City of Albany, NY
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2023-12-04
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The Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 258 Penalties
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Ambulance Services
- Ch 8 Police Information Reward Program
- Ch 11 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 15 Arms and Seal of City
- Ch 18 Bonds of City Officials; Facsimile Signature and Seal; Notes
- Ch 20 (Reserved)
- Ch 24 Claims Against City
- Ch 30 Courts and Legal Procedures
- Ch 34 Meetings
- Ch 35 Appointees to Public Bodies; Removal From Office
- Ch 38 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 42 Departments and Commissions
- Ch 48 Equal Opportunity Protections
- Ch 54 Financial Disclosure
- Ch 57 Fiscal Year and Annual Estimate
- Ch 62 Labor
- Ch 68 Merit Award Board
- Ch 74 Printing; Publication; Publicity
- Ch 75 Policy Documents Repository
- Ch 82 Real Property Within City
- Ch 90 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 98 Youth Bureau
- Ch 99 Website Financial Data
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 105 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 111 Amusements
- Ch 115 Animals
- Ch 121 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 127 Bingo
- Ch 133 Building Construction
- Ch 133A Building Construction and Housing: Special Provisions
- Ch 135 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 137 Bulletin Boards
- Ch 141 Businesses
- Ch 142 Business Improvement Districts
- Ch 147 Collateral Loan Brokers
- Ch 151 Commercial Standards
- Ch 152 Conversion Therapy
- Ch 153 Community Choice Aggregation
- Ch 161 Economic Development Zone
- Ch 167 Elections
- Ch 171 Electricity
- Ch 175 Elevators
- Ch 181 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 183 Equity Agenda
- Ch 187 Fair Housing
- Ch 188 Fair Hotel Consumer Practices
- Ch 193 Firearms and Ammunition
- Ch 197 Fire Prevention
- Ch 203 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 211 Grading and Mining
- Ch 217 Handbills
- Ch 223 Health
- Ch 231 Housing
- Ch 239 Junk Dealers and Scrap Metal Processing
- Ch 245 Licenses
- Ch 246 Newsracks
- Ch 247 Parking Violations Amnesty Program - 2015
- Ch 251 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 255 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 258 Penalties
- § 258-1 Penalties for offenses.
- § 258-2 Enforcement.
- § 258-3 Prosecution.
- Ch 259 Pesticides
- Ch 261 Plumbing
- Ch 267 Pollution
- Ch 270 Public Pay Telephones
- Ch 272 Public Transportation
- Ch 293 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 299 Sewers
- Ch 303 Sidewalk and Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 307 (Reserved)
- Ch 313 Solid Waste
- Ch 319 Store Sales
- Ch 323 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 329 Tattoo Parlors
- Ch 333 Taxation
- Ch 341 Transient Retail Businesses
- Ch 345 Trees and Vegetation
- Ch 353 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 357 Vehicles, Off-Road
- Ch 359 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 363 Vendors
- Ch 371 Water and Waterways
- Ch 373 Youth Protection Against Tobacco Promotion
- Ch 375 Unified Sustainable Development
- Appendix
- Ch A377 Certain Territory Located in Town of Colonie
- Ch A381 Certain Territory Located in Town of Bethlehem
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Albany 7-18-1983
by L.L. No. 2-1983 as Ch. XXVIII of the 1983 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 11-7-1983; 12-22-2005
by Ord. No. 74.112.05; 5-19-2008 by Ord.
No. 25.42.08]
Where the performance of any act is prohibited by ordinance or where
the performance of any act is required or demanded by ordinance and no penalty
for a violation of such ordinance is imposed in any section or chapter of
such ordinance, the doing of such act or the failure to act, as the case may
be, shall be punishable by a fine which shall not exceed $500 in amount or
by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or both. Further, the Court shall award
associated Court costs upon any plea or finding of guilt.
[Amended 4-17-1995 by Ord.
No. 11.41.95; 1-7-2008 by Ord. No. 76.112.07]
A.
The penalties provided for the violation of any or all City laws
and ordinances, and of all state laws, except where otherwise especially provided,
shall be sued for in an action to be brought by the City of Albany in its
corporate name, and the amount collected in each and every action shall be
paid to the City Treasurer of the City of Albany for the use of the City.
B.
Any unpaid fees, fines or penalties levied against property,
or owner(s) thereof, within the City of Albany that are owed to the City of
Albany for the violation of any or all City laws, ordinances and promulgations,
and of all state laws, shall be and remain a lien against the property, and
such fees, fines or penalties shall be collected by the City from the owner(s)
of such property in the same manner as taxes are collected, in that such fees,
fines or penalties shall be added to the property tax bill of the subject
property, and the City may institute an action at law against such owner(s)
to recover the cost thereof.
The Corporation Counsel is charged with the prosecution of all said
actions in behalf of the City of Albany.
