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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 493 - Appeals From Municipal Governing Body to Control Commission.

§  493.  Appeals  from municipal governing body to control commission.
  Any applicant for, or holder of, any license  issued  or  to  be  issued
  under  this article aggrieved by any action of the governing body of the
  municipality to which such application has been made or  by  which  such
  license  has  been issued, may appeal to the control commission from the
  determination of said governing body by filing with the governing body a
  written notice of appeal within thirty days after the  determination  or
  action  appeal  from, and upon the hearing of such appeal, the evidence,
  if any, taken before the governing body and any additional evidence  may
  be  produced  and  shall be considered in arriving at a determination of
  the matters in issue, and the action of the control commission upon said
  appeal shall be binding upon said governing body and all parties to said
  appeal.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 494 - Exemption From Prosecution.

§  494. Exemption from prosecution.  No person or corporation lawfully
  conducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo or  permitting  the
  conduct upon any premises owned or leased by him or it under any license
  lawfully issued pursuant to this article, shall be liable to prosecution
  or  conviction  for  violation  of  any provision of article two hundred
  twenty-five of the penal law or any other law or ordinance to the extent
  that such conduct is specifically authorized by this article,  but  this
  immunity  shall  not  extend  to  any  person  or  corporation knowingly
  conducting or participating in the conduct of bingo  under  any  license
  obtained  by  any  false  pretense or by any false statement made in any
  application for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any
  premises owned or leased by him or it of any  game  of  bingo  conducted
  under  any  license known to him or it to have been obtained by any such
  false pretense or statement.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 495 - Offenses; Forfeiture of License; Ineligibility to Apply for License.

§  495.  Offenses;  forfeiture  of license; ineligibility to apply for
license.  Any person, association or corporation who or which shall:
(1) make any false  statement  in  any  application  for  any  license
authorized to be issued under this article;
(2)  pay or receive, for the use of any premises for conducting bingo,
a rental in excess of the amount specified as the  permissible  rent  in
the  license  provided  for  in  subdivision two of section four hundred
eighty of this article;
(3) fail to keep such books and  records  as  shall  fully  and  truly
record  all  transactions  connected with the conducting of bingo or the
leasing of premises to be used for the conduct of bingo;
(4) falsify or make any false entry in any books or records so far  as
they relate in any manner to the conduct of bingo, to the disposition of
the proceeds thereof and to the application of the rents received by any
authorized organization;
(5) divert or pay any portion of the net proceeds of any game of bingo
to  any person, association or corporation, except in furtherance of one
or more of the lawful purposes defined in this article; or
(6) violate any of the provisions of this article or of  any  term  of
any license issued under this article;
shall  be  guilty  of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit any license issued
under this article and be ineligible to apply for a license  under  this
article for one year thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 496 - Article Inoperative Until Adopted by Voters.

§  496.  Article  inoperative  until  adopted  by  voters.   Except as
  provided in section 495-a, the provisions of this article  shall  remain
  inoperative  in any municipality unless and until a proposition therefor
  submitted at a general or special election in such municipality shall be
  approved by a vote of the majority of the  qualified  electors  in  such
  municipality voting thereon.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 497 - Amendment and Repeal of Local Laws and Ordinances.

§  497.  Amendment  and repeal of local laws and ordinances.  Any such
  local law or ordinance may be amended, from time to time, or repealed by
  the common council or other local legislative body of  the  municipality
  which  enacted  it and such amendment or repeal, as the case may be, may
  be made effective and operative not earlier than thirty  days  following
  the  date  of  enactment  of  the  local law or ordinance effecting such
  amendment or repeal, as the case may be; and the approval of a  majority
  of   the  electors  of  such  municipality  shall  not  be  a  condition
  prerequisite to the taking effect of such local law or ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 498 - Delegation of Authority.

§  498. Delegation of authority.  The governing body of a municipality
  may delegate to an officer or officers thereof designated by it for that
  purpose any of the authority granted to it hereby  in  relation  to  the
  issuance,  amendment  and  cancellation  of  licenses,  the  conduct  of
  investigations and hearings, the supervision of  the  operation  of  the
  games and the collection and transmission of fees.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 498-A - Powers and Duties of Mayors or Managers of Certain Cities.

§  498-a.  Powers  and duties of mayors or managers of certain cities.
  Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  this  article,  whenever  the
  charter  of  any  city,  or  any special or local law, provides that the
  mayor or manager of such city  is  the  chief  law  enforcement  officer
  thereof,  then  and in that event such mayor or manager, as the case may
  be, shall have, exercise and perform all the powers and duties otherwise
  prescribed by  this  article  to  be  exercised  and  performed  by  the
  governing  body  of  such  city  except those prescribed by section four
  hundred seventy-eight hereof, and in any such case, the term  "governing
  body  of a municipality" as used in this article shall be deemed to mean
  and include the mayor or manager of any such city.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 499 - Severability.

