Senate Bill S3783

                            
 
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                                   3783
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
 
 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 housing development fund corporations
   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. A. Except as otherwise provided  in  section  three  of
 this  act,  the  several hospitals, dispensaries, orphan asylums, regis-
 tered volunteer ambulance corps, homes for the aged, NON-PROFIT  HOUSING
 DEVELOPMENT  FUND  CORPORATIONS  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  B OF THIS
 SECTION, 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 insti-
 tution 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 own  or  lease for a term not less than three years a building or build-
 ings 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 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  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  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 international 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 main-
 tained or conducted by any incorporated or unincorporated social settle-
 ment, church or religious 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 extension of such lease by any such  corporation,  socie-
 ties  and  institutions aforesaid, or the real estate owned by any reli-
 gious 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 corpo-
 ration 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
 HOUSING  DEVELOPMENT  FUND  CORPORATIONS  AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION B OF
 THIS SECTION, 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.

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   B. AS USED IN SUBDIVISION A OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM  "NON-PROFIT
 HOUSING  DEVELOPMENT  FUND  CORPORATIONS"  SHALL MEAN IN A CITY HAVING A
 POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, A CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP, OR LIMIT-
 ED LIABILITY COMPANY FORMED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING HOUSING  ACCOM-
 MODATIONS  FOR PERSONS WITH FAMILIES OF LOW INCOME AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 TWO OF THE PRIVATE HOUSING FINANCE LAW AND USED  FOR  SUCH  PURPOSE  AND
 ORGANIZED  AS A NON-PROFIT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION PURSUANT
 TO ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE PRIVATE HOUSING FINANCE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.