Senate Bill S6638

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting certain non-profit community gardens from payment for water usage and supply

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2019-S6638 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Cities
Law Section:
New York City
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 696 of 1887
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S3590
2023-2024: S1082

2019-S6638 - Summary

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.

2019-S6638 - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6638 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6638
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               July 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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
              

2019-S6638A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Cities
Law Section:
New York City
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 696 of 1887
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S3590
2023-2024: S1082

2019-S6638A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-S6638A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6638A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6638--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               July 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Rules  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 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 IN 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 capi-
 tal stock and organized exclusively for the purpose of furnishing volun-
 teer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war and to contin-
 ue 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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