STATE OF NEW YORK
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6365
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2025
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 3 of section 1 of chapter 174 of
2 the laws of 1968, constituting the urban development corporation act is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (12) "Substandard or insanitary area". The term "substandard or insan-
5 itary area" shall mean and be interchangeable with a [slum,] blighted,
6 deteriorated or deteriorating area, or an area which has a blighting
7 influence on the surrounding area, whether residential, non-residential,
8 commercial, industrial, vacant or land in highways, waterways, railway
9 and subway tracks and yards, bridge and tunnel approaches and entrances,
10 temporarily erected structures including but not limited to scaffolding,
11 or other similar facilities, over which air rights and easements or
12 other rights of user necessary for the use and development of such air
13 rights, to be developed as air rights sites for the elimination of the
14 blighting influence, or any combination thereof and may include land,
15 buildings or improvements, or air rights and concomitant easements or
16 other rights of user necessary for the use and development of such air
17 rights not in themselves substandard or insanitary.
18 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 502 of the general municipal law, as
19 amended by chapter 748 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as
20 follows:
21 4. "Substandard or insanitary area." The term "substandard or insani-
22 tary area" shall mean and be interchangeable with a [slum,] blighted,
23 deteriorated or deteriorating area, or an area which has a blighting
24 influence on the surrounding area, whether residential, non-residential,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 commercial, industrial, vacant, or land in highways, railway and subway
2 tracks, bridge and tunnel approaches and entrances, temporarily erected
3 structures including but not limited to scaffolding, or other similar
4 facilities, over which air rights and easements or other rights of user
5 necessary for the use and development of such air rights, to be devel-
6 oped as air rights sites for the elimination of the blighting influence,
7 or any combination thereof and may include land, buildings or improve-
8 ments, or air rights and concomitant easements or other rights of user
9 necessary for the use and development of such air rights, not in them-
10 selves substandard or insanitary, the inclusion of which is deemed
11 necessary for the effective undertaking of one or more urban renewal
12 programs.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
