2012 New York Consolidated Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 15 - (500 - 525) URBAN RENEWAL
519 - Division of housing as agent of smaller municipalities.

 
    §  519.  Division  of housing as agent of smaller municipalities.  For
  all of the purposes of section one hundred one-b of the housing  act  of
  nineteen   hundred  forty-nine  and  all  federal  laws  amendatory  and
  supplementary thereto, the division of housing of the state of New  York
  is  hereby  designated  as the local agency established by the state and
  operating on a state-wide basis  in  behalf  of  smaller  municipalities
  undertaking  or  proposing  to  undertake  a  federal  program  of urban
  renewal. Designation of the division of housing as such agency shall  be
  subject  to approval by resolution or ordinance of the governing body of
  the municipality in whose behalf  the  designation  is  made.  The  term
  "smaller  municipalities"  as  used  in  this section shall be deemed to
  apply to cities and villages with a population of less than  twenty-five
  thousand  and  to  towns  with  a population, excluding the incorporated
  areas thereof, of less than thirty thousand.