§  499.  Severability.    If  any  provision  of  this  article or the
  application thereof to any municipality, person or  circumstances  shall
  be adjudged unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the
  remainder   of   this  article  or  the  application  thereof  to  other
  municipalities, persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby,
  and the legislature hereby declares that  it  would  have  enacted  this
  article  without  the  invalid provision or application, as the case may
  be, had such invalidity been apparent.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 501 - Policy and Purposes of Article.

§   501.   Policy  and  purposes  of  article.  There  exist  in  many
  municipalities   within   this   state   residential,   non-residential,
  commercial,  industrial or vacant areas, and combinations thereof, which
  are slum or blighted, or which  are  becoming  slum  or  blighted  areas
  because   of  substandard,  insanitary,  deteriorated  or  deteriorating
  conditions, factors,  and  characteristics,  with  or  without  tangible
  physical  blight.  The existence of such areas constitutes a serious and
  growing menace, is injurious to the public safety,  health,  morals  and
  welfare,  contributes  increasingly  to  the  spread  of crime, juvenile
  delinquency and disease,  necessitates  excessive  and  disproportionate
  expenditures  of  public  funds  for  all  forms  of  public service and
  constitutes a negative influence on adjacent properties impairing  their
  economic  soundness  and  stability,  thereby  threatening the source of
  public revenues.
In order to protect and promote the safety, health, morals and welfare
  of the people  of  the  state  and  to  promote  the  sound  growth  and
  development  of  our  municipalities,  it  is  necessary to correct such
  substandard,  insanitary,  blighted,   deteriorated   or   deteriorating
  conditions,  factors  and  characteristics by the clearance, replanning,
  reconstruction,   redevelopment,    rehabilitation,    restoration    or
  conservation  of  such  areas,  the  undertaking  of  public and private
  improvement  programs  related  thereto   and   the   encouragement   of
  participation in these programs by private enterprise.
It  is  necessary  for  the  accomplishment  of such purposes to grant
  municipalities of this state the rights  and  powers  provided  in  this
  article.  The  use of such rights and powers to correct such conditions,
  factors and characteristics and to eliminate or prevent the  development
  and   spread   of   deterioration  and  blight  through  the  clearance,
  replanning, reconstruction, rehabilitation, conservation or  renewal  of
  such  areas,  for residential, commercial, industrial, community, public
  and other uses is a public use  and  public  purpose  essential  to  the
  public interest, and for which public funds may be expended.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 503-B - Transfer of Projects.

§  503-b.  Transfer of projects. Notwithstanding any provision of this
  article, or of any general, special or  local  law  or  charter  to  the
  contrary,  a  municipality  may,  upon  the establishment of a municipal
  urban renewal agency pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen-A  of
  this  chapter,  convey,  assign,  grant or otherwise transfer all of its
  right, title and interest in any urban renewal program, or part thereof,
  and any right, title  and  interest  in  or  to  any  real  or  personal
  property,  contract,  claim  or other interest acquired or held by it in
  connection with such program, or part thereof, to such agency,  with  or
  without consideration, as it may determine.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 504 - Site Designation.

§  504. Site designation. An area shall be designated by the governing
  body, or by the commission where so authorized to act by  the  governing
  body,  on  its own initiative or on petition of the owners in fee of not
  less than fifty-one per cent of the land (excluding publicly owned land)
  or upon recommendation of the agency, upon a finding that such  area  is
  appropriate for urban renewal as defined in subdivision three of section
  five  hundred  two of this article.  Such designation may be accompanied
  by a recommendation of the commission as to the  predominant  reuse  and
  such  other planning criteria as it may deem appropriate for the general
  renewal of the area.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 509 - Periodic Subsidies.

