[Adopted 10-23-2012 by L.L. No. 5-2012]
A. 
It is the intent of this article to override the limit on the amount of real property taxes that may be levied by the Town of Orangetown pursuant to General Municipal Law § 3-c, and to allow the Town Board of the Town of Orangetown to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2013 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the "tax levy limit" as defined by General Municipal Law § 3-c.
B. 
Among other reasons, the override is made necessary by the proposed charge back to the Town of various expenses formerly paid by the County of Rockland, including costs relating to the conduct of elections, and expenses associated with local students attending out-of-county community colleges, as well as by the resolution of certain real property tax certiorari proceedings, and the payment of refunds and the loss of assessment associated therewith.
This article is adopted pursuant to Subdivision 5 of General Municipal Law § 3-c, which expressly authorizes the Town Board to override the tax levy limit by the adoption of a local law approved by a vote of 60% of the Town Board.
The Town Board of the Town of Orangetown, County of Rockland, is hereby' authorized to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2013 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the amount otherwise proscribed in General Municipal Law § 3-c.
If any clause, paragraph, subdivision or part of this article or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance, shall be adjusted by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such order or judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision or part of this article or in its application to the person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.