N.Y. State Finance Law § 54-g: State assistance to local governments for support of activities related to fire prevention and building codes

§ 54-g. State assistance to local governments for support of

activities related to fire prevention and building codes. 1. Beginning

in March, nineteen hundred eighty-two and annually thereafter, each

city, village, and town shall receive from moneys appropriated by the

state in support of activities related to the administration and

enforcement in the previous calendar year of fire prevention and

building codes the sum of the amounts computed in paragraphs a and b

below.

a. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which

the population of the city, village or town outside a village bears to

the population of the state taken as a whole.

b. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which

the full value of the city, village or town outside a village bears to

the full value of the state taken as a whole. The amount otherwise

payable to a local government under this subdivision shall be reduced by

the amount of state aid to local governments for housing maintenance

code enforcement payable to such local government in the same state

fiscal year under the provisions of section fifty-four-h of this

chapter.

2. In the instance where, pursuant to section three hundred eighty-one

of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code act set

forth in article eighteen of the executive law, a county or the

secretary of state administers and enforces the New York state uniform

fire prevention and building code within a city, village or town, the

funds otherwise payable to the city, village, or town shall be paid to

the county or revert to the state, as the case may be. Where a county or

the secretary of state has been so engaged for less than the entire

calendar year provided in subdivision one, the moneys shall be

distributed to the city, village, or town, county or state in proportion

to the length of time for which each was responsible for said

administration and enforcement.

3. The terms used in this section shall have the meanings ascribed to

them in section fifty-four of this article.