S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4452
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 4, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
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 amended by chapter 246 of the laws of 2020, 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, the Ithaca city
school district, the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda union free school
district, the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island central
school district, the Tonawanda city school district, the enlarged city
school district of Middletown, the Frontier central school district, THE
SPRINGVILLE-GRIFFITH INSTITUTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, and the Bingham-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ton city 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 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.