N.Y. General Municipal Law § 77-c: Per diem meal allowances for travel on official business

§ 77-c. Per diem meal allowances for travel on official business.

Whenever a municipality is authorized or required to reimburse its

officers, employees, or the volunteer members or officers of the fire

department of the municipality, for their actual and necessary expenses

for meals in conjunction with travel on official business, the governing

board of such municipality may determine by resolution to allow and pay

a reasonable per diem allowance for meals in lieu of such actual and

necessary expenses. In determining the amount of such allowance, the

governing board shall consider the prevailing costs for meals in the

area in which the travel will occur, but in no event shall such

allowance exceed the standard meal allowance for business-related travel

adopted or prescribed for federal income tax purposes. For purposes of

this section, the terms "municipality" and "governing board" shall have

the same meaning as in section seventy-seven-b of this article.