N.Y. State Finance Law § 54-m: Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age

§ 54-m. Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of

juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age. Notwithstanding any

other provision of law to the contrary, counties and the city of New

York shall not be required to contribute a local share of eligible

expenditures that would not have been incurred absent the provisions of

a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that added this section

unless the most recent budget adopted by a county that is subject to the

provisions of section three-c of the general municipal law exceeded the

tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the local government is not

subject to the provisions of section three-c of the general municipal

law; provided, however, that the state budget director shall be

authorized to waive any local share of expenditures associated with a

chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased the age of

juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age, upon a showing of

financial hardship by a county or the city of New York upon application

in the form and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In

evaluating an application for a financial hardship waiver, the budget

director shall consider the incremental cost to the locality related to

increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state or federal

aid payments, and other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence of

a disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section

twenty of the executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure,

annual growth in tax receipts, including personal income, business and

other taxes, prepayment of debt service and other expenses, or such

other factors that the director may determine.