Bill Text: NY A07207 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey the North County Trailway, real property in Westchester county, to the county of Westchester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A07207 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07207-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7207
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  authorizing the commissioner of general services to convey real
          property in Westchester county to the county of Westchester
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  commissioner  of  the  office of general services is
     2  authorized and empowered to transfer and convey certain state  property,
     3  as  further described in section two of this act, to the county of West-
     4  chester for one dollar, upon such terms and conditions as  such  commis-
     5  sioner may fix and determine.
     6    §  2.  The  land authorized by this act to be conveyed consists of the
     7  North County Trailway, and is generally described as follows:
     8    A parcel of land located in the Towns of Mount Pleasant,  New  Castle,
     9  Yorktown  and  Somers  in  Westchester  consisting of approximately 20.8
    10  miles with varying width, as described  in  the  lease  agreement  dated
    11  December  3,  2018  between  the  commissioner of transportation for the
    12  people of the state of New  York  and  the  county  of  Westchester,  as
    13  described and on Exhibit A - Depiction of Proposed Lease Area delineated
    14  on  Sheet Nos.  1-40 of Map 1, Parcels 1-39 subject to any and all ease-
    15  ments and conveyances granted by the state by and  through  the  commis-
    16  sioner;  Exhibit  B  -  Map  of  the existing North County Trailway; and
    17  further described as:
    18    From 110 feet south of old saw mill river road in eastview,  north  to
    19  3,000 feet south of route 1117, a total distance of approximately 15,000
    20  linear feet.
    21    From  route  117 to 350 feet south of route 9A for a total distance of
    22  approximately 8,800± linear feet.
    23    From a point 2,000± feet north of route 9A/100 intersection  to  camp-
    24  fire road, approximately 4,000 linear feet.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    From  a point 2,000± feet south of route 133 in miliwood, north to the
     2  south side of  underhill  avenue  located  in  the  hamlet  of  Yorktown
     3  Heights, town of Yorktown, a distance of 52,400 linear feet.
     4    From  the  north side of underhill avenue to the south side of hanover
     5  street for a distance of 1,250± linear feet.
     6    From hanover street, located in Yorktown Heights, north to the  Putnam
     7  county boundary, a total distance of approximately 28,000± linear feet.
     8    The entire linear distance of the parcel of land is approximately 20.8
     9  miles (109,530± linear feet).
    10    §  3.  The  commissioner  of  the office of general services shall not
    11  transfer or convey the aforesaid  land  unless  application  in  a  form
    12  acceptable  to  the  office of general services is made to the office of
    13  general services by the county of Westchester which application must  be
    14  made within one year after the effective date of this act.
    15    § 4. Any land transferred pursuant to this act shall be used and main-
    16  tained  by the county of Westchester for the purpose of a pedestrian and
    17  non-motorized bicycle trailway, and upon termination of such use,  title
    18  to the land so transferred shall revert to the state of New York.
    19    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.