Relates to allowing Wyoming county to make application to the Foreign Trade Zones Board for a grant to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such county.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8846
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 22, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to allowing Wyoming county
to participate in the Foreign-Trade Zone program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 17 of section 224 of the county law, as amended
2 by chapter 651 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
3 17. The county of Erie may make application to the Foreign-Trade Zones
4 Board established by the act of Congress, approved June eighteenth,
5 nineteen hundred thirty-four, entitled "An act to provide for the estab-
6 lishment, operation and maintenance of foreign trade zones in ports of
7 entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce,
8 and for other purposes," for a grant to Erie county of the privilege to
9 have established, operated and maintained, a [foreign trade] foreign-
10 trade zone or zones within such county, pursuant to the provisions of
11 such act, and if such application be granted, to have established, oper-
12 ated and maintained such zone in accordance with law including a sub-
13 zone to be located in Monroe county which has the authority to create
14 said sub-zone pursuant to chapter five hundred seventy-four of the laws
15 of nineteen hundred seventy-six, and a sub-zone to be located in Catta-
16 raugus county which has the authority to create said sub-zone pursuant
17 to subdivision seventeen-a of this section and a sub-zone to be located
18 in Chautauqua county which has the authority to create said sub-zone
19 pursuant to subdivision twenty-five of this section and a sub-zone to be
20 located in Wyoming county which has the authority to create said sub-
21 zone pursuant to subdivision twenty-nine of this section. Said sub-zones
22 may only be created with the approval of the governing body of the
23 appropriate host county. The county of Erie may enter into such
24 contracts and may appropriate such sums of money as it may deem proper,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 subject to the provisions of this article, towards the promotion and
2 establishment of such zones.
3 § 2. Section 224 of the county law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
4 sion 29 to read as follows:
5 29. The county of Wyoming may make application to the Foreign-Trade
6 Zones Board established by the act of Congress, approved June eigh-
7 teenth, nineteen hundred thirty-four, entitled "An act to provide for
8 the establishment, operation and maintenance of foreign trade zones in
9 ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign
10 commerce, and for other purposes," for a grant to Wyoming county of the
11 privilege to have established, operated and maintained a foreign-trade
12 zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such coun-
13 ty, pursuant to the provisions of such act, and if such application be
14 granted, to have established, operated and maintained such zone or sub-
15 zone in accordance with law. The county of Wyoming may enter into such
16 contracts and may appropriate sums of money as it may deem proper,
17 subject to the provisions of this article, towards the promotion and
18 establishment of such zones.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
