N.Y. General City Law § 13-b: Publicity fund

§ 13-b. Publicity fund. Any city may establish a publicity fund of

such amount as the city council or other governing body may by

resolution direct, to be expended for the purpose of advertising the

advantages of such city as a winter and summer resort, or for the

commemoration programs of historical events, or otherwise, including the

necessary and legitimate expense of securing the designation of such

city as the place for holding the convention or meeting of any

organization or society, and for such other and additional purposes as

may tend to promote the general commercial and industrial welfare of the

city, and for that purpose may raise by taxation a sum not exceeding

twenty-five thousand dollars per annum to be assessed, levied and

collected in the same manner that other city taxes are assessed, levied

and collected. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the city

council of any city may by local law establish a publicity fund in

excess of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, as such local law

shall direct. Such local law shall be subject to a referendum on

petition. Such sum shall be raised by taxation and shall be assessed,

levied and collected in the same manner that other city taxes are

assessed, levied and collected. Provided, however, that if the city

council of any city with a population of fifty thousand or less

establishes, by local law, a publicity fund in excess of fifty thousand

dollars, such local law shall become operative only after it shall be

adopted after submission to the qualified voters of the city, and due

adoption thereof by a majority of the qualified voters of the city

voting thereon at a general election.