[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Ocean Beach 3-5-2012 by L.L. No. 1-2012; amended in its entirety 12-9-2017 by L.L. No. 4-2017. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
It is the intent of this local law to allow the Village of Ocean
Beach to adopt a budget for the fiscal year commencing June 1, 2018,
that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the "tax levy
limit" as defined by General Municipal Law § 3-c.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to Subdivision 5 of General
Municipal Law § 3-c, which expressly authorizes a local
government's governing body to override the property tax cap
for the coming fiscal year by the adoption of a local law approved
by a vote of 60% of said governing body.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Ocean Beach, County
of Suffolk, is hereby authorized to adopt a budget for the fiscal
year commencing June 1, 2018, that requires a real property tax levy
in excess of the amount otherwise prescribed in General Municipal
Law § 3-c.
If a court determines that any clause, sentence, paragraph,
subdivision, or part of this chapter or the application thereof to
any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance is invalid or unconstitutional,
the court's order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate
the remainder of this chapter, but shall be confined in its operation
to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this chapter
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.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon filing with
the Secretary of State.
