STATE OF NEW YORK
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4968
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, GIGLIO, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. FITZPATRICK, McDONOUGH, MORINELLO, THIELE -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creating within the
office of general services a home ownership and local development
program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 201-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 201-b. Home ownership and local development program. 1. There shall
4 be created within the office of general services a home ownership and
5 local development program, with the purpose of identifying non-essential
6 or non-preserved state owned land.
7 2. The office of general services shall authorize the sale of state
8 owned land, identified as non-essential or non-preserved pursuant to
9 subdivision one of this section, for one dollar for the construction of
10 affordable housing projects or recreational purposes.
11 3. Such state owned land shall be located in a county with a popu-
12 lation of more than one thousand six hundred inhabitants per square mile
13 and less than five thousand inhabitants per square mile according to the
14 two thousand federal census and shall not be located in a city with a
15 population of one million or more inhabitants.
16 4. Such state owned land shall be transferred to the applicable city,
17 town, village or municipal housing authority. If such property after
18 transfer is not used for affordable housing or recreational purposes
19 within two years then the sale shall be void and transferred back to the
20 office of general services.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
22 it shall have become a law. Any rules and regulations necessary to
23 implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are author-
24 ized and directed to be promulgated on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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