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Opinion 88-4
… on the issues discussed in the opinion. COUNTIES -- Powers and Duties (providing refreshments to trainees at foster … parent training session) MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Appropriations and Expenditures (in recognition of municipal service - … parent program or facilitate recruitment of foster parents and make reasonable expenditures for such refreshments. You …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-4Opinion 89-63
… in Supreme Court, a County Court, the Civil Court of the City of New York or the City Courts outside of the City of … to any subdivision thereof, except where it is provided by or pursuant to law that such officer or employee is … see also People v Brooklyn Garden Apartments, Inc. , 283 NY 373, 381 [1940]). Therefore, we have construed the word to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-63Opinion 95-25
… State aid as penalty for levy in excess of) MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- State Aid (applicability of provisions of section …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-25Opinion 89-13
… another municipality of this State at an auction pursuant to the exception contained in General Municipal Law, §103(6). However, this exception does not apply to purchases from private sources. You ask whether … by the State Legislature or by local law adopted prior to September 1, 1953, all purchase contracts involving an …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-13Opinion 88-50
… bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Capital Reserve Fund (use of moneys to fix dents and … a village may use moneys in a capital reserve fund to pay for work on a 15 year old, 250,000 gallon water storage tank. … §6-c authorizes villages to establish capital reserve funds for the purpose of financing all or part of the cost of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-50Opinion 88-60
… affd 45 AD2d 841, 358 NYS2d 957; Brooklyn Park Comr's v Armstrong , 45 NY 234; see also Parks, Recreation and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-60Opinion 90-4
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … ask whether, assuming that the village is authorized to do the work, bonds may be issued to finance the cost of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-4Opinion 91-15
Whether the village may require the developer to pay money in lieu of park land as a result of the request for resubdivision notwithstanding that the developer previously paid such amounts to the town when the original subdivision was approved
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-15Opinion 97-26
… commissioners of a fire district may establish, after a public hearing, one or more zones in which the rate of tax … the district not included in any zone. The notice of the public hearing must specify the boundaries of the proposed … the rates for the remainder of the district. After the public hearing and upon the evidence given at the hearing, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-26Opinion 99-12
… of debt over entire district in connection with proceeding to consolidate) -- Extension (spreading costs of debt over entire district in connection with proceeding to extend) WATER DISTRICTS -- Consolidation (spreading costs … of debt over entire district in connection with proceeding to consolidate) -- Extension (spreading costs of debt over …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-99-12Opinion 91-5
… and the principal upon posterity" ( McCabe v Gross , 274 NY 39, 46). Article 8, §5 provides for the exclusion of … ex rel. Haight v Brown , 169 AD 695, 155 NYS 564, affd 216 NY 674, mot for rearg den 216 NY 743; cf . NY Const, art 8, §9, which provides that the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-5Opinion 92-39
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues … increases in rents. Subsequently, however, the Court of Appeals in Esler v Walters , 56 NY2d 306, 452 NYS2d 333 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-39Opinion 2000-3
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … by law and is otherwise sufficient; (b) whether all the property and property owners within the proposed district or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-3Opinion 2006-8
… for lump sum “retirement awards”) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW §6-p: Monies is an employee benefit accrued liability reserve … as prescribed percentages of the employees’ final year salaries and paid upon retirement to central school … Opns St Comp No. 2000-4, p 10). General Municipal Law §6-p authorizes the establishment of an employee benefit …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2006-8Opinion 88-21
… any recreation facility constructed with park trust funds should be sufficiently near the developments which generated … for which the moneys were collected, special attention should be given to the needs of the residents residing in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-21Opinion 91-25
… on the issues discussed in the opinion. FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION -- Disability Benefits (entitlement of paid firefighters to salary … the contrary holding in Smerek , supra . With respect to your questions regarding restrictions on employment, section …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-25Opinion 2002-4
… School Dist. v Board of Educ. , 34 AD 2d 351, 353, 312 NYS 2d 252, 254). This Office has consistently expressed the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2002-4Opinion 91-14
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … (town refuse and garbage district collecting refuse for village) REFERENDUM -- Permissive (need for prior to … is, by any other general or special law, subject to a public hearing, a mandatory or permissive referendum, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-14Opinion 96-15
… and partially from townwide functions, the town board should apportion the cost of the judgment equitably between … and partially from townwide functions, the town board should apportion the cost of the judgment equitably between …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-15Opinion 90-27
… longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FIRE COMMISSIONERS -- … adopted under article 11-A of the Town Law would have to be submitted to the qualified electors of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-27