Bill Text: NY S04994 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and validates the alienation of certain parkland in the town of Kinderhook in the county of Columbia.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-11-20 - SIGNED CHAP.491 [S04994 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4994
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 28, 2015
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       Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN  ACT authorizing and validating the alienation of certain parkland in
         the town of Kinderhook in the county of Columbia
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any other provisions of law necessary to
    2  the contrary, but subject to this act, the alienation  of  the  parkland
    3  described  in  section  three of this act is hereby authorized and vali-
    4  dated, notwithstanding the absence of prior legislative approval.
    5    S 2. Subject to the provisions of this act, the  town  of  Kinderhook,
    6  Columbia  County, acting by and through its town board, is authorized to
    7  discontinue and alienate as parkland the lands described in section four
    8  of this act for such purposes as are consistent with the town's  compre-
    9  hensive  plan, which may be modified in accordance with the requirements
   10  of such plan.
   11    S 3. The town of Kinderhook, Columbia County is not required to comply
   12  with any federal requirements pertaining to the alienation or conversion
   13  of parklands, including satisfying the secretary of  the  interior  with
   14  all  conditions  which  the secretary of the interior deems necessary to
   15  assure that the substitution of other lands be equivalent in fair market
   16  value and recreational  usefulness  to  the  lands  being  alienated  or
   17  converted,  as  the lands described in section four of this act were not
   18  purchased with or funded by state monies.
   19    S 4. The lands to  be  discontinued  as  parkland  and  alienated  and
   20  conveyed  pursuant  to section two of this act are bounded and described
   21  as follows:
   22    ALL that piece or parcel of land generally known as the former  Niver-
   23  ville  Schoolhouse  premises  of  the Kinderhook Central School District
   24  located in the Hamlet of Niverville, Town of Kinderhook, Columbia  Coun-
   25  ty, New York.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09393-04-5
       S. 4994                             2
    1    BEGINNING  at  a point referenced as south 45 degrees, 30 minutes west
    2  and distant 105.7 feet from the steel fence post designated  the  south-
    3  westerly  corner  of  the  present  school  premises as conveyed by John
    4  Raeder and wife by deed dated April 10, 1880 and recorded in the  office
    5  of  the  clerk  of  Columbia  County,  New York in Liber 72 at page 472;
    6  thence north 88 degrees 45 minutes east 159.14 feet to the northwesterly
    7  corner of lands conveyed by Anna E. Strain to Henry R.  Van  Hoesen  and
    8  wife  by  deed  dated October 15, 1924 and recorded in Liber 188 at Page
    9  114, and as shown on a map thereof filed in the  office  of  the  county
   10  clerk  of  Columbia  County  as Map Number 819; thence south 5 degrees 2
   11  minutes east 206.15 feet to a steel pin  designating  the  southwesterly
   12  corner  of  Lot  Number  4 on said map and the northwesterly corner of a
   13  "Street" as shown thereon; thence south 5 degrees 2 minutes  east  22.46
   14  feet  to  lands of Fannie M. Clapper; thence along lands of said Clapper
   15  south 87 degrees 17 minutes west 2.02 feet to a steel bolt; thence along
   16  lands of said Fannie M. Clapper, Anna A.    Webber,  and  the  Methodist
   17  Episcopal  Church  south 5 degrees 2 minutes east 298.77 feet to an iron
   18  pipe; thence south 88 degrees 28  minutes  west  500.75  feet  to  lands
   19  conveyed  to  Valatie Mills Corporation by deed dated June 28, 1922, and
   20  recorded in the office of the clerk of Columbia County in Liber  180  at
   21  Page  25;  thence  along  lands  of  said  Valatie Mills Corporation the
   22  following five courses: north 31 degrees 1 minute east 80.19 feet, north
   23  5 degrees 1 minute east 87.2 feet, north 7 degrees 27 minutes west  67.3
   24  feet,  north  18 degrees 42 minutes east 95.7 feet, and north 45 degrees
   25  30 minutes east 317.3 feet to the point of beginning.
   26    S 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   27  have become a law.