Bill Text: NY A09847 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Kinderhook to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad for the purpose of providing emergency medical services to the town of Kinderhook.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-11 - referred to local governments [A09847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09847-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9847

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 11, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments

        AN ACT authorizing the town  of  Kinderhook  to  transfer  ownership  of
          certain parkland to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc.

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

     1    Section 1. (a) Subject to the provisions of  this  act,  the  town  of
     2  Kinderhook,  county  of  Columbia,  acting through its governing body is
     3  hereby authorized to discontinue the use of town parkland  more  partic-
     4  ularly  described in section two of this act, and to convey its interest
     5  in the real property to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc.    upon
     6  terms  agreed  upon  by the town of Kinderhook and the Valatie Volunteer
     7  Rescue Squad, Inc. for use by the Valatie Volunteer Rescue  Squad,  Inc.
     8  for  the  purpose of providing emergency medical services to the town of
     9  Kinderhook.
    10    (b) Any revenues received by the town of Kinderhook from the  transfer
    11  shall  be used for capital improvements of existing park or recreational
    12  and/or the acquisition of additional park or recreational facilities.
    13    § 2. The parklands authorized to be conveyed by the town of Kinderhook
    14  in section one of  this  act  are  located,  bounded  and  described  as
    15  follows:
    16    ALL  that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in
    17  the Town of Kinderhook, County of  Columbia,  and  State  of  New  York,
    18  bounded and described as follows:
    19    BEGINNING  at  a  steel  pin at the southwesterly corner of the parcel
    20  herein to be described, said point of beginning being at the  southeast-
    21  erly  corner  of the lands now or formerly of The State of New York said
    22  point of beginning being further referenced as S 66°10'52" E a  distance
    23  of  380.86  feet  from  a  steel  pin  on the easterly side of a Town of
    24  Kinderhook highway commonly known as State Farm Road;
    25  thence from said point of beginning and along lands of said State of New
    26  York:  N 34°15'00" E a distance of 456.84 feet to a point;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  Thence through lands of the Town of Kinderhook  on  the  following  four
     2  courses;
     3  S 62°25'13" E a distance of 602.24 feet to a point;
     4  S 32°59'21" W a distance of 370.14 feet to a point;
     5  N 89°51'57" W a distance of 110.48 feet to a point;
     6  N 66°10'52" W a distance of 523.50 feet to the point of beginning;
     7  having an area of 261069.10 square feet or 5.99 acres of land.
     8    Subject to any and all easements of record.
     9    §  3.  In  the  event that the town of Kinderhook received any funding
    10  support or assistance from the  federal  government  for  the  purchase,
    11  maintenance  or improvement of the parklands set forth in section two of
    12  this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland  authorized
    13  by  the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of Kinder-
    14  hook has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the alien-
    15  ation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secretary  of
    16  the  interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all condi-
    17  tions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to ensure  the
    18  substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value and
    19  usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.