Legislation
SECTION 54-G
State assistance to local governments for support of activities related to fire prevention and building codes
State Finance (STF) CHAPTER 56, ARTICLE 4-A
§ 54-g. State assistance to local governments for support of
activities related to fire prevention and building codes. 1. Beginning
in March, nineteen hundred eighty-two and annually thereafter, each
city, village, and town shall receive from moneys appropriated by the
state in support of activities related to the administration and
enforcement in the previous calendar year of fire prevention and
building codes the sum of the amounts computed in paragraphs a and b
below.
a. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which
the population of the city, village or town outside a village bears to
the population of the state taken as a whole.
b. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which
the full value of the city, village or town outside a village bears to
the full value of the state taken as a whole. The amount otherwise
payable to a local government under this subdivision shall be reduced by
the amount of state aid to local governments for housing maintenance
code enforcement payable to such local government in the same state
fiscal year under the provisions of section fifty-four-h of this
chapter.
2. In the instance where, pursuant to section three hundred eighty-one
of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code act set
forth in article eighteen of the executive law, a county or the
secretary of state administers and enforces the New York state uniform
fire prevention and building code within a city, village or town, the
funds otherwise payable to the city, village, or town shall be paid to
the county or revert to the state, as the case may be. Where a county or
the secretary of state has been so engaged for less than the entire
calendar year provided in subdivision one, the moneys shall be
distributed to the city, village, or town, county or state in proportion
to the length of time for which each was responsible for said
administration and enforcement.
3. The terms used in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to
them in section fifty-four of this article.
activities related to fire prevention and building codes. 1. Beginning
in March, nineteen hundred eighty-two and annually thereafter, each
city, village, and town shall receive from moneys appropriated by the
state in support of activities related to the administration and
enforcement in the previous calendar year of fire prevention and
building codes the sum of the amounts computed in paragraphs a and b
below.
a. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which
the population of the city, village or town outside a village bears to
the population of the state taken as a whole.
b. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which
the full value of the city, village or town outside a village bears to
the full value of the state taken as a whole. The amount otherwise
payable to a local government under this subdivision shall be reduced by
the amount of state aid to local governments for housing maintenance
code enforcement payable to such local government in the same state
fiscal year under the provisions of section fifty-four-h of this
chapter.
2. In the instance where, pursuant to section three hundred eighty-one
of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code act set
forth in article eighteen of the executive law, a county or the
secretary of state administers and enforces the New York state uniform
fire prevention and building code within a city, village or town, the
funds otherwise payable to the city, village, or town shall be paid to
the county or revert to the state, as the case may be. Where a county or
the secretary of state has been so engaged for less than the entire
calendar year provided in subdivision one, the moneys shall be
distributed to the city, village, or town, county or state in proportion
to the length of time for which each was responsible for said
administration and enforcement.
3. The terms used in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to
them in section fifty-four of this article.