City of Albany, NY
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2023-12-04
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The Charter
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Chapter C Charter
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Article V Officers and Employees and Departments
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Ch C Art V Officers and Employees and Departments
- § C-501 Qualifications of Officers.
- § C-502 Dual Office Holding.
- § C-503 Commencement of Term of Office.
- § C-504 Departments, Offices and Commissions.
- 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
- 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
All City officers shall be duly qualified pursuant to the requirements
of the Public Officers Law, except that an official undertaking is
not required unless otherwise required by state law.
No person shall hold more than one City office at a given time.
The term of office of an elective officer shall commence on
the first day of January next after his or her election in accord
with the Public Officers Law, unless elected to fill an existing vacancy
or otherwise fixed by law.
Existing departments, offices and commissions of City government
shall continue as set forth in the Code of the City of Albany and
as established by local laws presently in effect. The Common Council
is authorized to create, alter, combine or abolish departments, offices
and commissions and to prescribe or modify their powers and duties
by a duly enacted local law.
