Bill Text: NY S06638 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S06638 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06638-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6638--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE July 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13499-02-9S. 6638--A 2 1 research, public baths, for free school societies or free circulating 2 libraries or veteran firemen's associations, and any social settlement, 3 whether incorporated or unincorporated, which shall own or lease for a 4 term not less than three years a building or buildings devoted exclu- 5 sively to the purposes of such social settlement work or any religious 6 society owning or leasing for a period of not less than three years a 7 building devoted exclusively to social settlement work, now existing or 8 hereafter established in the city of New York, or the real estate owned 9 by any religious corporation located in the city of New York as now 10 constituted, actually dedicated and used by such corporation exclusively 11 as a place of public worship, or the real estate used exclusively for 12 education through and including the twelfth grade which is owned by any 13 corporation or association entitled to exemption under the provisions of 14 paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section four hundred twenty-a of the 15 real property tax law, or the real estate owned by an association of 16 honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines, devoted exclusively 17 to patriotic and charitable purposes, are hereby exempted from the 18 payment of any sum of money whatever to said city, for the use of water 19 taken by same from said city, and water shall be supplied to the same by 20 said city, in sufficient quantity for all purposes for which it is now 21 used by said corporations, societies and institutions, or which may be 22 necessary to be used by the same, free of all charge whatsoever, and the 23 real estate necessarily used for any hospital, dispensary, institution 24 for medical research, orphan asylum, registered volunteer ambulance 25 corps, home for the aged, free school or free circulating library, 26 veteran firemen's association, house or home for reformation, protection 27 or shelter of females, day nurseries or corporations or societies for 28 the care and instruction of poor babies and needy children, or any 29 corporation which was created by an act of the congress of the United 30 States to be non-profit and without capital stock and organized exclu- 31 sively for the purpose of furnishing volunteer aid to the sick and 32 wounded of armies in time of war and to continue and carry on a system 33 of national and international relief in time of peace and to mitigate 34 the suffering caused by fire, floods and other great national calami- 35 ties, or industrial homes, or social settlements maintained or conducted 36 by any incorporated or unincorporated social settlement, church or reli- 37 gious society, or occupied for such public bath, owned or leased for a 38 term of not less than three years, or held under any renewal or exten- 39 sion of such lease by any such corporation, societies and institutions 40 aforesaid, or the real estate owned by any religious corporation located 41 in the city of New York, as now constituted, actually dedicated and used 42 by such corporation exclusively as a place of public worship, or the 43 real estate used exclusively for education through and including the 44 twelfth grade which is owned by any corporation or association entitled 45 to exemption under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of 46 section four hundred twenty-a of the real property tax law, or the real 47 estate used exclusively by non-profit community gardens located on prop- 48 erty in the city of New York and registered with and licensed by such 49 city's department of parks and recreation, is hereby released, 50 discharged and exempted from all lien and charge for water heretofore 51 used or which may hereafter be used by any such institution, society or 52 corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the mayor of the 53 city of New York, by executive order, may provide that such institution, 54 society or corporation shall not be exempt from payment for the use and 55 supply of water, except that such executive order shall apply only with 56 respect to those institutions, societies or corporations who are eligi-S. 6638--A 3 1 ble to receive reimbursement from either the United States, the state of 2 New York, or the city of New York, or any agency thereof, for payments 3 for the use and supply of water. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
