STATE OF NEW YORK
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4810
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Libraries and Education Technology
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the inclusion of
library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to
apply for local government efficiency grants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause 1 of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (o) of subdivi-
2 sion 10 of section 54 of the state finance law, as amended by section 7
3 of part GG of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (1) For the purposes of this paragraph, "municipality" shall mean
6 counties, cities, towns, villages, special improvement districts, fire
7 districts, public libraries, association libraries, public library
8 systems as defined by section two hundred seventy-two of the education
9 law, water authorities, sewer authorities, regional planning and devel-
10 opment boards, school districts, and boards of cooperative educational
11 services; provided, however, that for the purposes of this definition, a
12 board of cooperative educational services shall be considered a munici-
13 pality only in instances where such board of cooperative educational
14 services advances a joint application on behalf of school districts and
15 other municipalities within the board of cooperative educational
16 services region; provided, however, that any agreements with a board of
17 cooperative educational services: shall not generate additional state
18 aid; shall be deemed not to be a part of the program, capital and admin-
19 istrative budgets of the board of cooperative educational services for
20 the purposes of computing charges upon component school districts pursu-
21 ant to subparagraph seven of paragraph b of subdivision four of section
22 nineteen hundred fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred
23 fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred fifty-one of the
24 education law; and shall be deemed to be a cooperative municipal service
25 for purposes of subparagraph two of paragraph d of subdivision four of
26 section nineteen hundred fifty of the education law.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03226-01-7
