New York General City Law

Every section of the New York General City Law, in order — 207 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 1 — Short title
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 1 — Meaning of terms
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 2 — Term of office of city supervisors
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 2 — Persons subject to tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 2-a — Succession to certain city offices
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 2-b — Definition
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3 — Members of common council; appointments to other city offices
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3 — Rate of tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3-a — Rate of tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3-a — Liability of city officials
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3-b — Deposit of city funds
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3-c — Unlawful offers or agreements by municipal officials or omnibus lines with respect to omnibus line operations
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 3-d — Receipts and disbursements of payrolls
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 4 — Removal of appointive officers in cities of the third class
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 4 — Taxable years to which tax applies; tax for taxable years beginning prior to and ending after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-six
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 5 — Accounting periods and methods
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 5 — Certain parades and processions forbidden; penalty
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 6 — Resident and nonresident defined
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 6 — Swearing witnesses
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 7 — Summoning witnesses
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 8 — Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions are submitted to all the voters of a city
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 10 — Licenses to adult blind persons
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 11 — City taxable income of a resident individual
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 11 — Use of soft coal in public institutions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 12 — Money for celebration of legal holidays in cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 12 — City adjusted gross income of a resident individual
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 12-a — Money for tercentennial celebrations
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13 — Moneys for Memorial and Veterans days; how expended
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13 — City deduction of a resident individual
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-a — Moneys for maintaining the conference of mayors and other city officials of the state of New York and any of its activities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-b — Publicity fund
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-c — Power of cities to provide moneys to replace revenues from excise taxes
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-e — Expenses of meeting rooms for veterans' and other organizations
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-f — Moneys for maintaining the municipal electric utilities association of the state of New York and any of its activities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-g — Moneys for maintaining the New York State Assessors Association and any of its activities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 13-h — Moneys for maintaining statewide associations of local officials and any of their activities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 14 — Permits for erection of booths and arches
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 14 — City standard deduction of a resident individual
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 15 — Firefighters moving from one city to another
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 15 — City itemized deduction of a resident individual
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 16 — City personal exemptions of a resident individual
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 16 — Term of service; how reckoned
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 16-a — Volunteer members of fire companies
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 16-b — Computation of pensions in certain retirement funds
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 16-c — Minimum service retirement benefits for certain sanitation department employees in cities and who are members of pension or retirement sy...
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 17 — Operation of crematories for disposal of garbage
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 17 — Resident partners
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 18 — License to operate moving picture apparatus
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 18 — City taxable income of a resident estate or trust
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 18-a — Nothing contained in section eighteen shall be considered to apply to any so-called miniature motion picture apparatus which uses only an...
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 18-b — Admission of children to theatres
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 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...
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 18-d — Duty of street vendors to keep the sidewalk and street clean
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 19 — Share of a resident estate, trust or beneficiary in city fiduciary adjustment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 19 — General grant of powers
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20 — Credit to trust beneficiary receiving accumulation distribution
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20 — Grant of specific powers
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-a — Purchasing department or agency
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-b — Cities authorized to impose taxes on utilities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-c — Temporary investment of certain city funds in obligations of the United States
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-d — Alternative procedure for acquisition of certain real property, personal property and franchises of omnibus lines within cities having a ...
