2006 New York Code - Alteration Of Rates Prohibited.

 
    §  5-207  Alteration of rates prohibited. It shall be unlawful for the
  city to make, or cause to be made, any alteration of  rates  or  charges
  affecting  any  item  or  source  of the revenues of the several sinking
  funds established prior to July first, nineteen hundred eighty-one or of
  the general fund which may tend to a diminution  of  the  receipts  from
  such  sources  of  revenue,  or  either of them, except that it shall be
  lawful for the city to exempt places of public worship from the  payment
  of any fee for the construction of vaults under the sidewalk or in front
  thereof.