N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2654: Schenectady metroplex service district

§ 2654. Schenectady metroplex service district. 1. The Schenectady

metroplex service district shall include all real property within the

county of Schenectady, from the Albany county/Schenectady county border

to the Montgomery county/Schenectady county border, and within

thirty-five hundred feet of Route 5, except from the intersection of

Route 5/State Street and Brandywine Avenue to the intersection of Route

5/Mohawk Avenue and Route 147/Sacandaga Road, whereupon the Schenectady

metroplex service district shall include all real property within

eighty-seven hundred fifty feet of Route 5. The service district shall

also include all real property within Schenectady county from the town

of Rotterdam/city of Schenectady border to the Schoharie

county/Schenectady county border and within the boundaries and

accompanying right of way of state Route 7; and all real property within

two hundred feet of Chrisler Avenue in the city of Schenectady except as

excluded by subdivision two of this section.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless amended pursuant

to local law, the Schenectady metroplex service district shall not

include any parcel of real property upon which a non-multiple dwelling

residence is located in the city of Schenectady and within the

boundaries of the historic GE realty plot district, the Union College

Triangle, the Mont Pleasant neighborhood association, or any defined

neighborhood within the Schenectady united neighborhood associations.

3. The Stockade Historic District shall be included within the

Schenectady Metroplex Service District for the purposes of the design,

development, planning, financing, creation, siting, construction,

renovation, administration, operation, management, and/or maintenance of

facilities, structures or parks as defined in paragraphs (e), (f), (g),

(h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of subdivision eight of section twenty-six

hundred fifty-five of this title.

4. Any municipality located within the county shall have the power to

increase the boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex service district

within the municipality. To increase the boundaries of the service

district within a municipality, the municipality must conduct a public

hearing and enact by a two-thirds vote a local law defining the

additional boundaries of such district. In the event a municipality

elects to increase the boundaries of the service district, two certified

copies of the local law increasing the service district, together with

two certified maps designating such increased boundaries shall be filed

with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex development

authority. Within ten days of the filing of such certified copies and

maps with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex

development authority, such chairman shall file one certified copy of

such local law and one certified copy of such map with the commissioner

of the New York state department of taxation and finance. The territory

and boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex development service district

shall not be required to be contiguous.