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entered on such order and the same shall be subject to inspection by the police.

Every massage operator and institute to whom or for which a license shall have been issued, pursuant to the provision of this section, shall display a sign upon which the words "Licensed Masseur," "Licensed Masseuse," or "Licensed Massage Institute," in accordance with the license as issued, shall be conspicuously and legibly set forth in English in such manner that the said words may be readily seen by persons entering the said premises where massage is given. (New. Ord. approved Nov. 17, 1916.)

ARTICLE 16

LESSEES OF TENEMENTS

Section 178. Definition.

179. Qualifications.

180. Violations and penalties.

Sec. 178. Definition.

A person, corporation or partnership, who or which leases a tenement in the city of New York, having three or more dwelling apartments, and subleases any portion or part of the said tenement to three or more persons, shall be deemed to be a lessee of tenements, intended within the terms of this ordinance.

§ 179. Qualifications.

The commissioner of licenses, with the approval of the tenement house commissioner of the city of New York, shall license, in his discretion, such lessees of tenements as shall have complied with the rules and regulations laid down by the board of aldermen, and further, any such rules and regulations to be subject at all times to amendment by the board of aldermen. The annual license fee for such tenement lessees shall be $25 and $10 additional for each additional tenement the said lessee may lease.

Each tenement lessee in the city of New York shall on or before January 1st of each year procure a license in accordance with the provisions heretofore stated.

§ 180. Violations and penalties.

The commissioner of licenses, after hearing, shall have power to suspend or revoke at any time any license granted in accordance with this article. Any person, firm or corporation whose license has been revoked shall be ineligible to procure a new license for at least three years from the date of the revocation of said license by the commissioner. Adopted December 16. Became effective December 30, 1919.

ARTICLE 17

BATHING ESTABLISHMENTS AND BATHHOUSE KEEPERS

Sec. 190. Definitions.

191. Licenses; term; fee; bond.

192. Schedule of charges; filing and posting.

193. Inspection.

194. Suspension; revocation.

195. Violations; penalty.

Sec. 190. Definitions. Every establishment maintained in the City wherein bathing is permitted for hire or wherein bathing suits are hired

out, or which, for hire, is used for the purpose of dressing or undressing in connection with the wearing, putting on or taking off of bathing suits, shall be deemed to be a bathing establishment, and any person who shall have a bathing house upon or near any beach or shore of the ocean, bays, or rivers within the jurisdiction of the city, shall be deemed to be a bathhouse keeper, provided that said bathing establishment is maintained for the accommodation of guests or other persons for pay.

§ 191. License; term; fee; bond. The annual license fee for each bathing establishment shall be $25, and every bathhouse keeper shall give a bond to the city with sufficient surety to be approved by the commissioner, in the penal sum of $500, conditioned for the due observance of the provisions of law, or ordinances relating to bathing establishments and bathhouse keepers.

All licenses for bathing establishments shall be issued as of May 15th and shall expire on the 14th day of May next succeeding the date of issuance thereof.

§ 192. Schedule of charges; filing and posting. Each applicant for a license to conduct, maintain or operate a bathing establishment shall file with his application for license a schedule of prices to be charged for the hiring of suits, rooms, lockers, or other accommodations in such establishment, and upon the approval of such schedule by the commissioner, the same shall be posted in conspicuous places in the establishment, in full view of the public at all times. No charge shall be made for any service or accommodation in any such establishment in excess of the rates specified in any such schedule under penalty of forfeiture of the license.

§ 193. Inspection. The provisions of a license granted under this article shall not be construed to interfere with any jurisdiction of the department of health as set forth in §§ 340 and 341 of the Sanitary Code, but permits granted under said sections shall be necessary to and part of the moving application for a license under the provisions of this article.

§ 194. Suspension; revocation. The commissioner shall license in his discretion such bathing establishments as shall have complied with the rules and regulations herein provided and shall have power to suspend or revoke at any time any license granted in accordance with this article.

§ 195. Violations; penalty. Any person who shall violate, neglect, or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $200, or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Adopted July 13, 1920. Approved July 22, 1920.

ARTICLE 18

SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS IN PUBLIC

(See page 579.)

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2. Location and designation of public markets.
3. Farmers and market gardeners.

4. Manufacture and sale of ice.

ARTICLE 1

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 1. Control of markets and market-places.

§ 2. Transfers of permits or licenses.

§ 3. Adjustment of controversies.

§ 4. Water-front property adjoining market-lands; highways through or bounding market-places.

§ 5. Market hours.

§ 6. Regulation of toilet facilities.

§ 1. Control of markets and market places. All public markets, market places, market lands, existing and maintained as such, shall be in the charge and under the control of the department of public markets. The commissioner of public markets, or such officer or employee in the department as he may designate, shall have immediate charge of all grounds and buildings for market purposes; have charge of all vehicles, including pushcarts, from which market produce is sold; all auctions conducted in market places, and all auctioneers doing business therein. Rules for the conduct of business of the department, repair, care and use of markets, fees or stands and space in markets, permits and leases for business in the markets, shall be made by the commissioner.

The commissioner shall have power and it shall be his duty to appoint supervisors and such other employees as may be necessary to regulate the sale of food stuffs and other merchandise in all public street markets and to maintain and keep such markets in a clean and sanitary condition.

All fees for permits in connection with market privileges shall be paid to the department of public markets and all such fees shall be paid into the sinking fund for the redemption of the city debt. (Charter §§ 163 and 164; C. O. § 78, as amended May 7, 1921.)

