[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991; 7-5-2011]
The Mayor and Councilors of said city shall constitute the Common Council thereof. At all meetings of the Common Council, each Councilor present shall have one (1) vote. In the case of a tie, the Mayor shall cast the deciding vote, unless the issue being voted upon is one which requires a majority vote of the entire Council for passage. At the first meeting of the Common Council in each official year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Common Council shall choose one (1) of the Councilors to be its President, who shall, during such official year, be the presiding officer of the Common Council in the absence of the Mayor; and while the Mayor is absent from the city or unable to perform his duties, said presiding officer shall be Acting Mayor and shall have all the powers and duties and shall be subject to all obligations and liabilities of the Mayor. The president of the Common Council shall not lose his vote as Councilor by reason of his acting as presiding officer of the Common Council at any time, but when he shall vote as a Councilor, he shall have no casting vote on a tie. The Common Council shall hold regular or stated meetings on the first Tuesday evening in each month in the Common Council rooms and at such other times as it shall by resolution designate. The Mayor or, in his absence, the President, or any three (3) Councilors, may call special meetings by notice in writing, served personally upon the other members of the Council, or left at their usual place of abode at least two (2) hours before such meeting. The Common Council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings. The attendance of absent members may be compelled by the Common Council, or by a meeting thereof at which less than a quorum is present, by the entry of a resolution and order in the minutes directing the Chief of Police or any police officer of the city to arrest such absent member and bring him before the Common Council at the meeting at which such member is absent or the next, or some subsequent meeting of the Common Council, to answer for his neglect. A majority of the Common Council, including the Mayor as a member thereof, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time. A majority of the Councilors present and voting at any meeting of the Common Council at which a quorum shall be present shall be sufficient to pass any resolution or ordinance, except that no resolution authorizing or involving the expenditure of money by a tax or assessment shall pass unless it receive the assent of a majority of all the Councilors in office. The ayes and noes shall be called and recorded on all resolutions and appointments when demanded by any member. All meetings of the Common Council shall be public.
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991; 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009; 7-5-2011]
Every resolution or ordinance of the Common Council, except rules for its own government and resolutions for the appointment of officers, shall, before it takes effect, be presented, duly certified by the Clerk/Chamberlain, to the Mayor. No ordinance shall be adopted until a public hearing, duly advertised at least five days prior thereto, is held. If the Mayor approves thereof, he shall sign it within 10 days after receipt thereof by him and file it so signed with the Clerk/Chamberlain. If the Mayor does not approve it, he shall, within 10 days after receipt thereof by him, return it to the Clerk/Chamberlain with his objections thereto in writing, and a statement that he does not approve thereof, and it shall have no force or effect unless the Common Council shall at the next meeting reconsider it and pass it over the Mayor's veto by the concurring vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the total number of Councilors in office, which vote shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the minutes, together with the objections of the Mayor, If any such resolution or ordinance so presented to the Mayor shall not be returned by him to the Clerk/Chamberlain within 10 days after the receipt thereof by the Mayor, it shall, at the expiration of such 10 days, have the same force and effect as if it had been approved by him and filed with the Clerk/Chamberlain. If any such resolution contains one or more items appropriating money, the Mayor may sign it with a written statement appended thereto that he objects to one (1) or more of such items, and each item so objected to shall have no force or effect unless such items be reconsidered separately by the Common Council and passed over the Mayor's veto in the same manner as a resolution wholly vetoed. Except rules for the government of the Common Council and appointments to office, no resolution or ordinance of the Common Council shall have any force or effect or be deemed to have been enacted by the Common Council unless either it be approved by the Mayor or be not returned to the Clerk/Chamberlain within ten (10) days after the receipt thereof by him, or unless it be passed over the Mayor's veto in pursuance of the provisions of this section.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: For additional provisions concerning this topic, see the Municipal Home Rule Law.
