Bill Text: NY S05948 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to Rockland Recovery Homes, Inc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-27 - approval memo.16 [S05948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05948-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5948

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer  and
          convey  certain  unappropriated state land to Rockland Recovery Homes,
          Inc.

          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 to transfer and convey to Rockland Recov-
     4  ery Homes, Inc., in consideration of one  dollar  and  upon  such  other
     5  consideration  as  the  commissioner  may  deem  proper,  the state land
     6  located at 328 Willow Grove Road, in the Town  of  Haverstraw,  and  the
     7  County  of  Rockland,  declared to be abandoned state land by the office
     8  for people with developmental disabilities.
     9    § 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
    10  and conveyed are as follows:
    11    ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the  Town  of  Haverstraw,
    12  County of Rockland and State of New York being more particularly bounded
    13  and described as follows:
    14    BEGINNING  at  a  point at the intersection of the southerly bounds of
    15  Willow Grove Road with the northerly bounds of a parcel of land conveyed
    16  to the Town of Haverstraw by Deed dated July 6, 2001 from New York State
    17  Urban Development  Corporation  and  recorded  in  the  Rockland  County
    18  Clerk's Office as Instrument ID 2001-00033784; thence from said point of
    19  beginning  along the southerly bounds of Willow Grove Road the following
    20  three (3) courses and distances:
    21    1. N 74° 05' 11" E, a distance of 284.03 feet to a point;
    22    2. N 71° 42' 11" E, a distance of 467.10 feet to a point; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11756-01-9
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     1    3. N 75° 36' 11" E, a distance of 86.91 feet to a point at the  north-
     2  east corner of the lands herein described; thence S 14° 07' 40" W, along
     3  the easterly bounds of lands herein described, a distance of 396.34 feet
     4  to a point on the northerly bounds of said lands conveyed to the Town of
     5  Haverstraw;  thence  N  78°  53' 35" W, along said lands conveyed to the
     6  Town of Haverstraw, a distance of 717.51 feet to the point or  place  of
     7  beginning, containing 3.23 acres of land, be the same, more or less.
     8    BEING  a  portion  of lands conveyed to the People of the State of New
     9  York by Deed dated September 2, 1909 from  Samuel  and  Tammy  Rose  and
    10  recorded  in the Rockland County Clerk's Office in Liber 238 of Deeds at
    11  page 611.
    12    All as shown and labeled as a 3.23 acre parcel of land on a map  enti-
    13  tled  "Map  showing  Subdivision  Lands  N/F, People of the State of New
    14  York, known as Letchworth Village" dated June 1999,  last  revised  June
    15  18,  2001, prepared by ABD Engineers Surveyors and filed in the New York
    16  State Office of General Services as OGS Map No. 1887.
    17    § 3. The description in section two of this act  of  the  land  to  be
    18  conveyed  is  not  intended to be a legal description but is intended to
    19  identify the parcel to be conveyed. As  a  condition  of  the  transfer,
    20  Rockland Recovery Homes, Inc., may submit to the commissioner of general
    21  services, for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of
    22  the lands to be conveyed, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
    23    §  4.  The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
    24  aforesaid land unless application is  made  to  the  office  of  general
    25  services  by  Rockland  Recovery  Homes,  Inc. within one year after the
    26  effective date of this act. Said application shall be in the form  of  a
    27  resolution  setting  forth  a  comprehensive  statement  approved by its
    28  managing board, acknowledging and accepting  the  use  restrictions  set
    29  forth in section five of this act.
    30    §  5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used for the
    31  purposes of Rockland Recovery Homes, Inc. to utilize the subject proper-
    32  ty and improve the structures on the subject property, and  upon  termi-
    33  nation  of  such  use, title to the lands so transferred shall revert to
    34  the state of New York.
    35    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.