STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5452 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 29, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to adding the Niagara Frontier transportation authority as an eligible applicant for the western New York economic development fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 189-a of the economic development 2 law, as added by section 2 of part GG of chapter 58 of the laws of 2012, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 4. "Eligible applicant" means a private business, including a not-for- 5 profit corporation. Public benefit corporations created to manage, 6 control and direct the maintenance and operation of transportation 7 facilities, equipment, real property or infrastructure, such as the 8 Niagara Frontier transportation authority created under section twelve 9 hundred ninety-nine-c of the public authorities law, shall be an eligi- 10 ble applicant. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04612-01-7