Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to take a parcel of land by the eminent domain procedure for the Rogers Avenue community garden.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 6093 A. 8583
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
December 2, 2015
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT requiring the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic
preservation to take a parcel of land through the eminent domain
procedure for the Rogers Avenue community garden
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The legislature hereby finds that it is necessary for a
2 public purpose to procure certain property within the city of New York.
3 To that extent, the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic pres-
4 ervation is hereby directed to take, through the use of the eminent
5 domain procedure as established under the eminent domain procedure law,
6 the parcel in the borough of Brooklyn known as 115 Rogers Avenue, Brook-
7 lyn, Block 1233 Lot 1, for a state park and community garden to be
8 managed by neighborhood volunteers through the New York City parks
9 department green thumb program.
10 § 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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