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Opinion 2003-7
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … as well as practical factors, including whether there is a need for additional facilities in the immediate neighborhood …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2003-7Opinion 89-36
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Capital Reserve Funds … reconstruct or acquire a type of capital improvement. In both cases, compliance with the permissive referendum … such minimum period of maturity . [emphasis added] Thus, in the event the authority to issue obligations for a capital …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-36DiNapoli & Schneiderman Announce Sentencing of Former MET Council Insurance Broker
… announced that Joseph Ross, the former insurance broker for the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty (“Met … I thank Attorney General Schneiderman and his staff for partnering with us to recover millions of dollars in … to the nonprofit. Met Council knowingly paid the inflated premiums, and then Ross gave cash kickbacks to Cohen and Herb …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/03/dinapoli-schneiderman-announce-sentencing-former-met-council-insurance-brokerDo We have Your Money? $230 Million Returned to New York State Residents This Year
… to give it back.” Unclaimed funds is more than $14 billion in lost and forgotten money dating back to the 1940s. The …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/07/do-we-have-your-money-230-million-returned-new-york-state-residents-yearOpinion 97-8
… on the issues discussed in the opinion. CITIES -- Powers and Duties (requirement that claims be certified) CLAIMS -- …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-8XIX.3 Project IDs with Multiple Funding Sources – XIX. Project Costing (PCIP)
… obsolete. PCIP enables agencies to use the Project ID in SFS to manage and report on the total cost to the overall … Additional information on Project Budgets can be found in Chapter VI.5 of this Guide. Federally Funded Billing The …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xix/xix3-project-ids-multiple-funding-sourcesDiNapoli: Former Beekman Tax Collector Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $86,000 for Personal Expenses
… thank the State Comptroller’s Office and Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office for their commitment to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/04/dinapoli-former-beekman-tax-collector-pleads-guilty-embezzling-86000-personal-expensesGASB Statement No. 33 "Accounting and Financial Reporting for Nonexchange Transactions"
… County, City, Town and Village Chief Fiscal Officers GASB Statement No. 33 provides accounting and reporting guidelines … between services provided and supporting revenues. The statement describes four categories of nonexchange …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/publications/gasb-statement-no-33-accounting-and-financial-reporting-nonexchange-transactionsNYS Comptroller DiNapoli: Beware Text Message Scam Targeting Retirees
… message to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov or by calling the … to trick recipients into making a payment for “an upgrade” in exchange for reduced taxes, additional money added to … Retirement Fund is the third largest public pension fund in the United States with estimated assets of $254.8 billion …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/05/nys-comptroller-dinapoli-beware-text-message-scam-targeting-retireesOpinion 91-28
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION -- Water Fund … whether a village board of trustees may use surplus moneys in the village's water fund for sewer or other general … refunds to consumers" (see also NY Const, art 14, §1[f]). In our opinion, the reference to "profits" in section 94 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-28Opinion 89-46
… LAW, §3; ELECTION LAW, §5-102: An individual who is not a U.S. citizen may not be a member of a town planning board. You ask whether a person who otherwise qualifies for office, but is not a citizen of the United States, may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-46Member E-News Archive — 2023
… Faster Check Retirement Online to See Possible Changes in Pension Deductions Vested: Qualifying for a Retirement … Requesting Additional Service Credit Estimate Your Pension in Retirement Online Direct Deposit Pension Payments … Becoming Vested March 2023 E-News was not published in March February 2023 NYSLRS Membership Basics Why Your …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/publications/member-e-news-archive-2023Opinion 93-14
… County , 235 AD 566, 258 NYS 690; see also 1988 Opns St Comp No. 88-30, p 56; 1987 Opns St Comp, No. 87-64, p 96; … 295 NYS2d 490, involving property owners who are precluded from receiving services paid for with ad valorem levies). … found in the provisions of the former Village Law actually required a village to extend its water system upon the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-14Opinion 97-9
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST -- Disclosure of … 806: A village board member who has a financial interest in a business which may be negatively impacted by a zoning … by the board should publicly disclose his or her interest in the matter. If the potential negative financial impact of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-9Opinion 97-25
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST -- Codes of Ethics … until after the agency approves the application. This is in reply to your request for our opinion concerning a … review board. You state that the board member in question is a sign maker who has been found to have drawn …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-25Opinion 91-29
… 546 NYS2d 61, pertaining to strict liability for loss of funds by public officers). An action may be brought, however, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-29Opinion 90-43
… of the General Municipal Law. This provision provides for a special accidental death benefit to be paid by … officer, who was divorced at the time of death, eligible for the death benefit; (ii) are children under the age of 18 of a deceased police officer eligible for the death benefit where the spouse of the officer …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-43Opinion 95-10
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. CEMETERIES -- Public Burial Grounds (duty of … to erect a fence encircling a cemetery or burial ground in the first class described in Town Law, §291(1), that is, a cemetery or burial ground, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-10Opinion 88-23
… longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that … the village unless (a) his or her stock ownership amounts to less than 5% of the outstanding stock and (b) as employee and officer of the corporation, his or her duties do not involve the procurement, preparation or performance of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-23Opinion 2007-6
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. POLICE AND POLICE PROTECTION -- Police Chief … and is the highest ranking subordinate to the police chief in a village police department receives a one-time payment of … year, the police chief is entitled to a one-time payment in the same amount. This is in reply to your inquiry …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2007-6