Raines law hotel. State statutes allowed that any business was considered a hotel if it had 10 rooms for lodging and served sandwiches with its liquor. Saloons quickly found a loophole by adding small furnished bedrooms and applying for a hotel license. Dozens of "Raines law hotels," often located directly above saloons, opened. As a contemporary source put it, "This offered a premium on the transformation of saloons into hotels with bedrooms and led to unlooked-for evils" (an increase in prostitution), as the rooms in many "Raines law hotels" were used mostly by prostitutes and unmarried couples. (In some cases these rooms
Dormitory Authority of the State of New York to borrow on behalf of the state through legislative authorization, rather than incurring general obligation debt, which requires voter approval. The Authority is governed by an eleven-member board of directors: five board members are appointed by the governor, four serve ex officio, one is named by the Speaker of the New York State Assembly, and one is named by the majority leader of the New York State Senate. In 2017, the authority had operating expenses of $2.399 billion, an outstanding debt of $47.856 billion, and a staffing level of 557 people. DASNY was established by a law signed into action