§ 299-r. Increase of maximum amount to be expended. At any time after
the establishment of a district pursuant to this article the maximum
amount authorized to be expended for the original improvement or for the
original improvement, the plans for which have been amended or modified
pursuant to section two hundred ninety-nine-n of this article, in such
district may be increased by resolution of the board of supervisors or
county legislature and provided said body shall, after a public hearing
called and held in the manner prescribed by section two hundred
fifty-four of this chapter, determine that it is in the public interest
to authorize the increase of such maximum amount and provided the
comptroller of the state of New York shall have made prior to such
public hearing an order approving the increase of such maximum amount.
The order of the comptroller shall be prepared in duplicate and one copy
thereof filed in the office of the department of audit and control and
the other copy in the office of the clerk of the county in which the
district is located.