Bill Text: NY S05796 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated land to the village of Ossining.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-08 - PRINT NUMBER 5796B [S05796 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05796-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5796--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations  and
          Government  Operations  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer and
          convey certain unappropriated state land to the village  of  Ossining,
          county of Westchester

          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  but  notwithstanding
     2  any  other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of general
     3  services is hereby authorized, subject to the consent of the commission-
     4  er of corrections and community supervision, to transfer and  convey  to
     5  the  village  of  Ossining  in the county of Westchester, the state land
     6  described in section two  of  this  act,  owned  by  the  department  of
     7  corrections and community supervision and being a part of lot 97.12-1-4,
     8  in  the village of Ossining in the county of Westchester, declared to be
     9  abandoned state land by the  department  of  corrections  and  community
    10  supervision.  The  transfer  and  conveyance  of  the  land described in
    11  section two of this act shall be made in consideration of the sum of one
    12  dollar and upon such conditions as the commissioner of general  services
    13  may  deem  proper. If the transfer and conveyance of such land shall not
    14  have taken effect within two years of the effective date  of  this  act,
    15  then such authority to transfer and convey shall be revoked.
    16    § 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
    17  and conveyed are as follows:
    18  ALL  That certain Plot Piece or Parcel of Land situated and lying in the
    19  Town of Ossining, Village of Ossining, County of Westchester, and  State

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of  New  York.  and  being  more  particularly  bounded and described as
     2  follows:
     3  Beginning at a point on the division line between land of the Village of
     4  Ossining  on  the North and the State of New York on the South Where the
     5  same is intersected by westerly side of land  now  or  formerly  Midtown
     6  Trackage  Ventures  formerly the New York City and Hudson River Railroad
     7  (N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R.) said point being the Northeasterly  corner  of  land
     8  now  or  formerly  State of New York as shown on map entitled "County of
     9  Westchester Department of Environmental Facilities"  and  filed  in  the
    10  Westchester  County  Clerk's  office Division of Land Records as Map No.
    11  19196.
    12  Thence running along land now  or  formerly  Midtown  Trackage  Ventures
    13  formerly  the  New  York  City  and  Hudson  River  Railroad  (N.Y.C.  &
    14  H.R.R.R.)South 4°39'15" East 320.11 feet to a point;
    15  Thence running though Land of the State of New York  the  following  two
    16  (2)  courses  and distances South 88°00'00" West 217.08 feet to a point;
    17  North 1°55'49" West 323.26 feet to the land of the Village of Ossining;
    18  Thence along said land South 82° 34' 28" East 204.54 feet to  the  point
    19  and place of beginning.
    20  Containing 1.6150 Acres = 70,348 Sq. Ft.
    21    §  3. The description in section two of this act is not intended to be
    22  a legal description, but is  intended  to  identify  the  parcel  to  be
    23  conveyed.  As  a  condition of the transfer, the village of Ossining may
    24  submit to the commissioner of general services, for his or her approval,
    25  an accurate survey and description of the lands to  be  conveyed,  which
    26  may be used in the conveyance thereof.
    27    §  4.  The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
    28  aforesaid land unless the application is made to the office  of  general
    29  services  by the village of Ossining within one year after the effective
    30  date of this act. Said application shall be in the form of a  resolution
    31  setting  forth  a  comprehensive  statement  approved  by the Ossining's
    32  Village  Board  of  Trustees  acknowledging  and   accepting   the   use
    33  restrictions set forth in section five of this act.
    34    §  5.  The  transfer and conveyance made pursuant to this act shall be
    35  subject to the following use restrictions and reverter:
    36    (a) The land described in this act shall be used exclusively  for  the
    37  purposes of operating and maintaining a museum.
    38    (b)  The  conveyance of the land described in this act shall contain a
    39  covenant and restriction requiring that the land be used for the purpose
    40  set forth in subdivision (a) of this section. In the event the  premises
    41  are  not  accepted  and/or used for such purposes, ownership of the land
    42  shall revert to the state of New York.
    43    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.