[Amended 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
Any resolution or ordinance enacted by the Common Council may specify the time when it shall take effect, but no ordinance shall take effect until after its publication at least once in the official newspapers of the city, notwithstanding the provision therein of a previous time for its taking effect. If no time be provided in any such resolution or ordinance for its taking effect or if it specifies that it take effect immediately, it shall take effect on its approval by the Mayor, if he approves it; or, if he fails to return it to the Clerk/Chamberlain within ten (10) days after the receipt thereof by him, it shall take effect on the 11th day after such receipt thereof by the Mayor; or, if he returns it with his disapproval and it be passed over his veto, it shall take effect at the time of its passage over his veto.
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § C44, Division of funds; maximum amount of city tax levy, as amended, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
[Amended by L. 1908, c. 358; L. 1911, c. 551; L. 1919, c. 552; L.L. No. 2-1927; L.L. No. 13-1931; L. 1943, c. 710; L. 1945, c. 839; 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991]
No fund or portion of a fund provided for by this Act shall be transferred to any other fund or used for any other purpose whatsoever except the purpose for which said fund is provided; except, however, that the Commissioner of Public Works may, whenever the earnings of the Water Department exceed the sums necessary to provide for a sinking fund to meet the principal and interest of the water bonds and pay the current expenses of the Water Department, transfer any surplus remaining to the Improvement Fund to be used in payment of the principal and interest of obligations issued or liabilities incurred for the city's share of pavements or sidewalks and except that when there is a surplus in the General City Fund that is more than sufficient for the purposes specified in this Act for the fiscal year, such surplus or a portion thereof may be transferred by the Common Council to any other fund and except that the surplus or estimated surplus of any fund, raised for a special purpose remaining to the credit of such special fund after such purpose has been accomplished, except as otherwise provided by § 165.00 of the Local Finance Law, may, by resolution of the Common Council, be transferred to the General City Fund or the Improvement Fund. Any officer or member of a board of the city violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.), to be sued for and recovered by and for the benefit of the city, and, in addition thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Amended by L. 1919, c. 552; L.L. 1953, c. 878, § 84; 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991; 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
Between the first and 15th days of October in each year, the Commissioner of Public Works and the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners shall estimate, in detail, the expenses and income of their respective departments for the next fiscal year and shall certify such estimates to the Common Council. The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners shall also include in its report an estimate of the amount which will probably be paid into the City Treasury during the next fiscal year from excise taxes and for fees of patrolmen in criminal and civil proceedings. The Clerk/Chamberlain shall also make a detailed statement by items of all the expenses of the city as estimated by it for the next fiscal year. The Clerk/Chamberlain, in his report, shall also make a statement in detail of all judgments against the city then remaining unpaid. The Clerk/Chamberlain shall submit an itemized statement of the principal and interest of all bonded and other indebtedness of the city that will fall due during the next fiscal year. The Clerk/Chamberlain, in his report, shall also make a statement in detail of the amount of unpaid taxes and local assessments theretofore assessed and remaining unpaid and the amount which, in his judgment, will probably be received by the city therefrom during the next fiscal year; all expenditures made or incurred by the city chargeable to property owners or other persons and remaining unpaid and the amount which, in his judgment, will probably be received by the city during the next fiscal year. The Common Council shall cause such estimates and statements to be published in the official newspapers of the city during the next week preceding is last regular meeting in the month of October. At that meeting or at any meeting to which an adjournment may be had, not later than the 15th day of December next following, it may revise such estimates and the amount due on judgments and the bonded indebtedness of the city and determine the entire amount necessary to be raised to defray the expenses of the city for the ensuing fiscal year. Said Common Council may, by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of its members, reduce any estimate except as above provided, but shall not increase any of the estimates of the various boards and officers aforesaid and shall immediately levy the aggregate amount taxed, ascertained and determined, together with the city's proportion of the county and state tax certified by the County Legislature and any special tax which shall have been voted or is to be raised with the annual tax levy.
Each of the officers and boards specified in the last section, otherwise than as provided in this Act, shall, at the close of the fiscal year, make a written report to the Common Council of all expenditures made or incurred by said officers or said board during such year, showing separately and by items the amount expended from each fund which may be drawn on by such board and the balance standing to the credit of each such fund. All officers and boards receiving any money, other than that raised by taxation, shall, in such report make an itemized statement of the sum received by them, specifying the date of such receipt, the amount thereof and the person by whom the same was paid.
