N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 158-c: Relocation of dwellings

* § 158-c. Relocation of dwellings. 1. It is hereby declared that any

reduction in housing accommodations on Long Island would be detrimental

to the community; that this condition requires that provision be made

for the relocation and rehabilitation of dwellings affected by projects

undertaken by the authority; that the necessity, in the public interest

for the provisions of this section, is hereby declared as a matter of

legislative determination.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority shall

have power whenever it shall acquire real property with dwellings

thereon (a) to acquire real property for the purpose of providing new

sites on which such dwellings may be relocated by purchase, gift, devise

or condemnation in the manner provided in this title, or, with the

approval of the director of the budget, to use real property under the

jurisdiction of the authority for such purpose; (b) to sell such

dwellings or to provide for the removal and rehabilitation of such

dwellings on new foundations at such new sites by contract or by its own

labor force or by combination of such methods; (c) to contract for the

installation of services and facilities including water, sewer, gas,

electricity and other necessary appurtenances required for the complete

restoration of such dwellings; (d) to landscape such sites; (e) to

contract with any person, firm or corporation or with a municipality for

the improvement or installation of streets, sewers, water lines or other

facilities in connection with the relocation of such dwellings and to

pay the cost thereof and any municipality is hereby authorized to enter

into any such contract; (f) to contract with the several owners of such

property for the conveyance of the new sites with improvements thereon

to such owner in settlement in part or in whole of the compensation and

damage to which they are entitled; and (g) to sell such sites with or

without dwellings and improvements thereon.

3. The authority may agree with the owners of property acquired, in

settlement in part or in whole of the damages to which they are

entitled, to compensate such owners for the cost of acquiring new sites,

removing dwellings thereto on new foundations, the installation of

services and facilities including water, sewerage, gas, electricity, and

other necessary appurtenances required for the complete restoration of

such dwellings; and landscaping of the new site.

4. This section shall be effective only until January first, nineteen

hundred fifty-six.

* NB Expired January 1, 1956

* NB (Authority abolished June 30, 1978)