N.Y. STF Law § 100
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Public accounts to be kept in dollars, dimes and cents
Official statutory text
§ 100. Public accounts to be kept in dollars, dimes and cents. All\naccounts and other computations of money in the treasury and other\npublic offices, whether state or local, shall be kept and made out, in\nthe money of account of the United States, that is to say : in dollars\nor units, dimes or tenths, cents or hundredths, mills or thousandths; a\ndime being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a\ndollar, and a mill the thousandth part of a dollar.\n
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