§ 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.