Bill Text: NY S07212 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes legacy cadet corps programs to access and use for a permanent headquarters the seventh regiment armory for the purposes of programming during periods which are not periods of civil or military emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - returned to senate [S07212 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7212

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
          land Security and Military Affairs

        AN  ACT  to amend the military law and the New York state urban develop-
          ment corporation act, in  relation  to  authorizing  the  use  of  the
          seventh regiment armory by a not-for-profit entity

          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  180-a  of  the  military  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows:
     3    (l)  "Knickerbocker  Greys  program use" shall mean use during periods
     4  which are not periods of civil or military emergency, the  Knickerbocker
     5  Greys  shall have the right to access and use, for a permanent headquar-
     6  ters, sufficient and suitable space, consisting of no less  than  twelve
     7  hundred  square  feet, for the current and uninterrupted daily operation
     8  of programming, as well as usual and  customary  building  services  and
     9  utilities, including but not limited to heat, water and electric.
    10    §  2.  Paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 180-a of the military
    11  law, as added by chapter 482 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read  as
    12  follows:
    13    (e)  The management agreement and lease shall not apply to shelter use
    14  or to Knickerbocker Greys program use.  Shelter use shall be governed by
    15  a separate agreement between the city of New York, the  lessee  and  the
    16  state  of  New  York; such separate agreement shall be executed prior to
    17  the execution of the lease. Knickerbocker Greys  program  use  shall  be
    18  governed  by  a separate agreement between the division and the state of
    19  New York; such separate  agreement  shall  be  executed  no  later  than
    20  September fifteenth, two thousand twenty-three.
    21    §  3.  Subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section
    22  180-a of the military law, as added by chapter 482 of the laws of  2004,
    23  is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07379-03-3
        S. 7212                             2

     1    (i) On application of any of the associations of veterans described in
     2  [paragraph]  paragraphs  a  and b of subdivision one of such section one
     3  hundred eighty-three, the lessee or the manager pursuant to the terms of
     4  the management agreement shall provide a proper and convenient  room  or
     5  rooms or other appropriate space in the armory where such posts or chap-
     6  ters  may  hold  regular  and special meetings and organizational social
     7  events of a private nature, without the payment of any charge or expense
     8  therefor, provided that such use does not interfere with the use by  the
     9  lessee or the manager pursuant to the terms of the management agreement,
    10  including  any  use  by  third parties contracted for under subparagraph
    11  (ii) of this paragraph.
    12    § 4. Paragraph (b) of section 39 of section 1 of chapter  174  of  the
    13  laws  of  1968, constituting the New York state urban development corpo-
    14  ration act, as added by chapter 482 of the laws of 2004, is  amended  to
    15  read as follows:
    16    (b)  The  lease  with a lessee or subsequent lessee authorized by this
    17  section shall require a lessee  or  subsequent  lessee  to  undertake  a
    18  program  of  repair,  restoration and refurbishment of the armory and to
    19  manage and use the same as a facility for cultural and other civic uses.
    20  The lease shall demise all portions  of  the  armory  other  than  those
    21  reserved  for  a  homeless shelter for women operated by the city of New
    22  York pursuant to agreement with the state, those spaces reserved for use
    23  by the Knickerbocker Greys pursuant to an agreement between the division
    24  and the state of New York, and for that reserved for military use by the
    25  division. The portion of the premises allocated to the shelter for home-
    26  less women shall be sufficient and suitable space for  the  current  and
    27  uninterrupted  operation  of  the  shelter  by the city of New York. The
    28  portion of the premises allocated to the Knickerbocker  Greys  shall  be
    29  sufficient  and  suitable space for the current and uninterrupted opera-
    30  tion, provided that it is no less than twelve hundred  square  feet  for
    31  their  headquarters.  The  division  shall cause the 107th corps support
    32  group or its lineal descendent  to  maintain  military  use  within  the
    33  reserved portions of the armory. The division, and the city of New York,
    34  respectively, shall be responsible to repair and maintain their reserved
    35  premises,  including  the costs of renovation and uninterrupted use, and
    36  to pay an annual common maintenance charge to  a  lessee  or  subsequent
    37  lessee  to cover allocated costs of repair, maintenance and operation of
    38  the common portions of the armory. The lessee or subsequent lessee shall
    39  be required to apply all revenues generated by operations at the  armory
    40  to  pay  or  provide  for  costs of repairs, restoration, refurbishment,
    41  operating, maintenance and programming of the armory and the uses there-
    42  in and the activities of the lessee or subsequent  lessee  with  respect
    43  thereto.
    44    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.