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                                   1082
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2023
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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  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
 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 IN 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.