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A01909 Summary:

BILL NOA01909
 
SAME ASSAME AS S01082
 
SPONSORZinerman
 
COSPNSRSimon, Aubry, Raga, Walker, Carroll, Glick
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §1, Chap 696 of 1887
 
Relates to exempting certain non-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 registered with and licensed by such city's department of parks and recreation from payment for water usage and supply.
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A01909 Actions:

BILL NOA01909
 
01/23/2023referred to cities
04/25/2023reported referred to ways and means
05/23/2023reported referred to rules
05/24/2023reported
05/24/2023rules report cal.210
05/24/2023ordered to third reading rules cal.210
05/24/2023passed assembly
05/24/2023delivered to senate
05/24/2023REFERRED TO FINANCE
06/09/2023SUBSTITUTED FOR S1082
06/09/20233RD READING CAL.1797
06/09/2023PASSED SENATE
06/09/2023RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
11/13/2023delivered to governor
11/17/2023signed chap.634
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A01909 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A1909
 
SPONSOR: Zinerman
  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 non-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply   PURPOSE: : Exempts community gardens in the city of New York from payment for water usage and supply   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1-exempts non-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply. It also defines what a non-profit community gardens is in the city on New York.   JUSTIFICATION:. While many nonprofit property owners and organizations may have an exemption for real property taxes, they may not have a water usage and supply exemption. Only about half of the properties in the City which are real property tax exempt also are eligible for water usage and supply exemptions. Community gardens are a huge resource to community development and upkeep. Taking away the burden of having to pay for water usage and supply will ensure that these community gardens will be able to flourish and continue to be a major asset to the communities they are in.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY : 2020A 9015 WRIGHT/S. 6638A MONTGOMERY   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.   LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.
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A01909 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1909
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. ZINERMAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee 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  non-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:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 696 of the laws of 1887 relating to
     2  providing hospitals, orphan asylums and other charitable institutions in
     3  the city of New York with water and remitting assessments  therefor,  as
     4  amended  by  chapter  950  of  the  laws  of 1983, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    [§] Section 1. Except as otherwise provided in section three  of  this
     7  act,  the  several  hospitals,  dispensaries, orphan asylums, registered
     8  volunteer ambulance corps, homes  for  the  aged,  non-profit  community
     9  gardens  located on property in the city of New York and registered with
    10  and licensed by such city's department of parks and  recreation,  houses
    11  or  homes  for  the  reformation,  protection or shelter of females, day
    12  nurseries or corporations or societies for the care and  instruction  of
    13  poor  babies and needy children, any corporation which was created by an
    14  act of congress of the United States to be non-profit and without  capi-
    15  tal stock and organized exclusively for the purpose of furnishing volun-
    16  teer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war and to contin-
    17  ue  and  carry  on  a system of national international relief in time of
    18  peace and to mitigate the suffering caused by  fire,  floods  and  other
    19  great  national  calamities, and industrial homes, and any benevolent or
    20  charitable corporation owning or maintaining an institution for  medical
    21  research,  public  baths,  for free school societies or free circulating
    22  libraries or veteran firemen's associations, and any social  settlement,
    23  whether  incorporated  or unincorporated, which shall own or lease for a
    24  term not less than three years a building or  buildings  devoted  exclu-
    25  sively  to  the purposes of such social settlement work or any religious
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01200-01-3

        A. 1909                             2
 
     1  society owning or leasing for a period of not less than  three  years  a
     2  building  devoted exclusively to social settlement work, now existing or
     3  hereafter established in the city of New York, or the real estate  owned
     4  by  any  religious  corporation  located  in the city of New York as now
     5  constituted, actually dedicated and used by such corporation exclusively
     6  as a place of public worship, or the real estate  used  exclusively  for
     7  education  through and including the twelfth grade which is owned by any
     8  corporation or association entitled to exemption under the provisions of
     9  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section four hundred twenty-a of the
    10  real property tax law, or the real estate owned  by  an  association  of
    11  honorably  discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines, devoted exclusively
    12  to patriotic and charitable  purposes,  are  hereby  exempted  from  the
    13  payment  of any sum of money whatever to said city, for the use of water
    14  taken by same from said city, and water shall be supplied to the same by
    15  said city, in sufficient quantity for all purposes for which it  is  now
    16  used  by  said corporations, societies and institutions, or which may be
    17  necessary to be used by the same, free of all charge whatsoever, and the
    18  real estate necessarily used for any hospital,  dispensary,  institution
    19  for  medical  research,  orphan  asylum,  registered volunteer ambulance
    20  corps, home for the aged,  free  school  or  free  circulating  library,
    21  veteran firemen's association, house or home for reformation, protection
    22  or  shelter  of  females, day nurseries or corporations or societies for
    23  the care and instruction of poor  babies  and  needy  children,  or  any
    24  corporation  which  was  created by an act of the congress of the United
    25  States to be non-profit and without capital stock and  organized  exclu-
    26  sively  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  volunteer aid to the sick and
    27  wounded of armies in time of war and to continue and carry on  a  system
    28  of  national  and  international relief in time of peace and to mitigate
    29  the suffering caused by fire, floods and other  great  national  calami-
    30  ties, or industrial homes, or social settlements maintained or conducted
    31  by any incorporated or unincorporated social settlement, church or reli-
    32  gious  society,  or occupied for such public bath, owned or leased for a
    33  term of not less than three years, or held under any renewal  or  exten-
    34  sion  of  such lease by any such corporation, societies and institutions
    35  aforesaid, or the real estate owned by any religious corporation located
    36  in the city of New York, as now constituted, actually dedicated and used
    37  by such corporation exclusively as a place of  public  worship,  or  the
    38  real  estate  used  exclusively  for education through and including the
    39  twelfth grade which is owned by any corporation or association  entitled
    40  to exemption under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of
    41  section  four hundred twenty-a of the real property tax law, or the real
    42  estate used exclusively by non-profit community gardens located on prop-
    43  erty in the city of New York and registered with and  licensed  by  such
    44  city's   department   of  parks  and  recreation,  is  hereby  released,
    45  discharged and exempted from all lien and charge  for  water  heretofore
    46  used  or which may hereafter be used by any such institution, society or
    47  corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the mayor of  the
    48  city of New York, by executive order, may provide that such institution,
    49  society  or corporation shall not be exempt from payment for the use and
    50  supply of water, except that such executive order shall apply only  with
    51  respect  to those institutions, societies or corporations who are eligi-
    52  ble to receive reimbursement from either the United States, the state of
    53  New York, or the city of New York, or any agency thereof,  for  payments
    54  for the use and supply of water.
    55    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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