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Opinion 96-8
… FEES -- Justice Courts (payment of fees pursuant to General Municipal Law, §99-l[1][a] for handling violations of … by photo-monitoring); (payment of fees pursuant to General Municipal Law, §99-l[1][a] for handling cases which … -- Justice Court Fund (payment of fees pursuant to General Municipal Law, §99-l[1][a] for handling violations of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-8Opinion 2000-12
… subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST … -- Codes of Ethics (requiring abstention from voting on salaries of relatives) -- Family Relationships (abstention from voting on salaries of relatives) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW §§801, 806: …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-12Opinion 90-30
… apply "to any mortgage granted to or made by the state of New York ... or any political subdivision of the state ...". …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-30Opinion 88-46
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … participants are authorized to invest. The fiscal officer of a participating school district or municipality may be …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-46Opinion 89-62
… (signing multiple nominating petitions) PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Mode of Selection (signing multiple … ten days prior to the date of such fire district elections and in addition may provide by resolution that such … shall specify the names of the candidates duly filed and in addition provide proper blank spaces for each office …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-62Opinion 93-14
… procedure for town districts). Further, it is a general rule that, since the construction of sewers involves the … v Syracuse , 184 NY 1; 54 NY Jur, Sewers and Sewage §2; 13 McQullin, Municipal Corporations, §37.27). We note, … Union v Greco , 1988, 137 AD2d 816, 525 NYS2d 279, the Appellate Division, Second Department, reversed a lower …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-14Opinion 89-26
… statements. You ask whether fire district officers are required to complete and file annual financial disclosure … disclosure requirements of General Municipal Law, §812 are not applicable on either a mandatory or optional basis … Whether fire district officers are required to complete and file annual financial disclosure …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-26Opinion 96-17
… incurred for completing college courses, such as a course leading to a degree in fire science, if the board of fire commissioners determines that the course provides, to a significant extent, technical training … courses of instruction" for firefighters. If the school or course is outside the county in which the municipal …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-17Creditable Service – State Police Plan
… Under this special plan, service as an officer of the New York State Division of State … Police is creditable. You may also receive credit for service as a: Police officer in the New York State Department … York (maximum of five years), if you completed 20 years of service and successfully completed a course of law …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/publications/1518/creditable-serviceArchived: Legislative Session 2021–2022
… the state insurance fund by the state comptroller. Natural Gas Damage Compensation Fund – A.7282 (Englebright) – Establishes the natural gas production contamination response and compensation …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legislation/archived-legislative-session-2021-2022Opinion 2004-3
… and City-School Fiscal Relations , March 3, 1948, p 5; The New York State Constitution - A Reference Guide , Galie, … provides: (b) Whenever any … city, other than the city of New York, … provides by direct budgetary appropriation for … through borrowings: For counties, cities, (other than New York City), villages and school districts subject to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2004-3Opinion 97-7
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … moneys) STATE COMPTROLLER -- Powers and Duties (receipt of unclaimed court and trust moneys) ABANDONED PROPERTY LAW, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-7Opinion 2001-8
… that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Establishment (within area of former fire protection district) -- Taxes (setting of lower rate for owners of multiple parcels) FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS -- Dissolution (simultaneous … Whether a town may abolish a fire protection district within the town and establish a fire …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-8Opinion 96-6
… rendered. The opinion may no longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court … through which the town's insurance is placed, but who does not receive a commission on the town's insurance and is … the supervisor also places insurance through that agency. We have examined analogous relationships in prior opinions. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-6Archived: Legislative Session 2015 –2016
… / S.5795 (Marcellino) – To provide increased transparency in school district fiscal operations by requiring publication … – Establishes uniform requirements for all funds in which tax check-off monies are deposited and requires … (Farrell) / S.5299 (DeFrancisco) – Allows for an increase in the dollar amount the Comptroller is permitted to hold in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legislation/archived-legislative-session-2015-2016Cost-Saving Ideas: A Guide to Justice Court Consolidation in Villages and Towns
… is initiated, the boards of the affected towns must hold a joint public hearing within 20 to 40 days after the notice is … and the current justice court structure continues. Joint Resolution If each of the town boards approves the resolution or petition, the boards must prepare a joint resolution that: Abolishes the office of one justice in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/publications/cost-saving-ideas-guide-justice-court-consolidation-villages-and-townsOpinion 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 2000-16
… bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Exempt Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association (beneficiaries under group life insurance policy); (meaning of "family" as used in … their families, and uses such monies to purchase a group life insurance policy for the members of the association, the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-16Opinion 98-2
… -- Reimbursement for Expenses (dinners after board meeting) FIRE DISTRICTS -- Apparatus and Equipment (control … TOWN LAW, §178-c: A fire district may not pay for post-meeting dinners of members of a fire district board of fire commissioners when a monthly meeting commences at 8:00 pm and ends approximately 9:00 pm …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-2Opinion 99-5
… the treasurer of the cooperative library system. 24 Opns St Comp, 1968, p 914; 23 Opns St Comp, 1967, p 731; and 23 Opns St Comp, 1967, p 387, superseded to the extent inconsistent. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-99-5