[Amended by L. 1911, c. 551; L. 1915, c. 610; 7-16-1974 by L.L. No. 2-1974; 4-18-1978 by L.L. No. 4-1978; 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991]
The general legislative powers of said city for all proper municipal purposes, except such power as may be vested in other city boards or officers, shall be vested in the Common Council. The Common Council shall furnish the officers of the city with necessary office room, office furniture, books and stationery; shall keep in proper repair the public buildings of the city; may authorize any city officer to inspect any place or places to ascertain whether the same are in safe condition, and if not, may require the same to be made so; may require any officer of the city to furnish reports, information or estimates whenever deemed proper by the Council; may employ a Poundkeeper, a Director of Weights and Measures and a Housing Inspector, and such other employees of the city as may be necessary to execute the work which the Common Council is authorized and required to cause to be executed, and may fix their compensation. The same person may be employed as Director of Weights and Measures and Housing Inspector, and the Common Council, by resolution, may designate that the term of employment of said person shall continue during his good behavior.
The Common Council shall have power to compel the owner or occupant of any building or wall which it may deem to be in a dangerous or unsafe condition, by reason or on account of fire or otherwise, to render the same safe or to take down and remove the same and, in case of his neglect so to do, to cause it to be taken down or removed at the expense of the owner or occupant; to direct the owner or owners of any building used for public entertainments or other public purposes to provide the same with suitable and sufficient fire escapes, in the manner provided by the Common Council and, in case of the failure or neglect of such owner so to do, to cause such work to be done at the expense of the owner; to authorize any city officer or any person designated by the Common Council to inspect any place or places to ascertain whether the same are in a safe condition, and if not, to require the same to be made safe and, if the owner thereof shall neglect or refuse so to do, to cause the same to be made safe at the expense of the owner.
[Amended by L. 1911, c. 551; L. 1915, c. 610; L. 1919, c. 552; L.L. No. 4-1928; L.L. No. 7-1931; L. 1943, c. 710; L. 1945, c. 339, Schedule A]
The Common Council shall exercise all the corporate powers conferred by this Act and, other than as provided by law or this Act, shall have the management and control of the finances and of all the property, real and personal, belonging to said corporation, other than as provided in this Act, and shall have power, within the city, to make, establish, publish and modify, annul and repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and bylaws for any purposes heretofore specified in this Act, and for the following additional purposes:
1. 
To designate the appropriate committee of the Common Council to audit and approve claims against the city and authorize payment therefore without plenary action of the Common Council.[1]
[Added 9-3-1996 by L.L. No. 11-1996]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 1, dealing with prevention of vice and immorality, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
2. 
To license, regulate or prohibit the exhibitions of showmen and shows of every kind and the exhibitions of any natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, menageries and theatrical presentations.
3. 
(Reserved)[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 3, dealing with explosives, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
4. 
To prevent or regulate coasting or bicycle riding in the city.
5. 
To restrain the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats and geese, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and costs of keeping and proceedings.
6. 
To prevent or regulate the ringing and tolling of bells, except those of railroad cars and engines, blowing of horns or crying of goods or wares, firing of guns or of powder or other explosives, and the making of any improper noise which may tend to disturb the peace of the city.
7. 
(Reserved)[3]
[3]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 7, dealing with dogs, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
8. 
To regulate the sale of fresh meats, fruit, poultry, butter, cheese, eggs, honey, vegetables, fish and other articles usually disposed of from farmers' wagons, and the fees for marketing privileges.
9. 
To prevent encumbering the streets, sidewalks, lanes and alleys within said city with building materials, wagons, sleighs, barrels, boxes, merchandise and articles of every kind, and to prevent the sale of meat, vegetables, farm produce and unmanufactured products of the forest from wagons or other conveyances, except from dwelling to dwelling or on the markets now or hereafter established.
10. 
