1965-07-26
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STATE OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF AUDIT AND CONTROL
ALBANY
ARTHUR LEVITT
STATE COMPTROLLER
July 26, 1965
IN REPLYING REFER TO
Town of Wappinger
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Mrs. Helen L. Travis
Clerk, Town of Wappinger
Mill Street
Box 86
Wappingers Falls, New York
Dear Mrs. Travis:
Report of examination of the accounts and fiscal affairs of your
Town, completed by examiners from this Department, is transmitted with
this letter.
The examination was made, and report prepared, in accordance with
Article 3 of the General Municipal Law. We request that the report be
studied by all officials of the Town.
Your attention is called to Section 35 of the General Municipal Law,
which requires you to publish a notice to the effect that the report has
been received, filed in your office and is available for public inspection.
This law also requires that you file in your office the newspaper's
affidavit of publication, together with the enclosed form, certifying
that it is a newspaper having general circulation in the Town..
Please acknowledge receipt of the enclosed report.
Yours very truly,
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Enc.
ARTHUR LEVITT
State Comptroller
By F j ~o.Lj,L-">4--JL<~~
JOHN J. HASSELWANDER
Assistant Chief Examiner of Municipal Affairs
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GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW - SECTION 35
J'!LING OF REPORT OF EXAMINATION AND NOTICE THERlOClF
Section 35. Filing of report of examination and notice thereof
1. A report of such examination shall be t1Bde and shall be filed in the office
of the state comptroller and in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation,
district, agency or activity, or with the secretary if there is no clerk. An
additional copy thereof shall be filed with the chief fiscal officer, except that in
the case of a school district, such additional copy shall be filed in the office of
the chairman of the board of trustees, the president of the board of education or the
sole trustee, as the case may be. When so filed, each such report and copy thereof
shall be a public record open to inspection by any interested person.
2. (a) Within ten days after the report of any such examination is filed with
the clerk of the municipal corporation, district, agency or activity, or with the
secretary if there is no clerk, he shall give public notice thereof in substantially
the following form: "Notice is hereby given that the state comptroller has caused
the fiscal affairs of (name of municipal corporation, district, agency or activity)
for the period beginning on .............. and ending on .............., to be
examined, and that the report of such examination has been filed in my office where
it is available as a public record for inspection by all interested persons. II
(b) Except as otherwise provided for a cammon school district, the clerk,
or secretary if there is no clerk, shall cause such notice to be published at least
once in the official newspaper, or if there be no official newspaper, in a newspaper
having general circulation in the municipal corporation, district or area served by
the agency or activity. If there be no newspaper having general circulation, the
clerk, or the secretary if there is no clerk, shall post such notice conspicuously
in ten public places in the municipal corporation, district or area served. In a
common school district which maintains a home school, the clerk shall post such
notice on the front door of the school house. In a common school district which
does not maintain a home schOOl, the clerk shall post such notice conspicuously in
at least five public places in the district.
(0) The clerk of every municipal corporation, district, agency and activity,
or the secretary if there is no clerk, shall file in his office proof of the
publication or posting of notices pursuant to this section. The proof so filed
shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the state comptroller.
(d) In each school district subject to the jurisdiction of a district
superintendent, under the provisions of article forty-five of the education law,
such district superintendent shall ascertain that the public notice required by this
subdivision has been published or posted, as the case may be.
3. The clerk, or secretary if there is no clerk, shall present the report of
the examination to the governing body of the municipal corporation, district,
agency or activity for its consideration at the first meeting thereof held after the
filing of the report with the clerk or secretary.
nOTE:., Proof of publication shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Municipality or District.
Do not send it to the State ComptTOller