§ 509. Periodic subsidies. 1. The commissioner may, in the name of the
  state,  make or contract to make periodic subsidies to a municipality to
  assist such municipality in carrying out one or more programs  of  urban
  renewal,  subject to the limitations contained in the first paragraph of
  section seventy-three of the public housing law, in this section and  in
  any other law applicable thereto. Such subsidies shall be applied by the
  municipality  only  for the purpose of paying the principal and interest
  on the state loan for the urban renewal program or on loans  from  other
  sources pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
2.  The  periodic  subsidy  for each program of urban renewal shall be
  payable to the municipality on an annual basis over the  period  of  the
  state  loan  for  the  urban  renewal  program,  commencing  on the date
  provided for in the loan contract made with the commissioner, in a total
  amount determined by the commissioner but no greater than the sum due to
  the state for principal and interest on the state loan for such program.
  The amount of such payments need not be  uniform  and  portions  of  the
  periodic  subsidy payable for any one year may be paid from time to time
  as required.
3. Where all or any  part  of  the  sum  which  the  commissioner  has
  contracted  to  lend to the municipality is borrowed by the municipality
  from sources other than the state, the periodic subsidy  contracted  for
  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this  section  may  be  used  by the
  municipality for the payment of such loans obtained  from  such  sources
  for  the  program  to which such periodic subsidies relate, provided the
  terms  and  conditions  of  such  loans  have  been  approved   by   the
  commissioner.    Such  periodic  subsidies  shall also be payable to the
  municipality on an annual  basis  over  a  fixed  period  of  years  not
  exceeding  the  probable  life  of  such  program,  in  a  total  amount
  determined by the commissioner but no greater than the sum due  to  such
  lenders  for principal and interest on such loan, commencing on the date
  provided  for  in  the  loan  contract  made  with   the   commissioner.
  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of any general or special law, the
  contract for such loan from sources other than the state  shall  provide
  that upon any date when an installment of principal shall become due and
  payable  the  municipality  may  anticipate  any installment which would
  otherwise become due and payable thereafter.
4. The faith of the state is pledged to the payment  of  all  periodic
  subsidies  contracted  for  by the commissioner. Such periodic subsidies
  shall be paid upon the audit and warrant of the state  comptroller  upon
  vouchers approved by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 511 - Authority of Municipality; Other Terms of Contract.

§  511.  Authority  of  municipality; other terms of contract. 1.  Any
  municipality is authorized to enter into agreement  with  the  state  to
  receive  such  loans,  periodic  subsidies  and  state capital grants to
  assist such municipality to establish and carry out one or more programs
  of urban renewal.
2. In the case of a loan, the loan contract shall  provide  that  upon
  any  date  when an installment of principal shall become due and payable
  the municipality may anticipate any installment  which  would  otherwise
  become due and payable thereafter.
3.  In every contract for a loan and periodic subsidy or for a capital
  grant by the state, the acts constituting a substantial  breach  of  the
  provisions  set  forth  therein  shall  be  defined in such terms as the
  commissioner shall deem  to  be  in  the  public  interest  and  as  are
  consistent  with  the provisions of this article and the purposes of the
  program for which  such  aid  is  sought.  In  any  loan  contract,  the
  commissioner shall retain the right, among other rights and remedies, in
  the  event  of such substantial breach, to declare any unpaid balance to
  be due forthwith and to  reduce  or  terminate  any  periodic  subsidies
  payable under the contract.
4.  Every  such  contract  may contain such other terms, covenants and
  conditions as shall be agreed  upon  and  as  are  consistent  with  the
  provisions  of  this  article  and  the  purposes  of  the urban renewal
  program.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 513 - Findings by the Commissioner.

§  513.  Findings  by  the  commissioner. 1. No loan, subsidy or grant
shall be made by the state for  an  urban  renewal  program  unless  the
commissioner shall find that:
(a) the municipality or agency, as the case may be, has entered into a
contract  to  receive  capital  grants,  or  loans  and grants, from the
federal government under which the municipality  is  obligated  to  make
local  grants-in-aid,  or the governing body has found that such federal
financial assistance is not necessary for the undertaking and successful
completion of the program;
(b) in the case of a state loan, the state loan for which  application
is made will not exceed one-half of such local grants-in-aid;
(c)  in the case of a state capital grant, the state capital grant for
which application is made will not exceed one-half of the municipality's
share of the net project cost, or, if the municipality has  not  applied
to  or entered into a contract with the federal government for advances,
loans or grants for a specific project, such  grant  shall  not  in  any
event exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000);
(d)  adequate  provision  has  been  made  in  a relocation program to
provide housing for the persons and families  to  be  displaced  by  the
urban renewal program;
(e)  such  program is in conformity with a plan or undertaking for the
clearance, replanning, reconstruction and rehabilitation of  substandard
and   insanitary   areas  and  for  recreational  and  other  facilities
incidental or appurtenant thereto, and
(f) the estimated funds available to the municipality  or  agency,  as
the  case  may  be, including any federal loans and grants for the urban
renewal program, the local grants-in-aid and the state loan  or  capital
grant will be sufficient to cover all probable costs of the program.
2.  Such  findings  shall  be conclusive evidence of the facts therein
contained except upon proof of  fraud  or  willful  misfeasance  by  the
commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 514 - Filing of Proposed Plans.

