Bill Text: NY S03425 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes temporarily erected structures in the definition of "substandard or insanitary area".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S03425 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03425-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3425

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. MYRIE, GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend the urban development corporation act and the general
          municipal law, in relation to including temporarily erected structures
          in the definition of "substandard or insanitary area"

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 12 of section 3 of section 1 of chapter 174 of
     2  the laws of 1968, constituting the urban development corporation act  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (12) "Substandard or insanitary area". The term "substandard or insan-
     5  itary  area"  shall mean and be interchangeable with a [slum,] blighted,
     6  deteriorated or deteriorating area, or an area  which  has  a  blighting
     7  influence on the surrounding area, whether residential, non-residential,
     8  commercial,  industrial,  vacant or land in highways, waterways, railway
     9  and subway tracks and yards, bridge and tunnel approaches and entrances,
    10  temporarily erected structures including but not limited to scaffolding,
    11  or other similar facilities, over which  air  rights  and  easements  or
    12  other  rights  of user necessary for the use and development of such air
    13  rights, to be developed as air rights sites for the elimination  of  the
    14  blighting  influence,  or  any combination thereof and may include land,
    15  buildings or improvements, or air rights and  concomitant  easements  or
    16  other  rights  of user necessary for the use and development of such air
    17  rights not in themselves substandard or insanitary.
    18    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 502 of the  general  municipal  law,  as
    19  amended  by  chapter  748  of  the  laws  of 1967, is amended to read as
    20  follows:
    21    4. "Substandard or insanitary area." The term "substandard or  insani-
    22  tary  area"  shall  mean and be interchangeable with a [slum,] blighted,
    23  deteriorated or deteriorating area, or an area  which  has  a  blighting

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06215-01-3
        S. 3425                             2

     1  influence on the surrounding area, whether residential, non-residential,
     2  commercial,  industrial, vacant, or land in highways, railway and subway
     3  tracks, bridge and tunnel approaches and entrances, temporarily  erected
     4  structures  including  but  not limited to scaffolding, or other similar
     5  facilities, over which air rights and easements or other rights of  user
     6  necessary  for  the use and development of such air rights, to be devel-
     7  oped as air rights sites for the elimination of the blighting influence,
     8  or any combination thereof and may include land, buildings  or  improve-
     9  ments,  or  air rights and concomitant easements or other rights of user
    10  necessary for the use and development of such air rights, not  in  them-
    11  selves  substandard  or  insanitary,  the  inclusion  of which is deemed
    12  necessary for the effective undertaking of one  or  more  urban  renewal
    13  programs.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.