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