§  514.  Filing  of proposed plans. The municipality or agency, as the
  case may be, shall file with the commissioner a  copy  of  any  proposed
  urban  renewal  program  assisted  by state loans, periodic subsidies or
  capital grants, embodying the plans, layout, estimated cost and proposed
  method of financing.  Any  change  made  in  an  urban  renewal  program
  assisted  by  state loans, periodic subsidies or capital grants shall be
  filed with the commissioner. From time to time prior to completion,  and
  with  reasonable  promptness after any urban renewal program assisted by
  state loans, periodic  subsidies  or  capital  grants  shall  have  been
  completed,  upon request of the commissioner, the municipality or agency
  shall file with the  commissioner  a  detailed  statement  of  the  cost
  thereof.
Upon  receipt  of  a  copy of a proposed urban renewal program, or any
  proposed change therein, the commissioner may transmit his criticism and
  suggestions to the municipality or agency, as the case may be. No change
  in an urban renewal program assisted by state loans, periodic  subsidies
  or  capital  grants  may be made by a municipality or agency without the
  approval of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 515 - Periodic Reports.

§  515.  Periodic reports. The municipality or agency, as the case may
  be, shall file with  the  commissioner  periodic  reports  covering  its
  operations  and  activities  in  connection with one or more programs of
  urban renewal, in such form and from time to time  as  the  commissioner
  shall prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 516 - Intervention by Commissioner.

§  516.  Intervention  by  commissioner.  In  any action or proceeding
  affecting any urban renewal program, the  commissioner  shall  be  given
  prompt  notice  thereof,  and he shall take such steps in such action or
  proceeding as may be  necessary  or  desirable  to  protect  the  public
  interest.  If,  in  the  opinion of the commissioner, it is necessary or
  desirable in the public interest that he intervene in any such action or
  proceeding he shall be permitted to do so as a matter of right. Whenever
  in connection with an urban renewal program,  under  any  instrument  or
  law,  a notice in writing is required to be served upon the municipality
  before the institution of any action  or  proceeding,  a  copy  of  such
  notice  shall  be served upon the commissioner at least five days before
  commencement of the action or proceeding.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 517 - Disqualification of Commissioner, Officers and Employees.

§  517.  Disqualification  of  commissioner,  officers  and employees.
  Neither the commissioner, nor any officer or employee in the division of
  housing shall acquire or hold any interest, direct or indirect, in  such
  state-aided  urban renewal program or in any property then or thereafter
  included or planned to be included in  such  state-aided  urban  renewal
  program,  nor  shall  he retain any interest, direct or indirect, in any
  property acquired prior to his appointment or employment which is  later
  included,   or  to  his  knowledge  planned  to  be  included,  in  such
  state-aided urban renewal program,  nor  shall  he  have  any  interest,
  direct  or  indirect, in any contract or proposed contract for materials
  or services to be furnished or used in connection with such  state-aided
  urban  renewal  program. If the commissioner, or any officer or employee
  in the division of housing, owns or  controls  an  interest,  direct  or
  indirect, in any property included in any such state-aided urban renewal
  program,  or  in  any  contract  or  proposed  contract for materials or
  services to be furnished or used in  connection  with  such  state-aided
  urban  renewal  program, he shall disclose such interest and the date of
  acquisition thereof in writing to the governor and the commissioner, and
  such disclosure shall be entered in a special record of the division  of
  housing kept for such purpose.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 518 - Rules and Regulations of Commissioner.

§  518. Rules and regulations of commissioner.  The commissioner shall
  have the power to make, promulgate, modify, amend and repeal  rules  and
  regulations  to  effectuate his powers and duties under this article. No
  such rule or regulation shall be effective until  it  is  filed  in  the
  office of the department of state.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 519 - Division of Housing as Agent of Smaller Municipalities.

§  519.  Division  of housing as agent of smaller municipalities.  For
  all of the purposes of section one hundred one-b of the housing  act  of
  nineteen   hundred  forty-nine  and  all  federal  laws  amendatory  and
  supplementary thereto, the division of housing of the state of New  York
  is  hereby  designated  as the local agency established by the state and
  operating on a state-wide basis  in  behalf  of  smaller  municipalities
  undertaking  or  proposing  to  undertake  a  federal  program  of urban
  renewal. Designation of the division of housing as such agency shall  be
  subject  to approval by resolution or ordinance of the governing body of
  the municipality in whose behalf  the  designation  is  made.  The  term
  "smaller  municipalities"  as  used  in  this section shall be deemed to
  apply to cities and villages with a population of less than  twenty-five
  thousand  and  to  towns  with  a population, excluding the incorporated
  areas thereof, of less than thirty thousand.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 520 - Construction.

