every certificate for payment to a contractor on any work done by contract made upon public advertising and letting, which shall be paid by the Borough President making the contract, and except as herein otherwise provided, no Surveyor shall be entitled to any payment for a certificate to a contractor. The amount so paid for a certificate shall be deducted from the payment to be made to the contractor on account of the work certified to be done. (Amend. app. December 31, 1907.) CHAPTER 6.—THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, Gas and ELECTRICITY. Article I.- The Water Register. § 281. The Water Register shall on each day, except Sunday of each week, render to the Comptroller an account, under oath, item by item, of all moneys received by him, containing the names of the persons from whom they were received, the amounts received and on what account, and when paid, and shall thereupon pay over the amount so received to the Chamberlain. (R. O. 1897, sec. 152, with verbal changes.) Article II.- Water Rents. § 282. The minimum annual rents and the special charges to be collected by the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity shall be as follows, to wit: upon The apportionment of the regular frontage rates dwelling houses is on the basis that but one family is to occupy the same, and for each additional family one dollar per year shall be charged. Building Purposes-Ten cents per 1,000 brick. All masonry at the same rate, 500 brick being equal to one cubic yard. Plastering-Forty cents per 100 square yards, openings not included. Baths All baths, three dollars per annum. Water closets and urinals of every description, two dollars per annum. One water closet and one bath in each house supplied free of charge. Steam lighters and tugboats, H. P., per year. All others, per month... Water boats supplying shipping, per month.. Meter Rates. $90 00 45 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 25 00 Water meters shall be placed, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, for all stores, workshops, hotels, manufactories, office buildings, public edifices, on wharves, ferry houses, and in all places where water is furnished for business consumption, except private dwellings; the charge for water measured by meter to be ten cents per 100 cubic feet. All charges not herein mentioned or fixed are reserved for special contract by and with the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. (Ord. app. April 10, 1900.) § 283. All rents for the use of the water shall be paid in advance at the time of applying for the water and before any permit is issued; to be calculated up to the first day of May succeeding; and all rents shall continue to be collected in advance on the first day of May annually, so long as the contract exists; and no contract for the supply of water shall be binding for a longer period than until the second succeeding first day of May after such contract is entered into. (R. O. 1897, sec. 153.) § 284. The supply of water shall be cut off in all cases where the rent is behind and unpaid ten days. (Id., sec. 154.) Article III.- The Croton Aqueduct. § 285. No new works connected with the Croton aqueduct shall be constructed, nor shall any mains or pipes be constructed or laid down, except with the authority of the Board of Aldermen; and except, also that in case of any unexpected casualty or damage to the pipes, reservoirs or other structures connected with the aqueduct, the Chief Engineer of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, under the direction of the Commissioner, shall take immediate measures for the preservation and repair of the same, the expense of which shall be paid on his requisition by the warrant of the Comptroller. (R. O. 1897, sec. 157, wnth verbal changes.) § 286. If any person shall bathe in, or go into the Croton water at either of the reservoirs, or any part of the Croton aqueduct, or shall throw any stones, chips or dirt, or any other material, substance or thing whatever, into the reservoirs or into the water or gate-houses, or into the ventila tors, or aqueduct or fountain basins, or shall in any manner injure or disfigure any part of the Croton aqueduct works, he shall be subject to a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, to be imposed by any city magistrate, either on his view or in a summary manner; and in default of payment of any fine so imposed such city magistrate shall commit such offender to the city prison for a period not to exceed thirty days, unless such fine is sooner paid. (Id., sec. 159.) § 287. In case any person shall trespass on any part of the embankment of the Croton aqueduct reservoirs, or go or remain on the same without permission of the proper persons having charge of the same; or in case any person does not comply with the regulations of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, as to the times they shall leave the embankment of said reservoirs, or the grounds or buildings attached to said reservoirs, such person shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars, to be levied and collected in the manner prescribed in the last section; and, in default of payment, imprisonment, as in like manner, not to exceed twenty days, in the city prison. (Id., sec. 160, with verbal changes.) § 288. No person other than an employee of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, or the Fire Department, shall, without previous permission in writing from the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, unscrew or open any hydrant, nor shall leave said hydrant open for a longer period than shall be limited in said permission, nor shall use water for other purposes than may be mentioned in said permission. Anyone violating any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, to be imposed by any city magistrate, and in default of payment of any fine so imposed, such city magistrate shall commit such offender to the city prison for a period not to exceed ten days. (Amend. app. December 21, 1909.) Article IV.