Bill Text: NY A05406 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land, the Freeport Armory, to the village of Freeport.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-11 - SIGNED CHAP.618 [A05406 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05406-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5406
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 11, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. RAYNOR, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and
          convey certain unappropriated state land to the village of Freeport
          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 the village of
     4  Freeport, in consideration of one dollar and upon such  other  consider-
     5  ation  as the commissioner may deem proper, the state land located at 63
     6  Babylon Turnpike, Freeport, in the county of Nassau, known as the  Free-
     7  port  Armory,  declared  to  be  abandoned state land by the division of
     8  military and naval affairs.
     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,  lying  and  being  in  the
    12  Village  of  Freeport,  in the County of Nassau, State of New York, more
    13  particularly bounded and described as follows:
    14    BEGINNING at a point where the easterly line  of  Lakeview  Avenue  is
    15  intersected  by  the  southerly  line  of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike and
    16  running from said Point of  Beginning  thence  southeasterly  along  the
    17  southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about six hundred forty-six
    18  (646)  linear  feet  to  the  land  of the City of New York and the Long
    19  Island State Park Commission; thence running southwesterly and along the
    20  lands of the City of New York and  along  the  Long  Island  State  Park
    21  Commission  two  hundred (200) linear feet; thence running northwesterly
    22  and parallel with the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about
    23  four hundred thirty (430) linear feet to a point which would be ten (10)
    24  feet easterly from the center line of the 18 inch  diameter  water  main
    25  tank  header  pipe;  thence running northwesterly about fifty-eight (58)
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  linear feet and parallel with the 18 inch diameter water main tank head-
     2  er pipe, to a point which would be about one hundred  sixty-eight  (168)
     3  linear feet southerly from the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turn-
     4  pike, when measured at right angles thereto; thence running southwester-
     5  ly  and ten (10) feet parallel with and northerly from the 12 inch diam-
     6  eter water main tank header pipe, when measured at right angles thereto,
     7  about one hundred seven (107) linear feet to a  point  in  the  easterly
     8  line of Lakeview Avenue; thence running northerly and along the easterly
     9  line  of Lakeview Avenue about two hundred fifty-eight (258) linear feet
    10  to a point in the southerly  line  of  Hempstead-Babylon  Turnpike,  the
    11  point  or  place of beginning, containing within said bounds about three
    12  (3) acres.
    13    BEING the same lands described in a deed from the Village of  Freeport
    14  to the People of the State of New York, dated June 13, 1949 and recorded
    15  in  the  Nassau  County  Clerk's Office on June 20, 1949 in Book 3857 of
    16  Deeds at page 384.
    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 purchase,  the
    20  Village  of Freeport may submit to the commissioner of general services,
    21  for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of the lands
    22  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 in a form acceptable to the office of
    25  general services is made to  the  office  of  general  services  by  the
    26  village of Freeport which application must be made within one year after
    27  the effective date of this act.
    28    §  5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used for the
    29  purposes of the village of Freeport to utilize the subject property  and
    30  improve  the  structures  on  the subject property for general municipal
    31  purposes, and upon termination of such use, title to the lands so trans-
    32  ferred shall revert to the state of New York.
    33    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
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