S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8825
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
November 25, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- 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:
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 950 of the laws of 1983, 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
volunteer ambulance corps, homes for the aged, NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY
GARDENS LOCATED ON PROPERTY OWNED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND REGISTERED
WITH AND LICENSED BY SUCH CITY'S DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION,
houses or homes for the reformation, protection or shelter of females,
day nurseries or corporations or societies 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 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 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 firemen'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 exclu-
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.
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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 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 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 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 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 and international relief in time of peace and to mitigate
the suffering caused by fire, floods and other great national calami-
ties, or industrial homes, or social settlements maintained or conducted
by any incorporated or unincorporated social settlement, church or reli-
gious society, or occupied for such public bath, owned or leased for a
term of not less than three years, or held under any renewal or exten-
sion 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 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 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 COMMUNITY GARDENS LOCATED ON PROP-
ERTY OWNED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND REGISTERED WITH AND LICENSED BY
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 foregoing 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 eligi-
ble 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.