New York General Municipal Law Article 15 - URBAN RENEWAL

• 500 - Short Title.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the "urban renewal law."
• 501 - Policy and Purposes of Article.
  There exist in many municipalities within this state residential, non-residential, commercial, industrial or vacant areas, and combinations thereof, which are slum or blighted, or which...
• 502 - Definitions.
  As used in this article and article fifteen-A of this chapter, the following terms shall mean: 1. "Governing body." (a) In a city, the board...
• 503 - Powers of Municipalities.
  Every municipality is hereby authorized to plan and undertake one or more urban renewal projects and shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry...
• 503-a - Cooperation With Agencies.
  For the purpose of aiding an agency established pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen-A of this chapter a municipality may: 1. Delegate to such...
• 503-b - Transfer of Projects.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this article, or of any general, special or local law or charter to the contrary, a municipality may, upon the establishment...
• 504 - Site Designation.
  An area shall be designated by the governing body, or by the commission where so authorized to act by the governing body, on its own...
• 504-a - Abandoned Dwellings and Mortgage Foreclosures in Nassau, Suffolk or Westchester County.
  1. Following site designation, pursuant to section five hundred four of this article, a municipality or an urban renewal or community development agency in Nassau,...
• 505 - Urban Renewal Plan and Approval Thereof.
  1. Following the designation of an area pursuant to section five hundred four of this article, the agency shall prepare or cause to be prepared...
• 506 - Acquisition of Property.
  1. (a) A municipality, acting through its governing body, may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of...
• 507 - Disposition of Property.
  1. In addition to employing any other lawful method of utilizing or disposing of any real property, and appurtenances thereto or any interest therein owned...
• 508 - State Loans.
  1. The commissioner may, in the name of the state, make or contract to make loans to a municipality to assist such municipality to establish...
• 509 - Periodic Subsidies.
  1. The commissioner may, in the name of the state, make or contract to make periodic subsidies to a municipality to assist such municipality in...
• 510 - State Capital Grants.
  1. In lieu of making or contracting to make a loan or periodic subsidy, or both, pursuant to sections five hundred eight and five hundred...
• 511 - Authority of Municipality; Other Terms of Contract.
  1. Any municipality is authorized to enter into agreement with the state to receive such loans, periodic subsidies and state capital grants to assist such...
• 512 - Approval of Program by Commissioner.
  No contract for a state loan and periodic subsidy or for a state capital grant shall be executed until the program for which such aid...
• 513 - Findings by the Commissioner.
  1. No loan, subsidy or grant shall be made by the state for an urban renewal program unless the commissioner shall find that: (a) the...
• 514 - Filing of Proposed Plans.
  The municipality or agency, as the case may be, shall file with the commissioner a copy of any proposed urban renewal program assisted by state...
• 515 - Periodic Reports.
  The municipality or agency, as the case may be, shall file with the commissioner periodic reports covering its operations and activities in connection with one...
• 516 - Intervention by Commissioner.
  In any action or proceeding affecting any urban renewal program, the commissioner shall be given prompt notice thereof, and he shall take such steps in...
• 517 - Disqualification of Commissioner, Officers and Employees.
  Neither the commissioner, nor any officer or employee in the division of housing shall acquire or hold any interest, direct or indirect, in such state-aided...
• 518 - Rules and Regulations of Commissioner.
  The commissioner shall have the power to make, promulgate, modify, amend and repeal rules and regulations to effectuate his powers and duties under this article....
• 519 - Division of Housing As Agent of Smaller Municipalities.
  For all of the purposes of section one hundred one-b of the housing act of nineteen hundred forty-nine and all federal laws amendatory and supplementary...
• 520 - Construction.
  This article shall be construed liberally to effect the purposes hereof and the enumeration of specific powers in this act shall not operate to restrict...
• 521 - Severability.
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional,...
• 522 - Pending Actions or Proceedings.
  This act or anything contained therein shall not affect or abate any acts, actions, proceedings, civil or criminal, pending at the time this act shall...
• 523 - Saving Clause.
  1. Any urban renewal program commenced or undertaken prior to the effective date of this article, in accordance with and pursuant to, any provision of...
• 524 - Validation.
  All proceedings, acts and things undertaken, performed or done by any municipality or the state division of housing pursuant to sections seventy-two-k, seventy-two-l, seventy-two-m, seventy-two-n...
• 525 - Laws Repealed.
  Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed, except as provided in section five...

Last modified: February 3, 2019