New York Laws
Title 8 - Limitations on the Power to Contract Indebtedness
101.00 - Giving or Loaning of Municipal Credit and Contracting Indebtedness Other Than for Municipal Purposes Prohibited.

(a) Advancing to a city, town or school district, pursuant to law, the
amount of unpaid taxes.
(b) Financing tax refunds required to be made by section seven hundred
twenty-six of the real property tax law.
(c) Paying to the state the state tax levied against such county.
2. A town from contracting indebtedness for the following purposes:
(a) Advancing to a county or school district, pursuant to law, the
amount of unpaid taxes.
(b) Paying to a county such town's share of the state tax levied
against such county if such town is required by law to levy and collect
such tax.
3. A city from contracting indebtedness for the following purposes:
(a) Advancing to a county or school district, pursuant to law, the
amount of unpaid taxes.
(b) Paying to a county such city's share of the state tax levied
against such county if such city is required by law to levy and collect
such tax.
4. A municipality from making such provision for the aid, care and
support of the needy, including the aid, care and support of neglected

and dependent children and of the needy sick, as may be authorized by
law.
5. A county, city or town from providing, pursuant to law, for the
care, support, maintenance and secular education of inmates of orphan
asylums, homes for dependent children or incarcerated individuals in
correctional institutions and of children placed in family homes by
authorized agencies, whether under public or private control.
6. A municipality or school district, when authorized by law, from
using its credit for
(a) The examination or inspection of any school or institution of
learning wholly or in part under the control or direction of any
religious denomination, or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine
is taught, or
(b) The transportation of children to and from any school or
institution of learning.
7. A city, town or village from giving or loaning its credit when
authorized to do so by the legislature pursuant to the provisions of
article eighteen of the state constitution.
8. A county, city or town from increasing, pursuant to law, pension
benefits payable to retired members of a police department or fire
department or to widows, dependent children or dependent parents of
members or retired members of a police department or fire department.
9. A municipality, school district or district corporation from
increasing, pursuant to law, the amount of pension of any member of a
retirement system of the state, or of a subdivision of the state.
10. A municipality, school district or district corporation from
providing, pursuant to law, for the protection by insurance or otherwise
against the hazards of unemployment, sickness and old age.
11. A municipality or school district from providing, pursuant to law,
for the education and support of the blind, the deaf, the mute, the
physically handicapped and juvenile delinquents or for health and
welfare services for all children.
12. A city, town or village from expending or loaning its money,
property or credit as consideration for the effectuation of all or part
of the public purpose provided for in sections eleven-a and thirty-six-a
of the private housing finance law.
13. A municipality from making loans of money or credit to or in aid
of any eligible corporation or association for the purpose of providing
hospital or other facilities for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment
of human disease, pain, injury, disability, deformity or physical
condition, and for facilities incidental or appurtenant thereto, as may
be authorized by law pursuant to section seven of article seventeen of
the state constitution.