Bill Text: NY S03565 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Empowers the trust for cultural resources of the city of New York to designate East Harlem as a cultural district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION [S03565 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03565-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3565

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 arts  and  cultural  affairs  law,  in  relation  to
          empowering the trust for cultural resources of the city of New York to
          designate East Harlem as a cultural district

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 21.01 of the  arts  and  cultural  affairs  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. "Cultural district" shall mean a geographic area of a city, town or
     4  village  with  a  concentration  of  cultural  institutions  within  its
     5  borders.
     6    § 2. Subdivisions 12 and 13 of section 21.07 of the arts and  cultural
     7  affairs  law,  as  added by chapter 656 of the laws of 1991, are amended
     8  and a new subdivision 14 is added to read as follows:
     9    12. to make and execute such agreements, including without limitation,
    10  instruments of conveyance and  agreements  with  participating  cultural
    11  institutions  with  respect  to  the architectural and design character-
    12  istics of any combined-use facility or cultural facility, as are  neces-
    13  sary  or  convenient  for  the  exercise of its corporate powers and the
    14  fulfillment of its purposes; [and]
    15    13.  to  make  loans  in  accordance  with  article  twenty  of   this
    16  chapter[.]; and
    17    14.  to  designate,  as a cultural district, as defined in subdivision
    18  five of section 21.01 of this article, any real property in the district
    19  bounded by East 96th Street on the South, 5th Avenue on the  West,  East
    20  125th Street on the North and the East River on the East.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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