If a vacancy shall happen in any elective office
other than Mayor, the Common Council shall fill the same by appointment
until the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first
annual election at which such vacancy can be filled; and at such election,
some qualified person shall be elected to such office for the residue
of the term thereof, according to the provisions of this Charter.
If any person having been an officer in said
City shall not, within 10 days after notification and request, deliver
to his successor in office all the property, papers and effects of
every description in his/her possession or under his/her control,
belonging to said City or pertaining to his/her office, he/she shall
forfeit and pay for the use of the City $100, besides all damages
caused by his/her neglect or refusal to deliver.
[Amended 11-3-2021 by L.L. No. 2022-07]
The City Manager shall have power to cause buildings to be pulled
down, blown up or removed for the purpose of arresting the progress
of fires and for the extinguishment of the same. In case a building
shall be pulled down, blown up or removed under such authority for
the purposes aforesaid and said building shall be insured, the owner
thereof shall be entitled to recover from said City damages to the
same extent that he/she would have been entitled to recover against
the insurers in case such building had been destroyed by fire.
No officer of the City or any other person shall
have power to make any purchase or contract any debts on the part
of the City unless duly and fully authorized so to do by this Charter
or pursuant to the Local Finance Law; and no account, claim or demand
shall be audited, allowed or paid unless the same was duly authorized.
All resolutions adopted by the Common Council
or any board of the City authorizing the expenditure of money shall
appropriate specifically the amount to be expended, and no extra or
additional compensation shall be allowed or paid on any contract or
to any officer, person or persons for any services or work done or
materials furnished to the City.
[Amended 2-1-1989 by L.L. No. 2-1989; 9-4-2013 by L.L. No.
3-2013]
The City of Ithaca shall not be liable for damage
or injury sustained by any person in consequence of any street, highway,
bridge, culvert, sidewalk, crosswalk, park, playground, stream, pond,
lake, reservoir, building or other City-owned property or structure
being out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed by snow, ice
or otherwise or in any way or manner, including but not limited to
protruding pipes, metal plates or covers or other objects, unless
written notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous, obstructed or
concealed conditions of said street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk,
crosswalk, park, playground, stream, pond, lake, reservoir, building
or other City-owned property or structure shall have been given to
the City of Ithaca by delivery to the office of the City Clerk at
least 24 hours previous to said damage or injury. This section applies
to claims of infants and all other persons. Any and all actions maintained
for damages or injuries to person or property caused or sustained
as aforesaid shall be commenced in accordance with the requirements
of §§ 50-e and 50-i of the New York State General Municipal
Law.
[Amended 11-3-2021 by L.L. No. 2022-07]
A. Attendance to be authorized. The Common Council of the City of Ithaca
does hereby delegate and grant to the City Manager of said City the
power to authorize the attendance of all officials, officers and employees
of said City at official and unofficial conventions and conferences
of municipal officers or employees or any school conducted for the
betterment of municipal government if believed to be of benefit to
the municipality.
B. Claims for expenses. Where authorization to attend a convention,
conference or school shall have been granted by the City Manager,
no claim for expenses shall be audited, allowed or paid unless there
shall have been an appropriation by the Common Council for these expenses
of travel and unless there shall be attached thereto a travel order
or similar document signed by the City Manager authorizing the claimant
to attend such conference, convention or school.
The Common Council shall, by resolution, designate
as official papers one or two newspapers published in the City, and
every notice, statement, ordinance, resolution, rule and regulation
required or authorized to be published by this Charter or by any of
the boards of the City shall be published in one or both of said papers
as may be required or directed.