269 - Increase of maximum amount to be expended.

§  269.  Increase  of maximum amount to be expended. At any time after  the establishment of a district pursuant to this  article,  the  maximum  amount authorized to be expended for the original improvement or for the  original  improvement, the plans for which have been amended or modified  pursuant to section two hundred fifty-three-a of this article,  in  such  district may be increased by a resolution of the board of supervisors on  its  own motion or provided a petition requesting such increase executed  and acknowledged in accordance with section two hundred  fifty-three  of  this  article is presented to the board of supervisors, and provided the  board of supervisors shall, after a public hearing called  and  held  in  the manner prescribed by section two hundred fifty-four of this article,  determine that it is in the public interest to authorize the increase of  such  maximum  amount  and  provided  that  whenever  it  is proposed or  required that the county in which such district is located shall finance  the cost thereof by the issuance of the bonds,  notes,  certificates  or  other  indebtedness  of the county therefor, or shall assume the payment  of annual installments of debt service on obligations issued to  finance  the  cost  of  facilities,  pursuant to section two hundred sixty-two of  this article, and the cost to the typical property or, if different, the  cost to the typical  one  or  two  family  home  is  above  the  average  estimated  cost to the typical properties or homes for the establishment  of similar types of districts as may be annually computed by  the  state  comptroller,  the  comptroller of the state of New York shall have made,  prior to such public hearing, an order approving the  increase  of  such  maximum  amount  as  stated  in the motion or petition. The order of the  comptroller shall be prepared in duplicate and one copy thereof filed in  the office of the department of audit and control and the other copy  in  the  office  of  the  clerk of the board of supervisors of the county in  which the district is located.    If zones of assessment have been established, such resolution  of  the  board  of  supervisors shall provide for the allocation of such increase  as between such zones of assessment,  and  the  notice  of  such  public  hearing shall state such allocation.    The  resolution  of  the  board  of  supervisors shall be subject to a  permissive referendum in the same manner and extent as provided  for  in  section two hundred fifty-six of this article.