The Mayor and Aldermen shall constitute the Common Council thereof.
The first meeting in January after the election in each year shall
be called the annual meeting of the Common Council. [§ 50,
L. 1911, c. 870; amended by L.L. No. 5-1937; L.L. No. 3-1962; L.L.
No. 4-1970]
The Common Council shall hold stated meetings at least twice
in each month, and the Mayor, or any three Aldermen, may call special
meetings, by notice in writing, to be signed by him or them and filed
with the City Clerk, which shall be served personally upon the other
members of the Common Council or be left at their several residences
or usual places of business. [§ 51, L. 1911, c. 870]
The sittings of the Common Council shall be public, except when
the public interest requires secrecy. Minutes of its proceedings shall
be kept by the Clerk, and the same shall at all times be open to public
inspection. [§ 52, L. 1911, c. 870]
In the proceedings of the Common Council, each Alderman shall
have one vote. The Mayor may, when present, preside at all meetings
of the Common Council, and shall have a casting vote when the votes
of the other members are tied. [§ 53, L. 1911, c.
870]
A majority of the Common Council shall be a quorum for the transaction
of business, but no tax or assessment shall be ordered, or resolution
authorizing the appropriation, expenditure or payment of money, or
ordinance be passed or adopted, except by a concurring vote of a majority
of all the members of the Common Council in office, which vote shall
be by yeas and nays, and a record thereof be entered at large in the
minutes. [§ 54, L. 1911, c. 870]
Upon the demand of any member thereof, the vote upon any resolution
or question shall be taken by the yeas and nays of all the members
present, and a record thereof be entered at large in the minutes. [§ 55, L. 1911, c. 870]
Except as herein otherwise provided, the Common Council shall
determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the
election and qualification of its members, and have power to compel
the attendance of absent members, by fine or otherwise, and to adjourn
its meetings to such time and place within said city as it may deem
proper; to determine the proper number of its regular or standing
committees and the number of members of which each shall be composed,
and to prescribe the duties of said committees. [§ 56,
L. 1911, c. 870]
The Mayor shall appoint, and at his pleasure remove, a member
of the Common Council as President of the Common Council, who shall
preside during his absence or inability to attend any meeting of the
Common Council and be vested with all the powers of the Mayor, excepting
that of appointment. In case of the inability of the Mayor to attend
to his duties, either by absence from the City or other cause, the
President of the Common Council shall act in his stead and be vested
with all the authority, duties and powers of the Mayor, excepting
that of appointment. In the case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor
caused by the Mayor's resignation, removal, death or permanent inability
to discharge all such powers and duties of the Office of Mayor, all
such powers and duties shall devolve upon the President of the Common
Council who shall fill the vacancy in the Office of the Mayor on an
acting basis until the commencement of the political year next succeeding
the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy at which
a Mayor shall, pursuant to law, be elected for the balance of the
term. Upon commencement of the term of Office of the Mayor so elected,
the President of the Common Council then acting as Mayor, shall complete
the term of his or her office, if any remains. The Acting Mayor shall
not exercise any powers or duties of Alderman during such time of
service as Acting Mayor. The Acting Mayor may appoint an Acting Alderman
to serve in his or her office as Alderman during such time as he or
she serves as Acting Mayor with like powers and duties. In case of
the inability of the President to preside and fulfill the duties of
his office, the Mayor may make a temporary appointment of another
member of the Common Council, with like powers and duties. The appointment
of the President of the Common Council shall be made in writing to
the City Clerk at the next regular meeting of the Common Council following
the enactment of this act and at the first regular meeting in January
in each year thereafter. [§ 57, L. 1911, c. 870; amended
3-16-2016 by L.L. No. 1-2016]
Subject to the provisions of this act, the Common Council shall
have the power to declare and enforce the duties of the Aldermen and
of all officers elected or appointed under this act, and not herein
particularly provided for. The Aldermen shall receive under pay at
the same time and in the same manner as other city officials and at
the salary fixed as provided in § C-15 of the Charter of
the City of Lockport, as amended. [§ 58, L. 1911,
c. 870; amended by L.L. No. 1-1956]
In addition to the powers and duties conferred and imposed by
the law upon aldermen of cities, it shall be the duty of every Alderman
