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27 Nat'l Mun. Rev. 92 (1938)
A New Administrative Code for New York City

handle is hein.journals/natmnr27 and id is 118 raw text is: A New Administrative Code for New York City REUBEN A. LAZARUS Counsel to the New York City Board of Statutory Consolidation A T A special session of the New York State legislature, called in Decem- ber by Governor Lehman for the pur- pose, a new administrative code for the City of New York was enacted into law. The new code brings together the provisions of law regulating the details of the city administration in harmony with the city's new charter adopted in 1936 and effective January 1, 1938. The New York City Charter Revi- sion Commission was constituted by an act of the state legislature in 1934 to inquire into the structure of the city government and to submit a new char- ter to the people of the city. This char- ter was subsequently submitted to and approved by referendum of the city's voters on November 3, 1936. The charter, however, does not purport to embody all of the provisions of law relating to the government of the city. It provides the structural frame- work and is intended to set forth the organic law reflecting the scheme of government which in the judgment of the commission is best suited to present- day conditions. The Board of Statutory Consolida- tion was created in July of 1936. The members of the board are the mayor, the comptroller, the president of the Board of Aldermen,' and the corpora- tion counsel of the City of New York. 'President of the council after January 1, 1938. It was established for the purpose of continuing the work of the codification division of the Charter Revision Com- mission which had been brought into existence by resolution of the city's Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Upon the adoption of the new char- ter it became the duty of the board to prepare an administrative code for ratification by the state legislature. Every effort since the turn of the cen- tury to simplify the statutory sources of the City of New York has been based upon the principle of a struc- tural charter to be followed by an ad- ministrative code. A combination of these features was prepared in connec- tion with the ill-fated charter submitted to the legislature of 1909. The admin- istrative code plan for New York City seems to have originated with William M. Ivins who was chairman of the New York City Charter Revision Commis- sion of 1907. An analogy might be drawn in de- scrib ag the relationship between the administrative code and the charter as on a par with the relationship between the statutory law and the constitution of a sovereign body, wherein those pro- visions which were intended to be flexi- ble and to yield to changing conditions would be subject to easy amendment, while primary grants of powers and im- portant limitations upon abuses of power would be contained in a body of 92 Board of Statu- tory Consolidation completes huge task of codifying the many statutes and ordinances relating to the city's government, bringing t h e m into line with new charter.

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