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Avoca Central School District – Procurement (2025M-29)
… (District) officials make procurements in accordance with statutory requirements and District policies? Audit … Whether using formal competitive bids in accordance with New York State General Municipal Law (GML), requests for … did not always procure goods and services in accordance with the statutory requirements set forth in GML or with the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/06/13/avoca-central-school-district-procurement-2025m-29Opinion 94-10
… -- Town Charges (human rights commission) TOWNS -- Powers and Duties (part-town human rights commission) MUNICIPAL … 239-o: A town human rights commission must be established and operated on a townwide basis. A town and one or more villages may establish a joint …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-10Germantown Central School District – Lead Testing and Reporting (S9-25-3)
… report and implement needed remediation to reduce lead exposure in potable water outlets? Audit Period July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024 Understanding the Program Lead is a metal that was commonly used in plumbing and has … identified as toxic to people, especially young children. Lead poisoning can cause neurological issues such as slowing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/07/03/germantown-central-school-district-lead-testing-and-reporting-s9-25-3Moravia Central School District – Lead Testing and Reporting (S9-25-2)
… report and implement needed remediation to reduce lead exposure in potable water outlets? Audit Period July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024 Understanding the Program Lead is a metal that was commonly used in plumbing and has … identified as toxic to people, especially young children. Lead poisoning can cause neurological issues such as slowing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/06/20/moravia-central-school-district-lead-testing-and-reporting-s9-25-2York Central School District – Lead Testing and Reporting (S9-25-19)
… report and implement needed remediation to reduce lead exposure in potable water outlets? Audit Period July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024 Understanding the Program Lead is a metal that was commonly used in plumbing and has … identified as toxic to people, especially young children. Lead poisoning can cause neurological issues such as slowing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/07/18/york-central-school-district-lead-testing-and-reporting-s9-25-19Remsenburg-Speonk Union Free School District – Financial Management (2025M-33)
… may retain a portion of surplus fund balance, 1 up to 4 percent of the budget, for unexpected occurrences and … 125 students in grades K-6. The District also paid tuition to neighboring districts to educate nearly 160 students in grades 7-12. Audit Summary …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/07/18/remsenburg-speonk-union-free-school-district-financial-management-2025mCommack Union Free School District – Lead Testing and Reporting (S9-25-9)
… report and implement needed remediation to reduce lead exposure in potable water outlets? Audit Period July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024 Understanding the Program Lead is a metal that was commonly used in plumbing and has … identified as toxic to people, especially young children. Lead poisoning can cause neurological issues such as slowing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/07/11/commack-union-free-school-district-lead-testing-and-reporting-s9-25-9Ravena Coeymans Selkirk Central School District – Lead Testing and Reporting (S9-25-7)
… report and implement needed remediation to reduce lead exposure in potable water outlets? Audit Period July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024 Understanding the Program Lead is a metal that was commonly used in plumbing and has … identified as toxic to people, especially young children. Lead poisoning can cause neurological issues such as slowing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/07/11/ravena-coeymans-selkirk-central-school-district-lead-testing-andOpinion 2002-8
… including water districts, subject to three conditions: (1) three years must have elapsed since the date of … matter and hear all interested persons (Town Law §202-c[1]). The board must cause a copy of the order, certified by … to Town Law §30(6), in that same time frame (id.; compare Garden Homes v Town of Dover, 95 NY2d 516, 720 NYS2d 79). If …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2002-8Sullivan West Central School District – Lead Testing and Reporting(S9-25-1)
… report and implement needed remediation to reduce lead exposure in potable water outlets? Audit Period July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2024 Understanding the Program Lead is a metal that was commonly used in plumbing and has … identified as toxic to people, especially young children. Lead poisoning can cause neurological issues such as slowing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/06/06/sullivan-west-central-school-district-lead-testing-and-reportings9-25-1Opinion 89-48
… guarantee that the obligation of the contractor and/or subcontractor will be met. We have been unable to discover …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-48Opinion 89-44
… that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. VILLAGE JUSTICE -- Acting Justice (reporting requirement to the State Comptroller) … justices are required to file a monthly report with the Justice Court Fund of the Office of the State Comptroller for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-44Opinion 88-37
… previously in service for three years or more, or in the case of a police or fire vehicle , in service for one year or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-37Opinion 89-2
… to a group purchasing program) PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, §2803-a; GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §103(8): A municipal nursing home may … competitive bidding requirements. You ask whether General Municipal Law, §103(8), which exempts "municipal … bidder after advertisement for bids where so required by General Municipal Law, §103. General Municipal Law, §103(1) …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-2Opinion 96-13
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … -- Service Award Programs (simultaneous participation in retirement system) VOLUNTEERS -- Ambulance Workers … award program for volunteer ambulance workers and the State Employees' Retirement System. You ask whether a person …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-13Opinion 98 - 19
… discussed in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Apparatus and Equipment (referendum requirement for installment … contracts for the financing of equipment, machinery and apparatus (see 1997 Opns St Comp No. 97-10, p 18). There … is "subject to such vote, referendum or such referendum and vote, as the case may be, in the same manner as provided …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-19Opinion 95-29
… Dissolution (when assets are sold to a public authority) WATER DISTRICTS -- Dissolution (when assets are sold to a … TOWN LAW, §§198(12), 202-c: The governing board of a town water district may, subject to a mandatory referendum, sell all the … Whether the facilities of a town water district for which indebtedness remains outstanding may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-29Opinion 92-11
… or required to purchase or maintain insurance. In the case of expenditures from the fund to pay settled or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-11Opinion 93-20
… of countersignature) TOWN LAW, §37(1); MUNICIPAL HOME RULE LAW, §§10, 23(2)(f): A town, by local law, may require … issued by the town supervisor). Pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law, §10, however, towns may adopt and amend local laws, … their property, affairs or government (Municipal Home Rule Law, §10[1][i]) and the transaction of their business …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-20Opinion 98-24
… discussed in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Appropriations and Expenditures (for Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law … that section is entitled to all powers, rights, privileges and immunities granted by law to volunteer firefighters … including benefits under the VFBL, in the same manner and to the same extent as if he or she were a member of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-24