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                                  6191

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Local Governments

AN  ACT  to  amend the local finance law, in relation to authorizing the
  adoption of a  bond  act  for  the  construction,  reconstruction,  or
  modification  of sewage and drinking water facilities in the county of
  Westchester without submission to a referendum but subject to a public
  hearing

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 1 of paragraph b of section 33.10 of the local
finance law, as amended by chapter 125 of the laws of 1990,  is  amended
to read as follows:
  1.  In  the  county of Westchester, a bond act adopted by the board of
legislators authorizing the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes
in an amount in excess of ten million dollars  to  finance  any  capital
improvement,  shall not become effective until submitted at a general or
special election and approved by a majority of the  votes  cast  on  the
question  of the approval or disapproval of such act.  The provisions of
this subdivision shall not apply to bond acts authorizing  the  issuance
of  bonds  or  bonds  and capital notes to provide for the construction,
reconstruction or modification of facilities for the conveyance,  treat-
ment  and disposal of sewage [required by any order of the state commis-
sioner of health or of the commissioner  of  environmental  conservation
directing compliance with standards, determinations or orders promulgat-
ed  pursuant  to  article  seventeen or article nineteen of the environ-
mental conservation law, or any order of an agency acting in  accordance
with  an  interstate  compact, to prevent pollution of the waters of the
state or to ameliorate noxious odors, emissions, insect proliferation or
other conditions arising as a consequence of operating such a  facility]
OR  FACILITIES  FOR THE DISTRIBUTION, TREATMENT, AND STORAGE OF DRINKING
WATER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER SUCH BOND ACTS IN EXCESS OF TEN MILLION DOLLARS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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SHALL NOT BE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF LEGISLATORS UNTIL A PUBLIC  HEARING
WITH NOTICE IS HELD.
  The provision of this subdivision shall not apply to bond acts author-
izing  the  issuance  of bonds or bonds and capital notes to provide for
the construction or reconstruction of facilities, acquisition of  sites,
collection  and  disposition  of  solid wastes, required by any order of
county, state, or federal agencies or courts directing  compliance  with
standards,  determinations,  or  orders  promulgated by such agencies or
courts.
  The provisions of this  subdivision  shall  not  apply  to  bond  acts
authorizing  the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes to provide
for construction, reconstruction or acquisition  of  hospital  buildings
and other buildings incidental or related to or supportive of the hospi-
tal  buildings,  whether  or  not  including  the acquisition of land or
permanent rights in land as the site thereof, and whether or not includ-
ing  the  grading  or  improvement  of  such  site,  and  the   original
furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus required for the purposes
for which such buildings are to be used, all to the extent the foregoing
are the subject matter of a lease and sub-lease dated as of August twen-
ty-eighth,  nineteen hundred seventy-three, by and between the county of
Westchester and the New York state housing finance agency and facilities
development corporation.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.