Assembly Bill A10690

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes communities statewide to establish community preservation funds and authorizes the provision of grants of such funds to historic preservation societies

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A10690 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-s, Gen Muni L

2023-A10690 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes communities statewide to establish community preservation funds; authorizes the provision of grants of such funds to historic preservation societies.

2023-A10690 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10690
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 28, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Burdick) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
   communities statewide to establish community preservation funds and to
   authorizing  the provision of grants of such funds to historic preser-
   vation societies

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1, 3, 4 and 6 of section 6-s of the general
 municipal law, as added by chapter 596 of the laws of 2007 and paragraph
 (d) of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 608 of the laws of 2019,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  As  used in this section, the following words and terms shall have
 the following meanings:
   (a) "Community  preservation"  shall  mean  and  include  any  of  the
 purposes outlined in subdivision four of this section.
   (b)  "Board" means the advisory board required pursuant to subdivision
 five of this section.
   (c) "Fund" means the community preservation fund created  pursuant  to
 subdivision two of this section.
   (d)  "Designated  community" means any town or city within the [Hudson
 Valley counties of Putnam, Ulster, or Westchester] STATE.
   (e) "Tax" means the real estate transfer tax payable on a real proper-
 ty conveyance pursuant to section fifteen hundred sixty-one of  the  tax
 law, but shall have a different meaning if the context clearly indicates
 such  as  the real estate transfer tax imposed pursuant to article thir-
 ty-one of the tax law.
   (F) "HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY" MEANS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TAX  EXEMPT
 CORPORATION  OPERATED FOR CONSERVATION, ENVIRONMENTAL, OR HISTORIC PRES-
 ERVATION PURPOSES.
   3. The purposes of the fund shall be exclusively, (a) to  implement  a
 plan  for  the  preservation  of community character as required by this
 section, (b) to acquire interests or rights in  real  property  for  the
 preservation  of  community  character  within  the designated community
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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