Bill Text: NY S08552 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the county of Nassau to alienate certain lands used as parklands to enable the Port Washington Water District to construct, maintain and operate a water treatment facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-24 - signed chap.158 [S08552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08552-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8552

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 12, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT authorizing the county of Nassau to alienate certain  lands  used
          as   parklands  to  enable  the  Port  Washington  Water  District  to
          construct, maintain and operate a water treatment facility

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

     1    Section  1.  The  county of Nassau is hereby authorized, acting by and
     2  through its legislature, and upon such terms and  conditions  as  deter-
     3  mined  by  such  legislature,  to  discontinue  as  parklands  the lands
     4  described in section three of this act for the purpose of  enabling  the
     5  Port  Washington  Water  District  to  construct, maintain and operate a
     6  water treatment facility and appurtenances thereto.
     7    § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act  shall  be
     8  effective  only upon the condition that the county of Nassau dedicate an
     9  amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of  the  parklands
    10  being discontinued for funding of capital improvements, to existing park
    11  and recreational facilities.
    12    §  3.  The  lands  to  be  discontinued as parklands and alienated are
    13  described as follows:
    14    All that certain plot, piece or parcel of  land,  situate,  lying  and
    15  being  at  North  Hills,  Town  of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and
    16  State of New York, said  parcel  being  more  particularly  bounded  and
    17  described as follows:
    18    BEGINNING  at  a  point on the easterly line of Searingtown Road, said
    19  point being distant northerly the following three (3) courses  as  meas-
    20  ured  along said easterly line from its intersection with the old north-
    21  erly line of the Westbound Service Road - Long Island Expressway;
    22    1. North 11 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds West, a distance  of  246.30
    23  feet to a point of curvature;
    24    2.  Along  the  arc  of a circular curve bearing to the right having a
    25  radius of 1660.00 feet and a length of 365.54 feet to point of tangency;
    26    3. North 01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance  of  310.00
    27  feet;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16699-01-0
        S. 8552                             2

     1    RUNNING  THENCE  from  said  point  of beginning the following six (6)
     2  courses, the first course being along the easterly line  of  Searingtown
     3  Road;
     4    1.  North  01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance of 154.22
     5  feet;
     6    2. South 88 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance  of  133.54
     7  feet;
     8    3.  South  01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds West, a distance of 158.55
     9  feet;
    10    4. South 33 degrees 01 minute 56 seconds West, a  distance  of  102.59
    11  feet;
    12    5.  North  01  degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance of 91.84
    13  feet;
    14    6. North 88 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds West, a  distance  of  80.00
    15  feet  to the easterly line of Searingtown Road and the point or place of
    16  BEGINNING.
    17  Containing within said bounds 23,169 Sq. Ft. or  0.532  Acres,  more  or
    18  less.
    19    §  4.  The discontinuance of parklands authorized by the provisions of
    20  this act shall not occur until the county of Nassau  has  complied  with
    21  any  federal  requirements pertaining to the alienation or conversion of
    22  parklands, including satisfying the secretary of the interior  that  the
    23  alienation  or  conversion complies with all conditions which the secre-
    24  tary of the interior deems necessary to assure the substitution of other
    25  lands shall be equivalent in fair market and recreational usefulness  to
    26  the lands being alienated or converted.
    27    § 5. When the lands described in section three of this act cease to be
    28  used  for the purposes described in section one of this act, those lands
    29  shall be restored for park purposes with the cost of  restoration  being
    30  borne by the Port Washington Water District.
    31    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.