N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 2, § 60.4
(a) The application, if made by a chief fiscal officer of a municipality, shall state whether the application is made by him in his discretion or whether he has been directed by the finance board to make the application. The application shall contain a brief description of the public improvement or part of a public improvement or service, a reference to the law pursuant to which the public improvement or part of a public improvement is owned or the service is rendered and a statement of the actual date, or if that is not known, the approximate date, when the public improvement or part of a public improvement was placed in operation or the service was first rendered. In the case of a district corporation or an improvement district of a county or town, the application shall state the date on which such corporation or improvement district was created or established, the date of any extension thereof, a reference to the statutes pursuant to which it was created, established or extended and a reference to the statutes pursuant to which it operates. It shall state the dates of the commencement and termination of the fiscal year in which the application is filed and the same information for the preceding fiscal year. If such public improvement or a part of a public improvement shall have been in operation or such service shall have been rendered for at least one complete fiscal year of such municipality, district corporation, or improvement district, the application also shall contain the following information with respect to such public improvement, or part of a public improvement or service for the preceding fiscal year: