Bill Text: NY S04544 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4544

Introduced

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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-28 - referred to local governments [S04544 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04544-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4544

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        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 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.
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