S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8910
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
December 30, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
Springville-Griffith institute 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 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, THE
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT and the Frontier
central school district may establish insurance reserve funds in compli-
ance 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 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.