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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and  Commissions  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee on Corporations,
   Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Senate Rule 6,  sec.  8
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
   relation to extending the amount of time between notice of  a  project
   and a public hearing
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 6 of section 1 of chapter 174 of
 the laws of 1968 constituting  the  New  York  state  urban  development
 corporation act is amended to read as follows:
   (c)  to  any  other  person, firm, partnership or corporation, without
 public bidding or public sale, provided there is published in  at  least
 one  newspaper  of  general circulation in the municipality in which the
 project is located a notice which shall include a statement of the iden-
 tity of the proposed purchaser or lessee and  of  his  proposed  use  or
 reuse  of  the  land  use improvement project area or applicable portion
 thereof, the price or rental to be paid by such purchaser or lessee, all
 other essential conditions of such sale or lease, and a statement that a
 public hearing upon such sale or lease will be held  before  the  corpo-
 ration at a specified time and place on a date not less than [ten] THIR-
 TY  days  after  such publication, and provided further that such public
 hearing is held in accordance with such notice.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 8 of section 1 of  chapter  174  of  the
 laws  of  1968  constituting the New York state urban development corpo-
 ration act is amended to read as follows:
   (2) Before any sale or lease of all or a substantial part of a project
 as authorized by subdivision one of this section is  consummated,  there
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 shall  be  published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in
 the municipality in which the project is located a  notice  which  shall
 include a statement of the identity of the proposed purchaser or lessee,
 the  price  or rental to be paid, all other essential conditions of such
 sale or lease, and a statement that a public hearing upon such  sale  or
 lease  will be held before the corporation at a specified time and place
 on a date not less than [ten] THIRTY days after  such  publication,  and
 such  hearing  shall  be  held in accordance with such notice; provided,
 however, that if the corporation determines that trade secrets or  other
 confidential  information  about the prospective purchaser's or lessee's
 business operations, products, processes or designs would  otherwise  be
 revealed  by  such public notice and public hearing, the requirements of
 this subdivision may be waived by unanimous vote of the directors of the
 corporation.
   § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 14 of section 1 of chapter  174  of  the
 laws  of  1968  constituting the New York state urban development corpo-
 ration act, as amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1969, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special  or  local
 law  or  charter, any municipality, by resolution of its local governing
 body, is hereby empowered without  referendum,  public  auction,  sealed
 bids  or  public notice, to sell, lease for a term not exceeding ninety-
 nine years, grant or convey to the corporation any real  property  owned
 by  it which the corporation shall certify to be necessary or convenient
 for its corporate purposes. Any such sale, lease,  grant  or  conveyance
 shall  be  made  with  or  without consideration and upon such terms and
 conditions as may be agreed upon by such  municipality  and  the  corpo-
 ration.  Certification  shall  be evidenced by a formal request from the
 president of the corporation. Before any  such  sale,  lease,  grant  or
 conveyance  may  be  made  to the corporation, a public hearing shall be
 held by the local governing body to consider the same.  Notice  of  such
 hearing  shall be published at least [ten] FOURTEEN BUSINESS days before
 the date set for the hearing in such publication and in such  manner  as
 may be designated by the local governing body.
   §  4.  Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section
 16 of section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968 constituting the  New
 York  state urban development corporation act, as amended by chapter 732
 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) in any city having a population of one million or more,  provide
 to  any  community  board in which the project will be located, a notice
 that such plan will be filed upon its adoption by  the  corporation  and
 that  digests  thereof  will be available, which notice shall also state
 that a public hearing will be held to consider the plan at  a  specified
 time  and  place  on  a  date not less than [ten] FOURTEEN BUSINESS days
 after such publication;
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.