The commissioners of parks constituted by chapter seven hundred eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred seven, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, shall have power, from time to time, to construct new buildings suitable for the Rye park or reconstruct existing buildings used for the Rye park, and to grade or improve the sites of such buildings, and to install therein the original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus required for the purposes for which such buildings are to be used, and to improve the lands used for such park, and to expend for such purposes such sums of money as shall be made available for such purposes, in the manner hereinafter provided, by the city of Rye and by the town of Rye.
[Acts of 1953, Ch. 848]
AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of parks constituted by chapter seven hundred eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred seven, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, to construct, reconstruct, furnish and equip buildings in the Rye park, and to improve such park, and to authorize the city of Rye and the town of Rye to raise and contribute the moneys required for such purposes.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Whenever said commissioners of parks shall deem it expedient to make any improvement authorized by this act, they shall make an estimate of the maximum cost thereof and they shall prepare and deliver to the council of the city of Rye and to the town board of the town of Rye, a certificate stating the amount of such maximum cost as so estimated and portions thereof, computed as hereinafter provided, to be contributed by the city of Rye and by the town of Rye. The portion to such maximum cost to be contributed by the city of Rye shall bear the same proportion to the total estimated maximum cost stated in such certificate as the total assessed value of the entire property within the territory now constituting the city of Rye as it appeared in the assessment roll of the town of Rye which was last completed prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred forty-two, bears to the total assessed value of the entire property within the town of Rye as shown by such assessment roll. The portion to be contributed by the town of Rye shall be the remainder of such maximum cost, as stated in such certificate.
The council of the city of Rye and the town board of the town of Rye may, in their discretion, appropriate and make available to said commissioners of parks, for the purposes described in any certificate delivered to such council or to such town board, pursuant to section two of this act, the portions of the maximum cost stated in such certificate which are to be contributed by the city of Rye and the town of Rye, respectively. The council of the city of Rye may finance such portion of the cost of such purpose to be contributed by the city of Rye and the town board of the town of Rye may finance such portion of the cost of such purpose to be contributed by the town of Rye, pursuant to the local finance law.
Notwithstanding anything contained in chapter five hundred five of the laws of nineteen hundred forty, and the acts amendatory thereof, constituting the charter of the city of Rye, any ordinance proposing the contracting of a funded debt for the portion of the maximum cost to be borne by the city of Rye as stated in any certificate delivered to the council of the city of Rye pursuant to section two of this act need not be submitted to or approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voters of said city.
This act shall take effect immediately.