[Amended 1-29-1976 by L.L. No. 2-1976; 6-21-1994 by L.L. No.
6-1994; 12-18-2001 by L.L. No. 6-2001; 4-20-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004; 11-16-2004 by L.L. No. 5-2004; 5-16-2006 by L.L. No. 5-2006; 7-20-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021; 9-20-2022 by L.L. No.
6-2022; 9-20-2022 by L.L. No. 7-2022]
The officers of the City shall be a Mayor, a President of the
Common Council, a City Judge, a City Treasurer, one Assessor, a Commissioner
of Public Works, a Commissioner of Police, a Commissioner of Fire,
a Commissioner of Youth, a Commissioner of Purchases, a Commissioner
of Grants, a Commissioner of Senior Services, a Planning Board of
seven members, a Zoning Board of Appeals of seven members, an Historic
Preservation Commission of seven members, such members of the Board
of Plumbers as are now or hereafter shall be provided by law, local
law, or ordinance, a City Clerk, a Superintendent of Public Works,
a Superintendent of Cemeteries, such number of policemen as the Commissioner
of Police shall appoint, a Chief of the Fire Department, two Assistant
Chiefs of the Fire Department, a Code Enforcement Officer and such
Assistant Code Enforcement Officers as may be otherwise authorized,
a Director of Youth, a Bingo Inspector, special policemen and, in
the discretion of the Mayor, a City Marshal and a City Legal Advisor
as the Mayor may deem necessary or expedient for the preservation
of the rights or the protection of the interests of the City.
There shall be in each ward a Supervisor and two Aldermen, and
in each election district such Inspectors of Election and other election
officers as are or shall be provided by law.
[Amended 5-16-2006 by L.L. No. 5-2006]
No person shall, at the same time, hold more than one of the
offices created or authorized by this Charter, except that the holding
of the office of Commissioner of Deeds or Superintendent of Cemeteries
shall not disqualify any person from holding any other office hereunder.
[Amended 1-6-1992 by L.L. No. 3-1992]
A.Â
No person shall be eligible to any City office under this Charter,
except the Superintendent of Public Works, who, at the time of election
or appointment, shall not be an elector of the City; and no person
shall continue to hold office hereunder after ceasing to be such elector.
No person shall be eligible to any ward office under this Charter
who, at the time of election or appointment, shall not be an elector
of the ward in which elected or appointed; and no person shall continue
to hold a ward office hereunder after ceasing to be an elector of
such ward.
B.Â
Notwithstanding § C2-4A:
[Amended 8-18-2015 by L.L. No. 3-2015; 11-26-2019 by L.L. No. 5-2019]
(1)Â
An appointed
person otherwise eligible to hold office under this Charter in accordance
with the Public Officers Law of the State of New York need not be
an elector of the City so long as such person shall reside in Columbia
County within 15 road miles of a boundary of the City of Hudson;
(2)Â
The City Legal Advisor need not be an elector of the City so long
as such person shall reside in Columbia County.
[Amended 9-20-2022 by L.L. No. 8-2022]
(3)Â
The
Chief of the Fire Department of the City of Hudson and the two Assistant
Fire Chiefs of the City of Hudson need not be an elector of the City
so long such persons shall reside in Columbia County within 3 road
miles of a boundary of the City of Hudson.
[Added 6-20-2023 by L.L. No. 5-2023]
[Amended 4-20-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004]
The officers of the City shall receive such salaries as are
set forth in the annual budget of the City of Hudson. The Common Council
shall have the power by resolution to increase the salary or compensation
of any City officer at any time for services to be thereafter rendered,
and such increase may be made after salary and compensation shall
have been fixed and provided for in the budget of the City for the
fiscal year, provided that appropriations are available for the payment
thereof. The salaries provided for in this section shall be paid to
the respective officers or employees entitled thereto in equal monthly
installments.
[Added 4-16-1991 by L.L. No. 3-1991[2]]
A.Â
The Mayor, President of the Common Council, City Treasurer, Aldermen,
City Clerk, Assessor and Legal Advisor holding office as of the date
of adoption of this Charter shall continue to receive, without cost,
hospitalization insurance equivalent to that provided in the Public
Employment Code adopted pursuant to § C31-1 of this Charter,
for so long as they retain their office. For purposes of this section,
any officer or employee of the City of Hudson who continues in the
same office by reason of having been reelected, reappointed or appointed
or elected to a new position, or any Alderman who becomes the President
of the Common Council or Mayor during or upon expiration of a term,
shall be deemed to have retained his or her office.
B.Â
Any Mayor, President of the Common Council, City Treasurer, Alderman, City Clerk, Assessor or Legal Advisor elected or appointed subsequent to the date of adoption of this Charter, except for those retaining office as provided in Subsection A, shall be entitled to receive hospitalization insurance equivalent to that provided in the Public Employment Code in effect at the time such officer takes office, provided that the officer contributes to the cost of such insurance in the proportion required of employees hired after the effective date of that Public Employment Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § C2-6, Salaries of Alderman,
as amended, was repealed 10-16-1984 by L.L. No. 9-1984.
[2]
Editor's Note: This local law also provided that if any court
of competent jurisdiction decrees to be invalid the disparate treatment
of officers retaining office and officers hereafter elected or appointed,
as provided by Subsections A and B, respectively, then Subsection
B shall be declared void, and both classes of officers shall be entitled
to hospitalization insurance without cost as provided by Subsection
A.
