Section 5-502. Submission of estimates  


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  • l. On or before the eighth day of
      February in each year, or such other date as may be applicable  pursuant
      to  section 5-510 of this article, the budget officer shall give written
      notification to the head of  each  administrative  unit  that  he  shall
      submit  estimates,  schedules,  and  statements as hereinafter provided.
      Such notice shall specify the form in which such  information  shall  be
      submitted.
        2.  On  or  before  the first day of March in each year, or such other
      date as may be applicable pursuant to section 5-510 of this  article  or
      section  17-1729  of  article  seventeen, and except as may be otherwise
      provided  in  subdivision  four  of  this  section,  the  head  of  each
      administrative  unit  shall  submit to the budget officer an estimate of
      revenues and expenditures of such administrative unit  for  the  ensuing
      fiscal  year. Such estimate shall show the sources of all revenue, shall
      itemize the character and object of each expenditure and  shall  contain
      such additional information as the budget officer shall prescribe.
        3.  If  the  head  of  an  administrative unit shall fail to submit an
      estimate as herein provided, the budget officer shall forthwith  prepare
      an estimate for such administrative unit.
        4.  An  estimate  shall  not  be  submitted  as  above  provided for a
      municipal electric, gas or steam utility service, but the head  of  such
      utility service shall submit in lieu thereof a statement showing:
        a. The amount required for payment of installments of principal of and
      interest  on  indebtedness  incurred  for the purposes of the service to
      become due and payable during the next fiscal year; and
        b. The estimated operating  and  non-operating  income  and  estimated
      expenditures for the next fiscal year, classified in accordance with the
      requirements  of  the public service commission, but in such detail only
      as the board of trustees shall require; and
        c. A proposed schedule of salaries and wages to be paid  for  personal
      services.
        5.  The board of trustees of a village which owns and operates a water
      utility and which maintains an alternate system of accounts approved  by
      the  state comptroller as defined in subdivision six of section 5-500 of
      this article may require that a statement shall be submitted in lieu  of
      an  estimate  as  in  the  case  of  a municipal electric, gas, or steam
      utility service.