Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January 1, 1910 : Containing Also the Federal and State Constitutions with Notes of Board of Statutory Consolidation, Tables of Laws and Index

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Banks Law Publishing Company, 1915 - 7637 pages
 

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Page 6 - The Legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in office, and in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office by virtue of such appointment longer than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election a,fter the happening of the vacancy.
Page 302 - Compensation Commission, and to be composed of three commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one of whom shall be designated by the President as chairman.
Page 359 - ... two of whom shall be elected for one year, two for two years and two for three years from the date of the annual school meeting next succeeding such special meeting.
Page 3 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive...
Page 161 - The foster parent or parents and the minor sustain toward each other the legal relation of parent and child and have all the rights and are subject to all the duties of that relation...
Page 378 - The executor or administrator of a decedent, who has left, him or her surviving, a husband, wife, or next of kin, may maintain an- action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect, or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person who, or a corporation which, would have been liable to an action in favor of the decedent, by reason thereof, if death had not ensued.
Page 36 - The amount of its capital stock and the number of shares into which the same shall be divided.
Page 687 - When the transfer is by will or intestate law, of property within the state, and the decedent was a nonresident of the state at the time of his death.
Page 684 - ... shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of one hundred dollars for every such failure, and the additional sum of ten dollars for each day that such failure continues.
Page 738 - A husband or wife is not competent to testify against the other, upon the trial of an action, or hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding, founded upon an allegation of adultery, except to prove the marriage or disprove the allegation of adultery.

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