STATE OF NEW YORK
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9851
IN ASSEMBLY
April 19, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to
empowering the trust for cultural resources of the city of New York to
designate East Harlem as a cultural district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 21.01 of the arts and cultural affairs law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. "Cultural district" shall mean a geographic area of a city, town or
4 village with a concentration of cultural institutions within its
5 borders.
6 § 2. Subdivisions 12 and 13 of section 21.07 of the arts and cultural
7 affairs law, as added by chapter 656 of the laws of 1991, are amended
8 and a new subdivision 14 is added to read as follows:
9 12. to make and execute such agreements, including without limitation,
10 instruments of conveyance and agreements with participating cultural
11 institutions with respect to the architectural and design character-
12 istics of any combined-use facility or cultural facility, as are neces-
13 sary or convenient for the exercise of its corporate powers and the
14 fulfillment of its purposes; [and]
15 13. to make loans in accordance with article twenty of this
16 chapter[.]; and
17 14. to designate, as a cultural district, as defined in subdivision
18 five of section 21.01 of this article, any real property in the district
19 bounded by East 96th Street on the South, 5th Avenue on the West, East
20 125th Street on the North and the East River on the East.
21 § 3. 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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