A COMPARATIVE TABLE OF SECTIONS AS THEY
APPEAR IN THE
NEW YORK CITY CHARTER
AND
THE CHARTER REVISION BILL
WITH
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF REVISION BILL
AND
TABLE OF CHARTER AMENDMENTS FROM
1 897 TO I 900.
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PUBLISHED BY THE CITY CLUB OF NEW YORK,
19 West 34th Street, New York City,
February, 1901.
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NOTE.
The bill prepared by the Charter Revision Commission embodies
a complete charter for New York City. Although the bill is so printed
as to indicate in detail the amendments proposed to the existing charter,
the difficulty in making a comparison between the provisions of the bill
and those of the charter is very great. This difficulty is due for the
most part to the general re-arrangement of the charter proposed in the
bill, and the consequent appearance of sections in the bill under num-
bers other than those which the same sections bear in the charter. Each
section of the bill refers to any section of the charter from which it is
derived. But to the question what the bill proposes to do with this or
that section of the charter, the answer can be found in many cases only
by searching in the bill for the lost section of the charter. The accom-
panying table will show what the Revision Commission proposes to do
with each section of the present charter which does not appear in the
bill under its present number. As a further aid in comparing the two
documents, a list of the chapter headings of the bill is also printed.
To facilitate amendment, the charter was so drawn that several
numbers between that of the last section in each chapter, and that of the
first section in the following chapter were not used. It happens, there-
fore, that the bill has certain sections under numbers which do not occur
in the charter. They are : —
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379
698
Bounds of City.
City Clerk.
690*
1900
718 ■
Abandonment proceed-
ings.
45
1900
7
Franchises Rapid Transit
691*
712
Same. /
49
58
1899
1900
691
247
Municipal Assembly.
Commissioners of Deeds.
1900
1900
620 j
Commissioner of Correc-
tion.
73
1899
564
Franchises.
720
1898
573
Fire Commissioner.
124
1899
370"
Affected by general civil
722
1899
612)
125
1899
370
service law, but not
722
1900
821
Fire Department
126
1899
370
expressly amended or
748
1900
155)
127
1899
370 J
repealed.
Sto
1898
1898
602)
Fire Department tax on
150
1899
130
Deputy Comptroller.
811*
foreign fire insurance
187
1899
74
Special revenue bonds.
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companies.
217
1898
650
Leases to city.
894*
1899
500
Personal taxes.
230
230
1898
1899
391)
126 •
Appropriations. Chaps.
391 and 126 not in terms
937
937
1898
1898
432
515
Taxes and assessments.
230
1899
196
amendments charter.
948
1899
212
Assessments
255
1900
284'
Corporation counsel.
1023a*
1899
706
Taxes and assessments.
355
1898
380
Police Pensions.
1055
1898
652'
372*
373*
1899
1899
674'
674
1060
1064
1900
1900
751
751
Department of Education
374*
1899
674
1065
1900
751J
375*
1899
674
1083
1898
H
Teachers' retirement
376*
1899
674
Police matrons, arrest of
fund.
377*
1899
674 ■
women, etc.
109 1
1899
417
Teachers' salaries.
378*
379*
1899
1899
674
674
1091
1117
1900
1899
751 1
254 1
Department of Education
380*
381*
1899
1899
674
674 J
1128
1132
1900
1900
757 1
757/
College City of New York
422
1899
212
Local improvements.
1212
1900
663
Department of Health.
471
1900
283
Water contracts.
1353
1899
254
Municipal Court Justices.
480
1900
463
Taxation lands for water
supply.
1367
1373
1898
1899
546)
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Municipal Court.
518
1899
313
Aqueduct Commission.
1400
1898
389
Criminal Courts.
1898
613]
Park Ave. improvement.
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Justices of Special Ses-
sions and City Magis-
527
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1403
1899
367 i
536
1899
261.
Department of Street
Cleaning,
1513
1897
703)
trates.
744-
Commissioner of Street
1514
1897
703 \
Boards of Pharmacy.
541
1900
Cleaning.
1519
1897
703)
567*
1899
568
Lateral sewers.
1528
1900
615
Publication civil list
567
1900
623
Lateral sewers.
1583
1899
74
County officers' salaries,
568*
1900
83
Sewage disposal works.
1586
1899
74
Boards of Supervisors.
575
1900
628
Inspection electric lights.
1587
1899
433]
Treasurer Richmond
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Inspection gas meters.
County.
576
1900
629 j
Not in terms amend-
ment charter.
1593
1899
74
Queens County tax.
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CONTENTS OF CHARTER REVISION BILL AS PROPOSED
BY REVISION COMMISSION.
Chap. I. Boundaries, Boroughs, Powers, Rights and Obligations
of the City.
Chap. IL Legislative Department.
Chap. III. Franchise and Grants of land under water.
Title I. Franchises.
Title 2. Grants of land under water.
Chap. IV. The Executive.
Chap. V. The Mayor.
Chap. VI. Department of Finance.
