Bill Text: NY A07840 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands in the town of Cornwall, county of Orange.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - substituted by s6266a [A07840 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07840-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7840--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 16, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SKOUFIS -- 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 alienation of certain parklands in the town of Corn-
          wall, county of Orange
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subject  to the provisions of this act, the town of Corn-
     2  wall, in the county of Orange, acting by and through its town board,  is
     3  hereby  authorized  to  discontinue  as parklands and alienate the lands
     4  described in section three of this act for the purpose of constructing a
     5  local history museum owned and operated by the town of Cornwall.
     6    § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
     7  effect only upon the condition that the town  of  Cornwall  dedicate  an
     8  amount  equal  to  or  greater  than the fair market value of the parcel
     9  described in section four of this act for the acquisition of  additional
    10  park  and  recreational  facilities  and/or  for capital improvements to
    11  existing park and recreational facilities.
    12    § 3. The authorization contained in section one of this act  shall  be
    13  conditioned  upon use of the lands described in section four of this act
    14  exclusively for the purpose of construction and  operation  of  a  local
    15  history  museum  by the town of Cornwall and, in the event that such use
    16  of the said land by the town shall cease, the lands described in section
    17  three of this act shall revert to parkland owned and maintained  by  the
    18  town.
    19    §  4. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be discontin-
    20  ued as parkland are described as follows:
    21    ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the  building  and
    22  improvements  thereon  erected,  situate, lying and being in the Town of
    23  Cornwall, County of Orange and State of New York bounded  and  described
    24  as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    BEGINNING  at  a  point in or near a utility pole at the southeasterly
     2  corner of lands of the Central School District No. 1  of  the  Towns  of
     3  Cornwall, New Windsor and Woodbury as described in Liber 4750, Page 330,
     4  said  point  of  beginning  being located South 33 degrees 36 minutes 27
     5  seconds  East  for  a  distance  of  342.24 feet along the northeasterly
     6  bounds of said parcel, from a point in the southeasterly line of  Hudson
     7  Street;
     8    THENCE  South  33 degrees 36 minutes 27 seconds East for a distance of
     9  100.68 feet through lands of the Town of Cornwall, Liber 2028, Page  337
    10  to a point;
    11    THENCE  South  49 degrees 43 minutes 32 seconds West for a distance of
    12  191.00 feet through the same to a point in or near the edge of  pavement
    13  of Munger Cottage Drive;
    14    THENCE  North  33 degrees 29 minutes 19 seconds West for a distance of
    15  135.22 feet through said lands of the Town of Cornwall to a point in the
    16  southeasterly bounds said lands of Central School District No. 1 of  the
    17  Towns of Cornwall, New Windsor and Woodbury;
    18    THENCE  North  76 degrees 55 minutes 00 seconds East for a distance of
    19  75.00 feet along the same to a point;
    20    THENCE North 49 degrees 43 minutes 32 seconds East for a  distance  of
    21  120.00 feet along the same to the POINT OR PLACE OF BEGINNING.
    22    TOGETHER with and subject to covenants, easements, and restrictions of
    23  record.
    24    Said property contains 0.4661 acres more or less.
    25    §  5.  In  the  event  that the town of Cornwall received any funding,
    26  support or assistance from the  federal  government  for  the  purchase,
    27  maintenance or improvement of the parkland set forth in section three of
    28  this  act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland authorized
    29  by the provisions of section three of this act shall not occur until the
    30  town of Cornwall has complied with any federal  requirements  pertaining
    31  to  the alienation or conversion of such parklands, including satisfying
    32  the secretary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies
    33  with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems  necessary
    34  to  assure  the  substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
    35  market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or conveyed.
    36    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.