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Opinion 92-33
… also Coconato v Town of Esopus , 152 AD2d 39, 547 NYS2d 953, lv den 76 NY2d 701, 558 NYS2d 891; Municipal Home Rule … 429 NYS2d 487; Hurd v Erie County , 34 AD2d 289, 310 NYS2d 953; see also 1988 Opns St Comp, No. 88-35, p 65). The courts …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-33Opinion 93-8
… provision must clearly define what events will cause the municipality to pay the higher rates and what procedures or … note. Section 54.90 of the Local Finance Law authorizes a municipality to issue bonds or notes, on or before June 30, … outstanding variable rate debt subject to this limit, the municipality may exclude variable rate debt which bears …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-8Opinion 97-20
… bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (remodeling and purchasing appliances for firehouse kitchen) INSURANCE LAW, §§9104, 9105: Unless otherwise provided by … Whether a volunteer fire department may expend foreign fire insurance tax moneys to remodel and purchase appliances for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-20Opinion 92-44
Whether pursuant to General Municipal Law 207m the chief of police of a city who is the permanent fulltime head of the police department must receive the same increases in the level of fringe benefits received by the highest ranking subordinate in a negotiating unit
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-44Opinion 92-31
… notices of public meetings, information as to the structure and function of village government, schedules of … 744). Notices of public meetings, information as to the structure and function of village government, including names …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-31Opinion 2012-1
… 803: A member of a town board of assessment review who is the sole proprietor of a company that sells highway … whether a member of a town board of assessment review who is the sole proprietor of a company that sells highway … Municipal Law § 802 applies, an interest in a contract is prohibited if the officer or employee, individually, or as …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2012-1Opinion 96-20
… 1970 by a resolution of the village board adopted pursuant to former Village Law, §188-a may be abolished pursuant to … Law, §8-800 by local law subject to permissive referendum. Notification of the abolishment of the police department must … Law, §8-800 by local law subject to permissive referendum. Notification of the abolishment of the police department must …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-20Opinion 96-1
… -- State Comptroller Approval (necessity for in Adirondack Park fire district) FIRE DISTRICTS -- Powers and Duties … - need for State Comptroller approval in Adirondack Park) MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Capital Reserve Fund (necessity for … (need for State Comptroller approval in Adirondack Park fire district) STATE COMPTROLLER -- Approval by (for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-1Opinion 2000-19
… insurance tax monies to facilitate access to its meeting room and offices by disabled members of the association … would provide transportation to the association meeting room and office area, and would be made accessible to … insurance tax monies to facilitate access to its meeting room and offices by disabled members of the association …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-19Opinion 91-16
… of calculating charges on the basis of an actual count of lines, "[d]isplay advertising shall be charged agate measurement, fourteen lines to each inch...". "Agate measurement" is a standard of … illustrations, maps, pictures, and varying arrangements of lines of unequal lengths, different styles or sizes of type …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-16Opinion 2002-7
… 87-49, p 76; 1986 Opns St Comp No. 86-54, p 86; see also Buffalo and Erie County Public Library v County of Erie , 171 … 1975 Opns St Comp No. 75-399, unreported; see also Buffalo and Erie County Public Library , supra ; compare Korn … or statutory authority (see, e.g., McCabe v Voorhis , 243 NY 401; Citizens For An Orderly Energy Policy v County of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2002-7Opinion 2004-6
… ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS LAW §57.07: A village may not permit an historical society to use an unneeded portion of a village building without … Law §57.07(2) and, as consideration under the contract, permit the historical society to use the unneeded space in a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2004-6Opinion 94-17
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. REFUSE AND GARBAGE -- Recycling Services … may be relevied with the next annual real property tax in accordance with the procedures prescribed in General Municipal Law, §120-cc. You ask whether a city …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-17Opinion 90-35
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … Concerning what monetary threshold applies to the purchase of fuel oil by a fire district …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-35Opinion 2004-8
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … to a municipal cooperation agreement authorized by article 5-G of the General Municipal Law (see Insurance Law, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2004-8Opinion 95-14
… computer for fire department); (ceremony to dedicate fire house and apparatus) INSURANCE LAW, §§9104, 9105: Unless … purposes and to pay for a ceremony to dedicate a new fire house and new fire apparatus. You ask whether a volunteer … purposes, and to pay for a ceremony to dedicate a new fire house and new fire apparatus. Sections 9104 and 9105 of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-14Opinion 94-6
… Contracts (tenant member of housing authority employed by residential management corporation) -- Public Housing Authorities (tenant member employed by residential management corporation) PUBLIC HOUSING … Law, §36, when a public housing authority contracts with a residential management corporation to operate a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-6Opinion 94-3
… AND HIGHWAYS -- Improvements (financing expenses for street improvements against abutting owners); (necessity to … owners or upon the board's own motion, to improve a street, highway, private road or right-of-way, and assess the … is commenced (1979 Opns St Comp No. 79-703, unreported; 23 Opns St Comp, 1967, p 537; Memorandum of the Department of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-3Opinion 89-45
… in the opinion. LOCAL LAWS -- Compensation (fixed amount plus hourly rate for attorney employed as counsel to zoning … PLANNING -- Zoning Board of Appeals (paying fixed amount plus hourly rate for attorney employed as counsel to zoning … OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Compensation (fixed amount plus hourly rate for attorney employed as counsel to zoning …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-45Opinion 88-70
… if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. REFERENDUM -- Advisory (fluoridation of … 895, affd 28 AD2d 992, 284 NYS2d 836). Based upon these cases, we have stated that referenda which are neither …
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