The comptroller shall exercise and perform through the bureau. of city collections all the powers and duties which he now exercises and performs through the bureau for the collection of city revenue, the bureau for the collection of taxes and the bureau of assessments and arrears. The comptroller shall appoint a person to be the head of the bureau of city collections, who shall be known as the city collector. All of the provisions of the Greater New York charter and of every other law in relation to the collector of city revenue, the receiver of taxes and the collector of assessments and arrears shall apply to the office of city collector established by this section. The bond now prescribed by law for the receiver of taxes shall be given and may be renewed by the city collector. In order to effect gradually the consolidation authorized by this section, the comptroller in his discretion may prescribe by such rules and regulations for the consolidation of the branches of such bureaus in one, any or all of the boroughs of the city and the branch resulting from such consolidation shall be the representative of all such bureaus in such borough until consolidation pursuant to this section be fully effected whereupon such branch shall be the representative of the bureau of city collections. The comptroller shall appoint the head of the office in any borough in which the branches have been so consolidated. Upon the final consolidation of such bureaus in the manner prescribed in this section, the office of collector of city revenues, the office of receiver of taxes and the office of collector of assessments and arrears shall be abolished, and the city collector established by this section shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of such abolished offices. Subject to the power of the comptroller to abolish positions or to transfer employees from one position to another, all employees of a bureau or branch thereof consolidated pursuant to this section shall be continued without examination in the employ of the bureau or branch with which the bureau or branch in which they are now employed is consolidated. § 2. The following enumerated sections of the said Greater New York charter shall be deemed amended and superseded to the extent prescribed by this local law: Section one hundred and fifty-one, subdivisions one, two and three, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one; Section one hundred and fifty-one, first sentence, as amended by chapter two hundred and six of the laws of nineteen hundred and seventeen; Sections one hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred and fifty-nine and one hundred and sixty, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one; Sections one hundred and fifty-two and one hundred and fiftyfour, as amended by chapter one hundred and ninety-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen; Sections nine hundred and nine, nine hundred and eleven, nine hundred and sixteen and nine hundred and seventeen, as amended by chapter four hundred and fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven; Sections nine hundred and thirteen, nine hundred and twentyone, nine hundred and twenty-two, nine hundred and twenty-three, nine hundred and twenty-four, nine hundred and twenty-five, nine hundred and twenty-seven, nine hundred and thirty-two and nine hundred and thirty-six, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one; Section nine hundred and fourteen, as amended by chapter seventeen of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen; Section nine hundred and twenty-six, as amended by chapter six hundred of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen; Section nine hundred and thirty-three, as amended by chapter twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight; Section nine hundred and thirty-four, as amended by chapter six hundred and twenty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and four; Section nine hundred and thirty-seven, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and twelve; Section nine hundred and thirty-eight, as added by chapter seventy-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and four; Section one thousand and seventeen, as amended by chapter six hundred and two of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen; Section one thousand and nineteen, as amended by chapter six hundred and eighty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen; Sections one thousand and twenty, one thousand and twentyfour, one thousand and twenty-five, one thousand and twenty-six, one thousand and twenty-nine, one thousand and thirty-one, one thousand and thirty-three, one thousand and thirty-six, one thousand and forty-one, one thousand and forty-two, one thousand and forty-five and one thousand and forty-seven, as amended and added by chapter four hundred and ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight; Section one thousand and twenty-three, as amended by chapter six hundred and seventy-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven; Section one thousand and twenty-seven, as amended by chapter three hundred and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen ; Section one thousand and thirty, as amended by chapter six hundred and eighty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen ; Section one thousand and thirty-two, as added by chapter four hundred and ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight and as amended by chapter sixty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and seventeen; Section one thousand and forty-three, as amended by chapter six hundred and eighty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen; Section one thousand and forty-eight, as amended by chapter four hundred and ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight; Section one thousand and forty-nine, as amended by chapter six hundred and seventy-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven; Sections one thousand and fifty and one thousand and fifty-one, as amended by chapter four hundred and ninety of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight. § 