Bill Text: NY A01762 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to siting requirements for the New York city school construction authority's leasing program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-04 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [A01762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01762-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1762
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 11, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Education
       AN ACT to amend the  public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  siting
         requirements  for  the  New  York city school construction authority's
         leasing program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 1731 of the public authorities
    2  law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    1.  Prior  to the commencing of new construction or building additions
    5  of an educational facility, or the acquisition of real property  or  any
    6  interest therein for such purpose, INCLUDING THE LEASING OF ANY BUILDING
    7  OR  PROPERTY,  the  authority shall file a copy of the site plan of such
    8  facility in its offices and shall provide a copy  thereof  to  the  city
    9  board,  the  city planning commission and the community school board and
   10  community board of the district in which the facility will  be  located.
   11  Upon  request,  any  other person shall be furnished with such plan or a
   12  summary thereof. The authority shall publish in a newspaper  of  general
   13  circulation  in  the  city  a  notice of the filing of such plan and the
   14  availability of the plan and a summary thereof. Such plan shall include,
   15  in the case of any project for which the acquisition of real property or
   16  interest therein is proposed, the recommended site, any alternate  sites
   17  considered,  and  any  rationale  as to why the alternate sites were not
   18  selected.
   19    S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1732 of the public authorities  law,  as
   20  amended  by  chapter  562  of  the  laws  of 1990, is amended to read as
   21  follows:
   22    1. Following the hearings held pursuant to section  seventeen  hundred
   23  thirty-one  of  this  title, but prior to initiating construction of new
   24  educational facilities, OR PRIOR TO LEASING ANY BUILDING OR PROPERTY FOR
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05587-01-1
       A. 1762                             2
    1  SUCH PURPOSE, the authority shall submit the site plan of such  projects
    2  to  the  mayor  and the council for review, provided, however, that such
    3  review shall be limited to the site selected for the project.
    4    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.