Bill Text: NY A03351 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes industrial development agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to qualified residential facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to local governments [A03351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03351-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3351
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
          industrial  development  agencies  to  provide assistance to qualified
          residential facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 854 of the general municipal law,
     2  as amended by section 6 of part J of chapter 59 of the laws of 2013,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (4)  "Project"  -  shall mean any land, any building or other improve-
     5  ment, and all real and personal properties located within the  state  of
     6  New York and within or outside or partially within and partially outside
     7  the  municipality  for  whose benefit the agency was created, including,
     8  but not limited to, machinery, equipment  and  other  facilities  deemed
     9  necessary  or  desirable in connection therewith, or incidental thereto,
    10  whether or not now in existence or under construction,  which  shall  be
    11  suitable  for manufacturing, warehousing, research, commercial or indus-
    12  trial purposes or  other  economically  sound  purposes  identified  and
    13  called  for  to implement a state designated urban cultural park manage-
    14  ment plan as provided in title G of the parks, recreation  and  historic
    15  preservation  law  and which may include or mean an industrial pollution
    16  control facility, a recreation facility, educational or cultural facili-
    17  ty, a horse racing facility, a railroad facility, a  qualified  residen-
    18  tial  facility,  or an automobile racing facility, provided, however, no
    19  agency shall use its funds or provide financial assistance in respect of
    20  any project wholly or partially outside the municipality for whose bene-
    21  fit the agency was created without the  prior  consent  thereto  by  the
    22  governing body or bodies of all the other municipalities in which a part
    23  or  parts  of  the project is, or is to be, located, and such portion of
    24  the project located outside such  municipality  for  whose  benefit  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  agency  was  created shall be contiguous with the portion of the project
     2  inside such municipality.
     3    §  2.  Section 854 of the general municipal law is amended by adding a
     4  new subdivision 21 to read as follows:
     5    (21) "Qualified residential facility" - shall  mean  any  multi-family
     6  residential  facility  with units that are for sale, in any municipality
     7  located within the county of Westchester, and which  is  located  in  an
     8  urban renewal area designated under article fifteen of this chapter or a
     9  highly  distressed area, together with buildings, structures, machinery,
    10  equipment, facilities and appurtenances thereto deemed necessary, useful
    11  or desirable in connection therewith, or incidental thereto,  but  shall
    12  not include a continuing care retirement community.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.