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 Oct. 26, 2024).

2
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

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Aug. 19, 2022

§ 3’s source at nysenate​.gov

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