Amd SS2 & 7, Ben Ord L; amd S77, Gen Muni L; amd S13, Gen City L; amd SS24 & 183, Mil L; amd S452, RPT L
Declares the Vietnam Veterans of America to be benevolent orders and grants such organization various benefits available to specified veterans' organizations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1950
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CASTELLI, BURLING, MONTESANO, SALADINO -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the benevolent orders law, the general municipal law,
the general city law, the military law and the real property tax law,
in relation to declaring the Vietnam Veterans of America to be a
benevolent order and granting such organization various benefits
available to specified veterans' organizations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2 of the benevolent orders law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 59 to read as follows:
3 59. The Vietnam Veterans of America, or any subordinate chapter ther-
4 eof, which is duly chartered by and instituted according to the consti-
5 tution and laws of that organization.
6 § 2. Section 7 of the benevolent orders law is amended by adding a new
7 subdivision 16-i to read as follows:
8 16-i. Any number of charters of the Vietnam Veterans of America,
9 chartered and installed according to the regulations of that organiza-
10 tion;
11 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 77 of the general municipal law, as
12 amended by chapter 1013 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as
13 follows:
14 1. A municipal corporation may lease, for not exceeding five years, to
15 a post or posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans of Foreign
16 Wars of the United States, American Legion, Catholic War Veterans, Inc.,
17 Disabled American Veterans, the Army and Navy Union, U.S.A., Marine
18 Corps League, AMVETS, American Veterans of World War II, Jewish War
19 Veterans of the United States, Inc., Italian American War Veterans of
20 the United States, Incorporated, Masonic War Veterans of the State of
21 New York, Inc., Veterans of World War I of the United States of America
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05504-02-1
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1 Department of New York, Inc., Polish-American Veterans of World War II,
2 Amsterdam, N.Y., Inc., Polish-American Veterans of World War II, Sche-
3 nectady, N.Y., Inc., Polish Legion of American Veterans, Inc., Vietnam
4 Veterans of America or other veteran organization of honorably
5 discharged members of the armed forces of the United States or to an
6 incorporated organization or an association of either active or exempt
7 volunteer firemen, a public building or part thereof, belonging to such
8 municipal corporation, except schoolhouses in actual use as such, with-
9 out expense, or at a nominal rent, fixed by the board or council having
10 charge of such buildings and provide furniture and furnishings, and
11 heat, light and janitor service therefor, in like manner.
12 § 4. Section 13 of the general city law, as separately amended by
13 chapters 14 and 982 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
14 § 13. Moneys for Memorial and Veterans days; how expended. The moneys
15 appropriated by a city for observance of Memorial and Veterans days
16 therein pursuant to section twelve of this chapter shall be expended
17 under the direction of a board composed of the mayor and the commanders
18 and quartermasters of the Grand Army posts, the American Legion, the
19 United Spanish War Veterans camps, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
20 United States, the Army and Navy Union of the United States, the Marine
21 Corps League, Inc., the Catholic War Veterans, Inc., the Italian Ameri-
22 can War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, the Jewish War
23 Veterans of the United States and commanders and treasurers of Sons of
24 Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Inc., Disabled American
25 Veterans camps, AMVETS, American Veterans of World War II, Masonic War
26 Veterans of the State of New York, Inc., Veterans of World War I of the
27 United States of America Department of New York, Inc., Polish-American
28 Veterans of World War II, Amsterdam, N. Y., Inc., Polish-American Veter-
29 ans of World War II, Schenectady, N. Y., Inc., Polish Legion of American
30 Veterans, Inc., United Veteran's Association of America, Incorporated,
31 Vietnam Veterans of America and the United Veterans Memorial and Execu-
32 tive Committee of such city. The whole amount of such money appropriated
33 or any part thereof may be spent by such board in observance of Memorial
34 and Veterans days. Bills properly verified for all claims and expendi-
35 tures arising under section twelve of this chapter or under this
36 section, shall be presented to and audited by such board and shall be
37 paid by the common council of any such city. The moneys appropriated
38 shall be raised by tax on the real and personal property liable to taxa-
39 tion in any such city in the same manner as the ordinary expenses of
40 maintaining the city government.
