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Opinion 2012-1
… sells highway related products would have an interest in contracts between the company and the town to sell products … firm, the board member would have an interest in contracts between the firm and the town ( see 2008 Ops St … the negotiation, preparation, authorization or approval of contracts for the purchase of products for use by the town …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2012-1Opinion 96-5
… (2 Opns St Comp, 1946, p 290; see also People v Brooklyn Garden Apartments , Inc. , 283 NY 373, 381 [1940]). We have …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-5State Agencies Bulletin No. 2127
… process in PayServ. Access the Add/Update Position Info page using the following path: Main Menu > … Update of Position Data) will automatically default on the Description page. Enter the appropriate value in the Line … pay period begin date as the Effective Date and change the Status by selecting Inactive from the drop-down list, then …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/2127-reporting-line-number-and-budget-year-changes-fiscal-year-2023-2024State Agencies Bulletin No. 1820
… Subject Reporting Line Number and Budget Year Changes for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Purpose The purpose of this bulletin is to inform agencies of the procedures for … (Administration) or 04/23/2020 (Institution). The Reason code Z12 (Agency Update of Position Data) will automatically …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/1820-reporting-line-number-and-budget-year-changes-fiscal-year-2020-2021State Agencies Bulletin No. 2013
… process in PayServ. Access the Add/Update Position Info page using the following path: Main Menu > … Update of Position Data) will automatically default on the Description page. Enter the appropriate value in the Line … pay period begin date as the Effective Date and change the Status by selecting Inactive from the drop-down list, then …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/2013-reporting-line-number-and-budget-year-changes-fiscal-year-2022-2023Opinion 91-19
… in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Powers and Duties (authority to make gift to fire company); (authority to accept gift of firefighting equipment) FIRE COMPANY -- Powers …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-19Opinion 96-1
… longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that … GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §6-g(13): If the moneys necessary to fund the purchase of real property by a fire district are to be provided from a capital reserve fund, or by the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-1Opinion 91-35
… AND EMPLOYEES -- Compensation (amount of salary increases for heads of police departments) POLICEMEN AND POLICE … the provisions of law governing minimum salary increases for the heads of municipal police departments who are not …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-35Opinion 90-45
… efficiency or economy will be served. This is in reply to your letter requesting our opinion on the propriety of a proposed resolution to standardize on a particular make and size of loader tires. The reasons recited in the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-45Opinion 94-3
… of town special districts upon petition and, in the case of the establishment or extension of special districts … the street, highway, private road or right-of-way. In the case of an improvement to a private road, the town must … for the improvement (Town Law, §200[8], [10]); and, in the case of action by board motion, a permissive referendum (Town …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-3Opinion 89-45
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-45Contact Update and Online Help for Local Officials
… Contact Update The Division of Local Government and School … Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC), collects contact information for local governments, special districts …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/resources/contact-update-and-online-helpState Agencies Bulletin No. 914
… regarding withholding of Social Security and Medicare taxes for employees receiving a military stipend. Affected … stipend is exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes and must be reported on a Form 1099. The regulation was … employees, it was concluded that OSC must withhold these taxes as usual. IRS has recently issued new regulations on …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/914-change-taxation-military-stipendsOpinion 97-26
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-26Opinion 92-56
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Compensation … traveled. Chapter 791 created the position of town manager in the Town of Fallsburg and contains various provisions … provides that salaries of town officers and employees are in lieu of all compensation for all services rendered to the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-56DiNapoli: Outreach Failure Contributes to Rise in Subway Homeless Population
… the subway homeless population, the homeless situation in the subways has grown significantly worse, in part because the city’s Department of Homeless Services … State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. “Homeless outreach in the subway has been so shoddy and with so little oversight …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/01/dinapoli-outreach-failure-contributes-rise-subway-homeless-populationOpinion 88-26
… Uses (financing construction of building by town for State Police use) NEW YORK CONSTITUTION, ART. VIII, §2; EXECUTIVE … the construction of a building for use by the State Police on land owned by the State so long as the town retains …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-26Opinion 88-66
… and receives adequate consideration. This is in reply to your letter concerning the ability of a city school district … whether a particular computer program may be copyrighted. Your first question involves the provisions of the Federal … employee (see Education Law, §§1709[9], 2503[1], [6]). Your second question concerns the school district's authority …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-66Opinion 2005-5
… to increase in compensation when employer contribution to retirement system for the next subordinate officer is … this section, there must be an increase in a qualifying “benefit” that is “credited” to the “next subordinate police … 1 While the employer contribution required to be paid to fund benefits for employees in a particular plan within the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2005-5Opinion 92-18
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FEES -- Imposition of (solid waste generation … to violate constitutional due process guarantees. This is in reply to your request for our opinion concerning a … of the fee attributable to the improved property included in each of the town's three refuse districts must be charged …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-18