3960 - Additional provisions.

§ 3960. Additional provisions. 1. Notwithstanding any provision to the  contrary in title six-A of article two of the local finance law, neither  the  county  nor  any  covered  organization  shall  file  any  petition  authorized by such title six-A without the approval of the authority and  the state comptroller. No such petition shall be filed as  long  as  any  bonds,  notes  or  other  obligations  issued  by  the  authority remain  outstanding. Failure of the authority or the state comptroller to notify  the county or  a  covered  organization  within  thirty  days  (or  such  additional  time,  not  exceeding thirty days, as the authority or state  comptroller shall have notified the county or covered organization  that  it requires to complete its review) after submission to it of a petition  shall  be  deemed  to constitute authority or state comptroller approval  thereof.    2. Nothing contained in this title shall limit the right of the county  or any covered  organization  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  any  existing contract within or for the benefit of the holders of any bonds,  notes or other obligations of the county or such covered organization.    3.  Nothing  contained  in  this title shall be construed to limit the  power of the county or a covered organization to determine, from time to  time, within  available  funds  for  the  county  or  for  such  covered  organization,  the purposes for which expenditures are to be made by the  county  or  such  covered  organization  and   the   amounts   of   such  expenditures,  consistent with the aggregate expenditures then permitted  under the financial plan for the county or such covered organization.    4. The authority's fiscal year shall be January first through December  thirty-first.    5. The authority shall adopt guidelines for procurement  contracts  in  accordance  with  section  twenty-eight  hundred  seventy-nine  of  this  chapter.    6. Nothing contained in this  title  shall  alter,  limit,  modify  or  impair  the  right  of any school district or any city, town, or village  within the county  to  receive  from  the  county  net  collections,  as  authorized  by section twelve hundred sixty-two of the tax law, from the  county's sales and  compensating  use  taxes  imposed  pursuant  to  the  authority  of  subpart  B  of part one of article twenty-nine of the tax  law.