Assembly Bill A10707

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10707

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 15, 2012
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Jaffee,
  Zebrowski) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Govern-
  ments

AN ACT authorizing the county of Rockland to issue bonds; and  providing
  for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

  Section 1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
the "Rockland county deficit financing act".
  S  2.  Definitions. (a) "Budget" shall mean a current operating budget
of the county prepared or adopted pursuant to general, special or  local
law,  being  the  annual  budget and estimate of expenditures to be made
during a fiscal year for the general support and current expenses of the
government of the county to be paid from taxes or assessments  or  other
current revenues of the county for such year.
  (b) "Comptroller" shall mean the New York state comptroller.
  (c) "County" shall mean the county of Rockland.
  (d)  "County  executive"  shall  mean the county executive of Rockland
county.
  (e) "County legislature" shall mean the legislative body of the county
of Rockland.
  (f) "Fiscal year" shall mean the fiscal year of the county.
  S 3. Bonds. The county of Rockland is hereby authorized to issue seri-
al bonds, subject to the  provisions  of  section  10.10  of  the  local
finance  law, on or before September 30, 2013, in an aggregate principal
amount not to  exceed  eighty  million  dollars  ($80,000,000)  for  the
specific object or purpose of liquidating current deficits in its gener-
al  fund  as  of  December  31, 2010, December 31, 2011 and December 31,
2012.  In anticipation of the issuance and sale of  such  serial  bonds,
bond anticipation notes are hereby authorized to be issued.
  S  4.  Budget review by state comptroller. During the effective period
of this act, the county executive shall submit the proposed  budget  for
the  next  succeeding fiscal year to the state comptroller no later than
thirty days before the date scheduled for the county legislature's  vote

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

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on the adoption of the final budget or the last date on which the budget
may be finally adopted, whichever is sooner. The state comptroller shall
examine  such  proposed  budget  and make such recommendations as deemed
appropriate  thereon  to the county prior to the adoption of the budget,
but no later than ten days before the  date  scheduled  for  the  county
legislature's  vote on the adoption of the final budget or the last date
on which the budget must be adopted, whichever is sooner. Such recommen-
dations shall be made after examination into the estimates  of  revenues
and  expenditures  of  the county. The county legislature, no later than
five days prior to the adoption of the budget,  shall  review  any  such
recommendations  and  make adjustments to the proposed budget consistent
with any recommendations made by the state comptroller.
  S 5. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph,  section
or  part  of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in  its  operation  to
the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part involved in the contro-
versy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. The provisions of
this  act shall be liberally construed to assist the effectuation of the
public purposes furthered hereby.
  S 6. This act shall take effect immediately; and shall remain in  full
force and effect until the tenth anniversary of the date of second issu-
ance  of  deficit bonds or deficit notes pursuant to this act, when upon
such date the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  expire  and  be  deemed
repealed; and provided, however, that the state comptroller shall notify
the legislative bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of this act
in  order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effec-
tive data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York
in furtherance of effectuating the  provisions  of  section  44  of  the
legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.