commission as modified by the court if so modified, on file in the office of the clerk of the county. And the board of supervisors shall each year at the time the annual tax levy is made, levy upon each separate parcel and property in said county within such improvement district appearing upon the assessment-rolls of the town and cities included therein as herein provided such portion of the amount to be paid by all of the property in said county within such improvement district appearing by the statement of the commission and, the comptroller made to said board as in this article provided as the amount so assessed against such parcel or property on said rolls for benefit accruing thereto bears to the aggregate amount so assessed on said rolls against all of said lands and properties, and the said taxes so levied shall be collected in the same manner as general taxes are levied and collected, and shall be a like lien as general taxes until the amount thereof is paid to the county treasurer of the county, superior in force and effect to all other liens except unpaid general taxes; provided, however, that the collection of such tax shall only be enforced by a sale of the land or property assessed. Such taxes when collected shall be paid to the treasurer of said county who shall forthwith pay the same less his legal fees to the comptroller, who shall pay the same into the drainage improvement fund. § 493. Duties and qualifications of collectors and other officers. It shall be the duty of each collector and other official to whom is delegated the performance of any service under the provisions of this article to faithfully perform the same, and the collector of each town and the treasurer or collecting officer of each city whose duty it shall be to collect assessments as herein provided shall before entering upon the discharge of his duties execute to the people of the state an undertaking with two or more sureties in the penal sum of twice the amount to be collected by him, and such undertaking shall be approved and filed in the same manner and with the same force and effect as provided by law with reference to an undertaking for the collection of general taxes, and shall provide that he will well and faithfully perform his duty as collector and will pay over to the treasurer of his county and fully account for all moneys received by him under the provisions of this article within the same time as provided by law with reference to general taxes. And each county treasurer whose duty it shall be to receive any assessments or moneys as herein provided shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, execute to the people of the state an undertaking in such amount and with such sureties as shall be required by the comptroller, conditioned that he will forthwith pay over to the comptroller upon the receipt thereof by him and account for all moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this article and will well and faithfully perform all the duties required of him thereunder. § 494. Operation, maintenance and expenses of drainage improvements. The care, control, operation and maintenance of improvements provided for in this article shall devolve upon the commission. The commission shall have power to charge to each such improvement undertaken by it such portion of the expenses so incurred as it shall determine ratably and equitably is chargeable thereto and to include the same in the apportionment or assessment of the cost and expenses of such improvement. Any person who shall open or close or cause to be opened or closed a gate or gates, or otherwise interfere with any dam, dike, ditch, pipe, sluice or channel constructed or improved under this article, without the consent of the commission or an officer thereof, shall be guilty of a inisdemeanor. tion. § 2. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much Appropria thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, payable by the state treasurer on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved by the commission. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 248. AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to certain state officers and employees who served in federal military, naval or marine service during the world war. Became a law April 19, 1920, 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: added 10 Section 1. Section two hundred and forty-five of chapter forty-sub one of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act iu relation to the militia, constituting chapter thirty-six of the " 41. § State employees in service without consent of governor. consolidated laws," as added by chapter one hundred and three of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, and amended by chapter four hundred and thirty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and seventeen and chapter two hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and nineteen, is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision, to be subdivision eight, to read as follows: 8. An officer or employee of the state who entered the federal military, naval or marine service subsequent to April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen without the consent of the governor as required by this section or by chapter four hundred and thirtyfive of the laws of nineteen hundred and seventeen, and who shall have been in the service of the state previous to the declaration of war and who shall have been honorably discharged from such service, shall be entitled to the rights and privileges conferred by this section in the same manner and to the same extent as though he had procured the consent of the governor to enter the federal service. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L. 1909, ch. Chap. 249. AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to the use of armories by veteran organizations of the world war. Became a law April 19, 1920, 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 hundred and eighty-six of chapter forty41, § 186, one of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act by L. 1913, in relation to the militia, constituting chapter thirty-six of the as amended ch. 558, amended. consolidated laws," as last amended by chapter five hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen,' is hereby amended to read as follows: § 186. Control of armories. Where a regiment, field hospital, ambulance company, company of signal corps, troop, battery, separate division or the headquarters of the division or a brigade 1 Previously amended by L. 1911, ch. 102. or a battalion not part of a regiment occupies a portion of an armory or arsenal, such headquarters and quarters shall each be considered an independent armory upon the approval and the certificate of the commanding officer of the brigade to whose command the organization occupying such armory belongs or of the major-general for organizations attached to the headquarters of the division. The armory of the corps of engineers shall be under the charge and control of the colonel thereof; armories of the signal corps shall be under charge and control of the senior signal officer quartered therein; the armory of a field hospital or ambulance company shall be under the control of the medical officer commanding it. The armory of every other regiment or corps or of the unit or units thereof quartered therein shall be under the charge and control of the senior line officer thereof quartered therein. Commanding officers shall deposit in the armories provided for their organizations all military property received by them from time to time for the use of their respective commands. The adjutant-general of the state, the major-general, the commanding officer of the naval militia, the commanding officers of brigades, and any officer detailed by any one of them, shall at all times have access to all parts of all armories. On the application of one or more posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, or other veteran organizations of honorably discharged union soldiers, sailors or marines of any war of the United States, or sons of such veterans, or of posts of the American Legion or other organizations of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines of the world war,2 approved by the commanding officers of the brigade of the national guard in whose jurisdiction armories, the property of the state are located, and the officer in charge of such armory, subject also to the approval of the adjutant-general of the state and under such restrictions as he may prescribe, the officer in charge of any state armory designated by the adjutant-general of the state shall provide a proper and convenient meeting room or rooms in such armory where such posts or other veteran organizations may hold regular and special meetings, without the payment of any expense therefor. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 2 Words "or of posts of the American Legion or other organizations of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines of the world war," new. L. 1909, ch. 550, as added by L. 1916, ch. Chap. 250. AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the legis lative budget committee, and to the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee. Became a law April 19, 1920, 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. Sections twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine and 37 27 thirty of chapter thirty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to legislation, constituting amended. chapter thirty-two of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter one hundred and thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: 130, § 27. Appointment of budget secretaries of finance and ways and means committees. A joint committee to be known as the leg islative budget committee and which shall serve throughout the year is hereby created. It shall consist of the finance committee of the senate and the ways and means committee of the assembly. The chairman of the senate finance committee shall appoint a budget secretary for such committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee shall appoint a budget secretary for such committee. Each appointment shall be evidenced by certificate duly executed by the officer making the appointment, and filed in the office of the secretary of state. Such secretaries shall hold office until their successors are appointed. 28. Compensation, expenses, employees. Such budget secretaries shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars each and shall be paid their office, traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties. The chairman of the finance committee of the senate and the chairman of the ways and means committee of the assembly may each appoint for the committee of which he is chairman a stenographer and accountant to assist such committee and the budget secretaries thereof in performing the duties pre 1 Section 27 materially amended. 2 Words "budget secretaries" substituted for word "clerks." 8 Formerly "four thousand dollars." ♦ Words budget secretaries" substituted for word "clerk." |