[§ 614, c. 755, L. 1907; c. 710, L. 1943; repealed by L.L. No. 1-1967]
[§ 164, c. 755, L. 1907; L.L. No. 4-1925; as added by L.L. No. 6-1950; § 1, L.L. No. 9-1984[1]; § 1, L.L. No. 1-2006]
A. 
The head of each department of the City may, with the consent of the Mayor, cause any or all of the records kept in his or her department, or such bureaus or divisions thereof as may be designated, to be reproduced on photographic film. Such photographic film shall be of durable material, and the method or devices used to reproduce such records on such film shall be such that the original record shall be accurately reproduced in all details, but this requirement shall not, however, be construed as preventing photo-micrographic reproduction.
B. 
Such photographic film shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, including introduction in evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification or certified copy thereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a transcript, exemplification or certified copy of the original.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law was approved at referendum 11-6-1984 and took effect 1-1-1986.
[§ 381, c. 755, L. 1907, as added by c. 547, L. 1918; c. 519, L. 1922; L.L. No. 8-1963[1]]
The Board of Education may allow the children of persons not residents of the City to attend the schools under the care and control of the Board upon the payment of such tuition and upon such terms as the Board may by resolution prescribe. Permission must be granted to children residing in those portions not annexed of School District Nos. 2 and 10 of the Town of Brighton, as such districts existed on the first day of March 1913, of School District No. 5 of the Town of Brighton, as the same existed on the first day of March 1922, of School District No. 4 of the Town of Greece, as the same existed on the first day of March 1915 and of School District No. 6 of the Town of Gates and Nos. 8 and 10 of the Town of Greece, as the same existed on the first day of March 1918, to attend upon the payment of tuition, schools under the care and control of the Board and upon such terms as the Board by resolution prescribes. The Board must cause to be made and filed in its office maps showing the boundaries of the aforesaid districts as existing on said respective dates.
[1]
Editor's Note: In a decision dated 8-12-1964 filed in the related cases of Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 4 of the Town of Greece v. the Board of Education of the City of Rochester and the City of Rochester and Schwarts et al v. Board of Education of the City of Rochester and the City of Rochester, it was ordered that "the Local Law No. 8, passed on May 28, 1963, by the Council of the City of Rochester, is null and void and the action of the City in adopting the local law in question was unconstitutional." (ORDER, Index No. 2081/64).
[§ 629, c. 755, L. 1907]
All employees holding positions under or subject to civil service examination are continued in their respective positions under the powers, provisions and restrictions of this act, until removed according to law.
[§ 630, c. 755, L. 1907]
All ordinances of the Council not inconsistent with the provisions of this act remain in force and are not deemed repealed by the enactment hereof.
[§ 370, c. 755, L. 1907]
Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to make the City liable for the support or relief of any poor person, when it is not otherwise so liable.
[§ 635, c. 755, L. 1907; c. 250, L. 1910; c. 384, L. 1911; c. 292, L. 1921]
The provisions of Article 5 relating to pawnbrokers, Article 6 relating to junk dealers, Article 11 relating to employment agencies and Article 19 relating to oil and distilled spirits, of Chapter 25 of the Laws of 1909, known as the General Business Law; the provisions of Article 15-a relating to explosives, of Chapter 36 of the Laws of 1909, known as the Labor Law; the provisions of Article 5 relating to bridges, of Chapter 26 of the Laws of 1909, known as the General City Law; the provisions of Article 2 relating to general municipal finances, except the last sentence of Section 8 thereof; the provisions of Sections 70, 72, 73, 74, 80, 81, 82, 83 and 85 of Article 5, relating to powers, limitations and liabilities, and the provisions of Article 9 relating to regulation of use of bicycles and similar vehicles of Chapter 29 of the Laws of 1909, known as the General Municipal Law; the provisions of Chapter 448 of the Laws of 1896 relating to licensing of dogs; the provisions of Chapter 99 of the Laws of 1909, known as the Tenement House Act; and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, heretofore or hereafter enacted, do not apply to the City of Rochester, which is governed, controlled and regulated in respect to said several matters by the provisions of its Charter, Chapter 755 of the Laws of 1907, and the amendments thereto now or hereafter enacted.
[§ 633, c. 755, L. 1907; c. 431, L. 1920]
As used in this act the word:
HIS
Shall, in all proper cases, be held to include and be coextensive with the words "her," "it" and "their."
PERSON
Shall be held to include and be coextensive with the words "persons," "company," "joint stock association" and "corporation."
STREET
Shall be held to include and be coextensive with "roads," "avenues," "highways" and "alleys."
WORK
Shall be held to include and be coextensive with "improvements" and "repairs," and shall be held to include the taking of more land and property than is needed for actual construction in laying out, widening, extending or relocating parks, public places, highways or streets.
MATERIALS
Shall be held to include and be coextensive with "supplies," "stationery," "books," "furniture" and "repairs to furniture."
TAX
Shall in all proper cases be held to include and be coextensive with "water rents or rates," "assessments or reassessments for local improvements."
BOARD
Shall be held to include and be coextensive with "commission," and the singular noun shall be held to include and be coextensive with the plural.
A reference to the Code of Civil Procedure, to the Code of Criminal Procedure, to any Statute, to the Rules of Practice, or any sections or parts thereof, shall be held to refer to such Code of Civil Procedure, Code of Criminal Procedure, Statutes and Rules of Practice as the same now exist or as they may from time to time hereafter be amended.
The expressions "according to law," "pursuant to law," and "by law," and any reference to law shall be held to refer to the law as now existing or as hereafter from time to time amended or changed.
[§ 634, c. 755, L. 1907]
The provisions of this act, so far as they are substantially the same, or cover the same subject matter, as those of any law repealed hereby, shall be construed as a continuance of such repealed law, modified or amended, according to the language employed herein and not as new enactments. References in a law not repealed to the provisions of any law incorporated into this act, shall be construed as applying to the provisions so incorporated. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as relieving a street surface railway corporation, or any other corporation, from its obligations, liabilities, duties or agreements under existing contracts, ordinances or laws. The meaning and effect of the terms and language used herein shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of the Statutory Construction Law. This act is intended to be and shall be deemed and held in all courts to be a public act of which the court shall take judicial notice, and shall be liberally construed so as to carry into effect the objects and purposes thereof.