N.Y. General City Law Section 3
Members of common council

  • appointments to other city offices
No member of the common council of any city shall, during the period for which they were elected, be capable of holding under the appointment or election of the common council any office the emoluments of which are paid from the city treasury, or paid by fees or compensation directed to be paid by any act or ordinance of the common council, but this section shall not affect the right to any fees or emoluments belonging to any office, provided, however, that in any city having a city manager or council-manager form of government in which a mayor and vice-mayor may be elected or appointed from the membership of its council, such mayor and vice-mayor may, in addition to the emoluments received as council member, receive compensation for their services from the city treasury as mayor and vice-mayor. An officer of any city who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof their office shall be vacant.

Source: Section 3 — Members of common council; appointments to other city offices, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GCT/3 (updated Aug. 19, 2022; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

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Term of office of city supervisors 2‑A
Succession to certain city offices 2‑B
Definition 3
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 4
Removal of appointive officers in cities of the third class 5
Certain parades and processions forbidden 6
Swearing witnesses 7
Summoning witnesses 8
Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions are submitted to all the voters of a city 10
Licenses to adult blind persons 11
Use of soft coal in public institutions 12
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 14
Permits for erection of booths and arches 15
Firefighters moving from one city to another 16
Term of service 16‑A
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... 17
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
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Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Aug. 19, 2022

§ 3’s source at nysenate​.gov

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