STATE OF NEW YORK
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7121
IN SENATE
April 30, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. BALL -- 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 requiring the
conducting of a public hearing prior to enacting a local law or resol-
ution to override the tax levy limit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 3-c of the general municipal law,
2 as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 5. A local government may adopt a budget that requires a tax levy that
5 is greater than the tax levy limit for the coming fiscal year, not
6 including any levy necessary to support the expenditures pursuant to
7 subparagraphs (i) through (iv) of paragraph g of subdivision two of this
8 section, only if the governing body of such local government first holds
9 a public hearing upon the proposal to exceed the tax levy limit and
10 enacts, by a vote of sixty percent of the total voting power of such
11 body, a local law to override such limit for such coming fiscal year
12 only, or in the case of a district or fire district, a resolution,
13 approved by a vote of sixty percent of the total voting power of such
14 body, to override such limit for such coming fiscal year only.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
16 ments to subdivision 5 of section 3-c of the general municipal law, made
17 by section one of this act, shall not affect the expiration and repeal
18 of such section pursuant to section 13 of part A of chapter 97 of the
19 laws of 2011, as amended, and shall expire and be deemed repealed there-
20 with.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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