Bill Text: NY A08374 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes regional planning council's eligibility to apply for federal and/or state grants.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-5)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A08374 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08374-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8374 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY December 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing regional planning council's eligibility to apply for federal and/or state grants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 239-h of the 2 general municipal law, as added by chapter 451 of the laws of 1997, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Creation. Any municipal legislative body may collaborate with the 5 legislative body of a contiguous municipal legislative body to create a 6 regional planning council under this article. The legislative bodies of 7 the municipalities participating in the regional planning council shall 8 adopt by resolution an agreement setting forth the terms and conditions 9 of such collaboration. The regional planning council shall be considered 10 an agency of a political subdivision or municipality for purposes of 11 sections one hundred three, one hundred four and article eighteen of 12 this chapter [and], articles six and seven of the public officers law, 13 and for the purposes of eligibility for federal and/or state grants. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13715-01-3