Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to cooperate with municipalities in establishing adopt-a-park programs; municipalities may enter into agreements with volunteer groups for provision of services.

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S2686-2011 Actions

• Jun 14, 2012: SUBSTITUTED BY A3409B
• Jun 11, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Jun 6, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Jun 5, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.1017
• May 2, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 2686B
• May 2, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION
• Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
• Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
• Jun 1, 2011: ordered to third reading cal.456
• Jun 1, 2011: substituted for a3409a
• May 16, 2011: referred to codes
• May 16, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• May 16, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• May 9, 2011: AMENDED ON THIRD READING 2686A
• Mar 3, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 2, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 1, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.102
• Jan 28, 2011: REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

S2686-2011 Meetings

Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation: Mar 1, 2011

S2686-2011 Calendars

Floor Calendar: Mar 2, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 3, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 7, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 8, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 9, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 10, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 14, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 15, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 16, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 21, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 22, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 23, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 24, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 28, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 29, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 30, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 31, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 4, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 5, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 6, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 11, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 12, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Apr 13, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 2, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 3, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 4, 2011 , Floor Calendar: May 9, 2011

S2686-2011 Votes

S2686-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2686

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law and the
general municipal law, in relation to authorizing an adopt-a-park program

PURPOSE:
This bill would direct the Commissioner of Parks, Recreation
and Historic preservation to cooperate with municipalities in
establishing an adopt-a-park Program.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
� 1- Amends subdivision 4 of � 3.09 of
the Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law.

� 2- Amends � 277 of the General Municipal Law.

� 3- Effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Municipalities are often with limited budgets and
strained resources. This bill would provide assistance to
municipalities who obtain technical advice and guidance in organizing
volunteers to "adopt-a-park" that is owned by the municipality. The
Commissioner of Parks and Recreation is granted authority to develop
regulations necessary to implement the program.

The "adopt-a-park" program will allow volunteers to cooperate in
projects to maintain and beautify parks such as vandalism
remediation, litter removal, developing and maintaining nature
trails, planting and maintaining flowerbeds, and otherwise improving
the park. A similar program, the "adopt-a-highway" was passed in 1985
and has been very successful in using volunteer services to beautify
New York highways.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2009-2010 S.7928 of 2008/09 2007-2008:A.1746/S.874; 2005-2006:
A3442/S.1387; 2003-2004: A.5238/S.2581; 2001-2002:
A.4240-A/S.2312-A; 1999-2000: A.4887/S.2758; 1998: S.7247.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Anticipated cost savings to local governments.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred
eightieth day after it shall have become a law.

S2686-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    2686

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              January 28, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by Sens. GRISANTI, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
    and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs,
    Tourism, Parks and Recreation

  AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law and
    the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing an  adopt-a-park
    program

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3.09 of the parks, recreation  and
  historic preservation law is amended to read as follows:

    4.  Cooperate in the planning, organization, development and operation
  of municipal and private park, recreational  and  historic  preservation
  projects  and programs.   THE COMMISSIONER MAY PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSIST-
  ANCE TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE PLANNING, ORGANIZATION,  DEVELOPMENT  AND
  OPERATION  OF  ADOPT-A-PARK  PROGRAMS UNDERTAKEN PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO
  HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
  LIMITED  TO,  THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF AN INFORMATIONAL GUIDE
  FOR PARTICIPANTS IN SUCH PROGRAMS.
    S 2. Section 277 of the general municipal law, as added by chapter 626
  of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:

    S 277. Adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or roadway programs.  1.  The
  governing body of any county, city, town or village is hereby authorized
  and  empowered  to authorize and direct such of its officers or agencies
  as it shall designate to enter into adopt-a-park, shoreline  or  roadway
  program  agreements with volunteers or groups in an effort to reduce and
  remove litter from parks, shorelines, roadways and other  public  lands.
  Such agreements shall include but not be limited to:

    a.  providing  and  coordinating  services  by volunteers or groups to
  reduce the amount of litter including providing trash bags and trash bag
  pick up and in designated areas where volunteers may be in close proxim-

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD06183-01-1

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  ity to moving vehicles providing safety briefings and reflective  safety
  gear; and
    b.  providing  and  installing  signs  identifying those volunteers or
  groups adopting particular parks, shorelines, roadways or other sections
  of public land.
    2. WITH RESPECT TO ADOPT-A-PARK PROGRAMS, A PROGRAM AGREEMENT MAY ALSO
  BE ENTERED INTO FOR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES BY VOLUNTEERS OR GROUPS TO
  PRESERVE, MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE MUNICIPALLY-OWNED  PARKS.  SUCH  PROGRAMS
  MAY  INCLUDE,  BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, REMEDIATING VANDALISM, PRESERVING
  WETLANDS, CLEANING AND MAINTAINING PARK PROPERTY, ESTABLISHING AND MAIN-
  TAINING ACCESS TO NATURE TRAILS, ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING DOG  RUNS,
  PLANTING  AND  MAINTAINING FLOWER BEDS OR OTHER VEGETATION, OR OTHERWISE
  IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF SUCH PARKS.
    3. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, THE  STATE,  the
  county,  city, town or village and its employees shall not be liable for
  damages suffered by any persons resulting from the actions or activities
  of such volunteers or groups.
    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
  it shall have become a law.