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-e — State office buildings and other public improvements in certain cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-f — Transfer of development rights; definitions; conditions; procedures
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 20-g — Intermunicipal cooperation in comprehensive planning and land use regulation
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 21 — Public or municipal purpose and general welfare defined
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 21-b — Debt service in relation to certain municipal cooperative activities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 21-c — Passenger stations of railroad redevelopment corporations in certain cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 21-d — Establishment of blood credit systems by cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 21-e — Operating assistance for water-works corporations in certain cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 21-f — Operating assistance for certain public utility services
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 22 — This grant in addition to existing powers
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 23 — Powers hereby granted, how to be exercised
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 24 — Construction of this act
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25 — Increasing compensation during fiscal year prohibited
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-a — Authorization to impose tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-aa — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-b — Credits against tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-bb — Special rebates
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-c — Administrative provisions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-cc — Construction
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-dd — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-ee — Authorization to provide relocation and employment assistance credits in Lower Manhattan
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-ff — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-gg — Relocation assistance credit per employee
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-s — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-t — Authorization to require special rebates and discounts
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-u — Construction
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-v — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-w — Authorization to require and permit rebates for sales tax paid
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-x — Construction
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-y — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 25-z — Authorization to provide relocation and employment assistance credits
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 26 — Official map, establishment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 27 — Planning board, creation and appointment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 27-a — Site plan review
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 27-b — Approval of special use permits
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 28-a — City comprehensive plan
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 29 — Official map, changes
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 31 — Planning board, general reports
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 31 — Returns and liabilities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 32 — Subdivision review; approval of plats; development of filed plats
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 32 — Time and place for filing returns and paying tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 33 — Subdivision review; approval of plats; additional requisites
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 33 — Signing of returns and other documents
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 34 — Subdivision review; record of plats
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 34 — Change of residence status during the year
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 35 — Declarations of estimated tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 35 — Permits for building in bed of mapped streets
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 35-a — Limitation of time for revocation of permit
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 36 — Municipal improvements in streets, buildings not on mapped streets
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 36 — Payments of estimated tax
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 37 — Subdivision review; approval of cluster development
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 37 — Extensions of time
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 38 — Court review
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 38 — Requirements concerning returns, notices, records and statements
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 38-a — Removal of walls encroaching on streets
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 39 — Report of change in federal taxable income
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 39 — Separability clause
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 40 — Change of election
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 40 — Definitions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 40-a — Examining boards of plumbers in cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 41 — Term of office; vacancies
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 41 — Declaration of estimated tax for taxable years beginning prior to the date this local law becomes effective
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 42 — Compensation of members of board
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 43 — Qualifications
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 44 — Powers and duties
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 45 — Examinations; conducting business without certificate prohibited
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 45-a — Corporations may conduct business
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 45-b — Further requirements relating to the business of plumbing
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 45-b — Further requirements relating to the business of plumbing
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 46 — Registration; when required
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 47 — Cancellation of registration; notice
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 48 — Inspectors; qualifications; notice
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 49 — Duties of inspectors; reports
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 50 — Expiration and renewals of certificates and licenses
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 51 — Notice of violation of rules
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 51 — Requirement of withholding tax from wages
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 52 — Notice, how served; proceedings when violated not removed
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 52 — Information statement for employee
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 53 — Credit for tax withheld
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 53 — Plumbing and drainage to be executed according to rules
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 54 — Office room; expenses a city charge
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 54 — Employer's return and payment of withheld taxes
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 55 — Employer's liability for withheld taxes
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 55 — Violations, how punished
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 56 — Employer's failure to withhold
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 56 — Issue of licenses to connect with sewers and water mains restricted
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 56-a — Use by the state, individuals and corporations outside corporate limits
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 57 — Article limited
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 60 — Supervision of plastering by building department
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 61 — Three coat work required on lath
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 61 — Notice of deficiency
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 62 — Key space
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 62 — Assessment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 63 — First coat or scratch coat
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 63 — Limitations on assessment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 64 — Interest on underpayment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 64 — Second coat
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 65 — Finishing
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 65 — Additions to tax and civil penalties
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 66 — Overpayment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 66 — Cornices or coves
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 67 — Patent plasters
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 67 — Limitations on credit or refund
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 68 — Interest on overpayment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 68 — Nothing in this article contained shall affect the multiple dwelling law and the enforcement of the provisions thereof by the city of New...
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 69 — Petition to administrator
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 70 — Review of administrator's decision
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 71 — Mailing rules; holidays
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 72 — Collection, levy and liens
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 73 — Transferees
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 74 — Jeopardy assessment
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 75 — Criminal penalties
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 76 — Armed forces relief provisions
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 77 — General powers of administrator
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 78 — Secrecy requirement and penalties for violation
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81 — Zoning board of appeals
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81-a — Board of appeals procedure
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81-b — Permitted action by board of appeals
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81-c — Article seventy-eight proceeding
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81-d — Incentive zoning; definitions, purposes, conditions, procedures
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81-e — Article not applicable to certain cities
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 81-f — Planned unit development zoning districts
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 83 — Amendments, alterations and changes in district lines
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 83-a — Exemption of lots shown on approved subdivision plats
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 90 — Deposit and disposition of revenues by administrator
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 90 — Police station houses for the detention of women; how designated
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 91 — Effect of invalidity in part; inconsistencies with other laws
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 93 — When police matrons to reside at station houses
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 94 — Women under arrest to have separate accommodations
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 95 — Proceeding in case of arrest of women
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 96 — Woman defined
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 97 — Appropriations under article, how made
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 116 — Certificates of deposit
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 120 — Creation; board; employees
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 121 — Powers of the authority
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 122 — Reports of the authority
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 123 — Acquisition of real property; financing of expenditures
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 130 — Contracts with corporations for supply of gas
• N.Y. Gen. City Law § 131 — Letting of contract to be public