N.Y. General Municipal Law § 520: Construction

§ 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 the meaning of any general grant

of power contained in this chapter or to exclude other powers

comprehended in such general grant. In construing this chapter

consideration shall be given to its purposes and intent, among others,

of consolidating, clarifying and simplifying the respective provisions

of the chapters repealed as hereinafter specified in section five

hundred twenty-five hereof and of authorizing municipalities to

undertake one or more programs of urban renewal with respect to the

clearance, replanning, reconstruction, rehabilitation, redevelopment,

conservation, restoration or improvement of substandard, insanitary,

slum, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating residential,

non-residential, improved or vacant areas, or the remedying of

unsuitable topographical, subsoil or other physical conditions which

tend to impede the development of such areas, for residential,

commercial, industrial, community, public and other uses and to apply

for and accept federal or state loans, subsidies or grants in connection

therewith. Insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent

with the provisions of any other general, special or local law, the

provisions of this article shall be controlling.