New York A 3067: Relates to authorizing the county comptroller to audit the financial records of such county's respective industrial development agency

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A03067 Summary:

BILL NOA03067 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02256

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SPONSORSolages

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §577, County L

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Authorizes the county comptroller to examine and audit all accounts, contracts, books and records of such county's respective industrial development agency.

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BILL NOA03067 

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01/23/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3067

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to authorizing the county
 comptroller to audit the financial records of such county's respective
 industrial development agency

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 577 of the county law, as amended
 2 by chapter 474 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
 3 1. The county comptroller shall: (a) have general superintendence over
 4 the fiscal affairs of the county; (b) audit all claims, accounts and
 5 demands that are lawful county charges with the same effect as if audit-
 6 ed and directed to be paid by the board of supervisors; (c) keep books
 7 and records at the expense of the county showing all appropriations,
 8 funds and expenditures together with the name of the claimant and the
 9 amounts and nature thereof; (d) keep and preserve all claims, accounts
 10 and demands, number them consecutively and endorse thereon their allow-
 11 ance or disallowance in whole or in part; (e) keep a separate account
 12 with each county officer or department and special funds; (f) keep and
 13 preserve all contracts for the furnishing of heat, light, telephone,
 14 supplies or other services; (g) keep a record of all bonded indebtedness
 15 and other loans and conduct the sale of all bonds pursuant to the
 16 provisions of the local finance law; (h) procure bank statements from
 17 depositaries of county funds at least once a month and reconcile them
 18 with [his] their books and that of the county treasurer; (i) subject to
 19 the provisions of the civil service law, certify the correctness of
 20 payrolls for the payment of salaries of officers and employees paid from
 21 county funds and deliver a certified transcript to the county treasurer
 22 as authorization for payment; provided that if the board of supervisors
 23 enters into a contract pursuant to subdivision six of section five
 24 hundred fifty of this chapter such certified transcript shall be deliv-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04914-01-5

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 1 ered to the appropriate bank or trust company; (j) at least once a year
 2 review all books and records, vouchers and other papers pertaining to
 3 the money, funds and property of the county and render a report thereon
 4 to the board of supervisors as to whether proper books and records have
 5 been kept and all moneys and property of the county accounted for; (k)
 6 cause to be printed within thirty days after the close of the fiscal
 7 year for distribution to the board of supervisors, county officers and
 8 the public, a verified statement in summary form showing the receipts of
 9 money from all sources, the expenditures and balances by funds, and
 10 bonded indebtedness together with the terms of payment and the balance
 11 unpaid and such other information as may be deemed proper or directed by
 12 the board of supervisors; (1) in [the] each county [of Nassau], examine
 13 and audit on [his] their own motion or when directed to do so by resol-
 14 ution of the board of supervisors all accounts, contracts, books and
 15 records of the [Nassau county] municipal industrial development agency
 16 in their respective county as established by [section nine hundred twen-
 17 ty-two] article eighteen-A of the general municipal law, and all bank
 18 state