§ 77-c. Per diem meal allowances for travel on official business.
Whenever a municipality is authorized or required to reimburse its
officers, employees, or the volunteer members or officers of the fire
department of the municipality, for their actual and necessary expenses
for meals in conjunction with travel on official business, the governing
board of such municipality may determine by resolution to allow and pay
a reasonable per diem allowance for meals in lieu of such actual and
necessary expenses. In determining the amount of such allowance, the
governing board shall consider the prevailing costs for meals in the
area in which the travel will occur, but in no event shall such
allowance exceed the standard meal allowance for business-related travel
adopted or prescribed for federal income tax purposes. For purposes of
this section, the terms "municipality" and "governing board" shall have
the same meaning as in section seventy-seven-b of this article.