Bill Text: NY A08846 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing Wyoming county to make application to the Foreign Trade Zones Board for a grant to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - substituted by s7000 [A08846 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08846-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8846
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    December 22, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN  ACT  to amend the county law, in relation to allowing Wyoming 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. Subdivision 17 of section 224 of the county law, as amended
     2  by chapter 651 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
     3    17. The county of Erie may make application to the Foreign-Trade Zones
     4  Board  established  by  the  act  of Congress, approved June eighteenth,
     5  nineteen hundred thirty-four, entitled "An act to provide for the estab-
     6  lishment, operation and maintenance of foreign trade zones in  ports  of
     7  entry  of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce,
     8  and for other purposes," for a grant to Erie county of the privilege  to
     9  have  established,  operated  and maintained, a [foreign trade] foreign-
    10  trade zone or zones within such county, pursuant to  the  provisions  of
    11  such act, and if such application be granted, to have established, oper-
    12  ated  and  maintained  such zone in accordance with law including a sub-
    13  zone to be located in Monroe county which has the  authority  to  create
    14  said  sub-zone pursuant to chapter five hundred seventy-four of the laws
    15  of nineteen hundred seventy-six, and a sub-zone to be located in  Catta-
    16  raugus  county  which has the authority to create said sub-zone pursuant
    17  to subdivision seventeen-a of this section and a sub-zone to be  located
    18  in  Chautauqua  county  which  has the authority to create said sub-zone
    19  pursuant to subdivision twenty-five of this section and a sub-zone to be
    20  located in Wyoming county which has the authority to  create  said  sub-
    21  zone pursuant to subdivision twenty-nine of this section. Said sub-zones
    22  may  only  be  created  with  the  approval of the governing body of the
    23  appropriate host  county.  The  county  of  Erie  may  enter  into  such
    24  contracts  and may appropriate such sums of money as it may deem proper,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  subject to the provisions of this article,  towards  the  promotion  and
     2  establishment of such zones.
     3    § 2. Section 224 of the county law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
     4  sion 29 to read as follows:
     5    29.  The  county  of Wyoming may make application to the Foreign-Trade
     6  Zones Board established by the act  of  Congress,  approved  June  eigh-
     7  teenth,  nineteen  hundred  thirty-four, entitled "An act to provide for
     8  the establishment, operation and maintenance of foreign trade  zones  in
     9  ports  of  entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign
    10  commerce, and for other purposes," for a grant to Wyoming county of  the
    11  privilege  to  have established, operated and maintained a foreign-trade
    12  zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such  coun-
    13  ty,  pursuant  to the provisions of such act, and if such application be
    14  granted, to have established, operated and maintained such zone or  sub-
    15  zone  in  accordance with law. The county of Wyoming may enter into such
    16  contracts and may appropriate sums of  money  as  it  may  deem  proper,
    17  subject  to  the  provisions  of this article, towards the promotion and
    18  establishment of such zones.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.