-Use of Water. § 289. All persons contracting for a supply of water shall pay the cost of the materials and labor used and expended on the streets necessary to make the connection with the conduit pipes, or pay such annual interest thereon as required by the rules and regulations of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. No street shall be opened, or pipes bored, or connections made, unless under the direction of the said Commissioner, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 158.) $290. No person or persons, except such as may be licensed by the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity to sell water to shipping, shall take the water from any hydrant or water connection erected or to be erected in The City of New York, and attached to the water pipes, for the purpose of using the same on any boat, vessel, barge or pile-driver, or for the purpose of selling or offering the same for sale to the owner of any boat, vessel, barge or pile-driver, without first having obtained permission in writing from the said Commissioner, under penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense, to be recovered against such person or persons or such owner or owners of any such boat, vessel, barge or pile-driver in an action to be prosecuted by the Corporation Counsel. (Id., sec. 162, with verbal changes.) § 291. No person or persons not connected with either the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, or the Fire Department, shall open or use or tamper with any hydrant connected with the high pressure fire system. Anyone violating any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, to be imposed by any city magistrate, and in default of payment of any fine so imposed, such city magistrate shall commit such offender to the city prison for a period not to exceed ten days. (Amend. app. December 21, 1909.) $292. The Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity is instructed to cause the hydrants to be kept closed, and report all violations of the laws to the Corporation Counsel. (Id., sec. 164.) § 293. The Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity shall at all times when the general supply of water is not thereby endangered, permit the hydrants to be used for cleaning the streets, under the regulation of said Commissioner. (Id., sec. 165.) § 294. No person or persons shall use the Croton water for washing streets, sidewalks, steps or buildings from May 1 to November 1 following in each year, after 8 a. m., and from November 1 to May 1 following after 9 a. m., under the penalty of five dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 166.) § 295. Any person or persons who shall obstruct the access to the different stop-cocks connected with the water pipes by placing thereon stone, brick, lumber, dirt, or any other materials, or who shall permit any such materials to be placed thereon by those in his or their employ, shall be subject to the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, with an additional sum of twenty-five dollars for each day the same shall be continued after notice of removal shall have been served. (Id., sec. 167.) § 296. The penalties prescribed in this article shall be imposed on the offender in like manner as above provided in respect to the penalty for bathing in the Croton aqueduct; and in default of the payment the offender shall be subject to like punishment by imprisonment, as in the said section prescribed. (Id., sec. 168.) Article V.-Lamps. §297. No person, without permission of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, shall take up, remove or carry away any public lamp-post in The City of New York, under the penalty of ten dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 173, with verbal changes.) § 298. No person shall remove, or cause or permit to be removed, any public lamp-post now or hereafter to be placed in front of their premises for the purpose of constructing a vault or otherwise without the permission of the President of the Borough; and the owner or owners of such vault shall cause the lamp-posts so removed to be reset at their own expense immediately upon the completion of the vault, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 174, with verbal changes.) § 299. No ornamental lamp-post shall hereafter be erected in any of the streets, avenues or public places in The City of New York, which shall exceed in dimensions at the base more than eighteen inches in diameter, if circular in form, and if upon a square base, no side thereof shall exceed eighteen inches. (Id., sec. 175.) CHAPTER 7. TITLE I.-BUREAU OF LICENSES. $300. There shall be a Bureau of Licenses in and for The City of New York attached to the Mayor's office, with a principal office in the Borough of Manhattan, and a branch office in such other boroughs as may be deemed necessary and be designated by the Mayor of said city, for the purpose of issuing and recording all licenses authorized by resolution or ordinance of the Board of Aldermen or now in force in any part of said city. (Ord. app. Feb. 8, 1898, sec. 1, with verbal changes as amend. April 8, 1908.) This Bureau is the successor by various enactments of the old "Bureau of Permits," sec. 1 of ord. app. Feb. 2, 1886, as limited by chap. 412, Laws of 1895. The tendency has been to make laws uniform throughout the entire city, and to concentrate into one bureau the issuing of all licenses. By the City Ordinances, 1859, all licenses were issued by the Mayor and separate chapters cover the different subject-matters, such as Coaches and Cabs, Pawnbrokers, Dealers in Second-Hand Articles and Keepers of Junk Shops, etc., which are now included in one chapter. When the ordinances were revised in 1880 a Bureau of Permits was established. (R. O. 1880, art. XXX.) The general powers were further extended by L. 1887, chap. 417, and L. 1888, chap. 115, and L. 1896, chap. 36, where the Board of Aldermen, although forbidden to allow obstructions in the streets or sidewalks, was expressly allowed to grant permits for "stands within the stoop-lines" for certain purposes. See sec. 50, Greater New York Charter, and notes under sec. 361, infra. § 301. The Bureau of Licenses shall consist of a Chief of said Bureau, with such deputies and assistants as may be found necessary for properly carrying on the work of the Bureau, to be appointed and removed at pleasure by the Mayor of said city, and paid such compensation as shall be fixed and established by said Mayor. (Id., sec. 2.) § 302. All licenses issued by the Bureau of Licenses shall be according to an established form, printed with corresponding stub and regularly numbered, with suitable blank spaces for writing in the name and residence of the licensee, kind and class of license, location and privileges allowed, and amount of fee paid, all properly bound in book form. All such licenses shall be duly classified and recorded in suitable registers and fully indexed. (Id., sec. 3.) § 303. All licenses issued by the Bureau of Licenses shall be granted by the Mayor and duly issued upon regular application to the Bureau of Licenses. The registers of licenses shall be public records, and extracts may be certified by the Chief of the Bureau or the deputy or assistant in charge of a branch office, for use as evidence. (Id., sec. 4.) § 304. There shall be kept in the principal office of said Bureau and each and every branch office thereof a book recording consecutively each license as issued, showing its kind and class, whether new or renewed, name of licensee, regular number of blank form, and amount of fee received, day by day. A daily report showing all of |