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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Senate Bill S9053
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 14th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cities 1 Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2023-S9053 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A9919
- Current Committee:
- Senate Cities 1
- Law Section:
- New York City
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §1, Chap 696 of 1887
2023-S9053 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Exempts certain other than for-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply; exempts non-profit community gardens located on property in the city of New York and licensed by or registered with such city's department of parks and recreation from payment for water usage and supply.
2023-S9053 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S9053 SPONSOR: COMRIE TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend chapter 696 of the laws of 1887 relating to providing hospitals, orphan asylums and other charitable institutions in the city of New York with water and remitting assessments therefor, in relation to exempting certain other than for-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply PURPOSE: Expands community garden eligibility for this program by creating a more inclusive legal definition for New York City community gardens SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 expands community garden eligibility for this program by broa- dening the requirement from non-profit to "other than for profit" and amending "licensed" to "licensed by or registered with" NYC Parks.
2023-S9053 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9053 I N S E N A T E April 12, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1 AN ACT to amend chapter 696 of the laws of 1887 relating to providing hospitals, orphan asylums and other charitable institutions in the city of New York with water and remitting assessments therefor, in relation to exempting certain other than for-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 696 of the laws of 1887 relating to providing hospitals, orphan asylums and other charitable institutions in the city of New York with water and remitting assessments therefor, as amended by chapter 634 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows: Section 1. Except as otherwise provided in section three of this act, the several hospitals, dispensaries, orphan asylums, registered volun- teer ambulance corps, homes for the aged, [non-profit] OTHER THAN FOR- PROFIT community gardens located on property in the city of New York [and registered with] and licensed by OR REGISTERED WITH such city's department of parks and recreation, houses or homes for the reformation, protection or shelter of females, day nurseries or corporations or soci- eties for the care and instruction of poor babies and needy children, any corporation which was created by an act of congress of the United States to be non-profit and without capital stock and organized exclu- sively for the purpose of furnishing volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war and to continue and carry on a system of national international relief in time of peace and to mitigate the suffering caused by fire, floods and other great national calamities, and industrial homes, and any benevolent or charitable corporation owning or maintaining an institution for medical research, public baths, for free school societies or free circulating libraries or veteran fire- men's associations, and any social settlement, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which shall own or lease for a term not less than three years a building or buildings devoted exclusively to the purposes of such social settlement work or any religious society owning or leasing for a period of not less than three years a building devoted exclusively to social settlement work, now existing or hereafter established in the
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