N.Y. State Finance Law § 54-h: State aid to local governments for housing maintenance code enforcement

§ 54-h. State aid to local governments for housing maintenance code

enforcement. 1. The commissioner of housing and community renewal shall

grant state aid to cities in the amount of fifty per centum of the

amount of money expended from funds raised by taxes imposed by such city

during the city fiscal year, up to a maximum amount of eight million

dollars in any one year, by a city of over one million population by the

department of housing preservation and development for enforcement of

the multiple dwelling law and any other provision of law, rule or

regulation in relation to the maintenance, use, occupancy, safety,

sanitary condition and inspection of any building or portion thereof

which is occupied or arranged or intended to be occupied as the home,

residence of one or more human beings, not, however, including one or

two-family houses, as determined by the commissioner of housing and

community renewal.

2. The mayor of each city desiring to make application for state aid

under this section shall annually on such dates as may be fixed by the

commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal, submit to

him the request of such city for such state aid and shall support such

request with such information as the commissioner may require. The

commissioner shall prescribe the form in which such information shall be

submitted.