STATE OF NEW YORK
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4947
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
Cleveland Hill union free 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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
2 al municipal law, as separately amended by chapters 251 and 338 of the
3 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) The governing board of any municipal corporation may establish a
5 reserve fund to be known as the insurance reserve fund. Upon the
6 creation of the fund, the municipality may make expenditures from the
7 fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal
8 corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
9 except those kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant
10 to paragraph one, two, three, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
11 twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
12 hundred thirteen of the insurance law, or for payments in lieu of
13 contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
14 that no municipality shall make an expenditure from such fund for any
15 loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation has
16 established a reserve fund under any other provision of law; provided,
17 further that the Scarsdale union free school district, the Mamaroneck
18 union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
19 the Vernon Verona Sherrill central school district, the Ithaca city
20 school district, the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda union free school
21 district, the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island central
22 school district, the Tonawanda city school district, the enlarged city
23 school district of Middletown, the Frontier central school district, the
24 Owego Apalachin central school district, the Maine-Endwell central
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 school district, the Binghamton city school district, the Candor central
2 school district, the Cleveland Hill union free school district, the
3 Depew union free school district, the Liverpool central school district,
4 the Carmel central school district, and the Canastota central school
5 district may establish insurance reserve funds in compliance with this
6 section and article seventy-four of the education law and such school
7 districts may make expenditures in compliance with this section and
8 article seventy-four of the education law from such reserve fund for any
9 loss, claim, action or judgment for which the school districts are
10 authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance for the kinds
11 of risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant to paragraph three
12 of subsection (a) of section one thousand one hundred thirteen of the
13 insurance law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
