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Opinion 91-9
… power to appoint a commission for the preparation of new ward boundaries to the advice and consent of the common …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-9Opinion 2000-6
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (funding length of service award program) VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS -- Service …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-6Opinion 2006-4
… discussed in the opinion. MUNICIPAL FUNDS -- Deposits and Investments (term of an irrevocable letter of credit … term of an “eligible letter of credit” issued as security for local government deposits and investments do not apply to … a federal home loan bank (hereinafter “FHLB”) as security for county deposits. Specifically, you ask whether the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2006-4Opinion 2005-3
… or facility available to the public where motor vehicles are parked or stored, with or without fee or charge and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2005-3Opinion 93-17
… to be amortized and paid to the Retirement Systems are not "judgments", "compromised or settled claims" or … only if the amounts needed to pre-pay the contributions are "sums" payable pursuant to an administrative or … term in a statute is preceded by specific phrases which are all of the same nature, the general term must be limited …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-17Opinion 98-1
… -- Contracts Not Requiring Bidding (contract with a public authority for transportation of Medicaid clients) … MUNICIPAL LAW, §§99-r, 103; SOCIAL SERVICE LAW, §365-a: Pursuant to General Municipal Law, §99-r, a county, by … involving an expenditure in excess of $10,000 must be awarded pursuant to the competitive bidding requirements …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-1Opinion 2000-10
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … Development Corporation loan) REAL PROPERTY -- Sale (use of proceeds by county when property sold was funded with …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-10Opinion 92-8
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … AND NOTES -- Permissible uses (financing non-federal share of federally-aided city bridge project) -- Proceeds (payment …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-8Opinion 91-8
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … interest prohibited by article 18, the courts of this State have held public officials to a high standard of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-8Opinion 96-8
… which empowers the Thruway Authority to promulgate, inter alia, toll collection regulations (see also Vehicle and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-8Opinion 2000-18
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-18Opinion 2001-15
… state that the town board believes that it would be in the public interest to spread the expense of lighting the area … town, county, city, village, joint water works system or a public authority, and dissolve the district (Town Law … improvement districts when a town determines it is in the public interest to manage, operate and repair certain …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-15Opinion 89-22
… its existence (see Friedman v State , 67 NY2d 271, 502 NYS 2d 669, 493 NE2d 893 [1986]; Harris v Village of East Hills , … [3rd Dept 1983]; Burcroft v County of Orleans , 114 Misc 2d 16, 450 NYS2d 651 [1982]), nor an independent affirmative …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-22Opinion 90-53
… also Fox v Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society , 165 NY 517). A municipality, however, may retain consultants to … §505; see also People ex rel Hilton v Fahrenkopf , 279 NY 49). Further, although Real Property Tax Law, §572 … element of discretion (see Lynch v Town of Rhinebeck , 210 NY 101, 107). We also believe that the board, by resolution, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-53Opinion 2001-14
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST -- Contracts … meaning of General Municipal Law, article 18) -- Interest in Contract (municipal officer or employee not deemed to have … Law §801). Article 18 defines "contract" to include "any claim, account or demand against or agreement with a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-14Opinion 90-8
… receives foreign fire insurance tax moneys must use them for the benefit of the department or company, as determined … Goodbody , 1 Misc 2d 222, 150 NYS2d 141, affd 309 NY 956). For similar reasons, the courts had also held that a city, by … only to one city. Therefore, it appears that the exception for "special laws" in sections 9104 and 9105 preserves …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-8Opinion 96-4
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time … a thirty year period for general village purposes. This is in reply to your request for our opinion concerning the … however, that a municipality may not do indirectly what it cannot do directly (see, e.g., Commco v Amelkin , 62 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-4Opinion 88-49
… the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer … MAYOR -- Powers and Duties (authority to make motions at board meetings) MUNICIPAL HOME RULE LAW, §23: Generally, … question, you ask whether the mayor may make a motion at a meeting of the board of trustees. You indicate that the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-49Opinion 92-18
… County , 156 AD2d 111, 555 NYS2d 213; Vinne Montes Waste System v Town of Oyster Bay , 150 Misc 2d 109, 567 NYS2d 335; … House , supra ; Watergate II Apartments , supra ). A system of user fees may be established with varying rates to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-18Opinion 88-35
… challenged the award to a competitor alleging, inter alia , that the award violated the competitive bidding …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-35