Bill Text: NY S06055 | 2021-2022 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S06055 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06055-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6055

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 1, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        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 18 and 19 of section 858 of the general munic-
     2  ipal law, subdivision 18 as added and subdivision 19 as amended by chap-
     3  ter 109 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (18) To provide grants to small businesses and  not-for-profit  corpo-
     5  rations, as defined in section eight hundred fifty-nine-c of this title,
     6  for the purpose of acquiring personal protective equipment or installing
     7  fixtures necessary to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus, COVID-19,
     8  during  the period in which executive order two hundred two of two thou-
     9  sand twenty, as amended, is in effect. In order to  be  eligible  for  a
    10  grant  pursuant  to this subdivision, a small business or not-for-profit
    11  corporation must meet the requirements of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision
    12  three of section eight hundred fifty-nine-c of this title. No industrial
    13  development agency may provide a small business or not-for-profit corpo-
    14  ration with more than ten thousand dollars pursuant to this subdivision;
    15  [and]
    16    (19)  To  make grants to the municipality for whose benefit the agency
    17  was established for the purpose of  open  space  preservation,  parkland
    18  improvements  and conservation easements provided the governing board of
    19  such municipality shall accept the same and find that the  same  encour-
    20  ages  tourism  or otherwise improves the quality of life in such munici-
    21  pality; and
    22    (20) To do all  things  necessary  or  convenient  to  carry  out  its
    23  purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10676-02-1
        S. 6055                             2

     1    §  2.  Subdivisions  16 and 17 of section 858 of the general municipal
     2  law, as added by chapter 1030 of the laws of 1969 and as  renumbered  by
     3  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    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
    14  amendments  to  subdivisions  18  and  19  of section 858 of the general
    15  municipal law made by section one of this act shall be  subject  to  the
    16  expiration  and  reversion of such subdivisions pursuant to section 3 of
    17  chapter 109 of the laws of 2020, as amended, when  upon  such  date  the
    18  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.