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Homeless Outreach Services in the New York City Subway System
… with significant discrepancies. For example, in one case, a client was not placed until over one year after being …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2020/01/16/homeless-outreach-services-new-york-city-subway-systemImplications for the Future – 2023 Financial Condition Report
… unwanted spending cuts, tax increases or other actions in case of an economic downturn or catastrophic event. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/finance/2023-fcr/implications-futureState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… did not comply with requirements. Office of Children and Family Services – Oversight of Child Protective Services … (Follow-Up) (2024-F-6) The Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is responsible for overseeing the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/09/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-auditsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… delays in the timely abatement of waste tire sites due to delays in establishing a new abatement contract through … 2017 found DEC generally had adequate procedures in place to capture the Clean Air Act program’s revenues, expenditures … fee billing process and in the allocation of expenses to the program. In a follow-up, auditors found DEC has made …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/09/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-audits-0Opinion 2006-10
… Accounting (charging a portion of town engineer’s salary to special district); (crediting interest earned on the … LAW §11: In the absence of any statutory direction to the contrary, interest or earnings from the investment of monies of the general fund, town-wide would be credited to the general fund, town-wide and interest or earnings from …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2006-10Opinion 91-32
… CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- Gifts and Loans (application to public benefit corporation) EMINENT DOMAIN -- Compensable … for decrease in market value) STATE CONSTITUTION, ART. I, §7(a), ART. VIII, §1; PUBLIC AUTHORITIES LAW, §2045-a, et … gratitude or charity might impel a generous individual to do.... When the only impediment to legal liability lies in a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-32Opinion 2001-15
… (authority to dissolve district when there are no "resident owners" within the district); (authority to dissolve … and who owns taxable real property therein (see, e.g., 5 Opns St Comp, 1949, p 126). We further have indicated that … or services as a town function under Town Law, article 12-C. We also note that a town, by special act, may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-15DiNapoli Audit Finds Food Inspection Failures at NYC Homeless Shelters
… Thomas P. DiNapoli. "When you get a hot meal at a homeless shelter, it should not come with a health warning," DiNapoli … programs. The office certifies and oversees larger scale shelter facilities and is responsible for inspecting them and … only 59 percent (79 out of a required 135) of food inspections from 2015 through 2017 were completed. Auditors …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/10/dinapoli-audit-finds-food-inspection-failures-nyc-homeless-sheltersWestchester Attorney Indicted for Fraud and False Statement Charges Arising From His Attempt to Embezzle From a Decedent's Estate for Which He Was Court-Appointed Administrator
… District of New York and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal … Service ("USPIS") announced that a federal grand jury in White Plains, New York, returned an Indictment yesterday … GUY PARISI, a Westchester attorney, with conspiracy, mail fraud and false statements. These charges arise from …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/08/westchester-attorney-indicted-fraud-and-false-statement-charges-arising-his-attempt-embezzleDiNapoli: State Missing Nearly $2.4 Million in Uncollected Tolls
… collection for a variety of reasons, including license plate images that could not be processed and an inability to … (and document such actions) to obtain temporary license plate registration information from out-of-state DMVs. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/07/dinapoli-state-missing-nearly-24-million-uncollected-tollsOpinion 89-36
… 34.00 (cities), 35.00 (towns) and 36.00 (villages). In the case of towns and villages, sections 35.00(b), and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-36Opinion 88-57
… rates may include a classification under which low income senior citizens are charged at a reduced rate) CONSTITUTIONAL … of water rates including a classification under which senior citizens meeting certain income criteria are charged … may establish a schedule of water rates under which senior citizens who meet certain income criteria are charged …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-57Opinion 88-7
… pay debt service. It should be noted, however, that in the case of counties, cities other than the City of New York, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-7Opinion 92-25
… have discretion to determine whether the commissioner's presence in any particular vehicle would hamper firefighting … injured while riding the apparatus). In our opinion, the presence of the fire commissioner on a fire vehicle … 176(11) and 176-a. Further, the fire commissioner's mere presence, in our opinion, would not necessarily interfere …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-25Opinion 96-3
… Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer represent those views if, among other things, there … (Village Law, §§1-102, 4-412, 5-524). Article 18 contains no exception for contracts let pursuant to competitive … under General Municipal Law, §104-b (see 1981 Opns St Comp No. 81-113, p 116; cf . Public Officers Law, §73[4][a], …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-3Opinion 96-16
… Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer represent those views if, among other things, there … and town taxes (Town Law, §198[12][e]). There is, however, no authority in section 198 for the town board, irrespective … e.g., McCabe v Voorhis , 243 NY 401; 1990 Opns St Comp No. 90-64, p 145, relating to the general rule that a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-16Opinion 97-1
… past liability in accordance with the local law providing for the experience rating, or the county's rules and … St Comp No. 79-732, unreported). A "public corporation" for this purpose includes: (a) municipal corporations (i.e., … valuation. In addition, a county may provide by local law for the operation of the plan on an experience rating basis, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-1Opinion 98-20
… may not include training requirements inconsistent with the provision of General Municipal Law, §209-c which, as …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-20Opinion 91-63
… who resides with president and owner of hardware store) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §801: A town councilman who resides with the owner and president of a hardware store and maintains office space in the same building in which the store is located, but has no relationship with the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-63Opinion 93-29
… the village, without regard to whether the newspaper is published within the village. You ask whether a village is required to designate as its official newspaper the only newspaper which is "published" in the village. The Village Law contains no …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-29