3. This law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 17 A local law authorizing the comptroller to remit interest on assessments for benefit levied to defray the cost and expense of the acquisition of title in fee to lands, tenements and hereditaments required for opening and extending of a drainage ditch or canal lying between West Tenth street and West Eleventh street, and extending from a line two hundred feet south of Avenue V to Avenue Y, borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, confirmed by the supreme court on June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and entered for collection in the office of the collector of assessments on July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. Became a law December 31, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New York. Be it enacted, by the municipal assembly of the city of New York, as follows: Section 1. The comptroller is hereby authorized and empowered to remit interest on all the assessments where payment thereof has been delayed without fault on the part of the owner of the property affected thereby, for such period as he shall, in his judgment, deem just and equitable, where such assessments for benefit were levied to defray the cost and expense of the acquisition of title in fee to lands, tenements and hereditaments required for the opening and extending of a drainage ditch or canal lying between West Tenth street and West Eleventh street, and extending from a line two hundred feet south of Avenue V to Avenue Y in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, and which were confirmed by the supreme court on the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, the title of said assessment having been entered in the record of titles of assessments confirmed, kept in the office of the collector of assessments, on the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and as to which the comptroller gave public notice by advertisement published in the City Record and the corporation newspapers for a period of ten days beginning on the twenty-third day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, to all owners of the real property affected by such assessments, that the same were due and payable and, unless the amount of said assessment upon any parcel of real property, so assessed, should be paid on or before September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, interest would be collected thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from ten days after the date of entry (July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six) to the date of payment, as provided by sections one hundred and fifty-nine and nine hundred and eighty-seven of the Greater New York charter, in all those cases where the assessments, levied in the proceeding, were upon large parcels of land which had been subdivided into lots and sold to different owners, thereby necessitating the making of apportionments in order to ascertain the amounts chargeable against such sub-divided parcels, and the making of such apportionments has delayed the rendering of bills for such assesments, so apportioned, in time to enable the said different owners to pay the amounts assessed against their respective parcels prior to September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. § 2. Section one hundred and forty-nine of the Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and one of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, and as amended by chapter six hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, shall be deemed superseded to the extent prescribed by this local law. § 3. This law shall take effect immediately. LOCAL LAW No. 18 A local law in relation to the health department pension fund and amending and superseding section thirteen hundred and twenty of the Greater New York charter. Became a law December 31, 1926, with the approval of the Mayor. Passed by the local legislative body of the city of New York. Be it enacted by the municipal assembly of the city of New York as follows: Section 1. Section thirteen hundred and twenty of the Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one and as last amended by chapter three hundred and seventy-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended and superseded to read as follows: § 1320. The health department pension fund shall consist of: 1. All moneys collected from fines and penalties for violations of the sanitary code or health laws in the city of New York, and all moneys received from the issuance or granting of permits by the board of health of the department of health. 2. A sum of money equal to but not greater than one per centum of the monthly pay, salary or compensation of each physician or employee of the health department, which sum shall be deducted monthly by the comptroller from the pay, salary or compensation of each physician or employee of the health department, and the said comptroller is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to deduct said sum of money as aforesaid, and forthwith to pay the same to the chairman of the board of trustees of the health department pension fund. And no physician or employee shall be entitled to the provisions of the said pension fund unless he immediately files with the board of health and the said comptroller a notice that he intends to take advantage of said pension law, and a consent that such deduction as aforesaid shall be made; and any physician or employee hereafter entering the service of the said department of health shall within six months thereafter file such notice and consent or he shall not be entitled to the benefits of any of the provisions of this act. 3. All said moneys, including the fines and penalties directed in section twelve hundred and twenty-two of this act, to be paid to the comptroller shall, within thirty days after collection of payment, be paid over by the department, officers, clerks, magistrates and courts receiving and collecting the same to the said board of trustees of the health department pension fund § 2. This law shall take effect immediately. |