To establish, build and regulate public markets, cart and carriage stands, ponds, station houses and lockups within said city.
11. 
To license and regulate billposting, bill distributing and sign advertising, and to regulate or restrain the erection of billboards on any street, section of a street or public place of the city, and to restrain the posting of bills or signs on any fence, wall, building, sidewalk, pole or post upon or adjacent to any street or public place of the city.
12. 
(Reserved)[4]
[4]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 12, dealing with railways, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
13. 
To prevent any person or persons from remaining, standing, lounging or obstructing any of the sidewalks of the city, or standing, sitting or lounging on any platform, or standing in front of any stairway or building, without the express permission of the owner or occupant of such building.
14. 
To permit building material to be deposited on the street in front of any lot, to such extent and for such time as it may prescribe.
15. 
To license and regulate cabmen, porters, cartmen, hackmen and the drivers of hackney carriages, stages or omnibuses for the transportation of passengers within the city, to fix their rates of compensation and to require them to have licenses.
16. 
To prevent horseracing and immoderate driving in the streets of said city of horses or motor vehicles, and to prohibit and punish the flying of kites and every other game, practice and amusement, in the public streets or elsewhere, having a tendency to frighten teams and horses, or to injure or annoy persons passing in or along the highways of the city, or to endanger property.
17. 
(Reserved)[5]
[5]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 17, dealing with suppression of certain establishments, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
18. 
At the request of the Superintendent of Public Works, to regulate the width of tires of draft wagons. The term "draft wagons," in this Act, shall mean a wagon to carry a load of one thousand two hundred (1,200) pounds or more.
19. 
To regulate or prevent all parades, exhibitions and the parade or playing of bands upon the streets or public grounds of the city.
20. 
To regulate and prevent the landing, within the city, of excursion boats or passengers therefrom.
21. 
To regulate the use and construction of chimneys, smokestacks, boilers, fireplaces, stoves and heating apparatus and the deposit of ashes, debris, waste and inflammable materials; and any member of the Common Council or any person authorized by it may enter, when necessary, in the daytime, any building within the city to make an examination with reference to the evasion or violation of such ordinance.
22. 
(Reserved)[6]
[6]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 22, dealing with false alarms, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
23. 
To punish the wilful or malicious breaking, marring, injury, removal or defacement of any building, fence, awning, sign, signboard or any tree, shrubbery or any other ornamental thing in the city, tearing down of any notice or handbill lawfully posted or inciting or inducing dogs to fight in any of the streets or public places of the city.
24. 
To punish all violations of the rules of the Common Council, or of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners and Commissioner of Public Works, which have been approved by the Common Council, relating to the prevention of fire, the waterworks, lighting or sewerage systems of the city.
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991]
25. 
(Reserved)[7]
[7]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 25, dealing with improper activities, was repealed 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991.
26. 
To determine the existence and direct the removal of a public nuisance in any part of the city; and if the same be not removed within such time as the Common Council may direct, to cause the same to be removed at the expense of the city, and to declare such expense to be a lien on the lot, and to enforce the collection thereof by leasing or selling the premises, in the manner provided in this Act for the collection of taxes or assessments, or by action against the owners of the lot, or any other person who may have erected, suffered or maintained such nuisance; and in case of the nonremoval or abatement of any nuisance, the Common Council may impose a penalty therefor and enforce the collection thereof, as prescribed in this Act.
27. 
To prohibit, prevent and regulate encroaching upon or encumbering any street, avenue, highway or alley with any building, steps, platform, bay window, wooden or other permanent awning, cellar door, area, descent into a cellar or basement, sign or any post or erection or any projection from any building or structure, and to cause the same to be removed by the owners or occupants of the premises; to make such expense of removal a lien on the lot on which the building or structure may be situated; and to issue a warrant against any such owner or occupant; to collect the necessary expenses of such removal as assessments are collected; and it shall be the duty of the Common Council, within six (6) months after the passage of this Act, to determine and prescribe limits in said city within which none of the encroachments of encumbrances above specified shall thereafter be permitted on any street within said limits beyond the established street lines; and said Common Council shall have power from time to time to enlarge such limits within which such encroachments or encumbrances shall not be permitted, but not to reduce or diminish such limits so prescribed.
