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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.