STATE OF NEW YORK
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7212
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2023
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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.
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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.