Assembly Bill A9765

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A9765 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3425
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
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-A9765 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A9765 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9765
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 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
 influence on the surrounding area, whether residential, non-residential,
 commercial, industrial, vacant, or land in highways, railway and  subway
 tracks,  bridge and tunnel approaches and entrances, TEMPORARILY ERECTED
 STRUCTURES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCAFFOLDING,  or  other  similar
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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