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SECTION 165.00
Deposit and use of proceeds from sale of bonds, bond anticipation notes, capital notes, urban renewal notes or budget notes
Local Finance (LFN) CHAPTER 33-A, ARTICLE 2, TITLE 12
§ 165.00 Deposit and use of proceeds from sale of bonds, bond
anticipation notes, capital notes, urban renewal notes or budget notes.
a. The proceeds, inclusive of premiums, from the sale of bonds, bond
anticipation notes, capital notes, urban renewal notes or budget notes
shall be deposited and secured in a special account in the manner
provided by section ten of the general municipal law, shall not be
commingled with other funds of the issuer, and shall be expended only
for the object or purpose for which such obligations were issued. In the
event that any portion of the proceeds, inclusive of premiums, from the
sale of bonds, bond anticipation notes, capital notes, urban renewal
notes or budget notes is not expended for the object or purpose for
which such obligations were issued, such portion shall be applied only
to the payment of the principal of and interest on such obligations,
respectively. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
paragraph, the finance board of any municipality, school district or
district corporation may adopt any or all of the following resolutions
to provide that:

1. The proceeds, inclusive of premiums, of capital notes issued in
amounts of one hundred thousand dollars or less, and of budget notes,
need not be deposited in a special account but may be deposited and
commingled with other funds of the issuer in any account of the issuer
in a bank or trust company located and authorized to do business in this
state, but such power shall not be construed as authorizing the use of
such proceeds for an object or purpose other than that for which the
obligations were issued.

2. The proceeds, inclusive of premiums, from the sale of any two or
more issues of bonds, bond anticipation notes, capital notes, urban
renewal notes or budget notes need not be deposited in separate special
accounts but may be deposited in a single special account of the issuer
in a bank or trust company located and authorized to do business in this
state, but shall not be commingled with other funds of the issuer. The
chief fiscal officer shall then maintain a separate accounting record of
each issue to insure that the proceeds shall be used only for the object
or purpose for which the obligation was issued.

3. Moneys appropriated for a purpose for which bonds, bond
anticipation notes, capital notes or urban renewal notes have been
authorized may be deposited in the same bank account with the proceeds
from the sale of such obligations. Such power shall not be construed as
authorizing the use of the proceeds of such obligations for an object or
purpose other than that for which they were issued. Provided, however,
that any moneys remaining in such bank account after the object or
purpose has been completed or abandoned shall be applied to the payment
of the principal of and interest on such obligations; any excess
remaining thereafter may be used for any lawful purpose.

b. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this section, the
proceeds, inclusive of premiums, from the sale of bonds, bond
anticipation notes, capital notes and urban renewal notes may be
invested in the manner provided by section eleven of the general
municipal law.

Such investment shall be made by the finance board or the chief fiscal
officer, if the finance board shall delegate such duty to that person.
The separate identity of the proceeds from the sale of bonds, bond
anticipation notes, capital notes, urban renewal notes and budget notes
shall be maintained at all times, whether such proceeds consist of cash
or investments or both. Any interest earned or capital gain realized on
any investment shall be applied to either the payment of the principal
of and interest on the bonds, bond anticipation notes, capital notes,
urban renewal notes or budget notes, as the case may be, the proceeds
from the sale of which were used in making such investment or for any
other purpose or purposes for which such issue of bonds, capital notes
or urban renewal notes has been authorized. Notwithstanding the
preceding sentence, any interest earned or capital gain realized on any
investment shall, to the extent necessary to maintain the exemption from
federal income taxation of interest on the obligations the proceeds from
the sale of which were used in making such investment, be paid to the
United States treasury department, or any agency of the United States.
Where the proceeds from the sale of bond anticipation notes have been
invested and such notes have been retired from the proceeds from the
sale of the bonds in anticipation of which they were issued, any
interest earned or capital gain realized on any investment shall be
applied only to the payment of the principal of and interest on the
bonds.

c. Notwithstanding the provision of paragraph a of this section or the
provision of subdivision three of section ninety-nine-o of the general
municipal law, the proceeds of obligations issued for the partial
refinancing of mass commuting vehicles by the county of Suffolk may be
used to reimburse in whole or in part any accounts or funds from which
moneys were disbursed to meet the cost of the original acquisition of
such mass commuting vehicles. As used in this paragraph "mass commuting
vehicles" means any bus, subway car, rail car, locomotive, or similar
equipment used or to be used to provide mass commuting services, whether
or not operated by a private operator under agreement with the county of
Suffolk.

d. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this section, if
obligations issued by a school district or a city on behalf of a school
district have been refunded with bonds issued by the dormitory authority
of the state of New York pursuant to subdivision thirty-nine of section
sixteen hundred eighty of the public authorities law, that portion of
the proceeds that are allocable to obligations refunded with bonds
issued by the dormitory authority of the state of New York and that have
not been expended by the school for the object or purpose for which such
obligations were issued shall be applied only to the payment of the
principal of and interest on the bonds issued by the dormitory
authority.