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Opinion 92-2
… in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Taxes (authority to use general fire district funds to pay amounts due under contract for hydrants serving a zone) FIRE HYDRANTS … to use general fire district funds to pay amounts due under contract for hydrants serving a zone); (authority …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-2DiNapoli: New York Must Do More To Reduce Maternal Deaths
… The New York State Department of Health (DOH) needs to do more to ensure … rates decline, according to an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. While DOH … data warehouse to monitor and track perinatal outcomes by race, ethnicity and insurance status to improve maternal …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/08/dinapoli-new-york-must-do-more-reduce-maternal-deathsOpinion 93-2
… on such a proposition at any other time. You ask under what circumstances a referendum on a proposition to change … election. You state that the proposition in question is being submitted to the voters on the village board's own … §9-912[1],[2][e]). The term "regular village election" is not defined in the Election Law. The Election Law, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-2Opinion 92-22
… 805-a(1)(c) prohibits a municipal officer or employee from receiving, or entering into any agreement for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-22Opinion 90-52
… if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. TOWN BOARD -- Powers and Duties (publication … LAW, §35: Although the town clerk is required to record in the minutes of a town board meeting the name of each …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-52Opinion 93-25
… street by prescription or use. September 7, 1993 Michael Davidoff, Esq., Village Attorney Village of Bloomingburg … Whether the village may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-25Opinion 89-31
… views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues … for) MUNICIPAL HOME RULE LAW, §§10(1)(ii)(a)(1), (c)(1), 37: A city may not provide for recall elections of elected … petition, filed pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law, §37, to amend a city charter to provide for recall elections. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-31State Medicaid Bought Erectile Dysfunction Drugs for Sex Offenders
… The state’s Medicaid program paid more than $60,000 for sexual and … today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. In total, Medicaid made more than $930,000 in payments for ED drugs and … Auditors found that did not always happen. Since the transition of pharmacy benefit management to MCOs, Medicaid …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/06/state-medicaid-bought-erectile-dysfunction-drugs-sex-offendersOpinion 2001-5
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … fire districts have only those powers expressly granted by statute or necessarily implied therefrom (Town Law … was rendered, section 176(31) of the Town Law was enacted by chapter 763 of the Laws of 1983. Memoranda in the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-5DiNapoli: State Education Department Missed Red Flags of Proprietary Schools' Financial Trouble
… CPAs who prepared them that the schools may not be able to pay their bills within the next 12 months. One of them, an …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/01/dinapoli-state-education-department-missed-red-flags-proprietary-schools-financial-troubleDiNapoli Audit: MTA Transit Capital Projects Plagued by Cost Overruns and Delays
… of six Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) New York City Transit (Transit) capital projects found errors … failure to follow its own procedures or properly oversee contractors. “This audit found numerous problems in the MTA’s …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/07/dinapoli-audit-mta-transit-capital-projects-plagued-cost-overruns-and-delaysControls Over CUNY Fully Integrated Resources and Services Tool
… various functions at CUNY, such as the Admissions Office or Registrar. These roles give individuals permission to … and student employees whether active, inactive, or retired. Key Findings We concluded that CUNY’s processes … cannot access. Such access requires an approved access form; however, no form was on file for this student. The …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2016/09/02/controls-over-cuny-fully-integrated-resources-and-services-toolOpinion 95-11
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Compensation … law or administrative code to the contrary, and except in police departments which employ five hundred seventy-five … of construction that meaning and effect should be given to all the statutory language, and words are not to be rejected …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-11Opinion 98-2
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … the meeting. Town Law, §178-c provides that, when incurred by the authority of the board of fire commissioners, the … of the fire district fire department, incurred and paid by any such officer or employee in executing the duties of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-2Opinion 2006-3
… town board, after a public hearing, to grant franchises “for the use of the streets, highways, and public places or … thereof or the space above or under them or any of them, for any specific purpose authorized by law upon such terms … rule, unless a statute provides otherwise, and except for revenues received as a result of a part-town function or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2006-3Opinion 88-54
… in the opinion. IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS -- Extensions (prior to effective date of a consolidation) WATER DISTRICTS -- Extension (prior to effective date of a consolidation) TOWN LAW, §§190, 206, 209: A town board may not establish an extension to a consolidated water district prior to the effective date …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-54Opinion 91-14
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … REFUSE AND GARBAGE -- Collection of (for village by town refuse and garbage district) REFUSE AND GARBAGE … entered into under section 119-o must be approved by each participating municipal corporation or district by a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-14Opinion 90-30
… and/or a mortgage thereon on behalf of the social services district for the assistance and care of a person at public … previously accepted on behalf of the social services district pursuant to Social Services Law, §106(1) and that a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-30Opinion 99-15
… and "quasi-municipal corporations" (NY Const., art III, §1, art XVI, §1; see, e.g., Greater Poughkeepsie Library v …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-99-15Opinion 89-16
… INSURANCE LAW, §§9104, 9105: Except as otherwise provided by a special act, the members of the fire department or, in … or company newsletter, the moneys may be expended by the treasurer for that purpose. You ask whether foreign … Sections 9104 and 9105 of the Insurance Law, as amended by chapter 293 of the Laws of 1988, govern the use of foreign …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-16