New York Consolidated Laws, Public Authorities Law - PBA § 2654. Schenectady metroplex service district

1. The Schenectady metroplex service district shall include all real property within the county of Schenectady, from the Albany county/Schenectady county border to the Montgomery county/Schenectady county border, and within thirty-five hundred feet of Route 5, except from the intersection of Route 5/State Street and Brandywine Avenue to the intersection of Route 5/Mohawk Avenue and Route 147/Sacandaga Road, whereupon the Schenectady metroplex service district shall include all real property within eighty-seven hundred fifty feet of Route 5.  The service district shall also include all real property within Schenectady county from the town of Rotterdam/city of Schenectady border to the Schoharie county/Schenectady county border and within the boundaries and accompanying right of way of state Route 7;  and all real property within two hundred feet of Chrisler Avenue in the city of Schenectady except as excluded by subdivision two of this section.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless amended pursuant to local law, the Schenectady metroplex service district shall not include any parcel of real property upon which a non-multiple dwelling residence is located in the city of Schenectady and within the boundaries of the historic GE realty plot district, the Union College Triangle, the Mont Pleasant neighborhood association, or any defined neighborhood within the Schenectady united neighborhood associations.

3. The Stockade Historic District shall be included within the Schenectady Metroplex Service District for the purposes of the design, development, planning, financing, creation, siting, construction, renovation, administration, operation, management, and/or maintenance of facilities, structures or parks as defined in paragraphs (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of subdivision eight of section twenty-six hundred fifty-five of this title.

4. Any municipality located within the county shall have the power to increase the boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex service district within the municipality.  To increase the boundaries of the service district within a municipality, the municipality must conduct a public hearing and enact by a two-thirds vote a local law defining the additional boundaries of such district.  In the event a municipality elects to increase the boundaries of the service district, two certified copies of the local law increasing the service district, together with two certified maps designating such increased boundaries shall be filed with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex development authority.  Within ten days of the filing of such certified copies and maps with the office of the chairman of the Schenectady metroplex development authority, such chairman shall file one certified copy of such local law and one certified copy of such map with the commissioner of the New York state department of taxation and finance.  The territory and boundaries of the Schenectady metroplex development service district shall not be required to be contiguous.