Section 3-501
§ 3-501 Receipts to be recorded and accounted for. Each borough
president shall enter the names of all persons from whom he or she may
receive money for the city, on trust account or otherwise, with the
amounts received, on what account, and when paid, in books to be
provided for that purpose and kept in the borough president's office,
open at all convenient times to public inspection. The borough president
shall render a verified account thereof, item by item, to the
comptroller, on Thursday of each week, and shall thereupon pay over the
amount so received to the director of finance, from whom he or she shall
receive duplicate vouchers therefor, one of which the borough president
shall file in the office of the comptroller on the same day.
Section 3-502
§ 3-502 Permits. In all cases where provision is made by law that the
consent of a borough president shall be obtained to authorize any act to
be done, he or she may grant a permit therefor, subject to the
restrictions of all laws in relation thereto. Upon granting any such
permit, the borough president may exact such cash deposit or bond, or
both, as he or she may deem necessary to safeguard the interests of the
city.
Section 3-503
§ 3-503 President of borough to furnish information. The president of
any borough shall furnish the council and the board of estimate with
such surveys, diagrams or other information as may enable them to
discharge their duties relative to street and park improvements.
Section 3-504
§ 3-504 Borough president; right of entry. The president of any
borough may enter in the day time upon any lands, tenements,
hereditaments and waters which he or she shall deem necessary to be
surveyed, used or converted, for the purpose of laying out, surveying
and monumenting parks, streets, bridges, tunnels and approaches to
bridges and tunnels or marking any boundary line or lines.
Section 3-505
§ 3-505 Street numbers. a. Requirements. The owner, agent, lessee or
other person in charge of any building in the city upon a street to
which street numbers of buildings have been assigned by the president of
the borough in which such building is situated, shall cause the proper
street number or numbers of such buildings to be displayed in such
manner that the street number or numbers may at all times be plainly
legible from the sidewalk in front of such building. The term "front" as
used in this section shall be construed to mean that side of the
building which faces the street on which the number or numbers of such
building, or premises on which such building is situated, have been
allotted. The number or numbers shall be displayed on such side of such
building or premises. Each borough president shall have the power to
establish and enforce rules and regulations relating to the size, form,
visibility and location of street numbers in accordance with the
requirements of this section.
b. Violations. If the owner, lessee, agent or other person in charge
of any building in the city upon a street to which street numbers of
buildings have been assigned by the president of the borough in which
such building is situated shall fail to display the proper street number
of such building, as provided in the foregoing subdivision, the
president of the borough in which such building is situated shall
forthwith serve such person or persons with a copy of this section, and
if after thirty days' notice the owner, lessee, agent or other person in
charge of such building shall fail or neglect to comply with the
provisions thereof, he or she shall be subject to a penalty of
twenty-five dollars, which shall be sued for and collected in the name
of the city. Any person who shall continue any such offense shall pay an
additional sum of five dollars for each day such offense shall continue.
Section 3-506
§ 3-506 Borough presidents to adjust numbering. In all cases where a
street shall have been numbered or renumbered, the borough president
having jurisdiction shall thereafter adjust and renumber such street as
the same may be required from time to time. In numbering and renumbering
houses, the borough president shall leave sufficient numbers on each
block, so that, under any circumstances, there would be but one block
where a change would be required, in case of renumbering at any
subsequent time.
Section 3-507
§ 3-507 Numbers in certain sections in the borough of Manhattan.
Whenever any street north of Ninth street, inclusive, in the borough of
Manhattan, shall be directed to be numbered or renumbered, the president
of such borough shall cause the numbers to commence at Fifth avenue,
numbering east and west, beginning with number one, on the west side of
Fifth avenue; number one hundred, on the west side of Sixth avenue;
number two hundred on the west side of Seventh avenue, and so on, east
and west of Fifth avenue, through the whole series of streets north of
Ninth street, and including Ninth street. Such streets shall hereafter
be called and known as East Ninth and West Ninth street, and so on, the
dividing line to be Fifth avenue.
Section 3-508
§ 3-508 Excavations or embankments near landmarks. It shall be
unlawful for any person to make any excavation or embankment, or to lay
or move any pavement or flagging, within three feet of any monument or
bolt, which has been set by proper authority, or designated on any
official map as a landmark to denote street lines within the city,
unless a permit therefor has been obtained from the president of the
borough in which such monument or bolt is situated. Applications for
such permits shall be in writing, and shall set forth the nature of the
work proposed, and the location of all monuments or other landmarks
affected thereby. The borough president shall thereupon cause one of the
city surveyors or an engineer in the borough president's office to take
such measurements and field notes as may be necessary to restore such
monuments or bolts to their correct position after the completion of the
contemplated work, and, when such measurements and field notes have been
taken, the required permit shall be issued.
Section 3-509
§ 3-509 Removal or covering up of landmarks. It shall be unlawful for
any person to remove or cover up a monument or bolt for designating any
street, without giving three days' notice in writing of his or her
intention so to do to the commissioner of transportation and to the
president of the borough in which the monument or bolt is situated. Upon
receiving such a notice, the borough president shall cause one of the
city surveyors, or an engineer in the borough president's office to take
the necessary measures to raise or lower such monument or bolt to the
proper grade of the street, and, when necessary, to cause such
alteration to be noted on records to be kept in the borough president's
office for that purpose. Whenever a borough president shall ascertain
that any monument or bolt has been removed, without such notice, he or
she shall forthwith cause the same to be placed in its proper position,
and shall note the same on the records in the manner hereinbefore
stated. The expenses attending such replacement shall be paid by the
comptroller, on the certificate of the borough president causing the
work to be done.
Section 3-510
§ 3-510 Violations. Any person who shall make any excavation or
embankment, or lay or take up any pavement or flagging within three feet
of any monument, bolt or other landmark, without having first obtained a
permit to perform such work, or who shall in any way remove or deface
any monument, bolt or other landmark, shall be punished for each offense
by a fine of fifty dollars, imprisonment for not more than thirty days,
or both.
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