STATE DEBT SERVICE-Continued ment to be authorized. lating one employee for each three hundred days, the provisions of any general or special statute to the contrary notwithstanding. No appropriation Employherein contained shall be available for the salary or compensation of any regular officer or employee whose employment or office is not herein specified unless his appointment or employment is expressly authorized; and except Traveling as otherwise herein expressly provided, the appropriations made in this act expenses. for traveling expenses of officers or employees are for actual and necessary expenses only, in the performance of official duties and to be paid upon proper proof thereof, as required by section twelve of the state finance law, and no other or further fixed allowance for expenses shall be granted or paid, anything in any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding. An appropriation' by this act which is applicable to the payment of traveling or hotel expenses Appropriof an officer or employee shall not be expended for traveling or hotel expenses ations outside of the state unless expressly authorized or provided by this act. Any for appropriations made by this act for salary, compensation or expenses shall be salaries. the salary, compensation or expenses for one year of the officer, employee, office, board, department, commission or bureau for whom the same is appro- be for one priated, notwithstanding existing provisions of any other statute fixing the year. annual salary, compensation or expenses of such officer or employee or the expenses of such officer, board, department, commission or bureau at a different amount, except that this provision shall not repeal or affect any other appropriation act, passed in the year 1927, appropriating money to pay, during such year or the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1927, the amount of an increase in the salary, compensation or expenses of any such officer or employee made by a law enacted in such year. and ex penses to bers of 8. A member of the board of visitors, a manager, trustee or officer of any Traveling state charitable or other institution receiving moneys under this act from the expenses state treasury for maintenance and support shall be entitled to actual and of memnecessary traveling expenses when attending meetings of the board at the boards office of the institution or in the performance of other official duties under- and taken pursuant to a resolution of the board of managers or visitors of which officers. he is a member, and with the approval of the superintendent of standards and institupurchase or department of mental hygiene. of state tions. classifi expense. 9. The comptroller may forthwith prepare and publish definitions of the Definiclassification of expense by titles employed in this act, defining the purposes tions of for which moneys appropriated under each title may be expended. The comp- cation of troller shall have the power to amend such definitions from time to time as in his judgment becomes necessary for the proper conduct of fiscal affairs of the state. The definitions, as published by the comptroller, and as amended, shall govern expenditures from these appropriations and the audit of claim and accounts by the comptroller where said classifications are used in this act. 10. Where an appropriation is made by this act for an employee in a Transfer bureau of any department, it shall not be available for the payment of an employee in any other bureau of the department except with the consent of for emthe governor, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the chairman ployee to of the assembly ways and means committee, to be filed with the comptroller. other § 11. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 56 AN ACT authorizing the creation of a state debt and making an appropriation for the acquisition of a site for a new state prison Became a law February 28, 1927, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: of appropriation bureau of same department. of state Section 1. The creation of a state debt to the amount of fifty Creation thousand dollars ($50,000) is hereby authorized to provide moneys debt aufor the acquisition of a site for a new state prison, such debt to be thorized. Temporary commission. Selection and acquisition of site. Appropriation. Not to be expended for per sonal service. contracted as a part of the aggregate annual debt authorized by section fifteen of article seven of the constitution, and in the manner provided by section fourteen-a of the state finance law. § 2. The state office site and building commission, constituted as provided by chapter five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby continued as a temporary commission to carry out the provisions of this act. Such commission, shall select and may acquire for the state a site for a new state prison, in such locality as, in the judgment of the commission, will best serve the needs of the state. The commission may purchase the real property. embraced in the site selected or may acquire it by appropriation in the manner provided in sections two to eight inclusive of chapter five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, which shall apply to the acquisition herein authorized. § 3. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is hereby appropriated from the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen of article seven of the constitution and section fourteen-a of the state finance law for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, including payment of the purchase price of such real property or of any judgments or awards of the court of claims, or agreed compensation, in case of acquisition under chapter five of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six. § 4. No part of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be expended for personal service. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Creation of state debt authorized. Manner of Limitation of cost. AN ACT authorizing the creation of a state debt and making an appropriation for the construction of buildings at the New York state reformatory at Elmira, New York Became a law February 28, 1927, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present die gdy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The creation of a state debt to the amount of eightyeight thousand dollars ($88,000), is hereby authorized to provide moneys for the construction of a new shop building at the New York state reformatory, at Elmira, such debt to be contracted as a part of the aggregate anmak debt authorized by section fifteen of article seven of the constitution and in the manner provided by section fourteen-a of the state finance law. ' § 2. The commissioner of correction is hereby authorized and empowered to execute the necessary contracts in behalf of the' people of the state of New York for the construction of a new shop building at the New York state reformatory, at Elmira, or to have, such work performed in the manner provided by section eighteen of the public buildings law, or partly in the manner provided by such section and partly by contract, at a cost not to exceed eightyeight thousand dollars ($88,000). 1 tions and § 3. Drawings and specifications for such building shall be pre- Specificapared, and any contract or contracts let and payments made, pur- contracts. suant to the provisions of the public buildings law. ation. § 4. The sum of eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000) is Approprihereby appropriated from the proceeds of the sale of bonds hereby authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen of article seven of the constitution and section fourteen-a of the state finance law for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.ini et § 5. The moneys so appropriated shall be paid out of the state Moneys, treasury on the audit of the comptroller on vouchers audited and approved in the manner provided by law. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 58 AN ACT authorizing the creation of a state debt and making an appropriation for the acquisition of real property to extend the grounds of the Wassaic state school for mental defectives! Became a law February 28, 1927, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: how paid. of state Section 1. The creation of a state debt to the amount of seven- Creation teen thousand dollars ($17,000) is hereby authorized to provide debt aumoneys for the acquisition of real property adjoining the grounds thorized. of the Wassaic state school for mental defectives, for the uses and purposes of such institution, such debt to be contracted as a part of the aggregate annual debt authorized by section fifteen of article seven of the constitution, and in the manner provided by section fourteen-a of the state finance law. commis § 2. The state office site and building commission, constituted as Temporary provided by chapter five of the laws of nineteen hundred and sion. twenty-six, is hereby continued as a temporary commission to carry out the provisions of this act. Such commission is hereby author- Purchase ized to purchase for the state such real property adjoining the property grounds of the Wassaic state school for mental defectives as in its authorized. judgment should be so acquired for the uses and purposes of such of real ation. § 3. The sum of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000) is hereby Appropri appropriated from the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of section fiftee fifteen of article seven of the constitution and section fourteen-a of the state finance law for paying the purchase price of the real property authorized by this act to be acquired. The moneys appropriated shall not be available until When the attorney-general shall have certified to the comptroller his approval of the title of such property and of the conveyance to the state. No part of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be Not to be expended for personal service. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. available. expended for personal service. L. 1924, I.. 1909, ch. 48, CHAPTER 59 AN ACT to amend chapter nineteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a debt of the state and the issuance and sale of bonds to provide for the payment of bonuses to honorably discharge soldiers, sailors and marines of the world war who were actual residents of the state at the time of their enlistment or induction into the military or naval service of the United States," in relation to the time within which application for state bonus must be made Became a law March 1, 1927, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section fourteen of chapter nineteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled "An act authorizing the creation of a debt of the state and the issuance and sale of bonds to provide for the payment of bonuses to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the world war who were actual residents of the state at the time of their enlistment or induction into the military or naval service of the United States," as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-six,' is hereby amended to read as follows: § 14. Time within which application for the state bonus must be made. The commission created hereunder shall neither receive applications from nor make any awards or payments of bonus to any applicant whose application for such bonus shall not have been filed with the commission or with the adjutant-general as its successor before the first day of May,2 nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and any right to such state bonus accruing to any applicant aforesaid by reason of the provisions of this act on and after the first day of May,2 nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, shall cease, terminate and be forever void. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 60 IAN ACT to amend the public buildings law to conform to the state departments law, in relation to the state architect 1 Became a law March 1, 1927, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section eight of chapter forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to public amended, buildings, constituting chapter forty-four of the consolidated $ 8 1 1 Previously amended by L. 1925, ch. 26. 2 Formerly" January." 1 The amendments effected by this act are so numerous and extensive that it is impracticable to indicate the changes made. laws," as amended by chapter one hundred and eleven of the laws of nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 8. General powers and duties of the division of architecture. The division of architecture in the department of public works shall continue to have the custody of all plans, specifications, apparatus, books and records in such department which pertain to architecture. Whenever plans and specifications for state buildings are executed by architects not connected with the division of architecture in the department of public works, they must be approved by the superintendent of public works through such division. The superintendent of public works, through such division, shall prepare the drawings and specifications for and supervise the construction of all new buildings erected at the expense of the state, except as otherwise provided by law; shall also prepare the drawings and specifications for all additions to existing buildings, and for the alteration or improvement thereof, except when such work is done by an institution or inmate labor or both upon special fund estimates, and shall see that the materials furnished and the work performed in constructing, altering or improving any such building are in accordance with such drawings and specifications, and that the interests of the state are fully protected. No municipality of the state shall have power to modify or changé plans or specifications for the erection, alteration or improvement of state buildings, or the construction, plumbing, heating, lighting or other mechanical branch of work necessary to complete the work in question, nor to require that any person, firm or corporation employed on any such work shall perform said work in any other or different manner than that provided by said contract and specifications, nor to obtain any other or additional authority or permit from such municipality, department or person as a condition of doing such work, nor shall any condition whatever be imposed by any such municipality in relation to the work under the supervision of such division of architecture, but such work shall be under the sole control of such division in accordance with the drawings, plans, specifications and contracts in relation thereto; and the doing of any such work for the state by any person, firm or corporation in accordance with the terms of such contract, plans or specifications shall not subject said person, firm or corporation to any liability or penalty, civil or criminal, other than as may be stated in such contract and specifications or incidental to the proper enforcement thereof. The superintendent of public works, through such division of architecture, shall prepare necessary forms of contracts, to be approved by the attorney-general, which shall be used in all work let by contract and no payment shall be made on any such contract except upon official certificate of such superintendent after audit by the comptroller. amended § 2. Sections nine, ten and eleven of such chapter, as added by # 9-11 chapter four hundred and forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, are hereby amended to read as follows: Previously amended by L. 1910, ch. 448. |