Section 2435-A. Special program agreements  


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  • (1) In order to fulfill the
      purposes of this title and to provide  a  means  by  which  the  special
      program municipalities may (a) receive moneys to refund certain property
      taxes  determined  to be in excess of state constitutional tax limits or
      to reimburse the special program municipalities for the prior  refunding
      of  such  taxes  or  (b)  receive  moneys  to  be applied to the cost of
      settling litigation involving  the  city  school  districts  of  special
      program  municipalities and the teachers' unions in such special program
      municipalities, or (c)  receive  moneys  for  the  financing  of  public
      improvements   to   be  applied  to  the  cost  of  the  reconstruction,
      rehabilitation or renovation of an educational facility pursuant to  the
      provisions  of subdivision (b) of section sixteen of chapter six hundred
      five of the laws  of  two  thousand,  or  (d)  receive  moneys  for  the
      financing  of public improvements to be applied to the cost of a project
      for design,  reconstruction  or  rehabilitation  of  a  school  building
      pursuant  to  the provisions of section fourteen of the city of Syracuse
      and the board of education of the city school district of  the  city  of
      Syracuse  cooperative school reconstruction act, and notwithstanding any
      general or special law to the contrary,  the  agency  and  each  special
      program  municipality  are  hereby  authorized to enter into one or more
      special program agreements,  which  special  program  agreements  shall,
      consistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  title,  contain such terms,
      provisions and conditions as, in the judgment of the  agency,  shall  be
      necessary or desirable. Each special program agreement shall specify the
      amount   to   be  made  available  to  the  respective  special  program
      municipality from the proceeds of an issue of special program bonds  and
      shall   require   such   special   program   municipality,   subject  to
      appropriation by  the  appropriate  legislative  body  of  such  special
      program  municipality, to make payments to the agency in the amounts and
      at the times determined by the agency to be  necessary  to  provide  for
      payment  of  such  issue  of  special program bonds and such other fees,
      charges, costs and other amounts as the agency  shall  in  its  judgment
      determine to be necessary or desirable.
        (2) Any special program agreement entered into pursuant to subdivision
      one  of  this  section  shall provide that the obligation of the special
      program municipality executing such special program agreement to fund or
      pay the amounts therein provided for shall not constitute a debt of such
      special program municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or
      statutory provision and shall be deemed executory only to the extent  of
      moneys available and that no liability shall be incurred by such special
      program  municipality  beyond  the moneys available for the purpose, and
      that  such  obligation  is  subject  to  annual  appropriation  by   the
      appropriate legislative body of such special program municipality.