§  520.  Construction.  This  article  shall be construed liberally to
  effect the purposes hereof and the enumeration  of  specific  powers  in
  this  act shall not operate to restrict the meaning of any general grant
  of  power  contained  in  this  chapter  or  to  exclude  other   powers
  comprehended   in   such  general  grant.  In  construing  this  chapter
  consideration shall be given to its purposes and intent,  among  others,
  of  consolidating,  clarifying and simplifying the respective provisions
  of the chapters  repealed  as  hereinafter  specified  in  section  five
  hundred   twenty-five   hereof  and  of  authorizing  municipalities  to
  undertake one or more programs of urban  renewal  with  respect  to  the
  clearance,  replanning,  reconstruction,  rehabilitation, redevelopment,
  conservation, restoration or  improvement  of  substandard,  insanitary,
  slum,    blighted,    deteriorated    or    deteriorating   residential,
  non-residential,  improved  or  vacant  areas,  or  the   remedying   of
  unsuitable  topographical,  subsoil  or  other physical conditions which
  tend  to  impede  the  development  of  such  areas,  for   residential,
  commercial,  industrial,  community,  public and other uses and to apply
  for and accept federal or state loans, subsidies or grants in connection
  therewith. Insofar as the provisions of this  article  are  inconsistent
  with  the  provisions  of  any  other general, special or local law, the
  provisions of this article shall be controlling.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 521 - Severability.

§  521.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
  part  of  this  act  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of   competent
  jurisdiction  to be invalid or unconstitutional, such judgment shall not
  affect, impair  or  invalidate  the  remainder  thereof,  but  shall  be
  confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
  part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment
  shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 522 - Pending Actions or Proceedings.

§  522. Pending actions or proceedings. This act or anything contained
  therein shall not affect or abate any acts, actions, proceedings,  civil
  or  criminal, pending at the time this act shall take effect brought by,
  for or against, the state, the division of housing or  any  municipality
  or  in pursuance of the provisions of the laws repealed by this act, but
  all such acts, actions or  proceedings  may  be  continued,  prosecuted,
  conducted  and completed as if such laws were not repealed but continued
  to be fully effective.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15 - Urban Renewal › 524 - Validation.

§  524.  Validation.  All  proceedings,  acts  and  things undertaken,
  performed or done by any municipality or the state division  of  housing
  pursuant   to   sections  seventy-two-k,  seventy-two-l,  seventy-two-m,
  seventy-two-n and seventy-two-o of the general  municipal  law  or  done
  with  reference  thereto  are  hereby  validated,  ratified,  confirmed,
  approved and declared legal in all respects, notwithstanding any want of
  statutory authority or any  defect  or  irregularity  in  such  acts  or
  proceedings.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 551 - Policy and Purposes of Article.

§ 551. Policy and purposes of article. It is hereby declared to be the
  policy  of  this state to promote the expeditious undertaking, financing
  and completion of municipal urban renewal programs by  the  creation  of
  municipal  urban  renewal  agencies  which  are  hereby  declared  to be
  governmental agencies and instrumentalities and to grant to  such  urban
  renewal agencies the rights and powers provided in this article. The use
  of  such  rights  and powers is a public purpose essential to the public
  interest, and for which public funds may be expended.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 552 - Definitions.

§  552.  Definitions.  As used or referred to in this article unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Agency" shall mean an urban renewal  agency  created  pursuant  to
  this article.
2.   "Bonds"  shall  mean  any  bonds,  notes,  interim  certificates,
  debentures, or other obligations issued by an agency  pursuant  to  this
  article.
3.  "Governing body", "Municipality", "Urban renewal", "Substandard or
  insanitary area", "Comprehensive community plan", "Urban renewal  plan",
  "Commission",   "Urban   renewal   area",   "State  capital  grant"  and
  "Commissioner" shall mean governing body, municipality,  urban  renewal,
  substandard  or  insanitary  area,  comprehensive  community plan, urban
  renewal plan, commission, urban renewal area, state  capital  grant  and
  commissioner,  respectively,  as  defined  in  article  fifteen  of this
  chapter.
4. The term "mayor" shall  mean  the  chief  executive  officer  of  a
  municipality.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 553 - Organization of Urban Renewal Agencies.

