City of Beacon, NY
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2023-10-23
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The Code
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 5 Administration of Government
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Article I General Provisions
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Art I General Provisions
- § 5-1 Seal.
- § 5-2 Removal of documents or property.
- § 5-3 Inspection of records.
- § 5-4 Claims against City.
- § 5-5 Annual audit.
- Ch 11 Building Inspector/Code Enforcement Officer
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Conservation Advisory Committee
- Ch 19 Continuity of Government
- Ch 21 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 23 Emergency Management Committee
- Ch 24 Drought Emergency Plan
- Ch 26 Economic Development Zone
- Ch 27 (Reserved)
- Ch 29 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 31 Fire Department
- Ch 32 Fire Advisory Board
- Ch 32A Greenway Connections
- Ch 33 Harbor Management
- Ch 34 Hearings
- Ch 39 Meetings
- Ch 41 Mental Hygiene Board
- Ch 42 Municipal Identification Program
- Ch 43 Officers and Employees
- Ch 45 Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals
- Ch 47 (Reserved)
- Ch 51 Police Department
- Ch 53 Purchasing
- Ch 55 Records
- Ch 56 Recreation Director; Recreation Department
- Ch 57 Recreation Committee
- Ch 59 Retirement and Pensions
- Ch 61 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 63 Smoking
- Ch 64 Summonses
- Ch 65 Traffic and Safety Planning Committee
- Ch 71 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 77 Alarms
- Ch 79 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 83 Amusements
- Ch 85 Application Processing Restrictions
- Ch 86 Architectural Design
- Ch 87 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 89 Bingo
- Ch 91 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 92 Buildings, Vacant
- Ch 94 Crime Property
- Ch 95 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 100 Driveways
- Ch 101 Drugs
- Ch 102 Dumpsters and Clothing Bin Containers
- Ch 103 Electrical Standards
- Ch 106 Energy Conservation
- Ch 107 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 111 Explosives
- Ch 115 Fees
- Ch 117 Filming
- Ch 119 Fire Prevention and Building Code, Uniform
- Ch 120 E-911
- Ch 123 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 127 Games of Chance
- Ch 131 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 132 Graffiti
- Ch 134 Historic Preservation
- Ch 135 (Reserved)
- Ch 136 Furnaces, Outdoor Wood-Burning
- Ch 139 Junk Dealers
- Ch 143 Littering
- Ch 145 Loitering
- Ch 149 Noise
- Ch 154 Parking Permit System
- Ch 155 Parks
- Ch 159 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 163 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 167 Plumbing
- Ch 169 Public Art
- Ch 170 Public Trail Regulations
- Ch 171 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 173 Rental Properties
- Ch 174 Safe Storage and Display of Firearms
- Ch 175 Sales, Special
- Ch 179 Sewers
- Ch 183 Signs
- Ch 187 Slaughterhouses
- Ch 189 Storm Sewers
- Ch 190 Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 191 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 192 Street Specifications
- Ch 195 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 199 Taxation
- Ch 200 Taxicabs
- Ch 203 Trees, Shrubs and Grass
- Ch 204 Sand and Gravel Excavation and Tree Removal
- Ch 209 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 210 Vehicle Repair and Sales
- Ch 211 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 213 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 219 Water
- Ch 220 Waterfront Consistency Review
- Ch 223 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A226 Polo Fields Annexation
- Ch A227 Annexation of Lands of Elsie J. Burke
- Ch A228 Emergency Regulations for Outdoor Business Areas
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The Common Seal of the City shall bear the device
of North Beacon, showing monument, and below such device the date
"May 17, 1913," and engraved around it the words "Seal of the City
of Beacon, N.Y."
No person shall carry out or remove any papers,
specifications, plans or any documents or any property whatever belonging
to the City or in the care or custody of the City from the Council
room, City offices or buildings without permission from the official
in charge and without giving a receipt for the same.
All inspections of records shall be made in
the space provided outside the railing enclosing the working office
of the City Clerk. No person, except the Mayor, the Council and authorized
persons, shall be permitted within such railing during the working
hours of such office.
A.
No account, charge or demand upon the City for any
object or purpose or in favor of any person, except the pay of officers
receiving an annual salary without reference to the time they are
employed, shall be audited or allowed by the Council, unless the person
presenting the same shall annex thereto a signed statement that the
claim is in all respects just and true; and if the account is for
services, that such services have been fully rendered to the extent,
in the manner and for the time charged therefor; that there are no
offsets against such bills; and that no payments have been made thereon
beyond such as are specified in such account, nor unless such account
shall specify in detail every item of the same and bear the approval
of some person who, upon his own personal knowledge, can certify to
the delivery of the items or articles or the rendering of the services
listed.
B.
All accounts presented shall be filed; those allowed
in whole or in part and those rejected separately and such as are
audited and allowed shall be numbered and marked with the amount at
which they are allowed and the day on which they are ordered paid.
No account shall be presented to the City Council unless it shall
have been filed with the Administrator on or before the Friday preceding
the meeting of the Council.
A.
The Council shall, as soon as practicable and on or
before March 15 in each year, cause a thorough audit of all the accounts
of the City departments to be made.
B.
Such annual audit shall be made by an approved certified
public accountant of experience in municipal affairs.
C.
A written report of such audit shall be made to the
Council at a regular meeting of the Council and shall be made a part
of the minutes of the Council.
D.
The City Council shall appropriate sufficient money
in the annual budget to cover the expenses of such audit and publication
of the same.
