Bill Text: NY S00861 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer real property from the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdensburg.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S00861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00861-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           861
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to  convey  real
          property at the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdens-
          burg
          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 city of  Ogdens-
     4  burg  for  fair  market  value,  upon  such terms and conditions as such
     5  commissioner may fix and determine. Due to the proximity of the land and
     6  improvements to be transferred and conveyed to  existing  mental  health
     7  and  correctional  facilities, said terms and conditions of any transfer
     8  and conveyance, including the proposed use of said land and improvements
     9  and the retention, or replacement in kind,  of  existing  staff  housing
    10  serving  the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and located on the lands to
    11  be conveyed, shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of the
    12  state office of mental health, the commissioner  of  the  department  of
    13  corrections  and community supervision, and the director of the division
    14  of budget.
    15    § 2. The lands authorized by this act to be conveyed consists  of  one
    16  parcel  of  land  at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, in the city of
    17  Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, and is generally described as follows:
    18    Parcel B: 50 acres for residential development bounded  by  the  Saint
    19  Lawrence  River to the northwest, on the south by River Drive, northeast
    20  of Bridgeview to include all of the  surplus  land  abutting  the  Saint
    21  Lawrence  River  between Bridgeview and Trinity buildings NOT to include
    22  building numbers 10, 13, 17, 31, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 88, 89, or 217.
    23    § 3. The description in section two of this act of  the  lands  to  be
    24  conveyed is not intended to be a legal description, but is intended only
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  to  identify the premises to be conveyed. As a condition of purchase the
     2  City of Ogdensburg shall submit to the commissioner  of  the  office  of
     3  general services for said commissioner's approval an accurate survey and
     4  description of the lands generally described in section two of this act,
     5  which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
     6    §  4.  The  commissioner  of  the office of general services shall not
     7  grant the land description in section two of this act unless application
     8  and improvements is made therefor by the city of Ogdensburg  within  one
     9  year after the effective date of this act.
    10    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.