This bureau is under the control of the Finance Department, sec. 151, Greater New York Charter. The City Ordinances of 1859 placed the Bureau of Markets in the City Inspector's Department. That a municipal corporation has power to establish public markets is well settled. St. Johns v. Mayor, etc., of N. Y., 6 Duer, 315; People v. Lowber, 7 Abb. Pr. 158, 28 Barb. 65; Ketchum v. City of Buffalo, 14 N. Y. 356, aff'd 21 Barb. 294. And municipal corporations have power to regu late established markets. Mayor, etc., of N. Y. v. Schultz, 31 How. Pr. 385; Barry v. Kennedy, 11 Abb. Pr., N. S., 421. As to power of Comptroller, see Lowenstein v. Myers, 49 N. Y. St. Rep. 807, and People ex rel. Westervelt v. Meyer, 5 N. Y.

Supp. 69. An ordinance requiring butchers to have licenses sustained. City of Buffalo v. Hill, 79 App. Div. 402. The city cannot, however, grant permits to erect market stands in the public streets. Ely v. Campbell, 59 How. Pr. 333. §2. Transfers of permits or licenses.-No transfer or assignment of any permit or license to do business shall be made without the written approval of the Commissioner. (New.)

As to rights of assignee see People ex rel. Danzinger v. Metz, 123 App. Div. 269. §3. Adjustment of controversies.-The Commissioner may adjust and settle any claims in controversies in regard to rents and other matters that appertain to leases or market lands. (New.) Adopted May 20, 1919. Approved May 26, 1919.

§4. Water-front property adjoining market-lands; highways through or bounding market-places.-Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the jurisdiction of the department of docks and ferries over the water-front property in and around any market lands, nor with the jurisdiction of the president of any borough over market lands, in so far as concerns his powers over highways. (Charter, § 164.) 85. Market hours.-Every vehicle in which articles shall be brought to market, or which shall come within the limits of any market, shall be removed therefrom at or before 12 o'clock noon of each day, except Saturday. On Saturdays, any market may remain open and market licensees may conduct business therein until 12 o'clock, midnight. (C. O., § 83a revised.)

86. Regulation of toilet facilities.-No water-closet or urinal shall be erected or maintained in any public market, over or above any stall, stand or place where meats, fish, butter, eggs, fowl, game, vegetables, fruits, or other articles of food supply are kept or offered for sale, and all such water-closets and urinals shall, so far as practicable, be built and maintained below the ground floor of such market. (Ord. April 4, 1911.)

ARTICLE 2

LOCATION AND DESIGNATION OF PUBLIC MARKETS

Sec. 20. Street markets.

§ 21. Delancey street market.

22. Eighth ward market, Brooklyn.

23. Essex market.

24. Gansevoort market.

25. Jefferson market.

§ 26. 59th street market.

27. Third avenue market.

28. Atlantic avenue market, Brooklyn.

29. Union Square market.

30. Wallabout market.

31. Washington market.

32. West Washington market.

33. Jamaica market.

Sec. 20. Street markets.-The following designated territories and streets, or sections thereof, extending only from house line to house

line on each block and for a distance not more than 10 feet from the curb lines to the centre of the roadway, unless otherwise specified, are hereby set aside and apart for public market purposes for the sale of fruits, vegetables, produce or other commodity, as designated in the permits issued therefor by the commissioner:

In the Borough of Manhattan.-Catherine market. The territory bounded on the north by Cherry street, on the east by Market slip, on the south by South street, and on the west by Catherine slip;

Peck slip market.—The territory lying between South and Water streets, both sides thereof, for a distance of not more than 15 feet from the curb lines to the centre of the roadway;

9th avenue market.-On 9th avenue, beginning at 38th street and extending to 42d street; and extending a distance 50 feet east and west from 9th avenue on 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st streets;

Lower Monroe street market.-On Monroe street, beginning at Catherine street and extending to Market street; on Market street, beginning at Monroe street and extending to Cherry street; on Catherine street, beginning at Monroe street and extending to Cherry street; on Oak street, beginning at Catherine street and extending to Oliver street;

Lenox avenue market.-On Lenox avenue, beginning at 139th street and extending to 141st street;

Park avenue market. The entire space on Park avenue underneath the structure of the New York Central or the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, commencing from the corner of 111th street and Park avenue, running thence along said Park avenue to 116th street and covering the territory from the east side of Park avenue to the west side thereof;

Park avenue market (south).-On Park avenue, beginning at 99th street and extending to 106th street; and extending on 102d and 103d streets from Park avenue to Madison avenue;

Canal street market.-On Canal street, beginning at Rutgers square and extending to Chrystie street;

Hester street market.-On Hester street, beginning at Clinton street and extending to Forsyth street, and extending on Suffolk street from Hester street to Grand street;

Grand street market.-On Grand street, beginning at Clinton street and extending to Allen street;

Orchard street market.-On Orchard street, beginning at Hester street and extending to East Houston street;

Rivington street market. On Rivington street, beginning at Goerck street and extending to Eldridge street; and extending on Columbia, Willet and Ridge streets from Delancey street to Stanton street;

Lower 1st avenue market. On 1st avenue, beginning at East Houston street and extending to 14th street and including the territory on 11th and 12th streets between 1st and 2d avenues;

East Houston street market.-On East Houston street, beginning at Essex street and extending to Chrystie street; and extending on Allen street from Rivington street to Stanton street;

Stanton street market (east).-On Stanton street, beginning at Eldridge street and extending to Essex street;

Stanton street market (west).-On Stanton street, beginning at Forsyth street and extending to the Bowery;

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