Section 2-101
§ 2-101 Name; powers and rights of the corporation; seal. The city
shall be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law with power to
contract and to be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to have a common
seal and to have perpetual succession.
Section 2-102
§ 2-102 City seal. a. Description. The following is hereby adopted as
the device of the corporate seal of the city of New York, to-wit:
1. Arms: Upon a shield, saltire wise, the sails of a windmill. Between
the sails, in chief a beaver, in base a beaver, and on each flank a
flour barrel.
2. Supporters: Dexter, a sailor, his right arm bent, and holding in
his right hand a plummet; his left arm bent, his left hand resting on
the top of the shield; above his right shoulder a cross-staff. Sinister,
an Indian of Manhattan, his right arm bent, his right hand resting on
top of the shield, his left hand holding the upper end of a bow, and
lower end of which rests on the ground. Shield and supporters resting
upon a horizontal laurel branch.
3. Date: Beneath the horizontal laurel branch the date 1625 being the
year of the establishment of New Amsterdam.
4. Crest: Upon a hemisphere, an American eagle with wings displayed.
5. Legend: Upon a ribbon encircling the lower half of the design the
words "Sigillum Civitatis Novi Eboraci".
6. The whole encircled by a laurel wreath.
b. Design. The following design is hereby adopted as the official and
standard design of such corporate seal:
(For Seal see chapter 907 of the laws of 1985)
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c. Execution of. The city clerk shall cause the design of such seal to
be engraved upon metal as the seal of the city and he shall affix the
same, as necessary; and he shall also provide in the same manner for all
other officers of the city who are required or authorized to have or use
the corporate seal of the city.
d. Use of. Such seal shall be used for all requisite purposes. All
representations thereof,
1. Impressed or printed on documents, publications or stationery,
issued or used by or in the name of or under the authority of the city,
its agencies or of any borough or department thereof,
2. Carved or otherwise represented on buildings or structures owned by
the city, or
3. Otherwise officially portrayed,
shall be in exact conformity with the aforesaid standard design
without alteration or addition. However, the legend "Sigillum Civitatis
Novi Eboraci" may be omitted when the design is used on the city flag or
for architectural or ornamental purposes. Defaced and cancelled seals
shall remain in the custody of the city clerk. Any representation of the
city seal used on any vehicle other than one owned or used by the city,
shall subject the owner of such vehicle to a fine of twenty-five dollars
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten days.
Section 2-103
§ 2-103 Official city flag. a. The following design is hereby adopted
as the design of the official flag of the city:
1. A flag combining the colors orange, white and blue arranged in
perpendicular bars of equal dimensions (the blue being nearest to the
flagstaff) with the standard design of the seal of the city in blue upon
the middle, or white bar, omitting the legend "Sigillum Civitatis Novi
Eboraci," which colors shall be the same as those of the flag of the
United Netherlands in use in the year sixteen hundred twenty-five.
b. The old guard of the city of New York is authorized to carry and
display the official city flag at all its various functions, reviews,
parades and receptions.
c. The American flag shall be displayed on all city-owned or other
buildings occupied by any city department or institution of whatever
character on all days of the year, excepting Sundays.
Section 2-104
§ 2-104 Official flag--borough of the Bronx. a. The following design
is hereby adopted as the design of the official flag of the borough of
the Bronx. 1. The colors orange, white, and blue as appears on the
official city flag, arranged in horizontal bars of equal dimension, the
orange being above the white and the blue below, with the following
design in the center, encircled within a laurel wreath greater in
diameter than the width of the white stripe:
Crest: Upon a hemisphere, an American eagle with wings displayed.
Shield: The sun with shining rays, rising from the sea.
Legend: Upon a ribbon beneath the words "Ne Cede Malis".
b. This flag may be displayed at reviews, parades, receptions and
other civic functions.
Section 2-105
§ 2-105 Official flag; borough of Brooklyn. a. The following
description is hereby adopted as the description of the official flag of
the borough of Brooklyn. A white background in the center of which is
the design of the seal. Within the seal appears a figure of the goddess
of justice in gold holding Roman fasces in her left hand set on a
background of light blue. Encircling her figure on a background of dark
blue appear the words "Een Draght Mackt Maght" the old Dutch motto for
"In unity there is strength" and below the words "borough of Brooklyn."
The outside and inside trim of the seal is gold.
b. This flag may be displayed at reviews, parades, receptions and
other civic functions.
Section 2-106
§ 2-106 Daylight saving time; effect thereof on public proceedings.
The standard time throughout the city of New York is that of the
seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, except that at
two o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in April of each year such
standard time throughout the city shall be advanced one hour, and at two
o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in October of each year, such
standard time shall, by the retarding of one hour, be returned to the
mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west
from Greenwich, and all courts, public offices and legal and official
proceedings shall be regulated thereby.
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