28. 
To regulate and restrain hawking and peddling in the streets, and to regulate the time, mode, manner and place of holding auctions or public sales of merchandise and all personal property, and to prohibit such sales on any of the sidewalks or crosswalks of the city or the streets of the same; to license sales at auction in said city of goods or property belonging to persons not residents of said city or which goods shall have been purchased with the intent to sell the same at auction, and to prevent such sales without a license; and to require the payment to the city of such sums for such licenses as shall be provided for.
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991]
29. 
To regulate the speed of running of trains of cars in the compactly inhabited portions of said city and for one (1) mile from the depots in said city, and to regulate runners, stage drivers and others in soliciting passengers and others to travel or ride in any stage, omnibus or to go to any hotel, or otherwise.
30. 
To compel, direct and regulate the planting of shade trees and ornamental trees along the streets and sidewalks of said city; and to prevent the injury or destruction of such trees; and to prevent the injury or defacement of fences, posts and buildings in said city.
31. 
To give names to streets and numbers to lots and tenements and to change the same, in its discretion. All expenses incurred by virtue of this subdivision shall be levied and collected from all the property embraced within the city, at the same time, and in the same manner as other general city taxes are levied and collected.
32. 
To designate such portion of said city as it may deem proper within which no building in whole of wood or other combustible material shall be erected.
33. 
To prescribe or define such powers and duties of officers of said city as are not specified in this Act and are not inconsistent therewith.
34. 
To call special meetings of the inhabitants of said city whenever, in its judgment, the public interests require the same, and to carry into effect all lawful resolutions adopted at any of said meetings or at any regular or special elections.
35. 
(Reserved)[8]
[8]
Editor's Note: Original Subdivision 35 was repealed by L. 1945, c. 339, Schedule A.
36. 
Whenever the Common Council shall resolve by the affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of its members that an extraordinary expenditure ought, for the benefit of the city, to be made for any specific purpose set forth in the resolution, which is to be paid for out of taxes levied for the fiscal year in which such expenditure is to be made, it shall make an estimate of the sum necessary therefor and for all such purposes, if there be more than one (1), and publish such resolution and estimate for at least three (3) times, once in each week, in the official newspapers, together with a notice that at a time and place therein specified a special election of the taxpayers of the city will be held to decide whether the amount of such expenditure shall be raised by tax, and no expenditure other than authorized by this act shall be made or any sum therefor raised except by authority of a vote taken at such special election. All provisions of law prescribing the duties of Inspectors of Election and their powers with reference to preserving order at election, and false swearing and fraudulent voting thereat shall, so far as applicable, apply to the special elections held hereunder. The election shall be by ballot, and each ballot shall contain a brief statement of each purpose for which such expenditure is required, and the amount thereof, and be in the form required by the Election Law for voting upon propositions submitted. The Inspectors shall, at the time and place designated as aforesaid, sit without intermission from 12:00 noon until 9:00 p.m. to receive the ballots cast at such special election and shall deposit the same in a suitable ballot box to be provided by the city. If the right to vote of any person offering to vote at such special election be challenged by any other person entitled to vote thereat, an Inspector of Election shall administer to him or her the following oath: If a male, "You do swear that you or your wife are a taxpayer of the City of Fulton for the present year, and that you or your wife have not voted at this election?" If a female, "You do swear that you are a taxpayer of the City of Fulton for the present year and that you or your husband have not voted at this election?" After he or she shall take such oath, his vote shall be received. The Inspectors shall canvass the votes received immediately after closing the polls and immediately make a certificate, signed by them or two (2) of them, stating the whole number of ballots voted at such election, the whole number for each special tax, and the whole number against each special tax, and deliver the same forthwith to the Clerk/Chamberlain. The Clerk/Chamberlain shall deliver the same to the Common Council at its next meeting, and it shall cause the result of said election thus certified to be entered in the minutes. No more than one (1) such election in the city shall be held in any one (1) year, except by the unanimous vote of the Common Council. After such special tax or taxes shall have been authorized as herein provided, the Common Council may proceed to authorize the expenditure of the amount thereof, during the fiscal year for which such tax or taxes are to be levied for the purpose or purposes specified in its published resolution aforesaid and sanctioned by such election.
