§ 2. Such chapter is hereby amended by adding a new section, § 286a to be section two hundred and eighty-six-a, to read as follows: § 286-a, Purchase of water by commissioners. If the town board establishes a water supply district and appoints commissioners therefor, as provided in this article, it shall be lawful for the water commissioners, after they have qualified for office, to purchase water by volume for the use of such district from a water company, municipality, or other party or person, and to enter into a contract for that purpose in the name of the district. The purchase price of such water shall be paid out of the proceeds from water rents, established as provided in section two hundred and ninetythree of this chapter; and any deficiency there may be shall be levied against the taxable property in the water district and collected annually at the same time and in the same manner as provided in section two hundred and eighty-nine of this chapter. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 147 AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to state reserve list. Became a law March 16, 1925, 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: added. as amended. Section 1. Section seventy-seven of chapter forty-one of the laws L. 1909, of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to the 77 militia, constituting chapter thirty-six of the consolidated laws, amended by chapter five hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 77. State reserve list. There shall be a reserve list for commissioned officers who have served in the active militia. This list shall include those commissioned officers who are lawfully carried on the reserve list at the date this act takes effect and such others as may be placed thereon in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Any officer of the active militia on active duty may be placed by the governor on the reserve list on his own request approved by his intermediate commanding officer. Any person who has served as aide to the governor during the ten years last passed; or as a commissioned officer in the active militia, or as a commissioned officer of the army, navy or marine corps of the United States, and who has been honorably discharged therefrom may be commissioned and placed upon the reserve list by the governor with the highest rank previously held by him after passing an inspection and such examination as the governor may deem necessary. Any person who has served as a commissioned officer of the army 1 Previously amended by L. 1909, ch. 371; L. 1911, ch. 285; L. 1914, ch. 191; L. 1915, ch. 460; L. 1916, ch. 568; renumbered and amended by L. 1917, ch. 644; and amended by L. 1919, ch. 406. of the United States in the world war, and who has been appointed to and actually served for at least two months in a position on the staff of an army, corps, division, brigade or regiment, during such war, which position is specified by the tables of organization in force in the United States army, at the time of such service, to be filled by an officer of higher rank, may be commissioned and placed upon the reserve list by the governor, in such higher rank. Such increase in rank shall only be granted to an officer who has actually served at the front in the world war and who has been subjected to fire from the enemy trenches or lines, and such increase in rank shall operate to advance such officer not more than one grade higher than that actually held by him in the United States service. 'Any officer now on the reserve list or hereafter placed thereon who served, before being placed on said list, in the active militia of this state or in the army, navy, or marine corps of the United States, or in two or more of such services combined, for a period of at least twenty years shall, upon his own application approved by the commanding officer, national guard or naval militia, as the case may be, be commissioned by the governor upon the reserve list in one grade higher than the highest grade held by him in active service. In computing periods of service hereunder, service as an enlisted man shall be counted as well as service as an officer. The governor may cause the officers on the reserve list to be inspected and examined by an examining board organized pursuant to this chapter whenever he shall deem it necessary so to do. Notice of the time, place and scope of such inspection and examination shall be mailed to such reserve officer at his last known address not less than six weeks prior to the date thereof and an officer failing to appear or to pass such inspection and examination may, upon the findings of such board, be placed upon the retired list or be discharged in accordance with his previous service and the privileges thereof. The time spent on the reserve list, shall not be credited to an officer in the computation of seniority, pay, length of service or the privileges and exemptions pertaining thereto. Resignations, retirements and discharge of officers on the reserve list shall be made in the same manner as provided by this chapter, for officers on active duty. Officers of the active militia who shall be rendered surplus by reduction or disbandments of organization or by the abolishing of their office or in any manner provided by this chapter, unless placed in the national guard reserve, shall be withdrawn from active duty and placed upon the reserve list. The governor may upon the recommendation of the commanding officer of the national guard or of the naval militia respectively detail officers on the reserve list for active duty, in which case they shall rank in their grade from the date of such detail and the governor may return them to the reserve list at his discretion. An officer on the reserve list shall not be detailed to active duty for more than ninety days until he has passed the examination prescribed for the office to perform the duties of which he is detailed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 2 Following sentence new. CHAPTER 148 AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty of the laws of nineteen Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, ch. 220, Section 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and twenty of L. 1901, the laws of nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An act to fix the compensation of the assessors in the town of Rotterdam, in amended. the county of Schenectady," as amended by chapter fifty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: assessors. § 1. The compensation of each of the assessors in the town of CompenRotterdam, county of Schenectady, is hereby fixed at the sum ation of of six hundred and fifty dollars1 per annum in full for all services and duties of said office of assessor of said town, which shall be paid in the manner as now prescribed by law. