Bill Text: NY S04674 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "Rockland county deficit financing act" to authorize the county of Rockland to issue bonds.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6758 [S04674 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S04674-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ S. 4674 A. 6758 2013-2014 Regular Sessions S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y April 17, 2013 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, ZEBROWSKI, RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT authorizing the county of Rockland to issue bonds; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "Rockland county deficit financing act". 3 S 2. Definitions. (a) "Budget" shall mean a current operating budget 4 of the county prepared or adopted pursuant to general, special or local 5 law, being the annual budget and estimate of expenditures to be made 6 during a fiscal year for the general support and current expenses of the 7 government of the county to be paid from taxes or assessments or other 8 current revenues of the county for such year. 9 (b) "Comptroller" shall mean the New York state comptroller. 10 (c) "County" shall mean the county of Rockland. 11 (d) "County executive" shall mean the county executive of Rockland 12 county. 13 (e) "County legislature" shall mean the legislative body of the county 14 of Rockland. 15 (f) "Fiscal year" shall mean the fiscal year of the county. 16 S 3. Bonds. The county of Rockland is hereby authorized to issue seri- 17 al bonds, subject to the provisions of section 10.10 of the local 18 finance law, on or before September 30, 2014, in an aggregate principal 19 amount not to exceed ninety-six million dollars ($96,000,000) for the 20 specific object or purpose of liquidating current deficits in its gener- 21 al fund as of December 31, 2010, December 31, 2011 and December 31, EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02733-02-3 S. 4674 2 A. 6758 1 2012. In anticipation of the issuance and sale of such serial bonds, 2 bond anticipation notes are hereby authorized to be issued. 3 S 4. Budget review by state comptroller. During the effective period 4 of this act, the county executive shall submit the proposed budget for 5 the next succeeding fiscal year to the state comptroller no later than 6 thirty days before the date scheduled for the county legislature's vote 7 on the adoption of the final budget or the last date on which the budget 8 may be finally adopted, whichever is sooner. The state comptroller shall 9 examine such proposed budget and make such recommendations as deemed 10 appropriate thereon to the county prior to the adoption of the budget, 11 but no later than ten days before the date scheduled for the county 12 legislature's vote on the adoption of the final budget or the last date 13 on which the budget must be adopted, whichever is sooner. Such recommen- 14 dations shall be made after examination into the estimates of revenues 15 and expenditures of the county. The county legislature, no later than 16 five days prior to the adoption of the budget, shall review any such 17 recommendations and make adjustments to the proposed budget consistent 18 with any recommendations made by the state comptroller. 19 S 5. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section 20 or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent juris- 21 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali- 22 date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to 23 the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part involved in the contro- 24 versy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. The provisions of 25 this act shall be liberally construed to assist the effectuation of the 26 public purposes furthered hereby. 27 S 6. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall remain in full 28 force and effect until the tenth anniversary of the date of second issu- 29 ance of deficit bonds or deficit notes pursuant to this act, when upon 30 such date the provisions of this act shall expire and be deemed 31 repealed; and provided, however, that the state comptroller shall notify 32 the legislative bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of this act 33 in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effec- 34 tive data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York 35 in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the 36 legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.