§  553.  Organization  of  urban  renewal  agencies.  1.  (a) Upon the
establishment of a municipal urban renewal agency by special act of  the
legislature,  the  mayor  of  the city or village wherein such agency is
established, or the town board of the town, shall file within six months
after  the  effective  date  of  the  special  act  of  the  legislature
establishing  such  agency  or  before  the  first day of July, nineteen
hundred sixty-four, whichever date shall be later, in the office of  the
secretary  of  state, a certificate signed by him setting forth: (1) the
effective date of the special act establishing the agency; (2) the  name
of  the  agency; (3) the names of the members and their terms of office,
specifying which member is the chairman; and (4) facts establishing  the
need for the establishment of an agency in such city, town or village.
(b)  Every such agency shall be perpetual in duration, except that if,
at the expiration of ten years subsequent to the effective date  of  the
special  act,  there  shall be outstanding no bonds or other obligations
theretofore issued by such agency or  by  the  municipality  for  or  on
behalf  of the agency, then the corporate existence of such agency shall
thereupon terminate and it shall thereupon be deemed to be and shall  be
dissolved.
2.  An agency shall be a corporate governmental agency, constituting a
public benefit corporation. Except as otherwise provided by special  act
of  the  Legislature, an agency shall consist of not less than three nor
more than five members who shall be appointed by the mayor of a city  or
village  or the town board of a town and who shall serve at the pleasure
of the appointing authority. A member  shall  continue  to  hold  office
until  his successor is appointed and has qualified. The mayor of a city
or village, or the town board of  a  town,  shall  designate  the  first
chairman.  Such members shall receive no compensation for their services
but shall be entitled to the  necessary  expenses,  including  traveling
expenses, incurred in the discharge of their duties.
3. A majority of the members of an agency shall constitute a quorum.
4.  Any  one or more of the members of an agency may be an official or
an employee of the municipality. In the event that  an  official  or  an
employee  of  the  municipality  shall  be  appointed as a member of the
agency, acceptance or retention of such appointment shall not be  deemed
a  forfeiture  of  his  municipal  office or employment, or incompatible
therewith or affect his tenure or compensation in any way. The  term  of
office of a member of an agency who is an official or an employee of the
municipality  when  appointed  as a member thereof by special act of the
legislature creating the municipal urban renewal agency shall  terminate
at the expiration of the term of his municipal office.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 554-A - Agency Contracts.

§  554-a.  Agency contracts. Except as otherwise expressly provided by
  an act of the legislature, provisions of state and local law  applicable
  to   the   letting  of  public  works  and  purchase  contracts  by  the
  municipality for which an agency is established shall apply to the  same
  degree and extent to such agency.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 556 - Disposition of Property.

§  556.  Disposition  of  property. 1. An agency may sell, lease for a
  term not exceeding ninety-nine years, or otherwise dispose of  any  real
  property  and  appurtenances thereto or any interest therein acquired by
  it pursuant to section five hundred fifty-five of this article,  to  any
  person, firm or corporation at the highest marketable price or rental at
  public auction or by sealed bids.
2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  such real property and appurtenances thereto may be sold, leased  for  a
  term of not exceeding ninety-nine years or otherwise disposed of for the
  effectuation  of  any  of  the  purposes  of an urban renewal program in
  accordance with the urban renewal plan pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
  subdivision two of section five hundred seven of article fifteen of this
  chapter.
3.   Any  deed,  lease  or  instrument  by  which  real  property  and
  appurtenances thereto, or air rights and concomitant easements or  other
  rights  of user necessary for the use and development of such air rights
  over streets, alleys, highways or other public rights of way, railway or
  subway tracks, bridge  or  tunnel  approaches  or  entrances,  or  other
  similar  facilities,  or  air  rights  sites and necessary sitework, the
  foundations and platforms constructed or to be constructed in connection
  therewith, or any interest therein is conveyed or disposed  of  pursuant
  to this section shall contain provisions requiring the purchaser, lessee
  or  grantee  to  replan,  clear, rehabilitate, restore, renew, conserve,
  improve, reconstruct or redevelop such property in accordance  with  the
  urban  renewal  plan,  as  approved  by the governing body, and within a
  definite and reasonable period of time, subject  to  the  terms  of  the
  contract  relating  thereto  between  the  agency  and  the  sponsor and
  provisions  insuring  the  use  of  such  real  property  for   purposes
  consistent with such urban renewal plan.
4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this article or article
  fifteen  of  this  chapter  and  notwithstanding  any  provision  of any
  general, special or local law,  such  real  property  and  appurtenances
  thereto  may be sold, leased for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years,
  exchanged with or otherwise disposed of, for the effectuation of any  of
  the  purposes  of the urban renewal program in accordance with the urban
  renewal plan,  to  any  municipal  corporation,  school  district,  fire
  district, housing authority, the state of New York, or the government of
  the  United  States and any agency or department thereof, for a valuable
  consideration and upon such terms and conditions as shall be approved by
  the governing body of the municipality, without public auction or sealed
  bids or public notice.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 558 - Authority of Agency; Other Terms and Contracts.

