54.60 - Cost of sales; city of Utica.

§  54.60 Cost of sales; city of Utica.  To facilitate the marketing of  any issue of serial bonds of the city of Utica issued on or before March  thirty-first,   nineteen   hundred   eighty-eight,   such   city    may,  notwithstanding  any  limitations  on private sales of bonds provided by  law, and subject to approval by the state comptroller of the  terms  and  conditions of such sale:    a.  arrange  for the underwriting of its bonds at private sale through  negotiated agreement, compensation for such underwriting to be  provided  by  negotiated fee or by sale of such bonds to an underwriter at a price  of par value or at a discount not to exceed two percent, and the accrued  interest on such obligations; or    b. arrange for the  private  sale  of  its  bonds  through  negotiated  agreement, compensation for such sales to be provided by negotiated fee,  if required. The cost of such underwriting or private placement shall be  deemed a preliminary cost for purposes of section 11.00 of this chapter.