Legislation Details

File #: Int 0153-1998    Version: * Name: Appropriations Impoundment
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Finance
On agenda: 2/26/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the mayor's impoundment of appropriations.
Sponsors: Herbert E. Berman, Lawrence A. Warden, Una Clarke, Thomas K. Duane, June M. Eisland, Julia Harrison, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Annette M. Robinson, Victor L. Robles
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Herbert E. Berman City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/17/1998*Herbert E. Berman Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Herbert E. Berman City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Herbert E. Berman City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 153
 
By Council Members Berman, Warden, Clarke, Duane and Eisland; also Council Members Harrison, O'Donovan, Robinson and Robles -- read and referred to the Committee on Finance.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the mayor's impoundment of appropriations.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Subdivision e of section 106 of the New York city charter is hereby amended to read as follows:
      e.      Whenever the mayor determines, pursuant to the provisions of this charter or other relevant statutes, that the full amount of any appropriation should not be available for expenditure during the fiscal year, the mayor shall notify the council of such determination and the implications and consequences of those impoundments for service levels and programmatic goals affected.  Such notification shall be provided to the council not more than five days after the mayor's determination to impound monies within an appropriation and, within a reasonable period of time thereafter, shall be published in the city record.  Subsequent to such notification, [The] the mayor shall respond in writing to a request by the council for an explanation of why an appropriation should not be expended, as well as any other information relevant to the affected agency or appropriation.  
      ยง2.      This local law shall take effect immediately.