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Assembly Bill A5668

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements

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2025-A5668 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S17
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §858, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6055
2023-2024: A6931, S4544

2025-A5668 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.

2025-A5668 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5668
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Local Governments
 
 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 16 and 17 of section 858 of the general munic-
 ipal 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00067-01-5

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