§  558.  Authority of agency; other terms and contracts.  1. An agency
  is authorized to enter into agreement with the  state  to  receive  such
  state  capital  grants  to assist such agency to establish and carry out
  one or more programs of urban renewal.
2. In every contract for a  capital  grant  by  the  state,  the  acts
  constituting  a  substantial  breach of the provisions set forth therein
  shall be defined in such terms as the commissioner shall deem to  be  in
  the  public  interest  and as are consistent with the provisions of this
  article and the purposes of the program for which such aid is sought.
3. Every such contract may contain such  other  terms,  covenants  and
  conditions  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  and  as are consistent with the
  provisions of this  article  and  the  purposes  of  the  urban  renewal
  program.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 561 - Exemption From Taxation of Bonds.

§  561. Exemption from taxation of bonds.  Bonds, mortgages, notes and
  other obligations of an agency are declared to be issued  for  a  public
  purpose  and  to  be public instrumentalities and together with interest
  thereon, shall be exempt from taxation.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 561-A - Accounts, Reports and Audits.

§  561-a.  Accounts, reports and audits.  1. The accounting records of
  an agency shall be maintained in accordance with a system prescribed  by
  the state comptroller.
2.  Within  sixty  days  after the close of the fiscal year, an agency
  shall submit  an  annual  report  of  its  financial  condition  to  the
  commissioner  and  to the state comptroller. The report shall be in such
  form  as  the  comptroller  shall  require.  The  commissioner  or   the
  comptroller  may  require  additional information from the agency or any
  officer thereof at any time.
3. The state comptroller, or his legally authorized representative, is
  hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine  the  books
  and  accounts  of  an  agency  including  its  receipts,  disbursements,
  contracts, reserve funds,  sinking  funds,  investments  and  any  other
  matters  relating  to  its  finances  or  financial  standing.  Such  an
  examination shall be conducted by the comptroller at least once in every
  five years; the comptroller is authorized, however, to  accept  from  an
  agency,  in  lieu of such an examination, an external examination of its
  books and accounts made at the request of the agency.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 561-B - Fiscal Year.

§ 561-b. Fiscal year.  The fiscal year of an agency shall begin on the
  same  day  and  end  on  the same day of the calendar month on which the
  fiscal year of the municipality wherein such agency is established shall
  begin and end.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 562 - Powers Additional and Supplemental.

§  562.  Powers  additional and supplemental.  The powers conferred by
  this article shall be in addition and supplemental  to  existing  powers
  relating  to  the  effectuating  of  an  urban renewal program, and this
  article shall not be construed as repealing any of the provisions of any
  other law, general or special. Nothing in this article shall  be  deemed
  to relieve any agency or municipality from complying with the provisions
  of  article fifteen of this chapter as they relate to the designation of
  an urban renewal area or the approval of an urban renewal plan.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-A - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Organization and Powers › 563 - Separability Clause.

§  563.  Separability  clause.    If  any clause, sentence, paragraph,
  section or part of this article  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
  competent  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid such judgment shall not affect,
  impair, or invalidate the remainder hereof, but shall be confined in its
  operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section  or  part  thereof
  directly  involved  in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
  been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-B - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Created › Title 1 - Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency › 570 - Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency.

§  570. Syracuse urban renewal agency.  An urban renewal agency, to be
  known as the Syracuse urban renewal agency, is  hereby  established  for
  the  accomplishment  of any or all of the purposes specified in articles
  fifteen and fifteen-A of this chapter and  in  accordance  with  article
  eighteen  of  the  constitution  of  the  state  of  New  York. It shall
  constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual  in  duration  and
  consist  of  three members consisting of the mayor, the president of the
  common council and the commissioner of finance of the city  of  Syracuse
  and its secretary shall be the commissioner of urban improvement of such
  city.  It shall have the powers and duties now or hereafter conferred by
  article fifteen-A of this chapter upon municipal  renewal  agencies.  It
  shall  be  organized  in  the manner prescribed by and be subject to the
  provisions of article fifteen-A of this  chapter  and  the  agency,  its
  members,  officers and employees and its operations and activities shall
  in all respects be governed by the provisions of such article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-B - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Created › Title 3 - Binghamton Urban Renewal Agency › 572 - Binghamton Urban Renewal Agency.