[Amended 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
[Amended 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991]
Any ordinance enacted by the Common Council may provide that any person violating such ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor or of a violation or shall be liable to pay to the city a sum equal to the maximum penalty allowed by state law. If no provision be made in any ordinances as to the effect of a violation thereof, every violation thereof shall be a misdemeanor. The city may maintain an action to restrain by injunction a violation of any ordinance of the Common Council, notwithstanding that such ordinance may provide a penalty for such violation.
[Amended 12-1-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009]
If an ordinance of the city prohibits the carrying on of any occupation without a license therefor, the Common Council may fix the fee for such license or may prescribe the minimum and maximum limits of the fee which may be charged therefor, in the discretion of the Mayor. All applications for such licenses shall be made to the Mayor. The Mayor may grant or refuse any such license in his discretion. If the Mayor determines to grant such license, he shall issue an order to the Clerk/Chamberlain to issue such license upon the production of a receipt from the Clerk/Chamberlain for the amount specified in such order and receipt, and he shall issue such license accordingly. The Clerk/Chamberlain shall credit all fees so received by him to the General City Fund. The Clerk/Chamberlain shall keep in his office a record of each license, the person to whom issued and the fee paid therefor.
[Amended by L. 1908, c. 358; 11-22-1983 by L.L. No. 2-1983; 7-3-1990 by L.L. No. 3-1990; 10-30-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991; 12-3-1991 by L.L. No. 5-1991; 10-19-2010 by L.L. No. 6-2010; 1-8-2019]
a) 
The Common Council shall, at its first official meeting of every calendar year, designate an official newspaper for said year, which shall be the official newspaper for said year, effective from January 1 to December 31 or the date of the first official meeting if after January 1.
b) 
The official City newspaper shall publish all notices, bylaws, rules and regulations, ordinances, local laws, annual reports, monthly reports, budgets and such other reports and other matters as the Common Council, the City Charter or state or federal law directs to be published, at the legal rate prescribed by § 70-a of the Public Officers Law of the State of New York.
[Amended by L. 1919, c. 358; L.L. 1-1936; L.L. No. 1-1937]
1. 
It shall not be lawful for the Mayor or any member of the Common Council or the Commissioner of Public Works or any member of any of the municipal boards of said city, or any superintendent or any clerk, agent or employee of said city employed by any of the municipal boards therein (beyond the compensation which said superintendent or clerk, agent or employee may be justly entitled to for services by him actually rendered) to be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract work made or done by, for or on behalf of said city, or any municipal board therein; nor shall any person be interested, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale of any merchandise, material, substance, supplies or requirements for any of the uses or purposes of said city, except that any member of a board or of the Common Council may sell or render services to any other department, nor shall any such person receive therefrom or thereon or in consideration or in consequence therefor or thereon or in consideration or in consequence thereof, any commissions, divisions, discounts, gift or moiety. It shall not be lawful for any of the municipal boards of said city to audit any account or issue any warrant for the payment of any claim for services rendered or for work, labor or materials furnished by any person during the time such person shall have held the office of Mayor, Councilor or member of any of the municipal boards of said city; except, however, that it shall be lawful to audit any claim for merchandise or materials furnished or services rendered by any person during the time such person shall have held office of Mayor, Councilor or member of any of the municipal boards of said city providing such sale or services shall be made to any department other than the department concerning the administration whereof the said person shall be concerned as such member of a board or of the Common Council.
[Amended 7-5-2011]
2. 
A violation of the provisions of this section is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: For additional provisions concerning this topic, see the General Municipal Law.
The Common Council shall have the power to make such rules, regulations and adopt such methods for the convenient transaction of the business of the city by the several boards, departments and officers thereof not inconsistent with the duties and powers given such boards, departments and officers by this Act.