Senate Bill S5655

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Removes the requirement that where a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation issues indebtedness to finance certain costs of preparation of plans and specifications

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S5655 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1976
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §99-d, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8525, A9408

2023-S5655 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the requirement that where a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation issues indebtedness to finance certain costs of preparation of plans and specifications for a proposed capital improvement there must be a waiting period of at least one year authorizing the undertaking of the capital improvement.

2023-S5655 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5655 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5655
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  removing  the
   requirement  that    where a municipal corporation, school district or
   district corporation issues indebtedness to finance the cost of prepa-
   ration of plans and specifications for a proposed capital improvement,
   there must be a waiting period of at least one year before authorizing
   the undertaking of the capital improvement
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  2,  3  and 4 of section 99-d of the general
 municipal law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 889 of  the  laws  of
 1981,  subdivisions 3 and 4 as added by chapter 735 of the laws of 1960,
 are amended to read as follows:
   2. [Where the cost of such advance planning of a  capital  improvement
 is  financed  by  the  issuance  of bonds or capital notes and where the
 period of probable usefulness  specified  by  subdivision  sixty-two  of
 paragraph a of section 11.00 of the local finance law is applicable, the
 municipal corporation, school district or district corporation shall not
 have power to authorize the undertaking of the capital improvement until
 at  least  one  year  after  the  original issuance of such obligations;
 provided, however, that when bond anticipation  notes  shall  have  been
 issued  prior to such bonds, such one year period shall be computed from
 the date of such bond anticipation notes.
   3.] The total amount of bonds or capital notes which may be authorized
 in any fiscal year of the  municipal  corporation,  school  district  or
 district  corporation  to finance such advance planning pursuant to this
 section shall not exceed the maximum amount of budget notes which it may
 issue in such year pursuant to subdivision two or subdivision  three  of
 paragraph  a  of section 29.00 of the local finance law, as the case may
 be, provided, however,  that  for  the  purposes  of  this  subdivision,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05685-01-3
              

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