Bill Text: NY A10652 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the county of Nassau to alienate certain lands used as parklands to enable the Port Washington Water District to construct, maintain and operate a water treatment facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-24 - signed chap.158 [A10652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10652-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10652--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. D'Urso) --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Governments  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT authorizing the county of Nassau to alienate certain  lands  used
          as   parklands  to  enable  the  Port  Washington  Water  District  to
          construct, maintain and operate a water treatment facility

          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, the county of Nassau
     2  is  hereby  authorized,  acting by and through its legislature, and upon
     3  such terms and conditions as determined by such legislature, to  discon-
     4  tinue  as  parklands  and convey the lands described in section three of
     5  this act to the Port  Washington  Water  District  for  the  purpose  of
     6  constructing,  maintaining  and operating a water treatment facility and
     7  appurtenances thereto.
     8    § 2. The authorization in section one of this act shall  be  effective
     9  only  upon  the  condition  that the county of Nassau dedicate an amount
    10  equal to or greater than the fair market value of  the  parklands  being
    11  discontinued  towards  the  acquisition  of new parklands and/or capital
    12  improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
    13    § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
    14  tinued as parklands and alienated are described as follows:
    15    All that certain plot, piece or parcel of  land,  situate,  lying  and
    16  being  at  North  Hills,  Town  of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and
    17  State of New York, said  parcel  being  more  particularly  bounded  and
    18  described as follows:
    19    BEGINNING  at  a  point on the easterly line of Searingtown Road, said
    20  point being distant northerly the following three (3) courses  as  meas-
    21  ured  along said easterly line from its intersection with the old north-
    22  erly line of the Westbound Service Road - Long Island Expressway;
    23    1. North 11 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds West, a distance  of  246.30
    24  feet to a point of curvature;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    2.  Along  the  arc  of a circular curve bearing to the right having a
     2  radius of 1660.00 feet and a length of 365.54 feet to point of tangency;
     3    3.  North  01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance of 310.00
     4  feet;
     5    RUNNING THENCE from said point of  beginning  the  following  six  (6)
     6  courses,  the  first course being along the easterly line of Searingtown
     7  Road;
     8    1. North 01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance  of  154.22
     9  feet;
    10    2.  South  88 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance of 133.54
    11  feet;
    12    3. South 01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds West, a distance  of  158.55
    13  feet;
    14    4.  South  33  degrees 01 minute 56 seconds West, a distance of 102.59
    15  feet;
    16    5. North 01 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds East, a  distance  of  91.84
    17  feet;
    18    6.  North  88  degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds West, a distance of 80.00
    19  feet to the easterly line of Searingtown Road and the point or place  of
    20  BEGINNING.
    21  Containing  within  said  bounds  23,169 Sq. Ft. or 0.532 Acres, more or
    22  less.
    23    § 4. Should the lands described in section three of this act cease  to
    24  be  used  for  the  purposes described in section one of this act, those
    25  lands shall be restored for public park and recreational  purposes  with
    26  the  cost  of  restoration  being  borne  by  the  Port Washington Water
    27  District.
    28    § 5. In the event that the  county  of  Nassau  received  any  funding
    29  support  or  assistance  from  the  federal government for the purchase,
    30  maintenance, or improvement of the parklands set forth in section  three
    31  of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parklands author-
    32  ized  by  the provisions of this act shall not occur until the county of
    33  Nassau has complied with any  federal  requirements  pertaining  to  the
    34  alienation  or  conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secre-
    35  tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
    36  conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
    37  the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
    38  and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
    39    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.