N.Y. General Municipal Law § 70-a: Liability for expenses incurred in enforcing lawful required payment of moneys to state agencies

§ 70-a. Liability for expenses incurred in enforcing lawful required

payment of moneys to state agencies. Notwithstanding any inconsistent

provision of this chapter or of any law, general, special or local,

whenever any municipal corporation is required by law to provide and pay

any moneys to a corporate or other agency or instrumentality of the

state for a public purpose, any reasonable expenses necessarily incurred

by such an agency or instrumentality in compelling or enforcing by

judicial proceeding payment to it of such moneys shall be a charge

against such municipal corporation and such municipal corporation shall

be liable therefor and shall pay the amount thereof upon certification

and approval by the attorney-general, to such agency or instrumentality,

provided vouchers therefor, properly certified and approved as required

by this section, shall be presented to and filed with the chief fiscal

officer of the municipal corporation within six months after final

determination of such judicial proceedings in the case of any such

expenses hereafter incurred, and in the case of any such expenses

heretofore incurred within six months after this section as hereby added

takes effect. The provisions of this section shall apply to and in the

case of such expenses heretofore incurred subsequent to January first,

nineteen hundred thirty-two, by such a state agency or instrumentality.