STATE OF NEW YORK
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3962
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,
Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to siting
requirements for the New York city school construction authority's
leasing program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1731 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 285 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Prior to the commencing of new construction or building additions
5 of an educational facility, or the acquisition of real property or any
6 interest therein for such purpose, including the leasing of any building
7 or property, the authority shall file a copy of the site plan of such
8 facility in its offices and shall provide a copy thereof to the city
9 board, the city planning commission and the community school district
10 education council and the community board of the district in which the
11 facility will be located. Such plan shall include data on projected
12 student population for the community school district or districts and
13 the community board or boards affected, the source of that data and the
14 reason the proposed action is necessary and how such plan factors and
15 accounts for student population projections. Upon request, any other
16 person shall be furnished with such plan or a summary thereof. The
17 authority shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the
18 city a notice of the filing of such plan and the availability of the
19 plan and a summary thereof. Such plan shall include, in the case of any
20 project for which the acquisition of real property or interest therein
21 is proposed, the recommended site, any alternate sites considered, and
22 any rationale as to why the alternate sites were not selected.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1732 of the public authorities law, as
2 amended by chapter 562 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Following the hearings held pursuant to section seventeen hundred
5 thirty-one of this title, but prior to initiating construction of new
6 educational facilities, or prior to leasing any building or property for
7 such purpose, the authority shall submit the site plan of such projects
8 to the mayor and the council for review, provided, however, that such
9 review shall be limited to the site selected for the project.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
