Bill Text: NY S07367 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the issuance of local refunding bonds which do not exceed the amounts and maturity of the bonds which they refund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2014-11-21 - VETOED MEMO.522 [S07367 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07367-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7367 I N S E N A T E May 14, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the local finance law, in relation to the refunding and advance refunding of bonds THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b-1 of section 90.00 of the local finance law, as 2 added by chapter 201 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 3 b-1. Refunding bonds need not comply with paragraph b of this section 4 provided that no annual installment of each separate series of refunding 5 bonds shall be more than fifty per centum in excess of the smallest 6 prior installment, or THE AMOUNTS OF THE REFUNDING BONDS ARE THE SAME AS 7 OR LESS THAN AND THE STATED MATURITY DATES ARE THE SAME AS OR EARLIER 8 THAN THOSE OF THE BONDS TO BE REFUNDED, OR the finance board of the 9 municipality, school district or district corporation issuing the bonds 10 shall have determined to use a substantially level or declining annual 11 debt service schedule for the refunding bonds. The amount of annual 12 installments of the refunding bonds may be determined without reference 13 to the stated maturities of the bonds to be refunded. 14 S 2. Subdivision 3 of paragraph c of section 90.10 of the local 15 finance law, as amended by chapter 201 of the laws of 1994, is amended 16 to read as follows: 17 3. No annual installment of each separate series of refunding bonds 18 shall be more than fifty per centum in excess of the smallest prior 19 installment unless THE AMOUNTS OF THE REFUNDING BONDS ARE THE SAME AS OR 20 LESS THAN AND THE STATED MATURITY DATES ARE THE SAME AS OR EARLIER THAN 21 THOSE OF THE BONDS TO BE REFUNDED, OR the finance board of the munici- 22 pality, school district or district corporation issuing the bonds has 23 determined to use a substantially level or declining annual debt service 24 schedule for the refunding bonds. The amounts of annual installments of 25 the refunding bonds may be determined without reference to the stated 26 maturities of the bonds to be refunded. 27 S 3. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part 28 of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14860-01-4 S. 7367 2 1 be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the 2 remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, 3 sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the 4 controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. 5 S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.