S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9121
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
September 4, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Libraries and Education Technology
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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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
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.