the designee of the trustees or school board to the inspectors of election on election day. b. Such list shall also be posted in a conspicuous place or places during the election, and any qualified voter may challenge the acceptance of the absentee voter's ballot or any person on such list, by making his challenge and the reasons therefor known to the inspectors of election before the close of the polls. 8. a. The clerk of the school district or designee of the trustees or school board shall be authorized to call upon the commissioner of police and the officers and members of the police force for such assistance in the enforcement of the provisions of this section as such trustees or board shall require, and such commissioner and officers and members of the police force shall be authorized to render such assistance. to b. The clerk of the school district or designee of the trustees or school board may require any person to attend before it at the office of the clerk of the school district or the office of the designee of the trustees or school board and be examined by the trustees or board as any matter in relation to which such trustees or board is charged with a duty under this section, and may issue a subpoena therefor. Each member of such trustees or board shall be authorized to administer any oath that may be required or authorized by law in this connection. 9. No absentee voter's ballot shall be canvassed, unless it shall have been received in the office of the clerk of the school district or designee of the trustees or school board not later than five P. M. on the day of the election. 10. The clerk of the district or designee of the trustees or school board shall, on the day of the election, transmit all absentee voters' envelopes, received by him in accordance with subdivision eight of this section, to the inspectors of election. 11. if a person whose name is on an envelope as a voter shall have already voted in person at such school district election, or if there is no signature on the envelope, this envelope shall be laid aside unopened and be returned unopened to the clerk of the district or designee of the trustees or school board. If such person has not so voted in person, and if no objection is made, or if an objection made be not sustained, the envelope shall be opened and the ballot withdrawn without unfolding and deposited in the proper box or boxes. 12. If the inspectors of election shall have received an envelope, and upon opening the same no ballot shall be found therein, the inspectors shall make a memorandum showing that the ballot is missing. When the casting of absentee [voter's] voters' ballots shall have been completed, the inspectors shall ascertain the number of such ballots which have been deposited in the ballot box by deducting from the number of envelopes opened the number of missing ballots, and shall make a separate return thereof in duplicate. The number of absentee voters' ballots deposited in the ballot box shall be added to the number of other ballots to be accounted for in the ballot box. Such ballots shall then be counted or canvassed by the inspectors of election along with the other ballots cast at such school district election, or, where voting machines are used, shall be added to the votes recorded on such machines. § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law. CHAPTER 47 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to special proceedings against the tax appeals tribunal Became a law April 7, 1992, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of section 506 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 282 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows: 2. a proceeding against the regents of the university of the state of New York, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of taxation and finance, the tax appeals tribunal except as provided in section two thousand sixteen of the tax law, the public service commission, the commissioner or the department of transportation relating to articles three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine or ten of the transportation law or to the railroad law, the water resources board, the comptroller or the department of agriculture and markets, shall be commenced in the supreme court, Albany County. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 48 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to distinctive license plates for emergency medical technicians Became a law April 10, 1992, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new subdivision 17-a to read as follows: 17-a. The commissioner shall permit the use of distinctive license plates reserved for use by emergency medical technicians on a van or pickup truck owned and operated by such person where such vehicle is not used for commercial purposes. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 49 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the Became a law April 10, 1992, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section Section 342-x of the highway law, as added by chapter 157 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows: § 342-x. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the "Purple Heart Highway". That portion of the state highway system constituting Route 5 excepting therefrom that portion of such route heretofore designated as the "Seaway Trail" shall hereafter be designated and known as the "Purple Heart Highway". § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION-Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. CHAPTER 50 AN ACT making appropriations for the support of government STATE OPERATIONS BUDGET BILL Became a law April 10, 1992, with the approval of the Governor. Passed on message of necessity pursuant to Article III, section 14 of the Constitution by a majority vote, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The several amounts in this section, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated by the appropriations, are appropriated and authorized to be paid as herein provided to the respective public officers and for the several purposes specified for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 1992. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to temporarily loan. money from the general fund or any other fund to the fund or fund/accounts identified in this bill as authorized to receive a loan. Such loans shall be limited to the amounts immediately required to meet disbursements, made in pursuance of an appropriation by law and authorized by a certificate of approval issued by the director of the budget with copies thereof filed with the comptroller and the chairmen of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee. The director of the budget shall not issue such a certificate unless he shall have determined that the amounts to be So loaned are receivable on account. When making loans, the comptroller shall establish appropriate accounts and if the loan is not repaid by the end of the month, provide on or before the 15th day of the following month to the director of the budget, the chairmen of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee, an accurate accounting and reporting of the financial resources of each such fund at the end of such month. Within 10 days of the receipt of such accounting and reporting, the director of the budget shall provide the chairmen of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee an expected schedule of repayment by fund and by source for each outstanding loan. Repayment shall be made by the comptroller from the first cash receipts of this fund. Within the amounts appropriated therefor, all state departments and agencies are authorized to lease automobiles and passenger vans from the office of general services and may authorize travel outside of the state. Within the amounts appropriated, all state departments and agencies. are authorized to pay prior year's fringe benefits costs and to pay to the office of general services, centralized services fund 323, the amounts required for prior years' telecommunication expenses, as well as expenses for other centralized service fund programs. Notwithstanding section 40 of the state finance law, appropriations and reappropriations made pursuant to this chapter for the state fiscal year ending March 31, 1993 shall cease to have force and effect on such EXPLANATION-Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. STATE OPERATIONS date except for liabilities already incurred thereunder and except for appropriations enacted in the fund type special revenue funds federal for a grant period which extend beyond March 31, 1993. Such special revenue funds - federal appropriations shall be available for liabilities incurred after such date. All appropriations and reappropriations enacted in this chapter shall lapse on June 30, 1993 and no money shall thereafter be paid out of the state treasury or any of its funds or any of the funds under its management pursuant to such appropriations or reappropriations. Within a schedule the state comptroller shall control appropriations by the total of the amount provided for each program and within each program by the total of the amount provided for personal service expenses and by the total of the amount provided for nonpersonal service expenses unless, for specified departments and agencies, the director of the budget, or the chairmen of the legislative fiscal committees through the director, requests the comptroller to control within each program by the total of the amount provided at the sub-object level. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER For payment, including activities related to a moreland act commission, according to the following schedule: |