OF THE CITIES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ENACTED DURING THE YEAR 1925 PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 363 LAWS OF 1924 FLORENCE E. S. KNAPP SECRETARY OF STATE ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1926 LOCAL LAWS OF THE CITIES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1925 CITY OF ALBANY LOCAL LAW No. 1 A local law in relation to public hearings before the mayor on local laws. Became a law May 29, 1925, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Albany as follows: Section 1. Whenever a local law after its passage by the common council of the city of Albany shall be presented to the mayor for approval he shall forthwith fix a date 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 newspaper or newspapers. 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 objections pursuant to the city home rule law. § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately. w.w.cool LOCAL LAW No. 2 A local law in relation to the terms of office of the mayor, and other elective and appointive officers of the city of Albany. Became a law August 19, 1925, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Albany. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Albany as follows: Section 1. Terms of office. The term of office of each elective officer hereafter elected, unless elected to fill a vacancy then existing, shall commence on the first day of January next succeeding his election. The term of office of each appointive officer shall commence on the day succeeding his appointment unless a different date is specified in the certificate of appointment. The term of office of the mayor, comptroller, treasurer and president of the common council shall be four years. The term of office of alderman shall be four years. The term of office of supervisor shall be two years. The term of office of the corporation counsel, city engineer, commissioner of public works, commissioner of public safety, commissioner of assessment and taxation, commissioner of charities, and sealer of weights and measures shall be four years unless sooner removed by the mayor. Where the term of office of the appointive officer is not specifically fixed by statute it shall be deemed to continue only during the pleasure of the officer, officers, board or body authorized to make the appointment. § 2. Section thirteen of chapter fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, being section thirteen of the second class cities law, is hereby superseded in its application to the city of Albany. § 3. This local law shall take effect immediately. CITY OF AMSTERDAM LOCAL LAW No. 1 A local law in relation to the police department of the city of Amsterdam. Became a law April 20, 1925, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of Amsterdam. Be it enacted by the common council of the city of Amsterdam as follows: Section 1. The chief of police of said city shall, subject to the authority of the mayor and the commissioner of public safety, be the chief executive officer of the police department and superintend the same; he shall keep a record in a book of all cases and legal proceedings in his department and all services performed by him and by the several policemen of the city and of such fees as are chargeable by law to the county of Montgomery or to any town of said county; he shall also keep a book known as the property book in which he shall enter all articles taken from persons arrested or seized on a warrant or otherwise, together with the disposal made thereof; he shall once in each month, and oftener if required, report to the commissioner of public safety the state of the department and whether any members of the force are delinquent in their duties. The chief of police may orally or in writing suspend from duty any member of the department for neglect of duty or, violation of the rules and regulations of the department for a period not exceeding ten days. The assistant chief of police shall discharge such duties incident to his office as may be imposed upon him by the commissioner of public safety or by the chief of police and shall, in case of the absence or inability of the chief to act, possess the power and discharge the duties of the chief of police. All policemen shall receive for their compensation a monthly salary to be fixed by the common council of said city. The police department of said city shall consist of a chief of police, assistant chief of police, two detectives, and as many patrolmen as the commissioner of public safety may determine, but not more than one for each one thousand three hundred of the population of said city as shown and determined by the last state or federal census or enumeration; but the number of such patrolmen shall not be less than the number employed when this act takes effect. No fee or compensation other than as in this act provided, shall be charged or received by any policeman save such reward as a policeman may be permitted to receive with the consent of the commissioner of public safety. § 2. Section seventy-three of title six of chapter two hundred and forty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An act to amend, consolidate and revise the several acts relative to the city of Amsterdam," as amended by chapter three hundred and thirty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three is hereby superseded. § 3. This local law shall take effect June first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five. |