LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

PASSED AT THE 143D

REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN JANUARY 7, 1920, AND ENDED APRIL 24, 1920, AT THE CITY OF ALBANY, AND INCLUDING CHAPTERS 941-961, PASSED AT THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION, BEGUN SEPTEMBER 20, 1920, AND ENDED SEPTEMBER 24, 1920.

VOLUME III.

Chap. 635.

AN ACT to amend the personal property law, in relation to conditional sales which permit resales.

Became a law May 10, 1920, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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Section 1. Section sixty-two of chapter forty-five of the laws L. 1900, of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to per- $62 sonal property, constituting chapter forty-one of the consolidated amended. laws," is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 62. Conditions and reservations in contracts for the sale of goods and chattels. Except as otherwise provided in this article, all conditions and reservations in a contract for the conditional sale of goods and chattels, accompanied by delivery of the thing contracted to be sold, to the effect that the ownership of such goods and chattels is to remain in the conditional vendor or in a person other than the conditional vendee, until they are paid for, or until the occurrence of a future event or contingency, shall be void as against subsequent purchasers, pledgees or mortgagees, in good faith, and as to them the sale shall be deemed absolute, unless such contract of sale, containing such conditions and reservations, or a true copy thereof, be filed as directed in this article, and unless the other provisions of the lien law applicable to such contracts are duly complied with; 'provided that every such contract permitting the resale of such goods by the vendee shall be

valid whether filed or not, but shall be void as against subsequent purchasers, pledgees or mortgagees in good faith for value, and without actual knowledge of the conditions of such contract, and as to them the sale shall be deemed absolute. Every such contract for the conditional sale of any goods and chattels attached, or to be attached, to a building, shall be void as against subsequent bona fide purchasers or incumbrancers of the premises on which said building stands, and as to them the sale shall be deemed absolute, unless, on or before the date of the delivery of such goods or chattels at such building, such contract shall have been duly and properly filed and indexed as directed in this article and unless said contract shall contain a brief description, sufficient for identification, of the premises which said building occupies, or upon which said building stands, and if in a city or village its location by street number, if known, and if in a city or county where the block system of recording and indexing conveyances is in use, the section and block within which it is located. 82. This act shall take effect immediately.

L. 1902, ch. 269,

§ 62, as amended

Chap. 636.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Plattsburgh, in relation to street and sidewalk improvement and payments therefor.

Became a law May 10, 1920, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

Accepted by the City.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section sixty-two of chapter two hundred and sixtynine of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An act to by L. 1908, incorporate the city of Plattsburgh," as amended by chapter six hundred and twenty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended to read as follows:1

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⚫ amended.

§ 62. Sidewalks and curbs. In case the work shall be the con struction or improving of a sidewalk, or the constructing, improving, grading, trestling and setting of curbs, each lot or parcel 1 Section materially amended.

of land fronting thereon shall be assessed with the expense of its construction in front thereof in proportion of its frontage to the whole frontage. It shall, in all cases, be the duty of the owner of any lot or piece of land within said city to remove or clean away snow, ice or other obstruction from such sidewalk. The said superintendent shall also have power to clean snow, ice or other obstruction from any sidewalk where the same shall have remained for twelve hours, and the expense of making such repairs or cleaning any sidewalks or curbs shall be a charge upon the property adjacent thereto, and no ordinance for the same shall be passed or a notice posted or published. Thereupon, the said superintendent shall send to the owner of said property, if his address be known, an itemized statement for such repairs or cleaning, and if such expense is not paid to the city chamberlain within thirty days, the amount thereof with interest at the rate of twelve per centum per annum from the time of sending such itemized statement, shall be added to the amount assessed against such land for the next general city tax and the whole amount of such assessment shall be collected in the same manner as general city taxes.

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§ 2. Such chapter is hereby amended by adding after section 02-620 sixty-two five new sections, to be section sixty-two-a, section sixtytwo-b, section sixty-two-c, section sixty-two-d and section sixtytwo-e, to read, respectively, as follows:

862-a. Improvements, payable wholly or partially by local assessments, or by the city. The expense of grading, filling, excavating, paving, repaving with other and different materials, macadamizing or asphalting, any street or portion of a street in said city shall be paid as follows: Upon any street on or through which a street railway is located, the owner or owners of said street railway shall pay the expense of such work between two parallel lines to be drawn two feet outside of the outside rails of the track or tracks of said street railway, and one-fourth of the remainder of the expense of such work shall be paid by the owners of the property fronting on such street, each owner to pay in proportion to the frontage of his property thereon; and the remaining three-fourths shall be paid by the city out of the street and sewer fund. Upon any street on or through which there is no street railway located the owners of the property fronting on or adjoining such street shall pay one-fourth of the cost of the aforesaid work from the curb line in front of said property to the

center line of said street, and three-fourths thereof shall be paid
by the city out of the street and sewer fund. The expense of
grading, filling, excavating, paving, renewing, macadamizing or
asphalting intersections of streets and places where a per linear
foot assessment cannot be levied, the owner or owners of the street
railway shall pay the expense of said work between two parallel
lines to be drawn two feet outside of each of the outside rails of
the tracks and between the rails of said street railway. The ex-
pense of graveling, repairing and ordinary working of all streets
shall be paid by the city out of the general street and sewer fund.
When the grade of a street has once been established by the city
and such grade recorded and conformed to in the making of any
local improvement, the cost of regrading thereafter made shall be
a charge upon the city. The expense of constructing sewers in
said city shall be paid by the city at large out of the street and
sewer fund, except as otherwise provided in this act.
$62-b. Assessment of cost. When the work of any local im-
provement has been completed, the board of public works shall
direct the cost and expense thereof to be assessed by the superin-
tendent of public works and it shall be the duty of the said super-
intendent to immediately assess the cost and expense, including
surveying, advertising, inspection and assessment of such local im
provement, upon the property fronting on such street as hereto-
fore provided, separately assessing and stating the amount assessed
for paving, sidewalk or curb respectively and also stating the
amount to be paid by the city by a general tax, separately stating
the amount for paving, sidewalks, crosswalks or curbs. He shall.
make an assessment-roll and state the amount of the taxes assessed
for each of said improvements opposite the name of the person,
corporation, association and property assessed, which property
shall be briefly described by number of lot or otherwise so that
it may be located and identified. When completed, the said assess-
ment-roll shall be deposited in the office of the city clerk and the
city clerk shall give public notice in the official papers for one
week of the completion thereof and send written notice by mail to
each person so assessed, addressed to his last known residence, that
said assessment-roll has been prepared and will remain at said
office for ten days from the date of such notice, during which
time any persons interested may examine such roll. On the day
and hour specified in such notice, the board of public works shall
hear and consider any objection to such assessment and shall