2012 New York Consolidated Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 18-C - (970-A - 970-R) MUNICIPAL REDEVELOPMENT LAW
970-I - Acquisition of property.

 
    §  970-i.  Acquisition  of  property.  (a)  Within  the project area a
  municipality  may  upon  adoption  of  the  redevelopment  plan  by  the
  legislative  body, purchase, lease, obtain option upon, acquire by gift,
  grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, any real or personal property, any
  interest in property,  and  any  improvements  on  it  or  acquire  real
  property by eminent domain.
    (b)  Without the consent of an owner, the agency shall not acquire any
  real property on which an existing building is to remain on its  present
  site  and  in  its  present  form  and use unless such building requires
  structural alteration, improvement, modernization or rehabilitation,  or
  the  site or lot on which the building is situated requires modification
  in size, shape or use or it is necessary to impose  upon  such  property
  any  of  the  standards,  restrictions  and controls of the plan and the
  owner fails or refuses to agree  to  participate  in  the  redevelopment
  plan.