STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7897--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 29, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Environmental  Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          recommitted  to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reference changed to the  Commit-
          tee  on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to  authorizing
          the  commissioner  of environmental conservation to lease a portion of
          state land to public television station WSKG, in relation  to  leasing
          such  land,  tower  and  associated  utility lines to the Tioga county
          bureau of fire, the Northern Tioga  emergency  medical  services,  the
          Newark  Valley  central school district, the Berkshire fire department
          and the town of Berkshire highway department
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to
     2  authorizing the commissioner of environmental conservation  to  lease  a
     3  portion  of  state land to public television station WSKG, as amended by
     4  chapter 539 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
     5    Section 1. The commissioner of environmental  conservation  is  hereby
     6  [authorize] authorized to lease to the [Berkshire Emergency Squad, Inc.]
     7  Tioga  county  bureau  of  fire,  the  Northern  Tioga emergency medical
     8  services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire  fire
     9  department and the town of Berkshire highway department for such consid-
    10  eration  as he or she deems just compensation to the state, that portion
    11  of Tioga state forest #7, town of Newark Valley, upon which is installed
    12  a television translator station. Lease  of  such  land,  and  television
    13  translator  system  shall  be made upon such terms and conditions as the
    14  commissioner may fix and determine, provided that such  lease  shall  be
    15  for a term not to exceed ten years.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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