Bill Text: NY A04665 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the county of Ontario to apply to the federal government to establish, operate and maintain foreign trade zones within such county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-31 - signed chap.190 [A04665 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04665-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4665--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 7, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. KOLB, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the county law, in relation to allowing Ontario county
         to participate in the Foreign Trade Zone program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  224 of the county law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 28 to read as follows:
    3    28. THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO MAY MAKE APPLICATION TO  THE  FOREIGN  TRADE
    4  ZONES  BOARD  ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  ACT OF CONGRESS, APPROVED JUNE EIGH-
    5  TEENTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR, ENTITLED "AN ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR
    6  THE  ESTABLISHMENT,  OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF FOREIGN TRADE ZONES IN
    7  PORTS OF ENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO EXPEDITE AND  ENCOURAGE  FOREIGN
    8  COMMERCE,  AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," FOR A GRANT TO ONTARIO COUNTY OF THE
    9  PRIVILEGE TO HAVE ESTABLISHED, OPERATED AND MAINTAINED A  FOREIGN  TRADE
   10  ZONE  OR ZONES AND FOREIGN TRADE SUB-ZONE OR SUB-ZONES WITHIN SUCH COUN-
   11  TY, AND ADJACENT COUNTIES OF LIVINGSTON, WAYNE, SENECA, YATES AND  STEU-
   12  BEN  PURSUANT  TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUCH ACT, AND IF SUCH APPLICATION BE
   13  GRANTED, TO HAVE ESTABLISHED, OPERATED AND MAINTAINED SUCH ZONE OR  SUB-
   14  ZONE  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH LAW. THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO MAY ENTER INTO SUCH
   15  CONTRACTS AND MAY APPROPRIATE SUCH SUMS OF MONEY AS IT MAY DEEM  PROPER,
   16  SUBJECT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS ARTICLE, TOWARDS THE PROMOTION AND
   17  ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH ZONES.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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