STATE OF NEW YORK
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6685
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
AN ACT to amend the New York city health and hospitals corporation act,
in relation to requiring compliance with the city's uniform land use
review procedure for the disposition of land or buildings by the
corporation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 5 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of
2 the laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals
3 corporation act, is amended to read as follows:
4 6. To acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, lease or sublease, and to
5 accept jurisdiction over and to hold and own, and dispose of by sale,
6 lease or sublease, real or personal property, including but not limited
7 to a health facility, or any interest therein for its corporate
8 purposes; provided, however, that no health facility or other real prop-
9 erty acquired or constructed by the corporation shall be sold, leased or
10 otherwise transferred by the corporation without [public hearing by the
11 corporation after twenty days public notice and without the consent of
12 the board of estimate of the city] following and complying with the
13 provisions of the city's uniform land use review procedure;
14 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 7 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the
15 laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals corpo-
16 ration act, is amended to read as follows:
17 4. If the corporation determines that the use and occupancy of any
18 real property is no longer required for its corporate purposes and
19 powers, then if such real property was acquired at the cost and expense
20 of the city, the corporation shall, subject to the provisions of section
21 five, paragraph six, have power to surrender its use and occupancy to
22 the city. The corporation shall, subject to the provisions of section
23 five, paragraph six, have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 said real property at public or private sale or as part of a contract,
2 lease or other agreement entered into under the terms of this act and to
3 use the proceeds derived from the sale, lease or other disposition ther-
4 eof for its corporate purposes. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regu-
5 lation to the contrary, any disposition of land or buildings by the
6 corporation shall be subject to and shall comply with the provisions of
7 the city's uniform land use review procedure.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 it shall have become a law.