41 § 5. Subdivision 3 of section 24 of the military law, as amended by
42 chapter 141 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
43 3. He is authorized to request and accept from incorporated associ-
44 ations of veterans of the different regiments, statements and informa-
45 tion duly authenticated by them, descriptive of their colors, standards
46 and battle flags, together with the number and class of arms of the
47 regiment, the date and place of muster into the service of the state and
48 also into the service of the United States, the period of service, and
49 the date and place of muster-out, the date of departure for the seat of
50 war, and the various battles and engagements and places of service,
51 including garrison duty, the time of joining brigades, corps and armies,
52 with the time and nature of the service, and the names of colonels of
53 such regiments, the names of those killed in action, including those who
54 died of wounds, and the names of those who died of disease during their
55 period of service. He is further authorized to ask the cooperation and
56 assistance of the adjutant-general of the United States, and of the
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1 city, county and town authorities and officials, and of the Grand Army
2 of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the United
3 Spanish War Veterans, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
4 the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. , the Catholic War
5 Veterans, Inc. , the Italian American War Veterans of the United States,
6 Incorporated, the Polish Legion of American Veterans, Inc., Vietnam
7 Veterans of America and of other organizations and persons in the state
8 of New York and elsewhere in the collection of such other information,
9 relics, memorials and battle flags as is contemplated by this article,
10 in order to make as complete as possible the records, history and
11 statistics of the patriotic service of the soldiers of the state during
12 the wars in which the state participated.
13 § 6. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 183 of the military law,
14 as amended by chapter 141 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
15 follows:
16 b. On application of one or more posts or chapters of the United Span-
17 ish War Veterans, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
18 the United States, the Disabled American Veterans, the AMVETS, American
19 Veterans of World War II, the Jewish War Veterans of the United States,
20 Inc., the Catholic War Veterans, Inc., the Italian American War Veterans
21 of the United States, Incorporated, the Polish Legion of American Veter-
22 ans, Inc., the Army and Navy Union of the United States of America,
23 Vietnam Veterans of America, posts of the Masonic War Veterans of the
24 state of New York, Incorporated, or groups or squadrons of New York
25 Wing, Civil Air Patrol, or of incorporated associations of veterans of
26 units of the organized militia, or one or more posts or chapters of
27 organizations of sons of veterans of any war of the United States or of
28 the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, or those historic
29 military commands set forth in section two hundred forty-a of [the] this
30 chapter, approved by the officer in charge and control of the armory,
31 and by his military superiors as prescribed by regulations issued pursu-
32 ant to this chapter and under such restrictions as may be prescribed by
33 the adjutant general, the officer in charge and control of an armory
34 shall provide a proper and convenient room or rooms or other appropriate
35 space in such armory where such posts or chapters may hold regular and
36 special meetings and organizational social events of a private nature
37 without the payment of any charge or expense therefor, provided that
38 such use does not interfere with the members and units of the organized
39 militia stationed in such armory.
40 § 7. Subdivision 1 of section 452 of the real property tax law, as
41 amended by chapter 610 of the laws of 1960, is amended to read as
42 follows:
43 1. Real property owned by a corporation, association or post composed
44 of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
45 Disabled American Veterans, the United Spanish War Veterans, the Jewish
46 War Veterans of the United States, Inc., Catholic War Veterans, Inc.,
47 the American Legion, AMVETS, American Veterans of World War II, Italian
48 American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, Masonic War
49 Veterans of the State of New York, Incorporated, Vietnam Veterans of
50 America and any other corporation or association of veterans of the
51 armed forces of the United States in any war, actually and exclusively
52 used and occupied by such corporation, association or post shall be
53 exempt from taxation and exempt from special ad valorem levies and
54 special assessments to the extent provided in section four hundred nine-
55 ty of this chapter.
56 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately.
