STATE OF NEW YORK
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8374
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
regional planning council's eligibility to apply for federal and/or
state grants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 239-h of the
2 general municipal law, as added by chapter 451 of the laws of 1997, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Creation. Any municipal legislative body may collaborate with the
5 legislative body of a contiguous municipal legislative body to create a
6 regional planning council under this article. The legislative bodies of
7 the municipalities participating in the regional planning council shall
8 adopt by resolution an agreement setting forth the terms and conditions
9 of such collaboration. The regional planning council shall be considered
10 an agency of a political subdivision or municipality for purposes of
11 sections one hundred three, one hundred four and article eighteen of
12 this chapter [and], articles six and seven of the public officers law,
13 and for the purposes of eligibility for federal and/or state grants.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13715-01-3
