Bill Text: NY S01138 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: (Vetoed) 2022-12-23 - VETOED MEMO.156 [S01138 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01138-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1138 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment 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. LBD01695-01-1S. 1138 2 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.
