Opinion 95-14

FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (personal computer for fire department); (ceremony to dedicate fire house and apparatus)

Opinion 95-13

BONDS AND NOTES -- Proceeds (use of excess)
MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Appropriations and Expenditures (use of excess bond proceeds)

Opinion 95-12

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES -- Powers and Duties (authority to deposit or invest funds with a State or federally chartered savings bank)
MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Deposits and Investments (authority to deposit or invest with a State or federally chartered savings bank)

Opinion 95-11

PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Compensation (applicability of General Municipal Law, §207-m to salary of temporary or provisional head of police department)
POLICE AND POLICE PROTECTION -- Police Chief (entitlement of temporary or provisional head of police department to salary increase pursuant to General Municipal Law, §207-m)

Opinion 95-10

CEMETERIES -- Public Burial Grounds (duty of town to erect fences around certain cemeteries and burial grounds)
TOWN BOARD -- Powers and Duties (erection of fences around certain cemeteries and burial grounds)
TOWNS -- Powers and Duties (erection of fences around certain cemeteries and burial grounds); (to maintain cemetery)
WORDS AND PHRASES -- "Around" (meaning of for purposes of Town Law, §291)

Opinion 95-9

FIRE COMMISSIONERS -- Service Award Program (service credit for attending meetings of the fire district board of commissioners)
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS -- Service Award Program (service credit for attending meetings of the fire district board of commissioners); (service credit for attending meetings of committees of a fire company); (pro rating the number of points credited for participation in less than the minimum number of calls)

Opinion 95-8

COUNTIES -- Powers and Duties (use of forfeiture moneys)
COUNTY TREASURER -- Powers and Duties (custody of forfeiture moneys)
DISTRICT ATTORNEY -- Powers and Duties (remittance of forfeiture moneys)
MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Forfeiture Moneys (use of)
POLICE AND POLICE PROTECTION -- Police Department (remittance of forfeiture moneys)

Opinion 95-7

IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS -- Commissioners (as "governing body" of district); (authority to enter into a municipal cooperation agreement)
MUNICIPAL COOPERATION -- Procedures (authority of district governed by separate commissioners to participate)

Opinion 95-6

FINES AND PENALTIES -- Disposition (fines and penalties imposed by town justice with respect to violations of traffic control signals and speed limits in suburban town) -- Distribution by State Comptroller (fines and penalties for speeding violations in suburban town); (fines and penalties for violations of traffic control signals) -- Remission to State Comptroller (fines and penalties imposed and collected by a town justice with respect to violations of a suburban town's speed limits and traffic control signals) -- Vehicle and Traffic Violations (disposition of fines and penalties with respect to violations of a suburban town's speed limits and traffic control signals)

Opinion 95-5

COUNTIES -- Emergency (911) Telephone System (use of surplus surcharge revenue to pay principal and/or interest on serial bonds issued to finance purchase of emergency communication system)

Opinion 95-4

COUNTIES -- Powers and Duties (procedure for investigating possibility of civil liability arising from alleged criminal conduct)
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Liability (investigation of possibility of civil liability arising from alleged criminal conduct)

Opinion 95-3

SALES TAX -- Distribution (calculation of amount set aside for county or educational purposes when cities and county levy the same tax); (allocation of amount not set aside for county or educational purposes when cities and county levy the same tax) -- Pre-emption (where cities and county levy the same tax)

Opinion 95-2

FEES -- Exemption from (housing authority)
PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES -- Fees (exemption from cable television franchise fees)

Opinion 95-1

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES -- Officers and Employees (municipality's responsibility to pay health care costs)
INSURANCE -- Health Insurance (municipality's responsibility to pay health care cost of urban renewal agency employees)
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS -- Powers and Duties (contribution to urban renewal agency for health care benefits)

Opinion 94-33

VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS -- Service Award Programs (participation by retired members of fire department)
GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §§215(1), 217(a): "Retired" members of a fire department may not participate in a service award program unless they are subject to being called to duty under the department's rules and regulations.

Opinion 94-32

FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION -- Villages (continuation of service award program if fire department ceases to provide service outside village or if fire department is dissolved); (authority to transfer responsibility for service award program to fire company)
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS -- Service Award Program (continuation if village fire department ceases to provide service outside village or if fire department is dissolved); (authority for village to transfer responsibilities to fire company)

Opinion 94-31

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS -- Vacations (annual cash payment in lieu of)
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Vacations (annual cash payment in lieu of)

Opinion 94-30

COUNTY CLERK -- Fees (amount of index fees remitted to State)
FEES -- Court Fees (amount of index fees remitted to State)

Opinion 94-29

FEES -- Court Fees (filing fees on appeals on Family Court matters) -- Exemption From (when municipal attorney represents a presentment agency or an indigent spouse in appeals from Family Court order)

Opinion 94-28

COUNTIES -- Powers and Duties (authority to pay expenses associated with advance planning undertaken for existing or proposed district or extension)
SEWER DISTRICTS -- Powers and Duties (duty to reimburse county general fund for costs associated with advance planning to study feasibility of county-wide wastewater treatment)