Allows a county which at the time of the application contains no cities within its boundaries, has a population of more than 250,000, has a common border with an adjacent state, has at least two state operated hospitals or facilities designated by the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of mental retardation and developmental disabilities for contraction, has the smallest geographic area of any county in the state not within an incorporated city, and which has more than thirty percent dedicated parkland within its geographic area to apply for empire zone designation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1603
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to creating an
additional criteria to allow more counties to be eligible for empire
zone designation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (vi) of subdivision (c) of
2 section 958 of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 708 of
3 the laws of 1993, is amended and a new paragraph (vii) is added to read
4 as follows:
5 (B) a state-operated hospital or facility listed in [sections] section
6 7.17 or 13.17 of the mental hygiene law which has been designated by
7 either the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of mental
8 retardation and developmental disabilities for contraction or discontin-
9 uance. Provided however, that not more than one-third of the zones
10 designated pursuant to paragraph (iii) or (iv) of subdivision (b) of
11 section nine hundred sixty of this article, shall be based on applica-
12 tions filed pursuant to this paragraph [(vi) of this subdivision.]; or
13 (vii) at the time of application, the county contains:
14 (A) no cities within its boundaries;
15 (B) a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand;
16 (C) a common border with an adjacent state;
17 (D) at least two state operated hospitals or facilities listed in
18 section 7.17 or 13.17 of the mental hygiene law which have been desig-
19 nated by either the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of
20 mental retardation and developmental disabilities for contraction or
21 discontinuance;
22 (E) the smallest geographic area of any county in the state not within
23 an incorporated city; and
24 (F) more than thirty percent dedicated parkland within its geographic
25 area.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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