Directs the empire state development corporation and the governor's office of motion picture and television development to promulgate rules and regulations for municipalities charging film permit fees.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8294
IN SENATE
May 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
opment and Small Business
AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to directing
the empire state development corporation and the governor's office of
motion picture and television development to promulgate rules and
regulations for municipalities charging film permit fees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The economic development law is amended by adding a new
2 article 23 to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 23
4 FILM, TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS
5 Section 450. Film permit fees.
6 § 450. Film permit fees. The empire state development corporation in
7 conjunction with the governor's office of motion picture and television
8 development shall promulgate rules and regulations regarding permit fees
9 charged by municipalities for film, television and commercial
10 productions. Such rules and regulations shall include, but not be limit-
11 ed to, language that provides for a specific maximum amount that can be
12 charged by a municipality for all such fees in each economic development
13 region established pursuant to article eleven of this chapter.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14917-01-0
