§ 2654. Schenectady metroplex service district. 1. The Schenectady
metroplex service district shall include all real property within the
county of Schenectady, from the Albany county/Schenectady county border
to the Montgomery county/Schenectady county border, and within
thirty-five hundred feet of Route 5, except from the intersection of
Route 5/State Street and Brandywine Avenue to the intersection of Route
5/Mohawk Avenue and Route 147/Sacandaga Road, whereupon the Schenectady
metroplex service district shall include all real property within
eighty-seven hundred fifty feet of Route 5. The service district shall
also include all real property within Schenectady county from the town
of Rotterdam/city of Schenectady border to the Schoharie
county/Schenectady county border and within the boundaries and
accompanying right of way of state Route 7; and all real property within
two hundred feet of Chrisler Avenue in the city of Schenectady except as
excluded by subdivision two of this section.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless amended pursuant
to local law, the Schenectady metroplex service district shall not
include any parcel of real property upon which a non-multiple dwelling
residence is located in the city of Schenectady and within the
boundaries of the historic GE realty plot district, the Union College
Triangle, the Mont Pleasant neighborhood association, or any defined
neighborhood within the Schenectady united neighborhood associations.

3. The Stockade Historic District shall be included within the
Schenectady Metroplex Service District for the purposes of the design,
development, planning, financing, creation, siting, construction,
renovation, administration, operation, management, and/or maintenance of
facilities, structures or parks as defined in paragraphs (e), (f), (g),
(h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of subdivision eight of section twenty-six
hundred fifty-five of this title.

4. Any municipality located within the county shall have the power to
increase the boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex service district
within the municipality. To increase the boundaries of the service
district within a municipality, the municipality must conduct a public
hearing and enact by a two-thirds vote a local law defining the
additional boundaries of such district. In the event a municipality
elects to increase the boundaries of the service district, two certified
copies of the local law increasing the service district, together with
two certified maps designating such increased boundaries shall be filed
with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex development
authority. Within ten days of the filing of such certified copies and
maps with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex
development authority, such chairman shall file one certified copy of
such local law and one certified copy of such map with the commissioner
of the New York state department of taxation and finance. The territory
and boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex development service district
shall not be required to be contiguous.