to attend the regular and special meetings of the Common Council,
to act upon committees when thereupon appointed by the Mayor, to arrest
or cause to be arrested all persons violating the ordinances, bylaws
or police regulations of the city, to report to the Common Council
all subordinate officers who are guilty of official misconduct or
neglect of duty, and to aid in maintaining peace and good order. [§ 59, L. 1911, c. 870]
The Common Council may revoke, or cause to be revoked, any license
granted under this act. No license for any purpose granted shall be
valid until countersigned by the City Clerk, nor until the sum of
money required therefor shall be fully paid, in advance, to the City
Clerk; and it is hereby made the duty of the City Clerk to call upon
the Chief of Police for a detail of one or more policemen to enforce
the ordinances of said city in relation to all persons required to
take out licenses, and he shall report to the City Attorney for prosecution
all violations of said ordinances that may come to his knowledge. [§ 60, L. 1911, c. 870]
The Common Council shall have management and control of all
real and personal property belonging to the City, and may make such
orders concerning same and leases thereof, not to exceed 99 years,
as it may deem best for the interest of the City, but the money of
the City shall remain with the City Treasurer until duly disbursed
by him. When the Common Council has determined and so declared that
real or personal property owned by the City of Lockport, New York,
should be sold or conveyed for the interest of the City, the City
of Lockport may sell and/or convey such personal or real property,
for a valuable consideration, at public sale or by a negotiated private
sale. [§ 61, L. 1911, c. 870; amended by L.L. No.
2-1978; L.L. No. 3-2004]
The Common Council may make, continue, modify and repeal such
ordinances, bylaws and regulations as may be necessary to carry into
full effect any and all of the powers conferred upon said City by
this act. Ordinances may be made by the Common Council for the following
purposes, namely:
1. To prevent, restrain, remove and abate nuisances.
2. To prohibit the manufacture and regulate the carting, carrying, transportation,
keeping and storing of gunpowder, dynamite, kerosene, petroleum and
any other dangerous combustible or explosive material.
3. To prohibit, restrain and regulate the discharge and use of firearms,
fireworks and the explosion and use of gunpowder and other explosive
substances.
4. To provide for the inspection of steam engines and boilers used in
the City, and to prohibit the use of such thereof as are unsafe, and
for the examination of stationary engineers and the licensing of same.
5. To prohibit and restrain the running at large of horses, cattle,
sheep, swine, dogs and other animals, and all geese, fowls and domestic
poultry, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of
the same for any penalty incurred thereby, and all costs and proceedings
in regard thereto.
6. To erect and establish one or more public pounds, and appoint a keeper
or keepers thereof, and to prescribe the fees and duties of such keepers,
and the mode and manner of impounding and selling animals, geese and
other things impounded.
7. To prohibit and prevent the unnecessary obstruction of streets by
railway motors, locomotives and cars, and to regulate and control
their running and rate of speed, and the length of time they may be
allowed continuously to stand or impede travel upon any street or
crossing in said City.
8. To require and compel railroad companies to provide and keep flagmen
or watchmen at such points or places, and to erect and maintain such
proper hoisting or other gates or bars at dangerous street crossings,
whether at street level or upon bridges over streets, and to place
and maintain such iron or other screens or shields under its tracks
and over sidewalks or streets as the Common Council may deem necessary
for the public safety and convenience.
9. To regulate the use of lights in barns, stables, shops and other
outbuildings.
10. To prohibit the erection or continuance of and to regulate and prescribe
the location of slaughterhouses, and of all places where cattle, sheep
or swine may be kept within said City, and to prohibit the slaughtering
or keeping thereof in any place or places other than those so directed.
11. To preserve public peace and good order.
12. To prevent and punish fighting, threatening or challenging to fight,
and quarreling.
13. To prevent any riot or loud noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblages;
to suppress and prohibit disorderly houses, houses of ill fame or
prostitution, gambling houses, gaming and fraudulent devices; to prevent
and punish drunkenness and disorderly conduct in public streets and
places; to restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars,
common prostitutes and disorderly persons.
14. To license, regulate, restrain or suppress the public use of billiard
tables, bowling alleys and pistol and shooting galleries.
15. To prohibit, restrain, regulate and license the erection and maintenance
of billboards.
