2023 New York Laws › HAY - Highway › Article 10 - Finances › 271 - Limitations of Amounts to Be Raised.

§  271.  Limitations of amounts to be raised. The amounts to be raised
by tax upon the vote of a town board, as provided in this article, shall
be subject to the following limitations: 1. The amount to be levied  and
collected  in  each  year  for  the  repair and improvement of highways,
including sluices, culverts and bridges having a span of less than  five
feet and board walks or renewals thereof, on highways less than two rods
in width, shall not be less than the amount prescribed under subdivision
one of section one hundred and forty-one.
3.  a.  Unless  duly  authorized by vote at a special or biennial town
election, there shall not be levied and collected in any one year in any
town, for the purchase of stone crushers, power rollers,  motor  trucks,
scarifiers,  concrete  mixers,  traction  engines  or  road machines for
grading and scraping, equipment, tools and other implements,  an  amount
greater than as hereinafter specified, to wit:
(1)  Two  hundred  thousand dollars in the towns of Colonie, Bethlehem
and Guilderland in Albany county,  in  the  town  of  Carmel  in  Putnam
county, in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester county, in the towns of
Haverstraw, Clarkstown, and Stony Point in Rockland county, in the towns
of  Riverhead,  Southold and Southampton in Suffolk county, in the towns
of Camillus, Cicero, DeWitt, Manlius, Onondaga and  Salina  in  Onondaga
county,  in the town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, or in any town of
the first class in Erie county.
(1-a) Four hundred thousand dollars in the towns of Babylon and  Islip
in Suffolk county.
(1-b) One hundred fifty thousand dollars in the town of Cortlandville,
Cortland county.
(1-c)  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subparagraph  one of this
paragraph, four hundred thousand dollars in the town of Amherst in  Erie
county.
* (1-d)  One  million  dollars  in  the  town of Brookhaven in Suffolk
county for replacement of equipment or replacement for comparable use.
* NB There are 2 subpar (1-d)'s
* (1-d) Eight hundred thousand dollars in any town in Nassau county.
* NB There are 2 subpar (1-d)'s
(1-e) One  million  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  the  town  of
Smithtown in Suffolk county.
(1-f)  Four hundred thousand dollars in the town of Ramapo in Rockland
county to be used only for replacement of equipment or  replacement  for
comparable use.
(1-g)  Six hundred fifty thousand dollars in the town of Orangetown in
Rockland county to be used only for replacement or repair  of  equipment
or replacement for comparable use.
(1-h) One million dollars in the town of Huntington in Suffolk county.
(2)  One  hundred  thousand dollars in the towns of Geddes and Clay in
Onondaga county, in the towns of East  Hampton  and  Shelter  Island  in
Suffolk  county or in any town in Westchester county, except the town of
Greenburgh.
(2-a) Two hundred thousand dollars in any town of the first  class  in
Monroe county.
(2-b)  One  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the town of Shawangunk in
Ulster County.
(2-c) One hundred twenty-five thousand dollars in the town of Maine in
the county of Broome.
(2-d)  One  hundred  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  in  the  town  of
Colesville in the county of Broome.
(3)  Seventy-five  thousand dollars in any town in Orange county or in
Sullivan county.
(4) Sixty thousand dollars in any other town.
b. If duly authorized at a  special  or  biennial  town  election  the
increase of the amount of any limitation provided in paragraph a of this
subdivision  shall  continue in effect for succeeding fiscal years until
changed by a vote of a special or biennial town election.
c.  The  limitations  contained  in  this  subdivision  shall  not  be
construed as limitations upon the amount of money which may be spent  in
any fiscal year for any object or purpose described in this subdivision.
4.  Not more than three thousand dollars shall be levied and collected
in any one year in any town  for  the  repair  or  construction  of  any
highway  or  bridge  which  has been damaged or destroyed as provided in
section two hundred and sixty-nine or which has been  condemned  by  the
department  of  transportation  as  provided  in this chapter, unless by
unanimous consent of the town board, but in no case shall more than  six
thousand  dollars  be levied and collected unless duly authorized by the
vote of a town meeting, except  that  in  any  town  in  the  county  of
Westchester  by  the unanimous consent of the town board, the sum of not
more than twelve thousand dollars may be  levied  and  collected  unless
duly authorized by the vote of a town meeting.
5.  Notwithstanding  the  foregoing provisions of this section, if any
such town is located wholly or partly within the Adirondack park and has
within its boundaries state lands subject to taxation assessed  at  more
than  thirty  per  centum of the total taxable assessed valuation of the
town as determined from the assessment rolls of the town,  as  completed
from  time  to  time, it shall be necessary to obtain the consent of the
state comptroller, on behalf of the state, in addition to the  unanimous
consent  of  the  town  board  in  order  to  exceed  the limitations of
subdivisions two and four of this section, and in addition to  the  vote
of  a  special  or  biennial  town  election  in  order  to  exceed  the
limitations of subdivision three  of  this  section  as  fixed  by  such
subdivision  three  or  as  fixed  prior  to May first, nineteen hundred
forty-eight, by a special or biennial town election.