N.Y. County Law § 359: Public hearing; distribution of tentative budget

§ 359. Public hearing; distribution of tentative budget. Before the

final adoption of the budget, the board of supervisors shall hold a

public hearing on the tentative budget with such changes, alterations

and revisions, as shall have been made therein by such board pursuant to

section three hundred fifty-eight. The clerk of the board of supervisors

shall cause to be printed or otherwise reproduced at least one hundred

copies of such tentative budget as so changed, altered and revised, but

the board of supervisors, by resolution, may direct that a greater

number of copies be so printed or reproduced. The time when and place

where such hearing shall be held shall be fixed by resolution of the

board of supervisors. The clerk of the board of supervisors shall cause

a notice to be published stating the time, place and purpose of the

public hearing and that copies of the tentative budget on which the

public hearing will be held are available at his office and may be

inspected or procured thereat by any interested person during business

hours. There shall be included in the notice of the public hearing on

the tentative budget, or in a separate notice published in the same

manner and at the same time as such notice of hearing, a statement of

the maximum salary, or the maximum rate of per diem compensation, or

both, as the case may be, that may be fixed and payable during the

ensuing fiscal year to the members of the board of supervisors and to

the chairman respectively. The notice of public hearing shall be

published at least once in the official newspaper or newspapers of the

county, and in such other newspapers and for such other times as the

board of supervisors, by resolution, may direct. At least five days

shall elapse between the first publication of such notice and date

specified for the hearing. The hearing shall be held on the date so

specified at which time any person may be heard. The hearing may be

adjourned from day to day, but not later than the twentieth day of

December.