Bill Text: NY A09015 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to exempting certain non-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply; exempts non-profit community gardens located on property in the city of New York and registered with and licensed by such city's department of parks and recreation from payment for water usage and supply.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-10 - referred to cities [A09015 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09015-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9015

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities

        AN  ACT  to  amend chapter 696 of the laws of 1887 relating to providing
          hospitals, orphan asylums and other  charitable  institutions  in  the
          city  of  New  York  with water and remitting assessments therefor, in
          relation  to  exempting  certain  non-profit  community  gardens  from
          payment for water usage and supply

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 696 of the laws of  1887  relating  to
     2  providing hospitals, orphan asylums and other charitable institutions in
     3  the  city  of New York with water and remitting assessments therefor, as
     4  amended by chapter 950 of the laws  of  1983,  is  amended  to  read  as
     5  follows:
     6    [§]  Section  1. Except as otherwise provided in section three of this
     7  act, the several hospitals,  dispensaries,  orphan  asylums,  registered
     8  volunteer  ambulance  corps,  homes  for  the aged, non-profit community
     9  gardens located on property in the city of New York and registered  with
    10  and  licensed  by such city's department of parks and recreation, houses
    11  or homes for the reformation, protection  or  shelter  of  females,  day
    12  nurseries  or  corporations or societies for the care and instruction of
    13  poor babies and needy children, any corporation which was created by  an
    14  act  of congress of the United States to be non-profit and without capi-
    15  tal stock and organized exclusively for the purpose of furnishing volun-
    16  teer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war and to contin-
    17  ue and carry on a system of national international  relief  in  time  of
    18  peace  and  to  mitigate  the suffering caused by fire, floods and other
    19  great national calamities, and industrial homes, and any  benevolent  or
    20  charitable  corporation owning or maintaining an institution for medical
    21  research, public baths, for free school societies  or  free  circulating
    22  libraries  or veteran firemen's associations, and any social settlement,
    23  whether incorporated or unincorporated, which shall own or lease  for  a
    24  term  not  less  than three years a building or buildings devoted exclu-
    25  sively to the purposes of such social settlement work or  any  religious

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13499-03-9
        A. 9015                             2

     1  society  owning  or  leasing for a period of not less than three years a
     2  building devoted exclusively to social settlement work, now existing  or
     3  hereafter  established in the city of New York, or the real estate owned
     4  by  any  religious  corporation  located  in the city of New York as now
     5  constituted, actually dedicated and used by such corporation exclusively
     6  as a place of public worship, or the real estate  used  exclusively  for
     7  education  through and including the twelfth grade which is owned by any
     8  corporation or association entitled to exemption under the provisions of
     9  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section four hundred twenty-a of the
    10  real property tax law, or the real estate owned  by  an  association  of
    11  honorably  discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines, devoted exclusively
    12  to patriotic and charitable  purposes,  are  hereby  exempted  from  the
    13  payment  of any sum of money whatever to said city, for the use of water
    14  taken by same from said city, and water shall be supplied to the same by
    15  said city, in sufficient quantity for all purposes for which it  is  now
    16  used  by  said corporations, societies and institutions, or which may be
    17  necessary to be used by the same, free of all charge whatsoever, and the
    18  real estate necessarily used for any hospital,  dispensary,  institution
    19  for  medical  research,  orphan  asylum,  registered volunteer ambulance
    20  corps, home for the aged,  free  school  or  free  circulating  library,
    21  veteran firemen's association, house or home for reformation, protection
    22  or  shelter  of  females, day nurseries or corporations or societies for
    23  the care and instruction of poor  babies  and  needy  children,  or  any
    24  corporation  which  was  created by an act of the congress of the United
    25  States to be non-profit and without capital stock and  organized  exclu-
    26  sively  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  volunteer aid to the sick and
    27  wounded of armies in time of war and to continue and carry on  a  system
    28  of  national  and  international relief in time of peace and to mitigate
    29  the suffering caused by fire, floods and other  great  national  calami-
    30  ties, or industrial homes, or social settlements maintained or conducted
    31  by any incorporated or unincorporated social settlement, church or reli-
    32  gious  society,  or occupied for such public bath, owned or leased for a
    33  term of not less than three years, or held under any renewal  or  exten-
    34  sion  of  such lease by any such corporation, societies and institutions
    35  aforesaid, or the real estate owned by any religious corporation located
    36  in the city of New York, as now constituted, actually dedicated and used
    37  by such corporation exclusively as a place of  public  worship,  or  the
    38  real  estate  used  exclusively  for education through and including the
    39  twelfth grade which is owned by any corporation or association  entitled
    40  to exemption under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of
    41  section  four hundred twenty-a of the real property tax law, or the real
    42  estate used exclusively by non-profit community gardens located on prop-
    43  erty in the city of New York and registered with and  licensed  by  such
    44  city's   department   of  parks  and  recreation,  is  hereby  released,
    45  discharged and exempted from all lien and charge  for  water  heretofore
    46  used  or which may hereafter be used by any such institution, society or
    47  corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the mayor of  the
    48  city of New York, by executive order, may provide that such institution,
    49  society  or corporation shall not be exempt from payment for the use and
    50  supply of water, except that such executive order shall apply only  with
    51  respect  to those institutions, societies or corporations who are eligi-
    52  ble to receive reimbursement from either the United States, the state of
    53  New York, or the city of New York, or any agency thereof,  for  payments
    54  for the use and supply of water.
    55    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.