State Finance Law An Act to amend chapter fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to state finance, constituting chapter fifty-six of the Consolidated Laws." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The State Finance Law is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections: ARTICLE 2 GENERAL FISCAL PROVISIONS § 4a. The comptroller may examine the books, accounts and vouchers of every bank and trust company in the state, in any wise relating to moneys and securities paid into court, under an order of any court of record; and where the same has not been paid to the chamberlain of the city of New York or to any county treasurer of the state, the comptroller upon an application duly made shall be entitled to an order directing the payment and transfer of all such money and securities, from any of such banks and trust companies, to the treasurer of the proper county, and in the city of New York to the city chamberlain. [Note 2702.] §§ 4a-50 Examination troller of by comp money paid into court § 48. In any action where a defendant is adjudged to be guilty of Fine for usurping or intruding into or unlawfully holding or exercising an usurpation office, franchise or privilege and a fine is imposed, the fine, when collected, must be paid into the treasury of the state. [Note 2703.] § 49. Upon the commencement, by the people of the state, of any action, suit, or other judicial proceeding, [as prescribed in this article, for the spoliation or other misappropriation of public property, the entire cause of action, including the title to the money, funds, credits, or other property, with respect to which the suit or action is brought, and to the damages or other compensation, recoverable for the obtaining, receipt, payment, conversion, or disposition thereof, if not previously so vested, is transferred to, and becomes absolutely vested in, the people of the state. [Note 2704.] Title to public property priated misappro forfeiture 50. Money recovered in [such] an action, brought by the attorney- Fine for general or by the district attorney of a county to recover for a penalty penalty or or forfeiture, which is not otherwise specially granted or appropriated by law, must, when collected, be paid into the treasury of the state. [Note 2705.] § 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred Effect and sixteen. TAX LAW (Provisions from the Code of Civil Procedure down to January 1, 1915, assigned to the Tax Law.) Tax Law An Act to amend chapter sixty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An Act in relation to taxation, constituting chapter sixty of the Consolidated Laws". The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The Tax Law is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: ARTICLE 1 TAXABLE PROPERTY AND PLACE OF TAXATION § 3a. [except that] Real property purchased with the proceeds of a pension granted by the United States for military or naval services, and owned by the pensioner, or by his wife or widow, is subject to seizure and sale for the collection of taxes or assessments lawfully levied thereon. [Note 2706.] § 2. The following sections of said act are hereby amended so as to read as follows: ARTICLE 13 §§ 3a-291 Taxation of real property purchased with pension money § 290. Any person assessed upon any assessment-roll, claiming to Contents of be aggrieved by any assessment for property therein, may [present complaint to] commence an action by summons to appear in the supreme court [a petition duly verified] and a complaint setting forth that the assessment is illegal, specifying the grounds of the alleged illegality, or if erroneous by reason of overvaluation, stating the extent of such overvaluation, or if unequal in that the assessment has been made at a higher proportionate valuation than the assessment of other property on the same roll by the same officers, specifying the instances in which such inequality exists, and the extent thereof, and stating that he is or will be injured thereby. [Such petition] The complaint must show that application has been made in due time to the proper officers to correct such assessment. Two or more persons assessed upon the same roll who are affected in the same manner by the alleged illegality, error or inequality, may unite in the same [petition] action. com § 291. Such [petition must be presented to a justice of the supreme Venue court or at a special term of the supreme court] action must be commenced in the judicial district in which the assessment plained of was made, within fifteen days after the completion and filing of the assessment-roll and the first posting or publication of the notice thereof as required by this chapter. [Upon the |