16. To prohibit, restrain and regulate all public theatrical or circus
performances, shows of wax figures, wild or tame animals, mountebanks,
and other public exhibitions or performances for money, shown or performed
by common showmen, and all places of public amusement for which an
entrance or other fee is charged; and to require, fix the amount and
to provide for the collection of license fees therefor; but the Common
Council may in its discretion issue and grant to the proprietor of
any public hall or other place of public amusement in said city, a
license by the year, or for such period of time as it deems proper,
for such sum as to it shall seem just, which license shall cover and
authorize all exhibitions and entertainments which during such period
of time may take place in such public hall or place of public amusement
without other or further license; provided, however, that said Common
Council may at any time prohibit any exhibition or entertainment in
such hall or place of public amusement which in its judgment shall
be of an indecent character.
17. To compel the owner or occupant of any building, ditch, pond or place
to cleanse the same from time to time as often as may be necessary
for the health or comfort of the public, or to remove, abate or discontinue
the same.
18. To prohibit the bringing or depositing within the limits of said
city of the putrid carcass of any animal or any unwholesome thing
or substance detrimental to the public health or comfort.
19. To require the removal of any putrid carcass, meat, fish, hides,
skins or any decaying substance.
20. To prohibit persons collecting, standing upon or occupying the streets,
alleys, sidewalks, bridges, hallways, entrances, passages or stairways.
21. To prevent the encumbering of the roadways, squares, parks, sidewalks,
crosswalks, lanes and alleys, with teams, carriages, carts, sleighs,
wheelbarrows, boxes, lumber, timber, firewood, building material or
any substance or material whatever.
22. To compel all persons to make, maintain at proper grade and repair
sidewalks in front of premises owned or occupied by them, and to remove
snow, ice and dirt therefrom, and to remove snow and ice from off
the roofs and sides of buildings owned or occupied by them.
23. To compel all persons to remove from that portion of the street lying
in front of or bordering upon premises owned or occupied by them,
any stones, dirt, rubbish, snow or ice accumulating thereon between
the sidewalk and center of the street.
24. To require the owner or occupants of lots fronting on streets or
traveled ways to erect barriers or safeguards along the lines thereof
at dangerous places.
25. To regulate bathing suits, and determine the time and place of bathing
in any exposed place in the canal, or in any creek, basin, raceway
or other public place in said city.
26. To keep open and preserve the course of the 18 Mile Creek in and
through said city; to prevent and punish encroachments upon the floating
waters thereof; to prevent the casting therein of any dead animal,
offal, filth or any foul or offensive substance or thing, or any earth,
stones or rubbish of any kind.
27. To regulate, restrain and prohibit the ringing of bells, the crying
of goods, wares or merchandise, or other commodities in the streets.
28. To license auction stores, auctions or public sales of merchandise
and all personal or chattel property, and to demand and require for
such license not exceeding $25 for each day; and to regulate the time,
mode, manner and place or places of holding such sales, and to regulate,
license or prohibit such sales.
29. To regulate, license and restrain hawking and peddling in the streets,
and to regulate and license brokers and pawnbrokers.
30. To establish, maintain, preserve and protect steam and other engines,
force and other pumps, wheels and other machinery connected with the
water supply in said city or the property of said city, and the mains,
pipes, valves and apparatus connected therewith, also public reservoirs,
pumps, wells, hydrants, fountains and watering troughs, and regulate
the use thereof, subject to the provisions of this act.
31. To provide for the care, use and protection of public buildings,
including the buildings or parts of buildings occupied by the Fire
Department, the Common Council, City Clerk, Water Board, Police Justice,
Police Department or other city officials, whether owned or leased
by said city.
32. To establish, maintain and regulate public markets; to determine
whether any proposed public market will be detrimental to the public
interests, and at discretion to grant or refuse permission therefor.
33. To license and prescribe numbers for horses, mules, automobiles,
motorcycles, hackmen, cartmen, omnibus drivers and porters, and to
fix the fees therefor; to fix and regulate their compensation for
services, and to designate their stands.
34. To require persons driving horses with sleighs or cutters to carry
ringing bells, either upon the horses, sleighs or cutters.
35. To establish such police stations and watchhouses within said city
as may be necessary; make all necessary regulations concerning the
same and the custody and keeping thereof; to appoint a keeper or keepers
thereof and prescribe their duties.
