§ 52.00 Recital of validity in obligations. Any obligation issued by a municipality, school district or district corporation may contain on its face a recital in substantially the following form:

Terms Used In N.Y. Local Finance Law 52.00

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

"It is hereby certified and recited that all conditions, acts and things required by the Constitution and statutes of the State of New York to exist, to have happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the issuance of this (Here insert type of obligation), exist, have happened and have been performed, and that the issue of (Here insert type of obligations) of which this is one, together with all other indebtedness of such (Here insert name of municipality, school district or district corporation) is within every debt and other limit prescribed by the Constitution and laws of such State."

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