Bill Text: NY A04711 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes bond proceeds to be used for the construction and infrastructure improvements in the vicinity of the intersection of Michigan avenue and Broadway in the city of Buffalo.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-07-25 - signed chap.112 [A04711 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04711-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4711--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Cities -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT in relation to deeming the objects or purposes for which certain
          bonds were issued by the city of Buffalo to be for the construction of
          an archway and infrastructure improvements  in  the  vicinity  of  the
          intersection  of  Michigan  avenue  and  Broadway within said city and
          authorizing the expenditure of the proceeds from such bonds  for  such
          objects or purposes
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative Findings.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  and
     2  determines  that  pursuant  to a bond resolution dated February 21, 2012
     3  adopted by the common council of the city of Buffalo,  county  of  Erie,
     4  (the  "common  council"  and the "city" respectively) the city issued on
     5  April 17, 2012, bonds in the principal amount of $150,000 sold  as  part
     6  of general improvement serial bonds in the aggregate principal amount of
     7  $21,640,000  to  finance  the cost of infrastructure improvements to the
     8  archway at the intersection of  Michigan  avenue  and  Jefferson  avenue
     9  within  the city. The legislature further finds and determines that said
    10  resolution failed to include language regarding the construction  of  an
    11  archway  and  to  identify  the accurate intersection within the city in
    12  which such archway construction  and  such  infrastructure  improvements
    13  were intended to be made.
    14    §  2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
    15  object or purposes for which said bonds were issued are hereby deemed to
    16  be for the construction of an archway to be located in the  vicinity  of
    17  the  intersection  of  Michigan  avenue  and Broadway within the city in
    18  addition to infrastructure improvements at the intersection of  Michigan
    19  avenue and Broadway consisting of a study, design, required sidewalk and
    20  curb  replacement,  landscaping, tree trimming, and other required right
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08912-02-7
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     1  of way enhancements as mentioned in the  aforesaid  resolution  and  the
     2  expenditure  of  the $150,000 proceeds of such bonds for such objects or
     3  purposes is hereby authorized, validated, confirmed and ratified.
     4    §  3.  The authorization provided in section two of this act shall not
     5  take effect until the common council of the city  of  Buffalo  adopts  a
     6  resolution after the effective date of this act that shall be subject to
     7  permissive  referendum  pursuant  to section 23-11 of the charter of the
     8  city of Buffalo as if the council had not already created a  city  debt.
     9  In  the  event  a  successful petition is filed with the city clerk, the
    10  authorization provided in section two of this act shall not take  effect
    11  unless such resolution is approved by the affirmative vote of a majority
    12  of the qualified electors.
    13    § 4. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
    14  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
    15  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair,  or  invalidate  the
    16  remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
    17  sentence,  paragraph,  section  or part thereof directly involved in the
    18  controversy in which such judgement shall have been rendered.
    19    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.