Bill Text: NY S07276 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the town of Cortlandville to alienate and convey parkland and acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-07 - SIGNED CHAP.235 [S07276 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07276-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7276
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 9, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT authorizing the town of  Cortlandville,  county  of  Cortland  to
         alienate  and  convey  certain parcels of land used as parkland and to
         acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  town of Cortlandville, county of Cortland, is hereby
    2  authorized to discontinue as parklands, alienate and  convey  the  lands
    3  described in section three of this act.
    4    S 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
    5  effect  only  upon the condition that the town of Cortlandville dedicate
    6  an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the property
    7  being alienated in section three of this act toward acquisition of addi-
    8  tional parkland and/or capital improvements to existing parkland.
    9    S 3. The lands to be  discontinued  as  parklands  and  alienated  and
   10  conveyed  pursuant  to section one of this act are bounded and described
   11  as follows:
   12    Parcel I
   13    ALL that tract or parcel of land situate on the westerly side  of  New
   14  York state route #281 in Lot #83, town of Cortlandville, county of Cort-
   15  land  and  state  of  New  York  being bounded and described as follows:
   16  Beginning at a point on the westerly right-of-way  line  of  said  Route
   17  #281  at the northeast corner of lands conveyed to the town of Cortland-
   18  ville (R.O.) as filed in the Cortland County Clerk's Office in Liber 342
   19  of Deeds at Page 765; thence running N 62  37' 19" W along said  parcel,
   20  a  distance  of  183.05  feet to a point; thence running N 27  22' 41" E
   21  along said parcel, a distance of 200.0 feet to a point; thence running S
   22  62  37' 19" E along said parcel, a distance of 196.39 feet to a point on
   23  the westerly right of way line of NYS Route No. 281;  thence  running  S
   24  31   11'  35" W along said right of way a distance of 200.44 feet to the
   25  place of beginning and containing 0.86 acres of land.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14917-01-4
       S. 7276                             2
    1    Also conveying all rights, title and interest to the land lying  east-
    2  erly  of the above described premises to the centerline of NYS Route No.
    3  281.
    4    Parcel II
    5    ALL that tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Cortlandville,
    6  county  of  Cortland and state of New York, being part of Lot 83 in said
    7  town, being bounded and described as follows: Beginning at  a  point  on
    8  the west right of way line of NYS Route 281, set at the northeast corner
    9  of  the parcel of land conveyed by Arthur Yacavone to F. Donald McGee by
   10  deed recorded in the Cortland County Clerk's  Office  in  Liber  310  of
   11  Deeds  at  Page 859; running thence North 62  37' 19" West a distance of
   12  409.17 feet to a steel pipe; thence running South 27   22'  41"  West  a
   13  distance  of  242.76  feet  to a point in the north line of Lamont Acres
   14  Tract; running thence North 85  21' 36" West a distance of  173.93  feet
   15  to a steel pipe set in the east line of lands owned by Gutchess; running
   16  thence  North  3  15' 40" East a distance of 545.0 feet to a steel pipe;
   17  running thence South 85  21' 36" East a distance of  404.54  feet  along
   18  the  south line of lands owned by Arthur B. Yacavone to a point; running
   19  thence South 62  53' 46" East a distance of 250.0 feet to an iron  pipe;
   20  running  thence  South  27   22'  41" West a distance of 200.0 feet to a
   21  steel pipe; running thence South running 62  37' 19" East a distance  of
   22  183.05 feet to a concrete monument set in the west line of the right-of-
   23  way  NYS  route  281;  running  thence South 32  57' 54" West along said
   24  right-of-way a distance of 145.66 feet to the point or place  of  begin-
   25  ning, containing 6.17 acres of land, more or less.
   26    Also,  all  the lands lying between the above described parcel of land
   27  and the center line of NYS Route No. 281 on the  east,  subject  to  the
   28  right of the public to use the same for street and highway purposes.
   29    S  4. If the land that is the subject of this act has received funding
   30  pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the discontin-
   31  uance of parklands authorized by the provisions of this  act  shall  not
   32  occur  until the municipality has complied with the federal requirements
   33  pertaining to the conversion  of  parklands,  including  satisfying  the
   34  secretary  of  the  interior  that  the  discontinuance will include all
   35  conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
   36  the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
   37  and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontinued.
   38    S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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