S 17: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 17 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, ASHBY, JACKSON, WEBB -- 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 16 and 17 of section 858 of the general munic- 2 ipal law, as added by chapter 1030 of the laws of 1969 and as renumbered 3 by chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as follows: 4 (16) To establish and re-establish its fiscal year; [and] 5 (17) To make grants to the municipality for whose benefit the agency 6 was established for the purpose of open space preservation, parkland 7 improvements and conservation easements provided the governing board of 8 such municipality shall accept the same and find that the same encour- 9 ages tourism or otherwise improves the quality of life in such munici- 10 pality; and 11 (18) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its 12 purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title. 13 § 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