S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6191 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 16, 2015 ___________ 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.