[Amended 7-27-1961 by L.L. No. 1-1961]
The rights of the City in its waterfront, lands under water,
wharves, piers, docks, parks or playgrounds shall not be sold or conveyed
unless such sale or conveyance shall first have been authorized by
a plurality of votes cast at a special election at which all qualified
voters of the City who registered at the last preceding general election
shall be entitled to vote. The notice, officers, polling places, manner
of conducting and other details of such special election shall be
determined by ordinance of the Council.
[Added 8-11-1986 by L.L. No. 4-1986]
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter or of any
statute, law, rule or ordinance, but subject to the provisions of
§ C16.03 of this Charter, real property held by the City
for a municipal purpose and, in the opinion of the Council, no longer
needed for any municipal purpose may be sold or conveyed to the City
of Newburgh Industrial Development Agency without public auction for
the purpose of industrial development as defined in the General Municipal
Law of the State of New York.
[Added 4-8-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991]
A. Pursuant to § 1224, Subdivision 6(a), of the New York State
Vehicle and Traffic Law, the City Manager may convert, in any one
calendar year, to the use of the City, or he may, by sale or gift,
transfer title to any such vehicles to any other municipal corporation
for use by its law enforcement agency, up to 1% of its unclaimed abandoned
vehicles not affected by Subdivision 2 of § 1224 of the
Vehicle and Traffic Law or two of such abandoned vehicles, whichever
is greater.
B. If parts are taken from an abandoned vehicle, as described in Subsection
A hereof, for use on a City-owned vehicle, the vehicle from which the parts were taken shall count as one abandoned vehicle for purposes of calculating the City's annual allotment of abandoned vehicles that it may convert to its use as provided in Subsection
A of this section.
The place of trial of all actions or proceedings against the
City or any of its officers, boards or departments shall be the County
of Orange.
Every process commencing an action against the City shall be
served on the Mayor and not otherwise.
No person entitled to vote at any election held under any provision
of this Act shall be arrested on civil process in said City on the
day on which said election is held.
Any person who may be required to take any oath or affirmation
or to make any affidavit or statement under oath or affirmation in
any matter pending before the Council or any hearing, trial or matter
pending before the City Manager who shall, under such oath or affirmation
or in any such statement under oath or affidavit willfully swear falsely
as to any material fact or matter shall be guilty of perjury.
[Amended 9-14-1987 by L.L. No. 4-1987]
The expenses of apprehending, examining, trying and committing
offenders against any law of the state in said City and of their confinement,
properly chargeable against the County of Orange, shall be audited,
allowed and paid by said county in the same manner as if such expenses
had been incurred in any town in said County of Orange.
All property and rights of property and all estate, real and
personal, vested in or belonging to or held in trust by the Trustees
of the Village of Newburgh or by the City of Newburgh before the passage
of this Act shall be and are hereby vested in the City of Newburgh.
The ordinances of the City and the rules and regulations of
all officers and boards thereof in force at the time this Act takes
effect shall continue in full force and virtue until changed, rescinded
or altered by the proper authorities.
This Act is hereby declared a public act and shall be construed
favorably and benignly for every beneficial purpose therein contained.
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are repealed
so far as they affect the City of Newburgh, and Chapter 575 of the
Laws of 1916 is repealed.
This Act shall take effect immediately.