2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VIL - Village
Article 1 - (1-100 - 1-102) SHORT TITLE
1-102 - Powers of incorporated village.

 
    § 1-102. Powers of incorporated village
    The  citizens  of the state of New York, from time to time inhabitants
  of  the  territory  comprised  within  the  boundaries  of  any  village
  heretofore  or  hereafter  incorporated shall continue to be a municipal
  corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name and the same shall in
  that name be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law, with power
  of perpetual succession. The village shall have power:
    1. To take, purchase, hold, lease,  sell  and  convey  such  real  and
  personal property as the purposes of the corporation may require.
    2.  To  take  by  gift,  grant,  bequest  or  devise and hold real and
  personal  estate  absolutely  or  in  trust  for  any  purpose  of   the
  corporation  or  for any public use upon such terms or conditions as may
  be prescribed by the grantor or donor and accepted by  said  corporation
  and to provide for the proper administration of the same.
    3.  To  take unconditionally by gift, grant, bequest or devise for any
  other purpose any real  or  personal  property  or  estate  or  interest
  therein,  to  hold same for only such time as is reasonably necessary to
  sell, convey or to dispose thereof, and to so sell,  convey  or  dispose
  thereof;  notwithstanding that the holding of such property would not be
  for a purpose of the corporation or for a public use.
    4. To make, have and use, and from time to time alter, a common seal.
    5. To contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to complain
  and defend and to institute, prosecute, maintain, defend  and  intervene
  in, any action or proceeding in any court.
    6.  To  have  and exercise all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction
  essential to a proper exercise of its corporate function, including  all
  that  may  be necessarily incident to, or may be fairly implied from the
  powers specifically conferred upon such corporation.
    7. To have and exercise all  the  rights,  privileges,  functions  and
  powers  prescribed and exercised by it under existing or subsequent laws
  and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.