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 149 AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and four of the laws of nineteen Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, added to L. 1919. Section 1. Chapter three hundred and four of the laws of nine- § 6a teen hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act to create the board of equalization for the county of Erie for the equalization of taxes ch. 304. and assessments and to define its powers and duties," as amended by chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby amended by adding a new section, to be section six-a, to read as follows: sioners may call § 6-a. The commissioners of equalization of Erie county may Commis annually call a conference of the assessors of the tax districts of such county to meet with the commissioners of equalization at a annual time and place designated by the commissioners, for the purpose of asof considering matters relating to taxation. Each assessor shall be entitled to the same per diem compensation now authorized and ex 1 Formerly "four hundred and fifty dollars." conference sessors. Per diem penses. University of Roch ester may erty without limitation; exceptions. by law for compensation of assessors for each day actually engaged in such conference and also to all traveling and other expenses actually and necessarily incurred, payable by the particular tax district which he represents, but no additional compensation, other than expenses, shall be allowed or paid to any assessor who may be paid an annual salary for his services. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 150 AN ACT in relation to the property which may be held by the University of Rochester. Became a law March 16, 1925, 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: Section 1. The University of Rochester, an educational corporation organized by charter granted by the regents of the university hold prop- of the state of New York, provisionally on January ten to thirtyone, eighteen hundred and fifty, and on February fourteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and absolutely on January tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, under the provisions of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen and amendments thereto, and located in the city of Rochester, New York, is hereby authorized and empowered to take, by purchase, gift, grant. devise, or any other manner, and to hold, any real or personal prop-. erty, or interest therein, of any nature whatever, which, when acquired shall be used for, or the income thereof shall be applied to, or which may be or become necessary for the proper conduct and support of the several departments of education heretofore established, or hereafter to be established by it, notwithstanding any provisions of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen, or of any amendments thereto, or of section twelve of the general corporation law of the state of New York, or of any other law, which limit the clear yearly value of the real property acquired, or to be acquired by such corporation, to any specific amount, or limit the value, or amount of, or the yearly income of, the real or personal property which such corporation may take or hold. Provided, however, that all devises and bequests to said. corporation shall be subject to the provisions of section seventeen of chapter eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter three hundred and one of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and any amendments hereafter made thereto. And provided further, that this act shall not be construed so as to affect any devise made by any testator who shall have died before its passage, nor the rights of any heir-at-law or next of kin of such testator. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 151 AN ACT to amend the conservation law, in relation to wild birds. Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, ch. 647, Section 1. Section two hundred and nineteen of chapter six hun- L. 1911, dred and forty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, § 219 entitled "An act relating to conservation of land, forests, waters, amended. parks, hydraulic power, fish and game, constituting chapter sixtyfive of the consolidated laws," as last amended by chapter two hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nineteen,1 is hereby amended to read as follows: § 219. Certain wild birds protected. Wild birds other than the English sparrow, starling, crow, hawk, snow-owl, great gray owl, great horned owl, great blue heron, bittern, cormorant, crow black bird and kingfisher shall not be taken or possessed at any time, dead or alive, except under the authority of a certificate issued under this article. Red-winged blackbirds which are destroying any crop may be killed at any time during the months of June, July, August and September by the owner or occupant of any real property on which such a crop is being grown, or by any person in the employ of such owner or occupant, but no part of the plumage, skin or body of any bird protected by this section or of any birds coming from without the state, whether belonging to the same or a different species from that native to the state of New York, provided such birds belong to the same family as those protected by this article, shall be sold or had in possession for sale. The provisions of this section shall not apply to game birds for which an open season is provided in this article, birds or parts thereof collected or possessed in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and fifty-nine. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 152 AN ACT to amend the education law, relative to support of training classes. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, (revision of Section 1. Section five hundred and two of chapter twenty-one L. 1909, of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relat- ch. 21 ing to education, constituting chapter sixteen of the consolidated. 1910. laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and forty of the laws 1 Added by L. 1912, ch. 318. Previously amended by L. 1916, chs. 77, 521; L. 1917, ch. 486. ch. 140), $ 502 amended. |