The State Department Reports of the State of New York, Volume 37, Issues 306-328

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J.B. Lyon Company, 1928
Decisions of the Public Service Commissions, Board of Claims, and Education Department; opinions of the Attorney-General; rulings of the Secretary of State, Comptroller, State Engineer, Commissioner of Agriculture, Superintendent of Banks, Superintendent of Insurance, Civil Service Commission, Conservation Commission, Commissioner of Excise and State Tax Commissioners, etc., etc.; and messages of the Governor.

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Page 311 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 595 - Laws relating to the property, affairs or government of cities, and the several departments thereof, are divided into general and special city laws ; general city laws are those which relate to all the cities of one or more classes ; special city laws are those which relate to a single city, or to less than all the cities of a class.
Page 158 - Lawrence, Warren, Washington, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan, except 1. Lands within the limits of any village or city, and 2. Lands not wild lands acquired by the state on foreclosure of mortgages made to loan commissioners.
Page 89 - State, and providing for a submission of the same to the people to be voted upon at the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and eleven.
Page 170 - All the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business, including a reasonable allowance for salaries or other compensation for...
Page 122 - ... plans are just and equitable to the other municipalities and civil divisions of the state affected thereby and to the inhabitants thereof, particular consideration being given to their present and future necessities for sources of water supply...
Page 169 - ... taxes assessed against local benefits of a kind tending to increase the value of the property assessed...
Page 312 - ... shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real estate or any portion thereof whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded.
Page 372 - Whenever one or more common school districts shall adjoin any union free school district whose limits do not correspond with those of an incorporated village or city...
Page 165 - A public officer or school officer, who is authorized to sell or lease any property, or to make any contract in his official capacity, or to take part in making any such sale, lease or contract, who voluntarily becomes interested individually in such sale, lease or contract, directly or indirectly, except in cases where such sale, lease or contract, or payment under the same, is subject to audit or approval by the commissioner of education, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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