Bill Text: NY A06931 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A06931 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06931-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6931

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  municipal law, in relation to allowing
          industrial development agencies to make grants to  municipalities  for
          open  space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation ease-
          ments

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 16 and 17 of section 858 of the general munic-
     2  ipal law, as added by chapter 1030 of the laws of 1969 and as renumbered
     3  by chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (16) To establish and re-establish its fiscal year; [and]
     5    (17)  To  make grants to the municipality for whose benefit the agency
     6  was established for the purpose of  open  space  preservation,  parkland
     7  improvements  and conservation easements provided the governing board of
     8  such municipality shall accept the same and find that the  same  encour-
     9  ages  tourism  or otherwise improves the quality of life in such munici-
    10  pality; and
    11    (18) To do all  things  necessary  or  convenient  to  carry  out  its
    12  purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06848-01-3