Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6055
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 1, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing
industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for
open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation ease-
ments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 18 and 19 of section 858 of the general munic-
2 ipal law, subdivision 18 as added and subdivision 19 as amended by chap-
3 ter 109 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
4 (18) To provide grants to small businesses and not-for-profit corpo-
5 rations, as defined in section eight hundred fifty-nine-c of this title,
6 for the purpose of acquiring personal protective equipment or installing
7 fixtures necessary to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus, COVID-19,
8 during the period in which executive order two hundred two of two thou-
9 sand twenty, as amended, is in effect. In order to be eligible for a
10 grant pursuant to this subdivision, a small business or not-for-profit
11 corporation must meet the requirements of paragraph a of subdivision
12 three of section eight hundred fifty-nine-c of this title. No industrial
13 development agency may provide a small business or not-for-profit corpo-
14 ration with more than ten thousand dollars pursuant to this subdivision;
15 [and]
16 (19) To make grants to the municipality for whose benefit the agency
17 was established for the purpose of open space preservation, parkland
18 improvements and conservation easements provided the governing board of
19 such municipality shall accept the same and find that the same encour-
20 ages tourism or otherwise improves the quality of life in such munici-
21 pality; and
22 (20) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its
23 purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Subdivisions 16 and 17 of section 858 of the general municipal
2 law, as added by chapter 1030 of the laws of 1969 and as renumbered by
3 chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as follows:
4 (16) To establish and re-establish its fiscal year; [and]
5 (17) To make grants to the municipality for whose benefit the agency
6 was established for the purpose of open space preservation, parkland
7 improvements and conservation easements provided the governing board of
8 such municipality shall accept the same and find that the same encour-
9 ages tourism or otherwise improves the quality of life in such munici-
10 pality; and
11 (18) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its
12 purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
14 amendments to subdivisions 18 and 19 of section 858 of the general
15 municipal law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the
16 expiration and reversion of such subdivisions pursuant to section 3 of
17 chapter 109 of the laws of 2020, as amended, when upon such date the
18 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
