N.Y. County Law § 354: Preparation and filing of tentative budget

§ 354. Preparation and filing of tentative budget. 1. The budget

officer, upon receipt of the estimates of the various administrative

units and the requests for an appropriation of the several authorized

agencies, shall proceed to make such review and investigation of such

estimates and requests and conduct such hearings of heads of

administrative units and authorized agencies, and officers and employees

thereof, as he deems necessary. He may require the head of any

administrative unit or authorized agency, or any officer or employee

thereof, to furnish data and information and to answer inquiries

pertinent to such review or investigation. Members of the committee of

the board of supervisors designated or created to review the tentative

budget shall be entitled to investigate and make inquiry concerning the

estimate of any administrative unit or the request for an appropriation

of any authorized agency. Such members shall be entitled to attend all

hearings conducted by the budget officer pursuant to this subdivision.

At least twenty-four hours' written notice of any such hearing shall be

given to such members by the budget officer, either personally or by

mail.

2. Upon the completion of the review and investigation of the

estimates of the various administrative units and the requests for an

appropriation of the several authorized agencies, the budget officer

shall prepare a tentative budget, accompanied by a budget message where

required pursuant to section three hundred seventy-four. He shall cause

to be printed or otherwise reproduced such number of copies of such

tentative budget and such budget message, if any, as the board of

supervisors shall direct. The tentative budget and the budget message,

if any, together with the copies thereof, shall be filed by the budget

officer with the clerk of the board of supervisors not later than the

fifteenth day of November.

3. The board of supervisors by action taken pursuant to section three

hundred seventy-six may require that the budget officer file the

tentative budget and budget message, if any, with the clerk of the board

of supervisors on or before a specified date prior to the date

prescribed in subdivision two of this section, provided that in no event

shall such filing be required to be made prior to the first day of

October. A local law adopted pursuant to this subdivision shall not

become effective until August first next succeeding its adoption.