All that portion of the Oswego River within the bounds of said city is hereby declared a public highway.
The provisions of law governing the establishment and maintenance of pension funds for the benefit of members of the Police and Fire Departments shall be unimpaired by this Charter.
A. 
No civil action shall be maintained against the city for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed, unless, previous to the occurrence resulting in such damages or injury, written notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous, obstructed condition of said street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk, or crosswalk was actually given to the Commissioner of Public Works, and unless there was a failure or neglect within a reasonable time after the giving of such written notice to repair or remove the defect, danger or obstruction complained of. No such action shall be maintained for damages or injuries to person or property sustained solely in consequence of the existence of snow or ice upon any sidewalk, crosswalk or street, unless written notice thereof relating to the particular place was actually given to the Commissioner of Public Works and there was a failure or neglect to cause such snow or ice to be removed or the place otherwise made reasonably safe within a reasonable time after the receipt of such notice.
B. 
The city shall not be liable in a civil action for damages or injuries to person or property, or invasion of personal or property rights of any name or nature whatsoever, whether casual or continuing, arising at law or in equity, alleged to have been caused or sustained in whole or in part by or because of any omission of duty, wrongful act, fault, neglect, misfeasance or negligence on the part of the city or any of its agents, officers, or employees, unless a Notice of Claim shall have been made and served in compliance with § 50-e of the General Municipal Law, or unless an action shall be commenced thereon within one (1) year after the happening of the event upon which the claim is based; but no action shall be commenced to recover upon or enforce any such claim against the city until the expiration of three (3) months after the service of such notice. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be held to revive any claim or cause of action now barred by any existing requirement of statute of limitations nor to waive any existing limitation now applicable to any claim or cause of action against the city.
Every officer named in this Charter, who has a certain salary fixed by said act or for which provision is made for its being so fixed, shall receive the same as full compensation for any and all services rendered by him to the city or any department thereof. It shall be a misdemeanor for any city officer to ask or demand or receive for his own use or for the use of another to his benefit or advantage any sum or sums, thing or things whatsoever as extra compensation or reward for said services. All fees collected or received by any such officer from any source arising out of or connected with his said office shall be by him forthwith paid over to the City Chamberlain for the use of the city. The Common Council and every department and board of said city are hereby forbidden to grant any extra compensation to any salaried officer, and it shall be a misdemeanor to grant or attempt to grant the same or for the City Chamberlain to pay the same if granted. Nothing in this section, however, shall be deemed to prohibit the Common Council, and any board or department of the city with the consent and approval of the Common Council expressly given by resolution in each case, from reimbursing as authorized by § C3-15 of this Charter an officer or employee receiving a fixed salary for the use of his or her automobile in the actual performance and discharge of his or her official duties.
Accounts, claims and demands against said City of Oswego shall be presented to the Common Council or the department incurring the same for payment at least as often as quarter-yearly, on days to be appointed by the Council or department, and when presented shall be audited and paid without unreasonable delay; and such accounts, claims and demands of every name and description, rising or accruing or which shall be created during any fiscal year in said city shall be presented for settlement and payment on or before the third Tuesday in December in said year, and shall be audited and provision made for the payment of all claims allowed from the taxes and income of said year before the first day of January following, and no interest or costs shall be recovered against the city in any suit brought to recover any such account, claim or demand which has not been presented as aforesaid, provided that said Council shall cause a notice to be published in the official newspapers in said city once in each week for three (3) weeks immediately preceding said third Tuesday in December that said accounts, claim and demands are required to be presented as aforesaid.
The annual financial report of the City Clerk and of the various boards and departments of said city shall, in addition to the statement of receipts and expenditures of the various sum of money subject to the control of said Common Council or of either of said boards or departments, also contain a full and itemized statement of all known claims and demands against said Common Council or the City of Oswego or either of said department, outstanding and unpaid, whether such claims is liquidated or unliquidated, duly verified by the oath of the City Clerk for claims against the City of Oswego or the Common Council, and by the President, Clerk or Secretary of the various departments.
[Amended 5-23-2011 by L.L. No. 2-2011]
No councilor, Mayor or other officer or employee of the city shall act as agent or attorney for any person, company or corporation in relation to any matter to be affected by the action of the Common Council or any board, department or officer of the city. A violation of this provision shall be cause for removal by the Mayor. It shall be a misdemeanor to violate any of the provisions of this section.
Any person in the possession of any real estate in the City of Oswego under and by virtue of a contract for the purchase thereof may, in the discretion of the Common Council, be deemed and held as the owner thereof for all the purposes of this Charter.
It shall be understood that all pronouns in this Charter are generic in character and do not refer to one sex as contrasted with another. Nothing in this Charter shall be construed to prevent or discourage full and equal participation in the governance of the City of Oswego by all citizens.