36. To order and compel the owner or occupant of any building, fence,
billboard, sign, flagstaff or structure of any kind, or any tree,
which shall be deemed dangerous or likely to fall down whereby persons
or property may be endangered, to take down, remove or properly repair
the same; and pending the execution of the order of the Common Council,
to close said building or structure, or the premises whereon the same,
or such fence, billboard, sign or flagstaff, or either thereof, is
situate, to the public, or order the same properly fenced off and
placarded so that the public be warned of danger, said order to be
immediate or on such time as may be reasonable in the special case.
In case the owner or occupant shall fail or neglect properly to comply
with any order of the Common Council in the premises upon being served
with a copy thereof by the City Clerk, the Common Council may cause
such building, fence, billboard, sign, flagstaff or structure to be
taken down or removed and the expense thereof shall be a lien upon
the lot or premises whereon the same shall be situate, to be recovered
by action in the name of the city.
37. To prevent the throwing of glass, nails or any other sharp, pointed
or dangerous substance in the street.
38. To give names to streets, alleys, lanes, highways, public grounds
and marketplaces, and numbers to the lots, tenements and buildings
in said city, and to change the same, and to compel the inhabitants
of said city to number or renumber their residences, buildings or
places of business, according to such plan as the Common Council has
adopted and may from time to time adopt, and to prescribe the size,
style and material of and the place and manner of affixing such numbers
and figures thereof.
39. To prevent persons riding or driving immoderately through any of
the streets of said city; to regulate the speed at which persons may
ride or drive, and at which automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles,
velocipedes, steam engines, threshing machines, horsepowers, cutters,
sleighs, wagons, carriages or other machines, implements or vehicles,
whether on wheels or runners, may be taken, propelled, moved, driven
or run through, in or upon any of the public streets or bridges of
said city; and to prohibit and prevent the taking, moving or propelling
through, in or upon any of the streets, bridges or public places of
said city of any steam or other engine, threshing machine, horse-power
or other machine, implement or vehicle of such kind or construction
as in the opinion of the Common Council is or shall be likely to frighten
horses, whether such engine, machine, power, implement or vehicle
shall be propelled or moved by steam, animal or other power.
40. To regulate and prevent ball playing in the streets or public grounds
in said city, coasting or any practices therein having a tendency
to frighten horses or annoy passengers, travelers or citizens.
41. To regulate the place and manner of weighing and selling hay, and
to establish one or more hay scales in the city.
42. To regulate the selling of wood, coal and lime, and to define the
place or places of selling the same; also, to regulate the weight
of bread sold in said city.
43. To require the erection of fire escapes upon buildings and prescribe
the materials and mode of construction thereof.
44. To control, regulate and restrain the setting of poles and stringing
of wires and cables by telegraph, telephone and electric power companies,
electric light and electric street railroad companies, associations,
corporations and individuals, in the streets, alleys and public places
of said city, and the placing of said wires or any part thereof underground.
45. And generally the said Common Council may from time to time make
and establish such other and further ordinances, regulations and bylaws
as may be necessary and proper for carrying into effect any of the
purposes of this act, and such as may concern the health, safety,
advantage and good government of said city, the preservation of the
peace and good order therein, the suppression of vice and the benefits
of the business and health thereof, as it may deem expedient; provided,
however, that none thereof be repugnant to the general laws of this
state or of the United States. [§ 62, L. 1911, c.
870]
The Common Council may, by ordinance or resolution:
1. Create the office of Inspector of Buildings and establish a building
code and necessary ordinances in connection therewith, not inconsistent
with this Charter or with the laws of the state. Said Inspector of
Buildings shall be appointed by the Mayor; his term of office and
compensation shall be fixed by the Common Council.
2. Authorize the Board of Health to contract with the Pasteur Institute
or other institute, firm, corporation or individual for supplies and
materials necessary for the preservation and protection of the public
health, and the establishment of a city tuberculosis dispensary and
a visiting tuberculosis nurse.
3. Create an Industrial Commission, and fix and prescribe its powers
and duties, the compensation of its employees and the amount to be
expended in the performance of its duties. Its members shall be appointed
by the Mayor and shall serve without compensation.
4. Create and establish a Harbor Commission with all the necessary power
and authority to perform the acts required and authorized by law.
The members shall number five, be appointed by the Mayor, and act
with the consent and by the authority of the Common Council.
