Bill Text: NY S05655 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Removes the requirement that where a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation issues indebtedness to finance certain costs of preparation of plans and specifications for a proposed capital improvement there must be a waiting period of at least one year authorizing the undertaking of the capital improvement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - SIGNED CHAP.592 [S05655 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05655-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5655 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to removing the requirement that where a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation issues indebtedness to finance the cost of prepa- ration of plans and specifications for a proposed capital improvement, there must be a waiting period of at least one year before authorizing the undertaking of the capital improvement The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 of section 99-d of the general 2 municipal law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 889 of the laws of 3 1981, subdivisions 3 and 4 as added by chapter 735 of the laws of 1960, 4 are amended to read as follows: 5 2. [Where the cost of such advance planning of a capital improvement6is financed by the issuance of bonds or capital notes and where the7period of probable usefulness specified by subdivision sixty-two of8paragraph a of section 11.00 of the local finance law is applicable, the9municipal corporation, school district or district corporation shall not10have power to authorize the undertaking of the capital improvement until11at least one year after the original issuance of such obligations;12provided, however, that when bond anticipation notes shall have been13issued prior to such bonds, such one year period shall be computed from14the date of such bond anticipation notes.153.] The total amount of bonds or capital notes which may be authorized 16 in any fiscal year of the municipal corporation, school district or 17 district corporation to finance such advance planning pursuant to this 18 section shall not exceed the maximum amount of budget notes which it may 19 issue in such year pursuant to subdivision two or subdivision three of 20 paragraph a of section 29.00 of the local finance law, as the case may 21 be, provided, however, that for the purposes of this subdivision, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05685-01-3S. 5655 2 1 amounts which are to be paid in the first instance from improvement 2 district assessments shall be included in computing "the amount of the 3 annual budget" of a town or a county in accordance with section 29.00 of 4 such law. 5 [4.] 3. If the advance planning is undertaken for the purpose of an 6 existing or proposed county or town improvement district, or any exten- 7 sion thereof, the existing district, or the proposed district when 8 created, or the extension thereof, shall reimburse the county or town 9 for the cost of such advance planning, including any interest on any 10 obligations issued to finance such cost. The amount so reimbursed shall 11 be applied first to the payment of any outstanding obligations issued to 12 finance such expenditure. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.