elected may perform duties in one or more departments as the council may designate. Any officer or employee appointed as herein provided may be removed by the mayor only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council, and the mayor shall appoint a successor only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council.

§ 2. The council may, by ordinance passed by a unanimous vote of all its members, vest in the head of any department the appointment of such subordinates, not herein specifically named, as it deems advisable. The mayor only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council may appoint a chief of police and as many regular and special patrolmen as the council determines is necessary for the proper protection of the city of Long Beach. The mayor only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council shall fix the terms of all appointive officers.

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§ 3. Section eleven of chapter six hundred and thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled 'An act to incorporate the city of Long Beach" is hereby superseded.

LOCAL LAW No. 3

A local law in relation to the appointment of an acting city judge; by whom appointed; revocation of appointment; compensation.

Became a law October 24, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. 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. The mayor, only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council, may, and if required by ordinance, shall appoint an acting city judge. The person appointed must be eligible to the office of city judge. The mayor, only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council, may revoke any such appointment and make new appointments only by and with the approval and consent of a majority of the members of the council, but a vacancy must not be filled unless an ordinance requiring that there be such an office be then in force. A revocation of an appointment shall be in writing and take effect when filed with the city clerk.

§ 2. If the compensation of the acting city judge be not fixed as provided in this act, his accounts for professional services from time to time may be audited at their reasonable value and paid as other contractual claims against the city.

§ 3. Section one hundred and ninety-one of chapter six hundred and thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Long Beach" is hereby superseded.

LOCAL LAW No. 4

A local law in relation to local and street improvements and for the establishment of assessment areas or districts.

Became a law September 24, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. 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. The council may, by ordinance, direct and require one or more streets or places or any public ground in the city of Long Beach or any portion or portions to be graded, paved or macadamized, or sewers, culverts, drains, sidewalks or curbs to be laid and constructed therein, or the same to be otherwise improved, resurfaced or repaired, at the cost and expense of the owners of the lots or parcels of land adjacent to such improvement or improvements, or at the cost and expense of the lots or parcels of land within the area or district of assessment deemed by the council to be benefited by such improvement or improvements in proportion to such benefit as determined by the council, which area or district shall be described by metes and bounds in such ordinance or partly at the cost and expense of the owners of such lots or parcels of land or of the owners of the lots and parcels of land within such area or district or partly at the cost of the city at large. Two or more such areas of assessment and the improvements to be made therein respectively may be provided for and included in one and the same ordinance; and the council may authorize a single issue of assessment bonds or certificates of indebtedness in an amount sufficient to defray the total cost and expense of all such improvements so included in such ordinance. The cost and expense of each such improvement shall be apportioned upon the lots or parcels of land liable to assessment as hereinbefore stated. Public hearings on the several apportionments may be provided for in one notice.

§ 2. Section eighty-one-a of chapter six hundred and thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two entitled An act to incorporate the city of Long Beach" is hereby superseded.

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

LOCAL LAW No. 5

A local law in relation to the issuance of the tax roll and warrant to the city treasurer and for the payment of taxes upon personal property and real estate in installments; interest, penalties, liens.

Became a law September 29, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. 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. The city clerk of the city of Long Beach, under the direction of the council, shall extend and apportion the city tax on

the assessment roll delivered to him in each year and shall forthwith file the same in his office. He shall make one copy of the same with the tax so extended and apportioned, and shall certify such copy to be a correct duplicate city roll of state, county and city taxes; such roll shall then, on or before the first day of December or as soon thereafter as practicable, be delivered to the treasurer of the city with a warrant annexed, under the seal of the city, signed by the mayor and the clerk of the city, commanding him to receive, levy and collect the several sums in the roll specified as assessed against the persons or property therein mentioned or described with such percentage or penalty and interest as hereinafter provided and in the manner provided by law for the collection and levying of county taxes by town collectors, and with the additional powers conferred by this act.

§ 2. All taxes upon personal property and one-half of all taxes upon real estate within the city of Long Beach shall be due and payable on the first day of December in each year, and the remaining and final one-half of taxes on real estate shall be due and payable on the first day of June thereafter in each year. All taxes shall be and become liens upon the real estate affected thereby on the respective dates when they become due and payable as hereinbefore provided and shall remain such liens until paid. The second half of the tax on real estate which is due as hereinbefore provided on the first day of June following the payment of the first half, may be paid on the first day of December, or at any time thereafter, provided the first half shall have been paid or shall be paid at the same time.

§ 3. If any tax on personal property or the first one-half of any tax on real estate shall remain unpaid on the tenth day of January after it shall become due and payable it shall be the duty of the treasurer to charge, receive and collect upon such tax so remaining unpaid on and after that day, interest upon the amount thereof, at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from the day on which said taxes or such part thereof become due and payable, as provided herein to the date of payment; if the final half of any tax on any real estate remains unpaid on and after the tenth day of July after it shall be due and payable, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to charge, receive and collect upon such tax so remaining unpaid on that date, interest upon the amount thereof at the rate of seven per centum per annum to be calculated from the day upon which said final one-half of said tax became due and payable as herein provided to the date of payment; such increases and percentages shall be paid over and accounted for by such treasurer from time to time as a part of the tax collected by him.

§ 4. Section one hundred and seven of chapter six hundred and thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Long Beach" is hereby superseded.

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

CITY OF MECHANICVILLE

LOCAL LAW No. 1

A local law in relation to public hearings before the council of the city of Mechanicville on local laws.

Became a law August 5, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

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

Section 1. When a proposed local law shall be in its final form, the council of the city of Mechanicville shall fix a day for a public hearing before it concerning such local law.

The commissioner of accounts shall cause public notice of the time of such hearing to be published in the official paper for two successive days. Such hearing shall be had not earlier than five days after the date of last publication. Such notice shall contain the title of such local law, and an explanatory statement thereof, prepared by the commissioner of accounts.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

LOCAL LAW No. 2

A local law in relation to the terms of office of the officers of the city council of the city of Mechanicville, N. Y.

Became a law November 4, 1924, with the approval of the Mayor and the voters of the city. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Mechanicville.

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

Section 1. The officers of the city shall be as follows: mayor, elected by the people at large for a term of two years; commissioner of accounts, elected by the people at large for a term of four years; commissioner of finance, elected by the people at large for a term of four years; commissioner of public works, elected by the people at large for a term of two years; commissioner of public safety, elected by the people at large for a term of two years. Said mayor and commissioners shall constitute the council.

§ 2. Section ten of title two 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.

3. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the electors of the city of Mechanicville at the general election to be held November 4th, 1924.