N.Y. Village Law § 1-102: Powers of incorporated village The citizens of the state of New York, from time to time inhabitants of the territory comprised within the...

§ 1-102. Powers of incorporated village

The citizens of the state of New York, from time to time inhabitants

of the territory comprised within the boundaries of any village

heretofore or hereafter incorporated shall continue to be a municipal

corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name and the same shall in

that name be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law, with power

of perpetual succession. The village shall have power:

1. To take, purchase, hold, lease, sell and convey such real and

personal property as the purposes of the corporation may require.

2. To take by gift, grant, bequest or devise and hold real and

personal estate absolutely or in trust for any purpose of the

corporation or for any public use upon such terms or conditions as may

be prescribed by the grantor or donor and accepted by said corporation

and to provide for the proper administration of the same.

3. To take unconditionally by gift, grant, bequest or devise for any

other purpose any real or personal property or estate or interest

therein, to hold same for only such time as is reasonably necessary to

sell, convey or to dispose thereof, and to so sell, convey or dispose

thereof; notwithstanding that the holding of such property would not be

for a purpose of the corporation or for a public use.

4. To make, have and use, and from time to time alter, a common seal.

5. To contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to complain

and defend and to institute, prosecute, maintain, defend and intervene

in, any action or proceeding in any court.

6. To have and exercise all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction

essential to a proper exercise of its corporate function, including all

that may be necessarily incident to, or may be fairly implied from the

powers specifically conferred upon such corporation.

7. To have and exercise all the rights, privileges, functions and

powers prescribed and exercised by it under existing or subsequent laws

and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.