ITEM 23
OTHER EXHIBIT (b)
DREYFUS PREMIER STATE MUNICIPAL BOND FUND
Certificate of Assistant Secretary
The undersigned, Janette E. Farragher, Assistant Secretary of Dreyfus
Premier State Municipal Bond Fund (the "Fund"), hereby certifies that set forth
below is a copy of the resolution adopted by the Fund's Board authorizing the
signing by Mark N. Jacobs, Steven F. Newman, Michael A. Rosenberg, John B.
Hammalian, Jeff Prusnofsky, Robert R. Mullery, and Janette E. Farragher on
behalf of the proper officers of the Fund pursuant to a power of attorney:
RESOLVED, that the Registration Statement and any and all
amendments and supplements thereto, may be signed by any one of
Mark N. Jacobs, Steven F. Newman, Michael A. Rosenberg, John B.
Hammalian, Jeff Prusnofsky, Robert R. Mullery, and Janette E.
Farragher as the attorney-in-fact for the proper officers of the
Fund, with full power of substitution and resubstitution; and that
the appointment of each of such persons as such attorney-in-fact,
hereby is authorized and approved; and that such attorneys-in-fact;
and each of them, shall have full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done in connection with such Registration Statement and any and all
amendments and supplements thereto, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the officer, for whom he or she is acting as
attorney-in-fact, might or could do in person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of
the Fund on August 25, 2000.
/s/ Janette E. Farragher
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Janette E. Farragher,
Assistant Secretary
(SEAL)
