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                                 9073--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 12, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee  on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the local finance law, in relation  to  authorizing  the
  adoption  of  a  bond  act  for  the  construction, reconstruction, or
  modification of sewage and drinking water facilities in the county  of
  Westchester without submission to a referendum but subject to a public
  hearing

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of paragraph b of section 33.10 of the  local
finance  law,  as amended by chapter 125 of the laws of 1990, is amended
to read as follows:
  1. In the county of Westchester, a bond act adopted by  the  board  of
legislators authorizing the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes
in  an  amount  in  excess of ten million dollars to finance any capital
improvement, shall not become effective until submitted at a general  or
special  election  and  approved  by a majority of the votes cast on the
question of the approval or disapproval of such act.  The provisions  of
this  subdivision  shall not apply to bond acts authorizing the issuance
of bonds or bonds and capital notes to  provide  for  the  construction,
reconstruction  or modification of facilities for the conveyance, treat-
ment and disposal of sewage [required by any order of the state  commis-
sioner  of  health  or of the commissioner of environmental conservation
directing compliance with standards, determinations or orders promulgat-
ed pursuant to article seventeen or article  nineteen  of  the  environ-
mental  conservation law, or any order of an agency acting in accordance
with an interstate compact, to prevent pollution of the  waters  of  the
state or to ameliorate noxious odors, emissions, insect proliferation or
other  conditions arising as a consequence of operating such a facility]
OR FACILITIES FOR THE DISTRIBUTION, TREATMENT, AND STORAGE  OF  DRINKING
WATER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER SUCH BOND ACTS IN EXCESS OF TEN MILLION DOLLARS
SHALL  NOT BE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF LEGISLATORS UNTIL A PUBLIC HEARING
WITH NOTICE IS HELD.

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

                                                           LBD14295-07-4

A. 9073--A                          2

  The provision of this subdivision shall not apply to bond acts author-
izing the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes  to  provide  for
the  construction or reconstruction of facilities, acquisition of sites,
collection and disposition of solid wastes, required  by  any  order  of
county,  state,  or federal agencies or courts directing compliance with
standards, determinations, or orders promulgated  by  such  agencies  or
courts.
  The  provisions  of  this  subdivision  shall  not  apply to bond acts
authorizing the issuance of bonds or bonds and capital notes to  provide
for  construction,  reconstruction  or acquisition of hospital buildings
and other buildings incidental or related to or supportive of the hospi-
tal buildings, whether or not  including  the  acquisition  of  land  or
permanent rights in land as the site thereof, and whether or not includ-
ing   the  grading  or  improvement  of  such  site,  and  the  original
furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus required for the purposes
for which such buildings are to be used, all to the extent the foregoing
are the subject matter of a lease and sub-lease dated as of August twen-
ty-eighth, nineteen hundred seventy-three, by and between the county  of
Westchester and the New York state housing finance agency and facilities
development corporation.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.