N.Y. General City Law Section 13-B
Publicity fund


Any city may establish a publicity fund of such amount as the city council or other governing body may by resolution direct, to be expended for the purpose of advertising the advantages of such city as a winter and summer resort, or for the commemoration programs of historical events, or otherwise, including the necessary and legitimate expense of securing the designation of such city as the place for holding the convention or meeting of any organization or society, and for such other and additional purposes as may tend to promote the general commercial and industrial welfare of the city, and for that purpose may raise by taxation a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars per annum to be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner that other city taxes are assessed, levied and collected. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the city council of any city may by local law establish a publicity fund in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, as such local law shall direct. Such local law shall be subject to a referendum on petition. Such sum shall be raised by taxation and shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner that other city taxes are assessed, levied and collected. Provided, however, that if the city council of any city with a population of fifty thousand or less establishes, by local law, a publicity fund in excess of fifty thousand dollars, such local law shall become operative only after it shall be adopted after submission to the qualified voters of the city, and due adoption thereof by a majority of the qualified voters of the city voting thereon at a general election.

Source: Section 13-B — Publicity fund, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GCT/13-B (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 13, 2024).

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Term of office of city supervisors
2–A
Succession to certain city offices
2–B
Definition
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Members of common council
3–A
Liability of city officials
3–B
Deposit of city funds
3–C
Unlawful offers or agreements by municipal officials or omnibus lines with respect to omnibus line operations
3–D
Receipts and disbursements of payrolls
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Removal of appointive officers in cities of the third class
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Certain parades and processions forbidden
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Swearing witnesses
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Summoning witnesses
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Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions are submitted to all the voters of a city
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Licenses to adult blind persons
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Use of soft coal in public institutions
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Money for celebration of legal holidays in cities
12–A
Money for tercentennial celebrations
13
Moneys for Memorial and Veterans days
13–A
Moneys for maintaining the conference of mayors and other city officials of the state of New York and any of its activities
13–B
Publicity fund
13–C
Power of cities to provide moneys to replace revenues from excise taxes
13–E
Expenses of meeting rooms for veterans’ and other organizations
13–F
Moneys for maintaining the municipal electric utilities association of the state of New York and any of its activities
13–G
Moneys for maintaining the New York State Assessors Association and any of its activities
13–H
Moneys for maintaining statewide associations of local officials and any of their activities
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Permits for erection of booths and arches
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Firefighters moving from one city to another
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Term of service
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Volunteer members of fire companies
16–B
Computation of pensions in certain retirement funds
16–C
Minimum service retirement benefits for certain sanitation department employees in cities and who are members of pension or retirement sy...
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Operation of crematories for disposal of garbage
18
License to operate moving picture apparatus
18–A
Nothing contained in section eighteen shall be considered to apply to any so-called miniature motion picture apparatus which uses only an...
18–B
Admission of children to theatres
18–C
The common council in all cities of the third class shall have the power, upon application, in writing, of the property owners, owning at...
18–D
Duty of street vendors to keep the sidewalk and street clean

Accessed:
Apr. 13, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 13-B’s source at nysenate​.gov

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