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                                   9919
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 26, 2024
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 Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Cities
 
 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
              

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 city  of New York, or the real estate owned by any religious corporation
 located in the city of New York as now constituted,  actually  dedicated
 and  used  by such corporation exclusively as a place of public worship,
 or  the real estate used exclusively for education through and including
 the twelfth grade which is owned by any corporation or association enti-
 tled to exemption under the provisions of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision
 one  of  section  four hundred twenty-a of the real property tax law, or
 the  real  estate  owned  by  an  association  of  honorably  discharged
 soldiers,  sailors,  or  marines,  devoted  exclusively to patriotic and
 charitable purposes, are hereby exempted from the payment of any sum  of
 money  whatever  to  said  city, for the use of water taken by same from
 said city, and water shall be supplied to the  same  by  said  city,  in
 sufficient  quantity  for  all purposes for which it is now used by said
 corporations, societies and institutions, or which may be  necessary  to
 be  used by the same, free of all charge whatsoever, and the real estate
 necessarily used for any hospital, dispensary, institution  for  medical
 research,  orphan asylum, registered volunteer ambulance corps, home for
 the aged, free school or free  circulating  library,  veteran  firemen's
 association,  house  or  home  for reformation, protection or shelter of
 females, day nurseries or corporations or societies  for  the  care  and
 instruction  of poor babies and needy children, or any corporation which
 was created by an act of the congress of the United States  to  be  non-
 profit  and  without  capital  stock  and  organized exclusively 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 and inter-
 national relief in time of peace and to mitigate the suffering caused by
 fire, floods and other great national calamities, or  industrial  homes,
 or  social  settlements  maintained  or conducted by any incorporated or
 unincorporated social settlement, church or religious society, or  occu-
 pied  for  such public bath, owned or leased for a term of not less than
 three years, or held under any renewal or extension of such lease by any
 such corporation, societies and  institutions  aforesaid,  or  the  real
 estate  owned  by  any  religious corporation located in the city of New
 York, as now constituted, actually dedicated and  used  by  such  corpo-
 ration exclusively as a place of public worship, or the real estate used
 exclusively  for education through and including the twelfth grade which
 is owned by any corporation or association entitled to  exemption  under
 the  provisions  of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision one of section four
 hundred twenty-a of the real property tax law, or the real  estate  used
 exclusively  by  [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, is hereby released, discharged and exempted  from  all  lien
 and  charge  for water heretofore used or which may hereafter be used by
 any such institution, society or corporation. Notwithstanding the  fore-
 going provisions, the mayor of the city of New York, by executive order,
 may  provide  that such institution, society or corporation shall not be
 exempt from payment for the use and supply of water,  except  that  such
 executive  order  shall  apply  only with respect to those institutions,
 societies or corporations who are eligible to receive reimbursement from
 either the United States, the state of New York,  or  the  city  of  New
 York,  or  any  agency  thereof,  for payments for the use and supply of
 water.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.