S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9801
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 13, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to insurance
reserve funds for the Carmel central school district
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 318, 321, 325, 342,
499, 509, 510 and 551 of the laws of 2019, 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, the Mamaroneck
union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
the Vernon Verona Sherrill central school district, and the Ithaca city
school district and the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda union free school
district, and the Bedford central school district and the Grand Island
central school district and the Tonawanda city school district and the
enlarged city school district of Middletown and the Frontier central
school district AND THE CARMEL 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 compliance with this section and article seventy-four of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 insur-
ance 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.