N.Y. Public Health Law § 617: Maintenance of effort

§ 617. Maintenance of effort. Such amount of state aid provided will

be used to support and to the extent practicable, to increase the level

of funds that would otherwise be made available for such purposes and

not to supplant the amount to be provided by the municipalities. If a

municipality that is provided state aid pursuant to title one of this

article reduces its expenditures beneath the amount expended in its base

year, which is the most recent fiscal year for which the municipality

has filed all expenditure reports to the department, state aid

reimbursement provided pursuant to subdivision one of section six

hundred five of this article will be reduced by the percentage reduction

in expenditures between its base year and its current fiscal year. For

purposes of this section, reductions in expenditures shall be adjusted

for: an absence of extraordinary expenditures of a temporary nature,

such as disaster relief; unavoidable or justifiable program reductions,

such as a program being subsumed by another agency; or in circumstances

where the municipality can demonstrate, to the department's

satisfaction, that the need for the expenditure no longer exists.