N.Y. Social Services Law § 93: Provisions for financing home relief

§ 93. Provisions for financing home relief. 1. Definitions. When

used in this section:

(a) Home relief means home relief as defined in section one hundred

fifty-seven and also includes all administrative expenses of home

relief.

(b) Local share of home relief means the total cost or estimated cost

of home relief after deducting the amount or the estimated amount of

state aid received or to be received therefor under the then existing

law and rules.

(d) City means any city responsible for the administration of home

relief.

2. Estimates and appropriations. Each county, city and town shall

make an annual estimate and appropriation of the total amount required

for the fiscal year for home relief in accordance with this article.

Such estimates shall show not only the total amount so required, but the

estimated state aid to be received, and the estimated local share of

home relief.

3. Additional appropriations to supply deficiencies in the annual

appropriations. Should the sum or the aggregate of the sums

appropriated or amounts available and authorized to be expended in any

county, city or town be less than the amount required in any year for

home relief, supplemental appropriations may be made from time to time,

and in that case not less than the same percentage of the local share of

home relief included in such supplemental appropriations may be raised

by taxes levied for the next fiscal year as would have been raised by

taxes for the current fiscal year if the amount of supplemental

appropriation had been contained in the annual appropriation for the

current fiscal year.

6. County taxes. County taxes for the payment of obligations and

interest thereon, issued for home relief shall be a charge upon the

entire county but shall be levied in the first instance against all the

taxable property in the territory in which the county public welfare

district is responsible for the administration of such home relief.

8. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section, until

the commencement of the fiscal year in any county, city or town next

following December first, nineteen hundred forty-six, the local share of

the cost of home relief in any year, in lieu of being raised by tax, may

be paid from any other funds available, provided, however, no monies

shall be borrowed to pay the cost of home relief.