2006 New York Code - Foreign-trade Zones.

 
    §  22-401 Foreign-trade zones. The city is hereby authorized from time
  to time to make application to the  board  established  by  the  act  of
  congress,   approved  June  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  thirty-four,
  entitled "An  act  to  provide  for  the  establishment,  operation  and
  maintenance  of  foreign-trade  zones  in  ports  of entry of the United
  States, to expedite  and  encourage  foreign  commerce,  and  for  other
  purposes,"  for a grant or grants or any extensions thereof to such city
  of  the  privilege  of  establishing,  operating   and   maintaining   a
  foreign-trade  zone  or  zones  or  any extensions thereof in such city,
  pursuant to the provisions of such act, and if any such  application  be
  granted, to accept such grant or grants or any extensions thereof and to
  establish,  operate  and  maintain any such zone or extension thereof in
  accordance with law. The authorization hereby granted  shall  extend  to
  and  cover  any  application heretofore made for any such purpose by the
  city pursuant to the act of congress hereinbefore described, and to  any
  amendment of such an application.