N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 242: Inhabitants not incompetent; place of trial of actions and proceedings

§ 242. Inhabitants not incompetent; place of trial of actions and

proceedings. Upon the trial of any issue or the prosecution of any

proceeding, or upon the taking or making of any inquisition, appraisal

or award, or upon the judicial investigation of any facts whatever, to

which issue, proceedings, inquest, investigation or award the city is a

party, or in which the city may, in any way, be interested, no person

shall be deemed incompetent as a judge, referee, commissioner, witness

or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant, freeholder or taxpayer of

the city. The place of trial of all actions and proceedings against the

city, or any of its officers, boards or departments shall be the county

in which the city is situated.