Authorizes the town of North Hempstead to create a townwide environmental improvement district to identify and fund the costs associated with landfill maintenance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5895
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 18, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. C. JOHNSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
the town of North Hempstead to create a townwide environmental
improvement district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2049-e of the public authorities law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special
4 or local, the town by resolution of the town board after at least thirty
5 days public notice and a public hearing, is hereby authorized to estab-
6 lish a townwide environmental conservation and green project initiatives
7 improvement district, encompassing all real property within such town,
8 for the purposes of assisting the authority in fulfilling its powers as
9 described in section two thousand forty-nine-d of this title and meeting
10 obligations incurred in the treatment, management or disposal of the
11 town population's solid waste and its by-products, and to undertake
12 other environmental projects, including but not limited to, erosion
13 control, flood mitigation and remediation, shoreline protection, ground-
14 water protection and wetlands preservation. The town board shall serve
15 as the board of commissioners of such district.
16 § 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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