Section 158-C. Relocation of dwellings

1. It is hereby declared that any
  reduction in housing accommodations on Long Island would be  detrimental
  to  the  community;  that this condition requires that provision be made
  for the relocation and rehabilitation of dwellings affected by  projects
  undertaken  by the authority; that the necessity, in the public interest
  for the provisions of this section, is hereby declared as  a  matter  of
  legislative determination.
    2.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law, the authority shall
  have power whenever  it  shall  acquire  real  property  with  dwellings
  thereon  (a)  to  acquire real property for the purpose of providing new
  sites on which such dwellings may be relocated by purchase, gift, devise
  or condemnation in the manner provided  in  this  title,  or,  with  the
  approval  of  the director of the budget, to use real property under the
  jurisdiction of the  authority  for  such  purpose;  (b)  to  sell  such
  dwellings  or  to  provide  for  the  removal and rehabilitation of such
  dwellings on new foundations at such new sites by contract or by its own
  labor force or by combination of such methods; (c) to contract  for  the
  installation  of  services  and  facilities including water, sewer, gas,
  electricity and other necessary appurtenances required for the  complete
  restoration  of  such  dwellings;  (d)  to  landscape such sites; (e) to
  contract with any person, firm or corporation or with a municipality for
  the improvement or installation of streets, sewers, water lines or other
  facilities in connection with the relocation of such  dwellings  and  to
  pay  the cost thereof and any municipality is hereby authorized to enter
  into any such contract; (f) to contract with the several owners of  such
  property  for  the conveyance of the new sites with improvements thereon
  to such owner in settlement in part or in whole of the compensation  and
  damage  to  which  they are entitled; and (g) to sell such sites with or
  without dwellings and improvements thereon.
    3. The authority may agree with the owners of  property  acquired,  in
  settlement  in  part  or  in  whole  of  the  damages  to which they are
  entitled, to compensate such owners for the cost of acquiring new sites,
  removing dwellings thereto  on  new  foundations,  the  installation  of
  services and facilities including water, sewerage, gas, electricity, and
  other  necessary  appurtenances required for the complete restoration of
  such dwellings; and landscaping of the new site.
    4. This section shall be effective only until January first,  nineteen
  hundred fifty-six.
    * NB Expired January 1, 1956
    * NB (Authority abolished June 30, 1978)