be filed with the city clerk. The commissioner shall not name any person on whom any order is to be drawn. A violation of this provision shall be ground for removal of the commissioner from office by the mayor, after giving him a copy of written charges and an opportunity to be heard at a public meeting. The commissioner of charities shall disburse the funds for the aid of the poor of said city, in the manner provided herein, by orders signed by him and drawn upon the treasurer of the city, and all provisions of this act, relating to the orders of the common council, so far as practicable, shall be applicable to the orders of the commissioner of charities. No disbursement shall be made by the commissioner in behalf of any one family during a year in excess of fifty dollars without the express approval of the mayor indorsed upon the warrant. § 117. Common council to audit accounts. All charges and accounts against said city for services rendered, acts done, or means, provisions or supplies furnished under the direction of the commissioner of charities of said city under the provisions of this act, shall be made out in items, duly verified by the persons entitled to the payment therefor, and presented, with the duplicate order authorizing the same, to the common council at the first regular meeting of said council in each month for auditing bills. The common council shall audit all claims, accounts and charges, and when so audited, the commissioner is authorized to pay and discharge the same by order upon the treasurer, payable out of the charities fund of said city; but no order shall be drawn or payment made by said commissioner for such purpose until the account therefor has been duly audited as aforesaid. Such accounts and charges, with the duplicate order presented therewith, the audit of the common council and the order of the commissioner on the treasurer, shall, within one month after said audit, be filed with the city clerk with the application for relief and the duplicate order previously filed as aforesaid. § 118. Commissioner not to be interested in purchases. The commissioner of charities shall not directly or indirectly furnish to any person any groceries, provisions, fuel, medicines or properties belonging to himself, or in which he shall have an interest or be interested, nor shall he receive any commission upon or for any article or goods or relief furnished or any orders given by him for any such goods or articles or relief furnished. For any violation of any provision of this section, said commissioner shall be removed from office by the mayor and he shall forfeit to said city a penalty of one hundred dollars for every such violation. § 119. Care of the sick. The commissioner of charities is authorized, subject to the approval of the common council, to annually enter into a contract with the Woman's Hospital Association of Batavia or any other Batavia hospital for the care, surgical and medical treatment in the hospital of such indigent sick and injured of the city who are in need thereof and cannot pay therefor and who may be sent to said hospital on the order of said commissioner of charities, subject to the terms of said contract, the annual expense thereof not to exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. The health officer of the city, or some other competent physician, shall be the city physician, and shall attend such other indigent sick and injured of said city not sent to said hospital and shall be entitled to not more than three hundred dollars per year for such services. Such compensation to be fixed by the common council. § 120. Monthly report of commissioner. The commissioner of charities, at the first regular meeting of the common council in each month, shall under oath report in detail to the common council all appropriations, expenditures, temporary relief, medical attendance and allowance made by him as such commissioner during the month preceding, which report shall specify the name and place of abode of each person relieved, the amount of the order, for what and upon whom the order was drawn; said report shall also contain the names and places of abode of all persons to whom meals or lodgings have been furnished, the num ber of such meals and lodgings, from whom obtained or by whom furnished and the cost of same. Said report shall be filed with the city clerk. Beacon, Dutchess County. (Note. Commissioner of public safety, elected by the people at large, for a term of four years, at a salary of $300 a year.) Chapter 539, Laws of 1913. TITLE II. City Officers; Powers and Duties Generally. * * * § 10. The officers of said city shall be as follows: the commissioner of public safety, elected by the people at large, for a term of four years. * * * § 17. The commissioner of public safety. He shall have charge and supervision of the sanitary, health, charity and correction departments, and shall make all rules and regulations for the conduct thereof, not in conflict with the laws of the state or ordinances of the city. He shall provide in all ways possible for the peace, safety, health, care, comfort and protection of the inhabitants of the city, and of their property, and shall recommend ordinances when advisable or necessary, to the council for such purposes. The health officer of the city shall be under his authority. He shall be the inspector of all plumbing, weights and measures, and he shall impartially enforce all laws and ordinances appertaining to his department. He shall be acting judge during the absence or inability to act of the city judge. He shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars a year, payable monthly. (As amended by chapter 547 of the Laws of 1915.) (NOTE. Binghamton, Broome County. Commissioner of charities appointed for a term of two years. Salary fixed by board of estimate and apportionment.) Binghamton is a city of the second class, and comes within the provisions of chapter 53 of the Consolidated Laws for which see page 261 with relation to city of Albany. Buffalo, Erie County. (Note.-Chapter 217, Laws of 1914, provides for a commission form of government.) Chapter 217, Laws of 1914. TITLE VIII. ARTICLE II. Department of Poor. § 305. Until otherwise provided by the council the department of public affairs shall include within its jurisdiction the relief of the poor. § 306. Except in case of extreme exigency and for a period of not exceeding one month, and under such regulations as the council shall prescribe, it shall not be lawful for the city to grant aid or relief to any person with whose support the city is not chargeable under the general poor laws of the state, but all such persons shall be referred to the proper state or county officer. § 307. All the books and records of the department of poor shall be open for examination at all times by any taxpayer of the city, and the names and residence of all persons relieved, with other pertinent facts, shall be kept in such books and records. § 308. The council shall by ordinance provide for the proper investigation and relief of the city poor except that hospital aid or treatment, designated "indoor relief," in abodes provided by law for cases requiring permanent assistance, shall be granted only by the superintendent of the poor of Erie county, or other proper state or county officer under the general laws of the state, and all cases requiring such relief shall be referred to the proper state or county officer. Orders for provisions, boots and shoes, fuel and other necessary articles to be furnished to applicants requiring temporary aid, designated "outdoor aid," and prescriptions for the furnishing of medicines shall be issued under such regulations and by such officers as the council may provide, and when so issued they shall be valid evidence of indebtedness against the city in the hands of the person, firm or corporation accepting and filling the same. § 309. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or firm to furnish beer, liquors or intoxicating drinks of any kind on an order of the character provided in the preceding section, or to buy any such order from the person to whom it was issued, or from any other person, before it has been accepted and filled, or to furnish any article not specified or embraced therein. $310. Any fraud practiced or false representation made by an applicant for city aid or relief, or by any other person, to procure aid or relief to be given, or to procure any order for outdoor aid to be accepted or filled, or to be paid by the city, or any willful act of any city officer or other person, designed to impede or in any way to interfere with the just and proper administration of this department shall be a misdemeanor. Canandaigua, Ontario County. (Note. Commissioner of charity appointed by the mayor for a term of two years and receives same per diem compensation paid to overseers of the poor in towns.) * * * Chapter 371, Laws of 1913. TITLE I. § 7. City regarded as a town for certain purposes. The said city of Canandaigua shall also be considered a town for the purposes specified in the "poor law," chapter fortytwo of the consolidated laws, being chapter forty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine and the acts amendatory thereof. And the poor of said city shall be received and cared for in the county almshouse in the same manner and on the same terms and conditions as the poor of other towns in the county of Ontario. Cohoes, Albany County. (Note. Commissioner of charities appointed by the mayor for a term of two years at an annual salary of $1,000.) Chapter 130, Laws of 1915. ARTICLE XI. Department of Charities. Section 175. Commissioner; overseer of poor. 177. Powers and duties of district physicians. |