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                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2010
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Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing  coop-
  erative  library systems to apply for funds under the local government
  efficiency grant program municipal merger incentives

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  p of subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state
finance law, as amended by section 6 of part GG of  chapter  56  of  the
laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  p.  Local  government efficiency grant program municipal merger incen-
tives. For the purposes of this paragraph, "municipalities"  shall  mean
cities  with  a  population less than one million, towns [and], villages
AND COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEMS. Within the annual amounts  appropriated
therefor,  surviving municipalities following a merger, consolidation or
dissolution occurring on or after the state fiscal year commencing April
first, two thousand seven may be awarded additional  aid  in  the  state
fiscal year following such merger, consolidation or dissolution equal to
fifteen  percent of the combined amount of real property taxes levied by
all of the municipalities participating in the merger, consolidation  or
dissolution  in  the local fiscal year prior to the local fiscal year in
which  such  merger,  consolidation  or  dissolution  took  effect.   In
instances of the dissolution of a village located in more than one town,
such  additional  aid shall equal the sum of fifteen percent of the real
property taxes levied by such village in the village fiscal  year  prior
to  the  village  fiscal year in which such dissolution took effect plus
fifteen percent of the average amount of real property taxes  levied  by
the towns in which the village was located in the town fiscal year prior
to the town fiscal year in which such dissolution took effect, and shall
be  divided  among  such towns based on the percentage of such village's
population that resided in each such town as of the most recent  federal
decennial  census.  Such additional aid shall be apportioned and paid to
the chief fiscal officer of each consolidated or merged municipality  on
audit and warrant of the state comptroller out of moneys appropriated by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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the  legislature  for such purpose to the credit of the local assistance
fund in the general fund of the state treasury in the same "on or before
month and day" manner as the municipality's base  level  grant  is  paid
pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph i of this subdivision. Any
municipality receiving a merger incentive award pursuant to  this  para-
graph shall use such aid only for general municipal purposes. In no case
shall  the  additional aid pursuant to this paragraph exceed one million
dollars. Such additional aid shall in subsequent state fiscal  years  be
considered  prior  year aid for the purposes of determining such merged,
consolidated or surviving municipality's base level  grant  pursuant  to
paragraph b of this subdivision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.