* § 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)