The municipal year shall begin with the first day of January,
and the terms of office of all officers shall be computed by the municipal
year so that such terms shall end at the end of a municipal year,
although the officer may not have been appointed until after the year
shall have begun.
[Amended by L. 1943, c. 710]
No person, board or officer in the city shall have the right
to incur any indebtedness against the city except as authorized by
the Common Council or other municipal board or officer in conformity
with the provisions of this Act or the Local Finance Law.
No witness shall be excused from testifying in any criminal
proceeding or in any investigation or inquiry before the Mayor, the
Common Council or any municipal board or officer having a right to
conduct the investigation, touching his knowledge of any offense committed
against the provisions of this Act or any ordinance of the city, but
such testimony shall not be used against him in any criminal prosecution
whatever.
[Amended 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
All officers or other persons who shall receive any money for
or belonging to the city by or under the provisions of this Act, or
otherwise, shall, within ten (10) days after its receipt, pay the
same over to the Clerk/Chamberlain of the city and take his receipt
therefor, except as otherwise provided in this Act.
[Amended 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
The Charter of the City of Fulton may be read in evidence from
the volume of Session Laws of the State of New York containing said
Charter, from the volume printed by the authority of the Common Council
or from a certified copy made by the Clerk/Chamberlain or from the
volume or ordinances and bylaws provided by authority of the Common
Council, and all records and accounts of the city which the city officers
are required by law to keep shall be presumptive evidence of the truth
of their contents in any court.
[Amended by L. 1943, c. 710; 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
When an emergency shall arise requiring the raising of any fund,
the department requiring such fund shall make an estimate of the sum
necessary therefor, which estimate shall state the cause of such emergency
and the reason for such expenditure, and shall file such estimate
with the Clerk/Chamberlain. The Clerk/Chamberlain shall forthwith
call a meeting of the Common Council to consider such request.
When such moneys are raised, they shall be placed to the credit
of the fund from which such expenditure is to be made.
[Amended by L. 1943, c. 710; 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
The Common Council, at the time it shall confirm any assessment
for local improvements, may provide that the owners of any real estate
or any railway company against which a tax is thereby assessed may
have the privilege of paying the same in such equal annual installments,
not exceeding ten (10), as it may prescribe, upon filing with the
Clerk/Chamberlain within ten (10) days thereafter, their election
and agreement to pay the same in that manner, with interest thereon
payable annually. Every assessment as to which such agreement shall
be filed shall be collected by such installments with annual interest
thereon in the same manner as other taxes and assessments, and every
installment, with accrued interest, shall be a lien upon the real
estate and upon all the property and franchises of any such railway
company against which the same was assessed, as in the case of other
assessments. The funds derived from the collection of said installments
as they become due shall be applied to the payment of the cost of
the improvement for which such assessments was levied and to the payment
of the portion of such obligations, if any, which shall have been
issued for the financing of that part of the cost of such improvement
which was locally assessed.
The books and records of all city officers and boards shall,
on any business day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
be open to the inspection of the taxpayers of the city.