N.Y. General Municipal Law § 519: Division of housing as agent of smaller municipalities

§ 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 thereto, the division of housing of the state of New York

is hereby designated as the local agency established by the state and

operating on a state-wide basis in behalf of smaller municipalities

undertaking or proposing to undertake a federal program of urban

renewal. Designation of the division of housing as such agency shall be

subject to approval by resolution or ordinance of the governing body of

the municipality in whose behalf the designation is made. The term

"smaller municipalities" as used in this section shall be deemed to

apply to cities and villages with a population of less than twenty-five

thousand and to towns with a population, excluding the incorporated

areas thereof, of less than thirty thousand.