5. The Common Council shall have the power and authority to employ competent
help to audit and certify the accounts, vouchers, et cetera, of any
city officer or department whatsoever, and to obtain all information
requested as to methods of said officials or departments in the conduct
of their respective duties. This shall apply to every city officer
or department, notwithstanding any section of the Charter to the contrary. [§ 63, L. 1911, c. 870]
The Common Council may, by ordinance or resolution:
1. Create the Parks Board to consist of five members, who shall serve
without salary. Such Board shall be established with authority to
act on all matters pertaining to said Parks Board. At least three
members of such Board shall be owners of residential property in the
City of Lockport, and all five shall be residents of the City of Lockport.
The members shall be appointed by the Mayor and shall serve as follows:
The terms of the three members of the present Board shall remain unchanged;
two additional members shall be appointed and shall serve terms which
begin on the date of appointment and expire on December 31, 1964,
and December 31, 1965, respectively. Beginning January 1, 1962, all
new appointments or reappointments shall be for a term of five years.
Not more than three of the Parks Board shall be members of the same
political party. Such Board shall have control, authority and jurisdiction
over all planting, preservation and removal of shade trees in and
along the public highways, parks, thoroughfares and other places in
the City of Lockport, along with all public parks and related recreational
activities.
2. The Parks Board shall annually elect from its members a Chairman
and a Secretary. Regular meetings shall be held at least once a month
and three members shall constitute a quorum. Within the provisions
of the City Charter and this act, and with the approval of the Common
Council. Such Board shall make the proper and necessary rules to govern
its procedure, to regulate work to be done on trees now standing consistent
with Penal Ordinance No. 10. Such Board shall keep a complete and
up-to-date tree census, which, together with all its records, shall
be open to public inspection at all reasonable times. The Board shall
cause to be fully published such regulations as it may adopt relative
to tree culture, with the approval of the Common Council.
3. The Parks Board may, with the consent of the Common Council, after
a suitable written examination, appoint a Superintendent of Parks,
who shall be paid from funds appropriated for carrying on the work
of the Parks Board, his salary to be fixed by the Common Council.
His duties shall be to oversee the planting, treatment and removal
of trees, the general pruning, where necessary, of all trees in the
city, the surgical treatment of trees where such operations would
preserve the tree and continue its life. The Superintendent of Parks
shall also be charged with the supervision and maintenance of the
city parks and the recreational activities therein. Such Superintendent
of Parks shall be a person competent and trained in the care and cultivation
of trees and shrubs and thoroughly efficient in the maintenance of
parks and organization of recreational activities. Such Superintendent
of Parks shall be vested with authority as a special policeman empowered
to make arrest of offenders against the provisions of this act. [Added by L. 1917, c. 392; amended by L.L. No. 3-1961]
A person violating an ordinance of the Common Council shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor. The Common Council may provide in any
ordinance that a violation thereof shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail or penitentiary
for not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. Such
ordinance may provide, in lieu of such fine and imprisonment, that
a person guilty of a violation thereof shall pay a penalty not exceeding
$500, to be recovered in a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction,
in the name of the city. The city may maintain an action in a court
of competent jurisdiction to restrain by injunction the violation
of an ordinance, notwithstanding that an ordinance may provide a fine
and imprisonment, or a penalty, for the violation thereof. [§ 64,
L. 1911, c. 870]
Every motion, resolution, ordinance or bylaw of the Common Council,
except those relating to rules for its own government and the appointment
of officers, shall, before it takes effect, be duly certified by the
City Clerk and presented to the Mayor within 24 hours. If the Mayor
approves of it, he shall sign it, and it shall thereupon take effect
as prescribed by its terms. If he does not approve of it, he shall
return it, with his objections, to the City Clerk, within five days
after he shall have received it, and the City Clerk shall report the
same to the Common Council at the next regular meeting thereof. The
Common Council shall thereupon reconsider the same, and if 2/3 of
all the Aldermen elected then vote to pass the same, it shall then
take effect as if it had duly received the Mayor's signature. In every
such case the vote shall be taken by the yeas and nays, and entered
at large in the minutes of the meeting, and the objections of the
Mayor shall also be entered therein at length by the City Clerk. [§ 65, L. 1911, c. 870]
If any motion, resolution, ordinance or bylaw so presented to
the Mayor for approval shall relate to separate and distinct matters,
or one or more items of appropriation or payments of money, the Mayor
may approve and sign it as to one or more of said matters or items,
specifying which. In such case he shall annex to the motion, resolution,
ordinance or bylaw a statement of the matters or items he does not
approve, with his objections to each thereof, and none of such matters
or items shall take effect unless separately reconsidered and passed
by the Common Council in the same manner as in case of the Mayor refusing
to approve an entire motion, resolution, ordinance or bylaw. [§ 66, L. 1911, c. 870]
If a motion, resolution, ordinance or bylaw be not returned
by the Mayor to the City Clerk within five days after its receipt
by him, it shall take effect in like manner as if he had signed it. [§ 67, L. 1911, c. 870]
[§ 68, L. 1911, c. 870; repealed by L.L. No.
