[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Flower Hill 7-6-2009 by L.L. No. 10-2009.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law was adopted as Ch. 228,
but was renumbered in order to maintain the alphabetical organization
of the Code.
The purpose of this chapter is to create and establish a publicity
fund and to provide for the appropriate expenditures therefrom in
connection with the Village of Flower Hill, New York
A.
The terms, words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the
same meaning as such terms, words and phrases are defined in the Village
Law, Municipal Home Rule Law and other laws of the State of New York.
A.
Authority is hereby granted to establish a publicity fund in, of
and for the Village of Flower Hill, New York, in accordance with the
authority granted under the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of
New York, and it is specifically provided that there shall be established
a publicity fund and that proper expenditures therefrom, in whole
or in part, may be used for the purpose of publicizing and promoting
the Village of Flower Hill, Nassau County, New York, and said fund
shall be established on a yearly Village annual basis.
B.
Further, expenditures may be made from the fund for the specific
objects and purposes recited herein and to which the taxes and other
revenues of the Village may be appropriated.
It is determined that certain publicly and privately sponsored
parades, festivals, exhibitions, shows, contests, farmers' markets,
displays, games, races and other similar events held within the Village
for the public at large and which are designed to attract visitors
to the area are desirable for the general welfare of the Village inhabitants
and are otherwise desirable for the benefit of trade within the Village.
The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, make appropriations
to the publicity fund hereby established either as part of the annual
budget or at any time from unanticipated revenues or from surplus
amounts in other accounts. Such publicity funds may not, however,
be funded in any fiscal year in an amount greater than $3,000, nor
shall annual expenditures from such fund for all qualified objects
and purposes exceed the sum of $3,000 in any event.
A.
The objects and purposes for which expenditures may be made from
such publicity fund shall be limited to events which are:
(1)
Held at least partially within the Village of Flower Hill;
(2)
Open to the general public from within and without the Village;
(3)
Likely to provide favorable publicity for the Village or stimulate
trade within the Village or shall be beneficial to the general welfare
of the inhabitants of the Village by providing instruction, entertainment
or amusement; and
(4)
Primarily sponsored or promoted by a not-for-profit corporation or
other nonprofit organization.
B.
No expenditures from such publicity fund shall be made unless the
Village's Board of Trustees shall have first determined, by resolution,
the amount of money to be allocated for such event and that the particular
event or organization to be benefited by such expenditure meets the
qualifying criteria set forth in this section.
No expenditure from the publicity fund shall be made to benefit
any single recipient or event in an amount greater than $1,000 in
any one fiscal year of the Village.
Any resolution by the Board of Trustees authorizing the expenditure
of money from the publicity fund may contain special limitations upon
the recipient's use of any money to be paid by the Village, and
the payment of any money so authorized shall be conditioned upon the
recipient's satisfactory compliance with the stated limitations.
No payment from the publicity fund shall be made by the Village
until the qualifying event has actually occurred in its contemplated
magnitude or the Board of Trustees has determined that the benefit
to be derived by the Village and its inhabitants has actually been
received.
This chapter is not intended to create any right to funding
in any person or organization, nor is the Board of Trustees obliged
to appropriate any money to the publicity fund or to expend any amount
from the publicity fund at any time.
