§ 20-573 Adjustment of controversies.

The commissioner of ports and trade may adjust and settle any claims and controversies in regard to rents and other matters which appertain to leases of market lands.

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1989/014.

§ 20-574 Rules and regulations.

   a.   The commissioner shall have power to adopt and amend such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out his or her powers and duties pursuant to this chapter.

   b.   Violations. Any person who shall violate any of such rules and regulations shall be guilty of an offense triable by a judge of the New York city criminal court, and punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each offense or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or by both.

(Am. L.L. 2021/080, 7/18/2021, eff. 11/15/2021)

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2021/080.

§ 20-575 Waterfront property adjoining market lands; highways through or bounding market places.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall interfere with the jurisdiction of the department of ports and trade over any waterfront property in and around any market lands, nor with the jurisdiction of the commissioner of transportation over market lands, insofar as it concerns his or her powers over highways.

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1989/014.

§ 20-576 City sealer.

The commissioner, or such officer or employee in the department as he or she may designate, shall have all of the powers and perform all of the duties of a sealer of weights and measures pursuant to section one hundred eighty of the agriculture and markets law.

§ 20-577 Inspectors of markets, weights and measures.

   a.   The commissioner shall have power and it shall be his or her duty to appoint a chief inspector of markets, weights and measures and inspectors of markets, weights and measures. The title of inspectors of live poultry and weighmasters shall be abolished and all persons occupying those titles shall henceforth have the title of inspector of markets, weights and measures, with all the powers and duties of that title. Wherever any reference to the title or duties of inspector of live poultry or weighmaster appears in this code, the title or duties of inspector of markets, weights and measures shall be substituted therefor.

   b.   Each inspector is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to the regulations of the department, to enforce any law, rule or regulation pertaining to the weights and dimensions of vehicles and to proceed under the provisions of article one hundred fifty of the criminal procedure law, in the same manner and with like force and effect as a police officer in respect to procuring, countersigning and serving the appearance tickets referred to therein in cases arising out of the enforcement of any such law, rule or regulation.