This chapter shall be known as and may be cited by the short
title of "Charter of City of Schenectady." (L. 1907, Ch. 756, § 1)
All that part of the County of Schenectady, bounded and described
as follows shall hereafter be included in and constitute the City
of Schenectady: Beginning at a stone monument on the southerly bank
of the Mohawk River, located on the lands formerly owned by W. Cunningham
and running along the boundary line, established January 25, 1866,
by a map filed in the office of the County Clerk of Schenectady County,
to the stone monument on or near the easterly line of Rosa Road; thence
in a straight line to the intersection of the westerly line of Brewer
Road and the northerly line of the Troy Turnpike; thence in a straight
line toward the intersection of the easterly line of Elbert Street
and the southerly line of the Albany Turnpike to a point 475 feet
north of the northerly curbline of State Street; thence easterly,
parallel to State Street and 475 feet north from the northerly curbline
thereof, to a point 125 feet east of the easterly curbline of School
Street continued in the Town of Niskayuna; thence southerly along
a line 125 feet east of the easterly line of School Street continued
and continuing in a straight line across Albany Street to a point
375 feet south of the southerly curbline of Albany Street; thence,
westerly, parallel to Albany Street and 375 feet south of the southerly
curbline thereof to the intersection of the City line as heretofore
constituted; thence in a straight line to a stone monument (which
was established as the southwest corner of the City boundary, January
25, 1866, by a map filed in the office of the Clerk of Schenectady
County) on the southerly side of the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad; thence in a straight line to the intersection of the westerly
line of Cleveland Avenue and the northerly line of Guilderland Avenue;
thence in a straight line to the intersection of the easterly line
of Olean Street (formerly called "Oil Mill Road") and the northerly
line of the lands of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company; thence
in a straight line to the center of the culvert, through which Teller's
Kill flows under the Erie Canal; thence along the center line of the
Erie Canal to a point near the Westinghouse Works, where said line
intersects the boundary line established January 25, 1866, by a map
filed in the office of the Clerk of Schenectady County; thence along
said boundary line to the center of Binne Kill; thence down the center
of Binne Kill as it runs to the center of the Mohawk River; thence
along the center of the Mohawk River to a point in the center of the
river, opposite the place of beginning; thence to the place of beginning;
such territory embracing the City of Schenectady as bounded and described
by a map filed in the office of the Clerk of Schenectady County on
the 25th day of January, 1866, in pursuance of Chapter 705 of the
Laws of 1865, and portions of the Towns of Rotterdam and Niskayuna
in such county and the boundaries, jurisdiction and powers of the
City of Schenectady as herein constituted are for all purposes of
local administration and government hereby declared to be coextensive
with the territory above described. (L. 1907, Ch. 756, § 2;
L. 1914, Ch. 58, § 1)
The citizens of the State of New York, from time to time inhabitants
of the territory comprised within the boundaries of the City of Schenectady,
shall continue to be a municipal corporation in perpetuity under the
corporate name of the "City of Schenectady," and the same shall, in
that name, be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law with
power of perpetual succession. (L. 1907, Ch. 756, § 4)
The word "person," as used in this Charter shall be deemed to
include all persons, firms, corporations and associations. Whenever
the word "street" or the plural thereof is used in this Charter, it
shall be deemed to include all that is included by the terms street,
road, boulevard, concourse, highway, lane, alley, square, and public
place or the plurals thereof, respectively. Whenever the word "vehicle"
or the plural thereof occurs in this Charter, it shall be deemed to
include wagons, trucks, cars, cabs, carriages, stages, omnibuses,
mobiles, automobiles, locomobiles, locomotives, engines, cars, bicycles,
sleighs, sleds and all conveyance for persons or property. The term
"tax" shall, in all proper cases, be deemed to include water rents
or rates, assessment or reassessment for local improvement. (L. 1907,
Ch. 756, § 5)
