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SECTION 2
Definitions
Yonkers Financial Emergency Act 103/84 (YFA) CHAPTER 1984
§ 2. Definitions. As used in this act, the following words and terms
shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate
another or different meaning or intent.

1. "Available funds" means at any date the amounts in the fund which
are then available, as determined by the board, to be applied to the
purposes stated in paragraph (iii) of subdivision four of section ten of
this act after provision has been made for the application of amounts in
the fund for the purposes stated in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of
subdivision four of section ten of this act.

2. "Board" means the governmental agency created by section six of
this act.

3. "City" means the city of Yonkers.

4. "City manager" means the city manager of the city of Yonkers.

5. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state of New York.

6. "Covered organization" means any governmental agency, public
authority or public benefit corporation which receives or may receive
moneys directly, indirectly or contingently, (other than moneys received
for the sale of goods or the rendering of services or the loan of moneys
to the city) from the city, and in any event includes, without
limitation, the board of education of the city school district of the
city of Yonkers.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the board, by order made on its own
motion or on application of a covered organization may specifically
exempt the organization from inclusion as a covered organization after a
finding by the board that an exemption does not materially affect the
ability of the city to adopt and maintain a budget pursuant to the
provisions of this act; provided that at the time of and during the
period of the exemption there is supplied to the board, an annual audit
by an independent certified public accounting firm (or by a public
accountant licensed by the state of New York to conduct such audits) of
the organization's financial statements performed in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards and a report thereon by the
auditor which includes an opinion that the audited financial statements
have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and any other information as the auditor deems appropriate;
provided further however, that the board may terminate the exemption
after a determination that the circumstances upon which the exemption
was granted are no longer applicable.

In no event however, shall the term "covered organization" mean or
include any governmental agency which is (i) a state public authority as
defined in section two hundred one of the civil service law, or (ii) a
governmental agency, authority, commission or instrumentality created by
compact or agreement between the state of New York and another state or
states, or (iii) a subsidiary corporation of an agency described in (i)
or (ii) hereof.

7. "Emergency period" means the period of time from the effective date
of this act until the date when the board determines that (a) the
operating and capital funds of the city shall have been in balance for
three fiscal years in accordance with the accounting methods prescribed
for the city's budget by the state comptroller pursuant to section
thirty-six of the general municipal law, (b) the amount of all loans
made by the state to the city to fund the operating deficit incurred by
the city in its fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
eighty-four or any fiscal year thereafter has been repaid in full, and
(c) the city has presented a financial plan that projects operating and
capital fund balance for the four years covered by such plan in
accordance with the accounting methods prescribed for the city's budget
by the state comptroller pursuant to section thirty-six of the general
municipal law.

8. "Financial plan" means the financial plan of the city and the
covered organizations to be developed pursuant to section nine of this
act, as from time to time modified.

9. "Fund" means the emergency financial control board fund for the
city of Yonkers established pursuant to subdivision one of section ten
of this act.

10. "Revenues" mean all taxes, federal and state aid, rents, fees,
charges, payments, all proceeds from borrowings and other income and
receipts paid or payable to or for the account of the city or any of the
covered organizations, subject to the requirements imposed by the
special fiscal act.

11. "Special fiscal act" means the special local finance and budget
act of the city of Yonkers, as enacted by chapter four hundred
eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-six.

12. "Mayor" means the mayor of the city of Yonkers.