1-1971]
Every law, ordinance, bylaw or regulation imposing any penalty
or forfeiture for a violation of its provisions shall, after the passage
or adoption thereof, take effect upon its enactment or adoption unless
otherwise directed therein. The title or a brief description of the
contents of every ordinance or regulation, the violation of the provisions
of which is declared to be a misdemeanor, and of every ordinance or
regulation imposing any penalty or forfeiture or imprisonment for
a violation of its provisions, together with a statement that said
ordinance or regulation is on record with the City Clerk, shall be
published at least once in the official newspaper in the City of Lockport
before the provisions of such ordinance or regulation shall be enforceable.
It shall be not necessary to publish any ordinance, rule or regulation
to be enforced within the city except as herein provided. In case
of strike, insurrection, riot, conflagration or other necessity requiring
immediate operation of said ordinance, bylaw, rule, resolution or
regulation, it shall take effect as soon as proclamation thereof has
been made by the Mayor and it, with such proclamation, has been posted
in five conspicuous places in the City of Lockport. [Added by
L.L. No. 1-1947]
At the first regular meeting of the Common Council in each municipal
year, or at some subsequent meeting, and as soon thereafter as may
be, it shall direct the Clerk to advertise for proposals in such manner
as the Council shall direct, not less than three days, for printing
the proceedings of the Common Council and furnishing printed copies
of the same. All ordinances, notices and other matters required by
law or by the Council shall be published in a daily newspaper published
in said city with a bona fide paid circulation of not less than 1,000
copies per day. Every bid shall be in writing and accompanied by a
written guaranty, signed by a responsible person or persons, to the
effect that the bidder will enter into such contract, if awarded to
him, them or it. Such bids and guaranty shall be enclosed in a sealed
envelope and be delivered to the Clerk at or before the time designated
in the advertisement for opening such proposals. All such bids shall
be opened in the presence of the Common Council. The Common Council
shall have the right to accept the lowest bid to do such printing
and publishing of the proceedings of the Common Council, or reject
all such bids. The person or persons or corporation whose bid shall
be accepted shall enter into a written contract in accordance therewith,
and shall furnish such security for the faithful performance thereof
as shall be satisfactory to the Common Council. In case the Common
Council rejects all bids, it may advertise for further proposals and
continue so to do until some bid is accepted. Upon the execution of
a contract the said daily newspaper having the required circulation
in said city in which it is agreed to publish such ordinances and
notices and other matters required by law shall thereupon become and
be the official paper of said city for the period of one year, and
to continue thereafter as such until another be designated as aforesaid.
When a newspaper shall be so designated, the publication of all such
matters as shall have been commenced in the paper that shall be superseded
by such designation shall continue to be published in the paper so
superseded until completed notwithstanding such change, with the same
force and effect as if no change had been made. The present official
paper of said city shall continue as such until another be designated,
in accordance with the foregoing provisions. In case no newspaper
shall be so designated, or for any other cause there shall at any
time be no official paper of said city, all ordinances, notices or
other matters required by law to be published in the official paper
of said city shall be published by posting up in a conspicuous place
in each ward of said city a written or printed copy thereof, for the
same number of days that they are required to be published in the
official paper, and such publication shall have the same force and
effect and be in all respects as valid as if they had been duly published
in the official paper. In case any paper designated as the official
paper shall, during the term for which it has been designated as the
official paper, cease to publish, the Common Council shall have the
power to designate another paper as the official paper, in accordance
with the foregoing provisions. [§ 69, L. 1911, c.
870; amended by L. 1912, c. 416]