Senate Bill S3425

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes temporarily erected structures in the definition of substandard or insanitary area

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee


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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-S3425 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
New York State Urban Development Corporation Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, UDC Act; amd §502, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S7358

2023-S3425 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S3425 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3425 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3425
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             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:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 12 of section 3 of section 1 of chapter 174 of
 the laws of 1968, constituting the urban development corporation act  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (12) "Substandard or insanitary area". The term "substandard or insan-
 itary  area"  shall mean and be interchangeable with a [slum,] blighted,
 deteriorated or deteriorating area, or an area  which  has  a  blighting
 influence on the surrounding area, whether residential, non-residential,
 commercial,  industrial,  vacant or land in highways, waterways, railway
 and subway tracks and yards, bridge and tunnel approaches and entrances,
 TEMPORARILY ERECTED STRUCTURES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCAFFOLDING,
 or other similar facilities, over which  air  rights  and  easements  or
 other  rights  of user necessary for the use and development of such air
 rights, to be developed as air rights sites for the elimination  of  the
 blighting  influence,  or  any combination thereof and may include land,
 buildings or improvements, or air rights and  concomitant  easements  or
 other  rights  of user necessary for the use and development of such air
 rights not in themselves substandard or insanitary.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 502 of the  general  municipal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  748  of  the  laws  of 1967, is amended to read as
 follows:
   4. "Substandard or insanitary area." The term "substandard or  insani-
 tary  area"  shall  mean and be interchangeable with a [slum,] blighted,
 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
              

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