§ 304 amended. 305, as amended agement and maintenance of playgrounds and recreational and athletic activities and facilities. 9. Section three hundred and four of such chapter is hereby amended to read as follows: § 304. Power to lease. The commissioner has power to lease any building or structure in the public parks for a term not exceeding three years, and to let for any term not exceeding three years the right to sell refreshments, provisions or other articles within the public parks upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe; and has power to license vehicles for use in the public parks for any term not exceeding three years; and the proceeds of such leases and licenses must be deposited with the treasurer and placed to the credit of the department of parks and may be used in addition to its appropriation for the year in which it is received. § 10. Section three hundred and five of such chapter, as by L. 1908, amended by chapter three hundred and sixty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby amended to read as follows: ch. 368, amended. §383, subd. 1 amended 305. Railroads and telephone lines through parks. No railroad may be laid in, upon, over or through the public parks or squares of the city except with the consent of the commissioner and upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe; such consent, terms and conditions to be approved by the mayor before becoming effective. No telegraph or telephone line and no poles therefor may be erected or constructed in, over, under or through the public parks and squares except with the consent of the commissioner and upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. § 11. Subdivision one of section three hundred and eightythree of such chapter is hereby amended to read as follows: §383. 1. Establishment of schools. To establish, control and maintain kindergartens, common schools, high schools, manual training and industrial schools, evening schools, including provision for special studies and social improvement, vacation schools, training schools for teachers, and truant schools; to discontinue or consolidate schools; and to establish on lands under its control, with the consent of the commissioner of parks, playgrounds, recreational. pleasure and athletic grounds, and recreational, pleasure and athletic activities and facilities, which when established are under the control, care, management and maintenance of said commissioner, and to discontinue the same. § 12. Section four hundred and sixty-seven of such chapter is § 467 hereby amended to read as follows: § 467. Judges of the municipal court to act as police justice. In the absence, disqualification or inability of the police justice, in case of a vacancy in the office thereof, or at the direction of the mayor, one of the judges of the municipal court must, and at the request of the police justice may, act as and perform the duties of the police justice. The police justice and one or more of the judges of the municipal court may hold separate sessions of the police court at the same time. A judge of the municipal court when performing the duties of the police justice possesses all the powers of the police justice. Any of the judges of the municipal court may issue a criminal warrant on due complaint for the arrest of any person charged with crime committed within the city. Such warrant must be signed by the judge hearing the complaint and made returnable before the police justice or police court. amended. § 13. Section four hundred and seventy-eight of such chapter is § 478 hereby amended to read as follows: 478. Police court clerk and assistants. The police justice may appoint to hold office during his pleasure a clerk of the police court, who is a confidential appointee of the police justice, a deputy clerk, and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. The clerk, the deputy clerk and other clerks appointed by the police justice each has power to take informations upon which warrants for the arrest of persons charged with the commission of a crime, or a violation of an ordinance, may be issued by the police justice; to issue and sign subpoenas; to administer oaths to witnesses; to make and sign executions, commitments and certificates of conviction, and to certify to and sign copies thereof for the execution of any judgments rendered by the police court or police justice; and to receive deposits of money when such deposits are permitted by law to be made instead of bail or undertaking for appearance. The clerk must receive all penalties and other moneys or fees and pay the same into the city treasury once in each week, and cause monthly an itemized account of the same to be published in the official papers. § 14. This act shall take effect immediately. amended. L. 1909, ch. 45, 863 amended. Chap. 14. AN ACT to amend the personal property law, in relation to the place of filing contracts for the conditional sale of goods and chattels. Became a law March 1, 1915, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senat and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section sixty-three of article four of chapter fortyfive of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to personal property, constituting chapter forty-one of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 63. Where contract to be filed. Such contracts except contracts for the conditional sale of goods and chattels supplied for a building and attached or to be attached thereto, shall be filed in the city or town where the conditional vendee resides, if he resides within the state at the time of the execution thereof, and if not, in the city or town where such property is at such time. Such contract shall be filed in the city of New York, as follows, namely: in the borough of Brooklyn in said city, such instrument shall be filed in the office of the register of the county of Kings; in the borough of Queens in said city, in the office of the clerk of Queens county; in the borough of Richmond in said city, in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond;1 in the borough of Manhattan2 in said city, in the office of the register of the county of New York, and in the borough of the Bronx in said city, in the office of the register of the county of Bronx;" in every other city or town of the state, in the office of the city or town clerk, unless there is a county clerk's office in such city or town, in which case it shall be filed in such office. But all such contracts for the conditional sale of goods and chattels, attached or to be attached to a building, shall be filed with the register of the city or county or with the county clerk of the county, in case there is no register of such county, in which the premises whereon said building stands are located. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Word "and" omitted. 2 Words "and the borough of the Bronx" omitted. 3 Words "and in the borough of the Bronx in said city, in the office of the register of the county of Bronx," new. Chap. 15. AN ACT authorizing the city of Cortland to sell a fire station. building and site and lot in such city, and to use and expend the avails of such sale in completing the new central fire station in such city, and in purchasing suitable and necessary fire apparatus therefor, repairing and restoring the city's fire alarm system, and in payment of bonds or certificates of indebtedness given by such city for the erection thereof, and for maintaining such city's fire department. Became a law March 1, 1915, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: conveyancs proceeds Section 1. The city of Cortland and the common council of Sale and said city is hereby authorized and empowered to sell the old fire authorizeć. station building and site and lot, situate on the west side of Main street in said city of Cortland, and to give the purchaser thereof good title and deed and conveyance thereof, with covenants of warranty, and to use and expend the avails of such sale in com- Use of pleting the new central fire station and building on the south side of Court street in said city, and in purchasing suitable and necessary fire apparatus therefor, and in repairing, restoring, and rebuilding the fire alarm system in said city, and in the payment of bonds or certificates of indebtedness given by said city for erecting its said new central fire station, and building; or for any other needful and necessary expense for maintaining the fire department of said city of Cortland. conditions § 2. Any and every sale hereby authorized by this act shall be Terms and exercised, subject to all the terms, provisions, conditions and re- of sale. strictions, contained in chapter two hundred and forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, and including the duly advertised public sale thereof to the highest bidder. how 3. The avails of the sale of said city's old fire station, build- Moneys. ing and site and lot, situate on the west side of Main street in payable. said city, shall be paid out and expended as and for the purposes hereinbefore provided, only, and only upon the concurrent vote and resolution of both the board of fire commissioners and of the common council of said city, and only by the joint action and resolution of those bodies. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 16. AN ACT authorizing the Morningside Cemetery Association of Syracuse to convey certain land situated in the city of Syracuse, known as a part of Morningside cemetery. Became a law March 2, 1915, 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 Morningside Cemetery Association of Syracuse, a cemetery corporation, organized in pursuance of the membership corporations law, is hereby authorized to convey the fee of so much of its land not heretofore used for cemetery purposes as is comprised within a portion of original: lot number seventynine, town of Onondaga, now city of Syracuse, being a parcel of land fronting about two hundred and twenty-two feet more or less on Lancaster avenue and having a depth of about seven hundred feet more or less. Also so much of such land as lies south of Colvin street. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1918, ch. 280 repealed. Chap. 17. AN ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act to promote efficiency and economy in the public service and to create a department of efficiency and economy and to authorize the appointment of a commissioner of efficiency and economy as the head of such department." Became a law March 2, 1915, 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. Chapter two hundred and eighty of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act to promote effi |