Bill Text: NY A06191 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the county of Westchester to issue bonds without the need for a referendum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-12-11 - signed chap.528 [A06191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06191-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6191
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 16, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Local Governments
       AN  ACT  to  amend the local finance law, in relation to authorizing the
         adoption of a  bond  act  for  the  construction,  reconstruction,  or
         modification  of sewage and drinking water facilities in the county of
         Westchester without submission to a referendum but subject to a public
         hearing
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of paragraph b of section 33.10 of the local
    2  finance law, as amended by chapter 125 of the laws of 1990,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    1.  In  the  county of Westchester, a bond act adopted by the board of
    5  legislators authorizing the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes
    6  in an amount in excess of ten million dollars  to  finance  any  capital
    7  improvement,  shall not become effective until submitted at a general or
    8  special election and approved by a majority of the  votes  cast  on  the
    9  question  of the approval or disapproval of such act.  The provisions of
   10  this subdivision shall not apply to bond acts authorizing  the  issuance
   11  of  bonds  or  bonds  and capital notes to provide for the construction,
   12  reconstruction or modification of facilities for the conveyance,  treat-
   13  ment  and disposal of sewage [required by any order of the state commis-
   14  sioner of health or of the commissioner  of  environmental  conservation
   15  directing compliance with standards, determinations or orders promulgat-
   16  ed  pursuant  to  article  seventeen or article nineteen of the environ-
   17  mental conservation law, or any order of an agency acting in  accordance
   18  with  an  interstate  compact, to prevent pollution of the waters of the
   19  state or to ameliorate noxious odors, emissions, insect proliferation or
   20  other conditions arising as a consequence of operating such a  facility]
   21  OR  FACILITIES  FOR THE DISTRIBUTION, TREATMENT, AND STORAGE OF DRINKING
   22  WATER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER SUCH BOND ACTS IN EXCESS OF TEN MILLION DOLLARS
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09258-01-5
       A. 6191                             2
    1  SHALL NOT BE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF LEGISLATORS UNTIL A PUBLIC  HEARING
    2  WITH NOTICE IS HELD.
    3    The provision of this subdivision shall not apply to bond acts author-
    4  izing  the  issuance  of bonds or bonds and capital notes to provide for
    5  the construction or reconstruction of facilities, acquisition of  sites,
    6  collection  and  disposition  of  solid wastes, required by any order of
    7  county, state, or federal agencies or courts directing  compliance  with
    8  standards,  determinations,  or  orders  promulgated by such agencies or
    9  courts.
   10    The provisions of this  subdivision  shall  not  apply  to  bond  acts
   11  authorizing  the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes to provide
   12  for construction, reconstruction or acquisition  of  hospital  buildings
   13  and other buildings incidental or related to or supportive of the hospi-
   14  tal  buildings,  whether  or  not  including  the acquisition of land or
   15  permanent rights in land as the site thereof, and whether or not includ-
   16  ing  the  grading  or  improvement  of  such  site,  and  the   original
   17  furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus required for the purposes
   18  for which such buildings are to be used, all to the extent the foregoing
   19  are the subject matter of a lease and sub-lease dated as of August twen-
   20  ty-eighth,  nineteen hundred seventy-three, by and between the county of
   21  Westchester and the New York state housing finance agency and facilities
   22  development corporation.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.