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Opinion 89-27
… date be required to contribute a greater amount for health insurance coverage than those supervisors who were in office … date be required to contribute a greater amount for health insurance coverage than those supervisors who were in office … date be required to contribute a greater amount for health insurance coverage than those supervisors who were in office …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-27DiNapoli Report Looks at New York's Social Insurance Programs for Unemployed and Injured Workers
… differently when assessed against wages lost or cost of living, or in conjunction with household size, other … how three types of workers – those earning minimum wage, a living wage, and a six-figure salary – would fare under New … to maximum benefits are being phased in through October 2026, at which point they will equal 50% of the New York …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/11/dinapoli-report-looks-new-yorks-social-insurance-programs-unemployed-and-injured-workersDiNapoli: DOH Needs to Step Up Enforcement of Patient Safety Violations
… Health (DOH) has failed to hold accountable certain health care providers including hospitals, nursing homes and … Thomas P. DiNapoli. “Lisa’s Law was created to make health care in New York safer and give patients the knowledge they … generally has improved the public’s access to health care information. Too often, however, it gives negligent …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/03/dinapoli-doh-needs-step-enforcement-patient-safety-violationsComptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… local government audits have been issued. Town of East Hampton – Budget Review (Suffolk County) Auditors found … fund balance as a financing source in the 2020 general, water and sewer or refuse fund budgets. County of Rockland – … government money is spent at Open Book New York .Track municipal spending, the state's 160,000 contracts, billions …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/11/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-auditsState Comptroller DiNapoli and Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities President Brabham Op-Ed: When Federal Policy Undermines College Access, New York Pays the Price
… access to graduate education is cut off, the loss is not only fewer degrees, but a weakened talent pipeline that …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/12/state-comptroller-dinapoli-and-commission-independent-colleges-and-universities-president-brabham-opOpinion 89-24
… opinion request. Therefore, inasmuch as you represent only the school district of which this individual is a board … member, we will discuss the issue of conflicts of interest only as it relates to this individual's status as a member of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-24Opinion 91-5
Whether a town may issue indebtedness after the incorporation of a village which is coterminous with the town You also ask what portion if any of the town indebtedness outstanding at the time of incorporation is chargeable to the villages constitutional debt limit
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-5Cambria Housing Authority – Financial Management (2015M-316)
… Purpose of Audit The purpose of our audit was to determine if expenditures were itemized, supported and for … County. The Authority, which was established pursuant to New York State Public Housing Law, is governed by an … Authority calculated rental amounts. The Authority did not have evidence that it always conducted an annual income …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/public-authority/2016/02/12/cambria-housing-authority-financial-management-2015m-316Opinion 88-76
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … both on public moneys and private source moneys. This is in reply to your letter concerning the public and private … Whether interest earned on the investment of moneys appropriated by the village for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-76Monitoring of Air Quality (Facility Permits and Registrations)
… effects of exposure to pollutants. The audit covered permit and registration data from January 2020 through April … are changing the world’s climate. Sources of air pollution range from large sources, such as chemical plants and … air pollution, and the Department, must follow for air permit application and permitting processes. Permit or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2023/09/20/monitoring-air-quality-facility-permits-and-registrationsMitchell Lama Applicants Charged $200 for Virtually No Chance of Apartment in Their Lifetime
… managers’ failure to return fees to applicants not only misleads applicants about their chances of getting an …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/12/mitchell-lama-applicants-charged-200-virtually-no-chance-apartment-their-lifetimeOpinion 2001-13
… Speakerkits , 832 NY2d 814, 611 NYS2d 488; New York State Pub. Empls. Fedn. v City of Albany , 72 NY2d 96, 531 NYS2d … NY Const, article IX, §2). A town's home rule power is also limited by the doctrine of … such limitations are expressly authorized by statute." ( Pub. Empls. Fedn , supra , 72 NY2d at 101, 531 NYS2d at 772; …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-13Shareholders Send Exxon a Strong Message on Climate Change
… by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and the Church Commissioners for England, asks the company to assess … Comptroller for the New York State Comptroller. “Exxon has a responsibility to its investors to explain how it can … proposals co-filed in 2015 by the Church Commissioners and other investors and endorsed by the boards and shareholders …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/05/shareholders-send-exxon-strong-message-climate-changeWho to Report – Enhanced Reporting
… When you use enhanced reporting, you not only report data on employees who are enrolled NYSLRS …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/employers/enhanced-reporting/who-to-reportIT Asset Management (2022-MS-2)
… complete report – pdf] We also released 20 letter reports to the following School Districts: Brighton Central School … IT inventory records or establish adequate controls to safeguard IT assets. We selected 1,155 IT assets to confirm they were inventoried; 945 of these were also …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/statewide-audit/2023/03/16/it-asset-management-2022-ms-2Opinion 91-56
… Lakes Solid Waste Management Authority (the Authority) is generally governed by title 30 of the Public Authorities … by any political subdivision thereof shall not be deemed a liability for the purposes of this section. (emphasis added) … such a five-year period, it would be essential to define what is meant by "operative" and to apply a test therefor. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-56Opinion 91-48
… board represented by board member's personal attorney) ZONING AND PLANNING -- Planning Boards (board member … 800(2) contract with a municipality (see, e.g., 1988 Opns St Comp No. 88-68, p 135; 1985 Opns St Comp No. 85-60, p 84; 1983 Opns St Comp No. 83-108, p 133; …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-48Opinion 91-61
… such an approved plan. We have been asked whether town and village justice courts must collect the additional one … or village court shall be paid to the State Comptroller, and that "the additional one per centum of such bail moneys … as provided in subdivision three of this section, and shall be used to fund the alternatives to incarceration …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-61Opinion 88-61
… REAL PROPERTY TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS -- Payments (use of certificate of mailing to prove timeliness of) REAL PROPERTY … the burden of proving timely payment by producing a certificate of mailing of the U.S. Postal Service which is … the payment of taxes without penalty. You ask whether a certificate of mailing of the U.S. Postal Service postmarked …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-61Opinion 88-78
… retain its police department which would then be made up only of one or two part-time officers? (3) What would be the … regard to retaining a village police department consisting only of two part-time officers, we note that Village Law, … State law to be charged on a town-wide basis, to be raised only on a part-town basis (1980 Opns St Comp No. 80-334, p …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-78