pletion of the assessment-roll and levying of taxes, the village CHAPTER 156 AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and fifty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act to incorporate Empire Hook and Ladder Company Number One, of Upper Nyack," in relation to the number of members of the company. 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. 250, Section 1. Section three of chapter two hundred and fifty of the L. 1863, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act to incor- § 3 porate Empire Hook and Ladder company Number One, of Upper amended. Nyack," is hereby amended to read as follows: ment, duties. § 3. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to Members; nominate and appoint a sufficient number of firemen, not exceeding pointcne hundred,1 to have the care and management, working and number, using the apparatus, and all the implements belonging to said corporation, who shall be ready at all times to assist in the extinguishment of fires, and to perform all the duties which may required of them, by the regulations of said company, and in case of removal of any member or members of said company, to appoint others in their place. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 157 AN ACT to authorize the board of trustees of the village of Elizabethtown to submit to the qualified electors a proposition to raise a sum annually for the construction and maintenance of an ice skating rink. 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 board of trustees of the village of Elizabethtown is hereby authorized to submit to the qualified electors of such village, at a general or special village election, a proposition to expend annually a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars, to be specified in the proposition, for the construction and maintenance of an ice skating rink within the village on land owned by the village or leased for such purposes. Such proposition shall be sub1 Formerly "fifty.” mitted in the manner provided by the village law. If such proposition be adopted, the board of trustees shall cause to be raised annually in such village a sum specified in such proposition, in the same manner as other village expenses are raised, and may expend the same, or so much thereof as may be needed, for the construction and maintenance of an ice skating rink in accordance with the provisions of this act. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1873, ch. 434, § 1 amended. Corporators. CHAPTER 158 AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and thirty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act authorizing the formation of a corporate body to be known as the Firemen's Association of the State of New York," in relation to corporate name. 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 one of chapter four hundred and thirty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act authorizing the formation of a corporate body to be known as the Firemen's Association of the state of New York,' amended by chapter six hundred and nineteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended to read as follows: as § 1. Thomas Towne, William H. McGarvey, Hector Adams, Albert F. Smith, Thomas J. Evans, Henry W. Mathew, William Dewey, F. W. Rittenhouse, Andrew B. Cressitt and their assoCorporate ciates, are hereby constituted a body corporate, to be known as the Firemen's Association of the state of New York,1 for the purpose of protecting the interests of the firemen of this state." § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. name and purpose. L. 1922, ch. 588, § 165, subd. 2 amended. CHAPTER 159 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the statement of age of voter on registration. 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. Subdivision two of section one hundred and sixtyfive of chapter five hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled An act in relation to the 1 Words "of Hudson, New York" omitted. elections, constituting chapter seventeen of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: columns in when reg personal, of over 1,500,000. 2. In an election district in which registration is required to be Additional personal as to any of the voters outside of a city of over fifteen register in thousand inhabitants, the register shall have the following ad- district ditional columns to follow column seventeen for the following istration entries, to be made on each day of registration: In column eigh- outside city teen shall be entered the voter's age, except that a voter1 may state his or her2 age as "over twenty-one' "3 and have it so entered in the register. In column nineteen shall be entered, if the voter be a citizen by marriage, the length of time that the voter has been an inhabitant of the United States. In column twenty shall be entered the fact as to whether the voter is "married, single or widowed.' In columns twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-three, shall be entered the voter's length of residence by years, months and days, as the case may be, in the state, county and election district, respectively. In column twenty-four shall be entered the country of the voter's nativity, which shall mean the country, state or province of the voter's birth, irrespective of former political allegiance. In column twenty-five, if the voter be a naturalized citizen, shall be entered the date of the naturalization certificate, or, in the case of a woman who claims citizenship by marriage, the name of the person to whom married, and if the husband is a naturalized citizen the date of his naturalization certificate. In column twenty-six shall be entered the designation of the court issuing any such naturalization certificate. In columns twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirty shall be entered, respectively, the name of the state, the city or town and the street number and the name of the street or avenue of the residence of such voter from which he last registered or voted, and the year in which he last registered or voted. In column thirty-one shall be entered the number of the room or floor occupied by the voter at the residence stated by him. In the final, or "registration remarks" column, shall be entered the matter specified for such column in subdivision one of this section. If, in a district where such register is used, all of the voters are not required to register personally, the information to be entered concerning voters whose registration is not personal shall consist only of the matters provided for within the first seventeen columns, described in subdivision one of this section, and the "registration remarks" column. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1865, ch. 235, 3 amended. Firemen ; appointment, number, duties. L. 1909, amended. CHAPTER 160 AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section three of chapter two hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An act to incorporate the Orangetown Fire Engine Company at Nyack, town of Orangetown, in the county of Rockland," as amended by chapter seventy-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 3. The said corporation shall have full power to nominate and appoint a sufficient number of firemen, not exceeding one hundred,' to have the care and management of the fire engine and apparatus belonging to, or in charge of, said company, and who shall be ready at all times to assist in extinguishing fires, and to perform all the duties that may be required of them by the by-laws and regulations of said company; and in the case of the removal, death, absence or withdrawal of any of the members, the said corporation shall have power to appoint others in their places. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 161 AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to the duties of village president. 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 eighty of 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,'' amended by chapter two hundred and five of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby amended to read as follows: as § 80. President. The president of a village is its executive officer and the head of its police force, 'except where a police department has been established pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred and eighty-eight-a of this chapter, in which event the chief of police, or in his absence or inability to serve, the acting chief of police, shall be the head of the police force. It is his duty 1 Formerly" seventy-five." 2 Remainder of sentence new. to see that the provisions of this chapter, and the resolutions and CHAPTER 162 AN ACT to amend chapter six hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the village of Ossining," in relation to salaries of the police men. 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. 667, amended, Section 1. Subdivision one of section thirty-one of chapter six L. 1910, hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, 31, entitled An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of subd. 1 the village of Ossining," as last amended by chapter two hundred and ninety-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four,1 is hereby amended to read as follows:2 sation of officers. 1. The president and trustees shall receive no compensation for Compentheir services; the police justice shall receive not exceeding two village thousand six hundred dollars per year, payable in equal monthly or semi-monthly payments; the chief of police shall receive not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars per year, payable 1 Previously amended by L. 1917, ch. 86; L. 1920, ch. 115; L. 1921, ch. 112; L. 1922, ch. 579. 2 Subd. 1 materially amended. |