Provides state aid to municipalities to offset the costs and expenses of providing public safety services that are necessary as a result of the presence of a residential institution located in such municipality.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4643
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 1, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to providing state
aid to municipalities to offset the costs and expenses of providing
public safety services that are necessary as a result of the presence
of a residential institution located in such municipality
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
2 54-m to read as follows:
3 § 54-m. State aid to offset costs and expenses of certain public safe-
4 ty services. 1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall
5 have the following meanings:
6 a. "host municipality" shall mean a municipality in which a residen-
7 tial institution is located, either in whole or in part.
8 b. "residential institution" shall mean any four year residential
9 school, college or university of the state university of New York.
10 c. "municipality" shall mean a county, town, city or village located
11 in this state.
12 2. Within the amount appropriated therefor, each host municipality
13 shall receive aid according to the formula set forth in subdivision
14 three of this section. Aid received by a host municipality shall be used
15 by such host municipality as follows:
16 a. fifty percent of such aid received shall be used to offset the
17 costs and expenses of providing public safety services that are neces-
18 sary as a result of the presence of a residential institution located in
19 such host municipality; and
20 b. fifty percent of such aid received shall be used to reduce the real
21 property tax levied by such host municipality.
22 3. The amount of aid made available to a host municipality to offset
23 the costs and expenses of providing public safety services shall be the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 difference in the cost between the per student cost for the provision of
2 public safety services by the host municipality less any per student aid
3 and incentives for municipalities funding received by such host munici-
4 pality from the state, multiplied by the student population in attend-
5 ance at the residential institution located in such host municipality.
6 If a residential institution is located in two or more host munici-
7 palities, the amount of aid made available pursuant to this subdivision
8 shall be distributed among such host municipalities pursuant to an
9 intermunicipal agreement setting forth a distribution formula that shall
10 be approved by each of the legislative bodies of such host munici-
11 palities.
12 4. Payments made pursuant to this section shall be made on or before
13 July first of each year.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