§  572.  Binghamton  urban  renewal  agency. A municipal urban renewal
  agency, to be known as the Binghamton urban renewal  agency,  is  hereby
  established  for  the  accomplishment  of  any  or  all  of the purposes
  specified in articles fifteen and  fifteen-A  of  this  chapter  and  in
  accordance with article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New
  York.  It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in
  duration  and  consist  of  seven  members  including  the  mayor,   the
  comptroller,  the  corporation  counsel,  city engineer, commissioner of
  public works and two members of the council of the city  of  Binghamton,
  provided  however,  that not more than one of such council members shall
  be of the same political party. It shall have the powers and duties  now
  or  hereafter  conferred  by  article  fifteen-A  of  this  chapter upon
  municipal  renewal  agencies.  It  shall  be  organized  in  the  manner
  prescribed  by  and be subject to the provisions of article fifteen-A of
  this chapter and the agency, its members, officers and employees and its
  operations and activities shall in  all  respects  be  governed  by  the
  provisions of such article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-B - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Created › Title 5 - Mechanicville Urban Renewal Agency › 574 - Mechanicville Urban Renewal Agency.

§  574.  Mechanicville urban renewal agency. A municipal urban renewal
  agency, to be known as the Mechanicville urban renewal agency, is hereby
  established for the  accomplishment  of  any  or  all  of  the  purposes
  specified  in  articles  fifteen  and  fifteen-A  of this chapter and in
  accordance with article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New
  York. It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual  in
  duration and consist of three members, the mayor, commissioner of public
  safety and the commissioner of public finance.  It shall have the powers
  and  duties  now  or  hereafter  conferred  by article fifteen-A of this
  chapter upon municipal renewal agencies. It shall be  organized  in  the
  manner  prescribed  by  and  be  subject  to  the  provisions of article
  fifteen-A of this chapter and the  agency,  its  members,  officers  and
  employees  and  its  operations  and activities shall in all respects be
  governed by the provisions of such article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-B - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Created › Title 6 - Little Falls Urban Renewal Agency. › 575 - Little Falls Urban Renewal Agency.

§  575.  Little  Falls urban renewal agency. A municipal urban renewal
  agency, to be known as the Little Falls urban renewal agency, is  hereby
  established  for  the  accomplishment  of  any  or  all  of the purposes
  specified in articles fifteen and  fifteen-A  of  this  chapter  and  in
  accordance with article eighteen of the constitution of the state of New
  York.  It shall constitute a body corporate and politic, be perpetual in
  duration and consist of not less than  three  and  not  more  than  five
  members  including  the mayor. The additional members shall be appointed
  by the mayor with the concurring approval of the city council.  It shall
  have the powers  and  duties  now  or  hereafter  conferred  by  article
  fifteen-A  of  this chapter upon municipal renewal agencies. It shall be
  organized in the manner prescribed by and be subject to  the  provisions
  of  article  fifteen-A  of  this  chapter  and  the agency, its members,
  officers and employees and its operations and activities  shall  in  all
  respects be governed by the provisions of such article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 15-B - Municipal Urban Renewal Agencies, Created › Title 11-A - Glen Cove Community Development Agency › 580-A - Glen Cove Community Development Agency.

§ 580-a. Glen Cove community development agency. A municipal community
  development  agency,  to be known as the Glen Cove community development
  agency, is hereby established for the accomplishment of any and  all  of
  the  purposes  specified  in  articles  fifteen  and  fifteen-A  of this
  chapter, and in accordance with article eighteen of the constitution  of
  the state of New York. It shall constitute a body corporate and politic,
  be  perpetual  in  duration. It shall consist of the mayor, who shall be
  the chairman, and six other members to be appointed  by  the  mayor  (no
  more  than  two of whom may be members of the common council of the city
  of Glen Cove excluding the mayor) subject to the approval of the  common
  council  of  the  city of Glen Cove. It shall have the powers and duties
  now or hereafter conferred by article fifteen-A  of  this  chapter  upon
  municipal  urban  renewal  agencies.  It  shall be organized in a manner
  prescribed by and subject to the provisions of article fifteen-A of this
  chapter and the agency, its members,  officers  and  employees  and  its
  operation  and  activities  shall  in  all  respects  be governed by the
  provisions of such article.