S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
June 1, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bohen) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
Orchard Park central school district to establish an insurance reserve
fund
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
al municipal law, as separately amended by chapters 414 and 416 of the
laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The governing board of any municipal corporation may establish a
reserve fund to be known as the insurance reserve fund. Upon the
creation of the fund, the municipality may make expenditures from the
fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal
corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
except those kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant
to paragraph one, two, three, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
hundred thirteen of the insurance law, or for payments in lieu of
contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
that no municipality shall make an expenditure from such fund for any
loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation has
established a reserve fund under any other provision of law; provided,
further that the Scarsdale union free school district [and], the Vernon
Verona Sherrill central school district [may establish insurance reserve
funds in compliance with this section and article seventy-four of the
education law and], the Minisink Valley central school district AND THE
ORCHARD PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT may establish insurance reserve
funds in compliance with this section and article seventy-four of the
education law and such school districts may make expenditures in compli-
ance with this section and article seventy-four of the education law
from such reserve fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment for which
the school districts are authorized or required to purchase or maintain
insurance for the kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized
pursuant to paragraph three of subsection (a) of section one thousand
one hundred thirteen of the insurance law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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