Senate Bill S6055

                            
 
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                                   6055
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 1, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  municipal  law,  in  relation  to  allowing
   industrial  development  agencies to make grants to municipalities for
   open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation  ease-
   ments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 18 and 19 of section 858 of the general munic-
 ipal law, subdivision 18 as added and subdivision 19 as amended by chap-
 ter 109 of the laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
   (18) To provide grants to small businesses and  not-for-profit  corpo-
 rations, as defined in section eight hundred fifty-nine-c of this title,
 for the purpose of acquiring personal protective equipment or installing
 fixtures necessary to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus, COVID-19,
 during  the period in which executive order two hundred two of two thou-
 sand twenty, as amended, is in effect. In order to  be  eligible  for  a
 grant  pursuant  to this subdivision, a small business or not-for-profit
 corporation must meet the requirements of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision
 three of section eight hundred fifty-nine-c of this title. No industrial
 development agency may provide a small business or not-for-profit corpo-
 ration with more than ten thousand dollars pursuant to this subdivision;
 [and]
   (19)  TO  MAKE GRANTS TO THE MUNICIPALITY FOR WHOSE BENEFIT THE AGENCY
 WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF  OPEN  SPACE  PRESERVATION,  PARKLAND
 IMPROVEMENTS  AND CONSERVATION EASEMENTS PROVIDED THE GOVERNING BOARD OF
 SUCH MUNICIPALITY SHALL ACCEPT THE SAME AND FIND THAT THE  SAME  ENCOUR-
 AGES  TOURISM  OR OTHERWISE IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN SUCH MUNICI-
 PALITY; AND
   (20) To do all  things  necessary  or  convenient  to  carry  out  its
 purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD10676-02-1

 S. 6055                             2
 
   §  2.  Subdivisions  16 and 17 of section 858 of the general municipal
 law, as added by chapter 1030 of the laws of 1969 and as  renumbered  by
 chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as follows:
   (16) To establish and re-establish its fiscal year; [and]
   (17)  TO  MAKE GRANTS TO THE MUNICIPALITY FOR WHOSE BENEFIT THE AGENCY
 WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF  OPEN  SPACE  PRESERVATION,  PARKLAND
 IMPROVEMENTS  AND CONSERVATION EASEMENTS PROVIDED THE GOVERNING BOARD OF
 SUCH MUNICIPALITY SHALL ACCEPT THE SAME AND FIND THAT THE  SAME  ENCOUR-
 AGES  TOURISM  OR OTHERWISE IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN SUCH MUNICI-
 PALITY; AND
   (18) To do all  things  necessary  or  convenient  to  carry  out  its
 purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
 amendments  to  subdivisions  18  and  19  of section 858 of the general
 municipal law made by section one of this act shall be  subject  to  the
 expiration  and  reversion of such subdivisions pursuant to section 3 of
 chapter 109 of the laws of 2020, as amended, when  upon  such  date  the
 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.