Title I. The comptroller.
Title 2. The bonds and obligations of the city.
Title 3. The chamberlain.
Title 4. The sinking funds.
Title 5. Appropriations and the board of estimate
and apportionment.
Title 6. Levying taxes.
Chap.VII. Law Department.
Chap. VIII. Police Department and Board of Elections.
Title I. Police Department.
Title 2. Board of Elections.
Chap. IX. Borough Officers.
Title I. Borough officers.
Title 2. Bureau of buildings.
Chap. X. Contracts and Local Improvements.
Title I . General provisions relating to contracts.
Title 2. Local boards.
Title 3. Local improvements.
Title 4. Maps and plans.
Chap. XI. Departments of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity,
Street Cleaning and Bridges.
Title I . General provisions.
Title 2. Department of water supply, gas and elec-
tricity.
Title 3. Department of street cleaning.
Title 4. Department of bridges.
Chap. XII. Department of Parks.
Title I. The parks of the city.
Title 2. The art commission.
Chap. XIII. Public Charities.
Title I. Department oif Public Charities.
Title 2. Bellevue and Allied Hospitals in the City
of New York.
Chap. XIV. Department of Correction.
Chap. XV. Fire Department.
Title I. Organization, duties and powers of officers
and men.
Title 2. Fires and their extinction.
Title 3. Prevention of fires; explosives and com-
bustible materials.
Title 4. Fire marshals, and investigations of origin
of fires.
Title 5. Relief fund and pensions.
Title 6. Tax upon foreign insurance companies.
Chap. XVI. Docks, Piers, Harbor, Port and Waters.
Title I . Department of docks and ferries.
Title 2. Piers, slips and wharfage.
Title 3. General provisions.
Chap. XVII. Taxes and Assessments.
Title I. Department of taxes and assessments ; pow-
ers and duties.
Title 2. Assessments for local improvements other
than those confirmed by a court of
record.
Title 3. Vacating and modifying assessments for
local improvements other than those con-
firmed by a court of record.
Title 4. Opening streets and parks.
Title 5. Sales of land for taxes, assessments and
water rates.
Chap. XVIII. Department of Education.
Title I. The public schools and their management.
Title 2. The College of the City of New York.
Title 3. The normal college.
Title 4. General provisions.
Chap. XIX. Department of Health.
Title I. Powers and duties of the department, its
officers and administration.
Title 2. Marriages, births and deaths.
Title 3. Duties of physicians and others.
Title 4. Legal proceedings and punishment for diso-
bedience of orders and ordinances.
Title 5. Reimbursement of expenses.
Title 6. Abatement by suits.
Title 7. Tenement and lodging houses.
Title 8. Pension fund.
Chap. XX. The Inferior Local Courts.
Title I . The city court of New York.
Title 2. The municipal court of The City of New
York.
Title 3. Inferior courts of criminal jurisdiction.
Title 4. The marshals.
Title 5. Interpreters.
Chap. XXI. The Acquisition of Lands and Interests Therein for
Public Purposes.
Chap. XXII. General Statutes.
Title I . Commercial paper during epidemics.
Title 2. Pharmacists and druggists.
Title 3. Board of city record.
Title 4. General provisions.
Title 5. Coroners.
Chap. XXIII. Provisions Relating to the Counties and Repeal Pro-
visions.
Title I. Provisions relating to the counties.
Title 2. Repeal provisions.
CHARTER AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY REVISION COMMISSION,
TABLE OF SECTION NUMBERS.
(Sections which retain in the revision their numbers in the
charter are not included here.)
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REPEALED, CHARTER
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373
102
131
132
133
136
137
233
234
247
286
287
295
296
304
322
32s
326
327
328
329
330
358
359
361
363
364
365
366
367
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375
368
370
371
358
372
359
373
360
374
375
361
376
362
377
363
378
364
379
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380
366
381
367
390
425
391
426
392
427
393
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394
430
400
432
401
433
402
434
403
435
404
437
410
411
412
413
414
417
415
416
555
CHARTER.
REVISION.
REPEALED.
417
CHARTER.
REVISION.
REPEALED.
556
418
557
392
422
436
558
393
423
422
559
394
424
418
560
395
425
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396
426
244
562
397
432
438
563
398
433
439
564
399
434
440
565
435
441
566
389
436 243 and 442
567
400
437
443
568
401
438
444
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439
445
573
440
446
574
441
447
575
519
442
448
576
520
443
449
577
521
444
578
522
451
579
523
454
580
524
456
581
525
457
582
526
458
583
527
523
584
528
524
58s
529
525
391
586
526
387
587
530
527
388
588
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REPEALED.
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REPEALED.
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409
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1089
646
408
1082
1098
647
407
1083
1092
648
406
1084
1094
649
411
1085
1095
650
410
1086
651
412
1087
1096
652
413
901
931
1060
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1088
1089
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1092
1093
1094
1062
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1063
1062
1065
1066
1096
1097
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1067
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1097
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1078
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1075
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