N.Y. Social Services Law § 92: Deficiency appropriations

§ 92. Deficiency appropriations. 1. (a) Should the sums

appropriated for medical assistance for needy persons, family

assistance, or care and protection of children pursuant to article six

of this chapter and their administration be expended or contracted or

become exhausted during the year for the purposes for which they were

appropriated, or should no appropriation have been made, additional sums

shall be appropriated by the proper appropriating bodies, as occasion

demands, to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(b) In cities such additional sums if appropriated shall be paid from

unexpended balances not required by law to be expended for a specific

purpose, or from contingent funds when such exist.

(c) In counties, such additional appropriations shall be paid from

funds in the county treasury available therefor, provided that such

funds were raised by taxes levied in a territory identical with that in

which such sums may be expended, and then only to the extent of any

excess thereof not needed for other purposes under other provisions of

this chapter.

(d) Nothing contained in this section, however, shall be construed to

prevent the financing of such deficiency appropriations pursuant to the

local finance law.

2. All the provisions of subdivision one in regard to cities shall be

applicable to towns in Dutchess county, and, in every city or town

thereof, except in the city of Poughkeepsie, the amount of such

additional sums must first be approved by the county commissioner of

public welfare by writing filed with the city or town clerk.