To facilitate the marketing of any issue of bonds of the city of Niagara Falls, Niagara county, issued on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, 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:
The cost of any such underwriting or private placement shall be deemed a preliminary cost for purposes of section 11.00 of this article.
N.Y. Local Fin. Law § 54.70