N.Y. General Municipal Law § 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