New York General Municipal Law Section 72-P - Lease of real property by a municipality.

*   72-p.  Lease  of real property by a municipality. Notwithstanding
  any provision of any general, special or local law or  of  any  charter,
  whenever  a  municipal  corporation enters into a lease of real property
  the lease agreement shall provide that the tenant  may  not  assign  the
  lease  to  a  third  party  unless  such  assignment  is approved by the
  municipal corporation. A municipal corporation may not  arbitrarily  and
  capriciously withhold its approval of such assignment. The provisions of
  this section shall not apply to the leases of real property to municipal
  or public corporations.
* NB There are two  72-p's

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