Bill Text: NY A07821 | 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 [A07821 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07821-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7821

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental 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
    23    3. N 75° 36' 11" E, a distance of 86.91 feet to a point at the  north-
    24  east corner of the lands herein described; thence S 14° 07' 40" W, along

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