[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of West Haverstraw 3-3-1971 as Secs. 2-1 through 2-12 of the 1971
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Code of Ethics — See Ch. 12.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
Unless otherwise provided by the Village Board
of Trustees, meetings of the Board shall be held on the first Wednesday
and third Wednesday evening of each month at the Village Hall at 8:00
p.m., except for the months of July and August, during which one meeting
shall be held on the third Wednesday of the month, provided that the
annual meeting of the Village Board of Trustees shall be held on the
first Monday in December at the Village Hall at 7:30 p.m.
All meetings of the Village Board of Trustees
shall be open to the public; provided, however, that the Board shall
have the authority to sit in executive session, which session shall
be closed to the public.
The Village Board of Trustees shall determine
and prescribe the rules for the conduct of its meetings and the order
of business thereat.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
The Village Clerk shall keep the minutes of
the proceedings of the Village Board of Trustees, which minutes shall
be open to public inspection in the office of the Village Clerk.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
No cameras or electronic or recording devices
may be brought into the Village Hall or used during any meeting of
the Village Board of Trustees, or other Village board, except in accordance
with the following rules, regulations or procedures:
A.
Any person wishing to tape record a public meeting
of the Village Board, or any portion of such meeting, shall so inform
the Village Clerk prior to the commencement of the meeting, so as
to enable the Village Clerk to inform those in attendance of the fact
that the meeting is to be recorded;
B.
Where advance notice is not practicable, as, for example,
where the person seeking to record the meeting arrives after it has
commenced, no recording shall be permitted until an appropriate point
in the proceedings at which time the person, without interrupting
the proceedings, shall give the required notice;
C.
Any recording device, once activated, should remain
activated at least until such time as all discussion concerning a
particular agenda item is complete, so as to capture the full discussion
thereof;
D.
Any tape recording device sought to be used shall
be portable in size and require no external source of power;
E.
No recording device may be positioned on, or otherwise
occupy, a separate chair in the meeting hall unless space so permits;
F.
Neither tape recorders nor microphones may be elevated
above shoulder height, or otherwise be displayed in a distracting
or obtrusive fashion;
G.
No recording may be played back, or otherwise played
aloud, during a public meeting, without the express permission of
the Mayor or chairperson of the meeting;
H.
No more than two recording devices may be in operation
at any one time, and any person undertaking to record a meeting, or
a portion thereof, shall be deemed to have consented to make the recording,
or a copy thereof, available to any other person, including the Board,
upon request, and at the requesting person's sole cost and expense.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
At its annual meeting in December of each year,
the Village Board of Trustees, by resolution or local law, shall establish
the standing committees of the Board and shall prescribe the functions
and duties thereof.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
At the annual meeting of the Village Board of
Trustees in December of each year, the Mayor shall appoint one Trustee
as Chairman of each standing committee established by the Board.
The conduct of business and affairs of the Village
shall be through departments established and organized for the purpose
by resolution of the Village Board of Trustees. Each such department
shall be under the supervision of a member of the Village Board of
Trustees appointed for the purpose.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
All of the powers and duties to the Village
Clerk prescribed by any Village law shall be exercised by him under
the direction and supervision of the Mayor and the Board of Trustees
of the Village.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 2-10, Effective
date of ordinances, and Sec. 2-11, Records of ordinances to be kept
by Village Clerk, of the 1971 Code, which immediately followed this
section, were deleted 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998.
[Added 5-21-2008 by L.L. No. 2-2008;
amended 5-16-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
A.
Pursuant
to § 3-301(2)(c) of the Village Law, there is hereby created
in the Village of West Haverstraw the office of Commissioner of Public
Works, whose duties shall entail overseeing the daily operations of
the Village Department of Public Works. The office of Commissioner
shall be an appointive office, appointed by the Mayor, subject to
the approval of the Village Board of Trustees, for a term of one year,
subject to renewal at the annual reorganizational meeting, at a salary
to be fixed by the Board. The Commissioner of Public Works shall act
under the direction and supervision of the Mayor and Board of Trustees.
B.
Subject
to the appropriations made for the Department of Public Works by the
Village Board, and to all other applicable provisions of law, the
Commissioner of Public Works shall have the sole power to appoint
and remove all employees of the Department.
[Amended 3-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
No person shall carry out or remove any papers,
plans, specifications, documents, records or any property whatsoever
belonging to the Village from any of the Village offices or rooms
in the respective departments where such papers, specifications, plans,
documents, records or property properly belong, except under the direction
of the Mayor or Village Board of Trustees.
[Added 3-13-2007 by L.L. No. 4-2007]
The provisions of Chapter 250, §§ 250-118 through 250-126 of the Village Code, inclusive, and as may be from time to time amended, relating to the payment and reimbursement of outside consultants by applicants for various types of approvals and permits in the Zoning, Planning and Building context shall also apply to all other applications/petitions for Village permits and/or approvals where the use of such outside consulting services shall be deemed advisable by the Village Board. In such instances, the Village Board shall determine the amount of the escrow, if any, required to be posted by the applicant.
