N.Y. County Law § 269: Increase of maximum amount to be expended

§ 269. Increase of maximum amount to be expended. At any time after

the establishment of a district pursuant to this article, the maximum

amount authorized to be expended for the original improvement or for the

original improvement, the plans for which have been amended or modified

pursuant to section two hundred fifty-three-a of this article, in such

district may be increased by a resolution of the board of supervisors on

its own motion or provided a petition requesting such increase executed

and acknowledged in accordance with section two hundred fifty-three of

this article is presented to the board of supervisors, and provided the

board of supervisors shall, after a public hearing called and held in

the manner prescribed by section two hundred fifty-four of this article,

determine that it is in the public interest to authorize the increase of

such maximum amount and provided that whenever it is proposed or

required that the county in which such district is located shall finance

the cost thereof by the issuance of the bonds, notes, certificates or

other indebtedness of the county therefor, or shall assume the payment

of annual installments of debt service on obligations issued to finance

the cost of facilities, pursuant to section two hundred sixty-two of

this article, and the cost to the typical property or, if different, the

cost to the typical one or two family home is above the average

estimated cost to the typical properties or homes for the establishment

of similar types of districts as may be annually computed by the state

comptroller, the comptroller of the state of New York shall have made,

prior to such public hearing, an order approving the increase of such

maximum amount as stated in the motion or petition. The order of the

comptroller shall be prepared in duplicate and one copy thereof filed in

the office of the department of audit and control and the other copy in

the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county in

which the district is located.

If zones of assessment have been established, such resolution of the

board of supervisors shall provide for the allocation of such increase

as between such zones of assessment, and the notice of such public

hearing shall state such allocation.

The resolution of the board of supervisors shall be subject to a

permissive referendum in the same manner and extent as provided for in

section two hundred fifty-six of this article.