[Code 1964, § 17-208; L.L. No. 4-1984, § 1]
(a) The Commissioner of Public Safety may establish a Public Service
Officers Bureau and establish rules and regulations for the conduct
of the bureau.
(b) Public service officers may issue appearance tickets for vehicular
parking violations within the City and perform such other related
duties as the Commissioner of Public Safety may direct.
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall abrogate or diminish the
duties and powers of the police officers of the City already invested
in them by any other law.
[L.L. No. 1-2002, § 1; L.L.
No. 3-2005, § 1]
(a) The Common Council does hereby authorize and direct the Mayor of
the City to submit an application to the State Department of Economic
Development to amend and confirm an empire zone, and to take such
other action as may be necessary in support of said application upon
its approval through the Department of Urban and Economic Development.
(b) The Zone Administration Board shall be comprised of 12 members consisting
of the following: one representative of a financial institution; one
representative of an educational institution; one representative of
a community development organization; one representative of organized
labor; one representative of a local business and a zone resident,
along with one representative from National Grid, one representative
from the New York State Department of Labor, one representative from
the Workforce Investment Board, one representative from the City Urban
Renewal Agency, one representative from the Mohawk Valley Economic
Development District and one representative from the Mohawk Valley
Applied Technology Corporation to be selected by the Mayor; and the
Commissioner for the Department of Urban and Economic Development,
who will serve as Chair.
(c) The Common Council supports the designation of the Department of
Urban and Economic Development as the office to assist in the administration,
marketing and delivery of all services and technical activities for
said program.
(d) The Common Council supports the designation of a zone certification
officer pursuant to said legislation creating the empire zone program,
and the Zone Administrative Board shall designate a zone certification
officer.
(e) Pursuant to §§ 961 and 957(d) of the General Municipal
Law, as amended, the City hereby authorizes the Department of Urban
and Economic Development to prepare and submit on the City Common
Council's behalf the City's application for redesignation of the existing
empire zone into three "distinct and contiguous areas," including
a description of the areas identified for such redesignation, to the
State Commissioner of Economic Development for ultimate approval by
the empire zones designation board.
(f) Thee following shall constitute boundaries of the proposed zone as
established on the maps and tax parcel list attached to Local Law
3 of 2005.