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                                    209
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PIROZZOLO, REILLY, GIBBS, E. BROWN, BENDETT,
   DeSTEFANO, MAHER, K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the  Committee
   on Cities
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to designating the borough of Staten Island as  the  "borough
   of parks"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 2-202 of the  administrative  code
 of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
   5.  The  borough of Staten Island shall consist of the territory known
 as Richmond county, which shall contain all that part of  the  city  and
 state,  bounded  on the north, on the west and on the south by the state
 boundary line, and bounded on the east by the borough  of  Brooklyn  and
 county  of  Kings,  including  Staten  Island, Island of Meadows, Pralls
 Island, Hoffman Island, Swinburne Island, that part of  Shooters  Island
 within  the  state  of  New York, and all other islands or parts thereof
 situate within the aforedescribed bounds.  THE BOROUGH OF STATEN  ISLAND
 SHALL ALSO BE KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS THE "BOROUGH OF PARKS".
   § 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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