Bill Text: NY A09847 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Kinderhook to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad for the purpose of providing emergency medical services to the town of Kinderhook.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - print number 9847a [A09847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09847-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9847--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 11, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  authorizing  the  town  of  Kinderhook to transfer ownership of
          certain parkland to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc.

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  (a)  Subject  to  the provisions of this act, the town of
     2  Kinderhook, county of Columbia, acting through  its  governing  body  is
     3  hereby  authorized  to discontinue the use of town parkland more partic-
     4  ularly described in section two of this act, and to convey its  interest
     5  in  the  real property to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc.  upon
     6  terms agreed upon by the town of Kinderhook and  the  Valatie  Volunteer
     7  Rescue  Squad,  Inc. for use by the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc.
     8  for the purpose of providing emergency medical services to the  town  of
     9  Kinderhook.
    10    (b)  Any revenues received by the town of Kinderhook from the transfer
    11  shall be used for capital improvements of existing park or  recreational
    12  and/or the acquisition of additional park or recreational facilities.
    13    § 2. The parklands authorized to be conveyed by the town of Kinderhook
    14  in  section  one  of  this  act  are  located,  bounded and described as
    15  follows:
    16    ALL that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being  in
    17  the  Town  of  Kinderhook,  County  of  Columbia, and State of New York,
    18  bounded and described as follows:
    19    BEGINNING at a steel pin at the southwesterly  corner  of  the  parcel
    20  herein  to be described, said point of beginning being at the southeast-
    21  erly corner of the lands now or formerly of The State of New  York  said
    22  point  of beginning being further referenced as S 66°10'52" E a distance
    23  of 380.86 feet from a steel pin on  the  easterly  side  of  a  Town  of
    24  Kinderhook highway commonly known as State Farm Road;
    25  thence from said point of beginning and along lands of said State of New
    26  York:  N 34°15'00" E a distance of 456.84 feet to a point;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  Thence  through  lands  of  the Town of Kinderhook on the following four
     2  courses;
     3  S 62°25'13" E a distance of 602.24 feet to a point;
     4  S 32°59'21" W a distance of 370.14 feet to a point;
     5  N 89°51'57" W a distance of 110.48 feet to a point;
     6  N 66°10'52" W a distance of 523.50 feet to the point of beginning;
     7  having an area of 261069.10 square feet or 5.99 acres of land.
     8    Subject to any and all easements of record.
     9    § 3. Should the lands described in section two of this act cease to be
    10  used  for the purposes described in section one of this act, those lands
    11  shall revert to the town of Kinderhook for public park and  recreational
    12  purposes.
    13    §  4.  In  the  event that the town of Kinderhook received any funding
    14  support or assistance from the  federal  government  for  the  purchase,
    15  maintenance  or improvement of the parklands set forth in section two of
    16  this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland  authorized
    17  by  the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of Kinder-
    18  hook has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the alien-
    19  ation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secretary  of
    20  the  interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all condi-
    21  tions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to ensure  the
    22  substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value and
    23  usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
    24    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.