Section 5-501
§ 5-501 Director of management and budget; access to agencies. The
director of management and budget shall have access, at all reasonable
times, to the offices of any agency for the purpose of carrying out the
duties imposed upon him or her by law. The powers and duties of the
director as to private institutions shall extend only to the moneys
received from the city.
Section 5-502
§ 5-502 Departmental estimates; duplicates. The director of management
and budget, upon receipt of departmental estimates submitted to him or
her, shall forward copies thereof to the council, to the board of
estimate and each community board and borough board.
If the departmental estimate submitted by an agency contains budget
requests for programs related to criminal justice, the director of
management and budget shall also forward a copy of such budget requests
to the coordinator of criminal justice.
Section 5-503
§ 5-503 Departmental estimates; preparation. To assist in the
preparation of departmental estimates, the head of each agency shall
designate an official or employee thereof as budget officer who shall,
in each year under the direction of such head, prepare the departmental
estimate for such agency.
Section 5-504
§ 5-504 Departmental estimates; necessity for funds requested. a. The
departmental estimates shall contain statements and other data showing
the necessity for the funds requested and such supporting data as may be
required by the director of management and budget.
b. The departmental estimates shall include particularly and in detail
the reasons for all individual increases or decreases compared with the
budget as modified for the prior year.
c. Departmental estimates for any agency that has local service
districts within community districts and boroughs shall contain where
practicable a statement of proposed direct expenses in each such service
district for each requested unit of appropriation prepared according to
the requirements specified in subdivision d of section one hundred
twelve of the charter.
Section 5-505
§ 5-505 When the director of management and budget is to prepare
departmental estimate. If a departmental estimate is not submitted on
such date as the mayor may direct, the director of management and budget
shall cause to be prepared such estimate and data necessary to include
departmental estimate in the budget for such agency for the following
fiscal year. In no event later than the fifteenth day of January, or
such earlier date as the mayor may direct, the director of management
and budget will forward copies of such estimate to the secretary of the
board of estimate, the council and each community board and borough
boards.
Section 5-506
§ 5-506 Departmental estimates; form of. The classification of such
estimates shall be as nearly uniform as possible and, as far as
practicable, shall exhibit clearly the functions performed by each
agency and the purpose of appropriations made.
Section 5-507
§ 5-507 The budget; details. In addition to the requirements set out
in the charter, the proposed budget and the preliminary budget shall be
prepared in such detail as to the titles of appropriations, the terms
and conditions under which the same may be expended and the aggregate
sum allowed to each agency, as the mayor shall deem advisable.
Section 5-508
§ 5-508 The budget; miscellaneous revenues appropriated for specific
purposes. The budget and preliminary budget shall include the several
items and amounts payable from funds other than those derived from
taxation which are specifically provided by law to be so expended and
which, in the judgment of the director of management and budget, are
deemed necessary for the proper conduct of the various agencies, either
in whole or in part as a supplement to the fund obtainable from
taxation, and shall show the aggregate sum allowed to each agency and
the total of all allowances contained in the budget to be obtained from
taxation or other funds.
Section 5-509
§ 5-509 Items to be included in annual budget. There may annually be
included in the budget:
1. A sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars to be paid to the
trustees of the seventh regiment armory building, as an equivalent and
in lieu of the rental of an armory for such regiment, to be applied to
the preservation, maintenance and improvement of the armory building,
such sum to be paid in the month of January in each year.
2. The amount necessary for the maintenance of the buildings,
instruments and equipment of:
a. The meteorological and astronomical observatory.
b. The American museum of natural history.
c. The metropolitan museum of art, not exceeding ninety-five thousand
dollars.
d. The Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences.
3. Such sums to any hospitals, charitable, eleemosynary, correctional
or reformatory institution, wholly or partly under private control for
the care, support and maintenance of its inmates, and for the care,
support, maintenance and secular education of inmates of orphan asylums,
protectories, homes for dependent children or correctional institutions
and any other sum or sums which may heretofore have been duly authorized
by law to be paid within the city of New York or any part thereof for
the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb and juvenile
delinquents and such sums other than salaries for reimbursement to any
duly incorporated charitable institution or society employed by the
commissioner of welfare in the placing out, supervision and transfer of
children who are public charges; such payments to be made only for such
inmates as are received and retained therein pursuant to rules
established by the state board of social welfare. The city may in any
year, and from time to time, increase or diminish, the sum authorized to
be paid to any such institution, association, corporation or society.
The final estimate shall specify each institution by its corporate name
and the sum to be paid thereto, with a reference to the laws authorizing
the appropriation, and the comptroller is authorized to pay the sum to
such institution upon its appearing to his or her satisfaction in such
manner as he or she shall prescribe that the expenditure thereof by the
institution is lawful and proper. Appropriations shall be made under
this section to any corporation only if the mayor, or the president of
the borough in which the chief office of such corporation is situated,
is notified of all meetings of its board of management, and is empowered
to attend the same or designate in writing some person to do so in his
or her behalf; but this shall not be construed as impairing any existing
powers of visitation vested in the supreme court or the state board of
social welfare, or any provisions of law requiring statements by such
corporations as to their affairs.
4. A sum for the due observance of Memorial day to be expended for
such purpose.
5. A sum as may be necessary to pay the salaries of county officers
within the counties of New York, Kings, Bronx, Queens and Richmond, and
likewise all other expenses within such counties and each of them which
are county as distinguished from city charges and expenses.
6. A sum sufficient, as determined by the council and the board of
estimate, to maintain the rates of fare of the New York city transit
authority existing on January first, nineteen hundred sixty-six.
Section 5-510
§ 5-510 Payment of certain moneys from general fund. For the purpose
of adjusting the reductions heretofore or hereafter made in the amount
of taxes receivable by reason of the operation of the provisions of the
tax law providing for the deduction from special franchise taxes of
payments made in the nature of a tax, it shall be lawful for the
comptroller and commissioner of finance to transfer at any time from the
moneys in the general fund to the credit of the appropriate account or
accounts, a sum or sums equivalent to but not exceeding such deductions.