N.Y. General Municipal Law § 956: Statement of legislative findings and declaration

§ 956. Statement of legislative findings and declaration. It is

hereby found and declared that there exist within the state certain

areas characterized by persistent and pervasive poverty, high

unemployment, limited new job creation, a dependence on public

assistance income, dilapidated and abandoned industrial and commercial

facilities, and shrinking tax bases. These severe conditions require

state government to target for these areas extraordinary economic and

human resource development programs in order to stimulate private

investment, private business development and job creation. It is the

public policy of the state to offer special incentives and assistance

that will promote the development of new businesses, the expansion of

existing businesses and the development of human resources within these

economically impoverished areas and to do so without encouraging the

relocation of business investment from other areas of the state. It is

further found and declared that it is the public policy of the state to

achieve these goals through the mutual cooperation of all levels of

state and local government and the business community.