Bill Text: NY S05305 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands in the town of Islip, county of Suffolk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-07-25 - SIGNED CHAP.135 [S05305 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05305-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5305--B
            Cal. No. 579
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  authorizing  the alienation of certain parklands in the town of
          Islip, county of Suffolk
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding  the failure of the town of Islip, in the
     2  county of Suffolk, to seek and receive state  legislative  authorization
     3  to alienate the parklands described in section four of this act prior to
     4  such  parkland  being  alienated,  such  alienation is hereby validated,
     5  legalized, ratified and confirmed.
     6    § 2. Subject to the provisions of this act, the town of Islip,  acting
     7  by  and  through  its town board, is hereby authorized to discontinue as
     8  parklands and alienate the lands more particularly described in  section
     9  four of this act.
    10    §  3.  The authorization, granted pursuant to section two of this act,
    11  shall be subject to a requirement that the town  of  Islip  dedicate  an
    12  amount  equal  to  or  greater  than the fair market value of the parcel
    13  described in section four of this act for capital improvements of exist-
    14  ing park and recreational facilities and/or  the  acquisition  of  addi-
    15  tional park and recreational facilities.
    16    §  4.  The  land  to  be  discontinued  as  parkland and alienated and
    17  conveyed, consisting  of  14.59  acres,  is  bounded  and  described  as
    18  follows:
    19    All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and
    20  improvements  thereon erected, situate, lying and being in central Islip
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 5305--B                          2
     1  in the town of Islip and the county of Suffolk in the state of New  York
     2  and being more particularly described as follows:
     3    BEGINNING  AT  A  POINT  being  5799.81 feet southerly from the corner
     4  formed by the southerly side of Smith  St.  and  the  westerly  side  of
     5  Carleton Ave.  (C.R. 17)
     6    RUNNING THENCE south 8 degrees 25 minutes 53 seconds east 571.55 feet
     7    RUNNING THENCE south 81 degrees 30 minutes 15 seconds west 993.29 feet
     8    RUNNING THENCE north 30 degrees 36 minutes 04 seconds west 142.06 feet
     9    RUNNING THENCE north 67 degrees 23 minutes 05 seconds east 145.59 feet
    10    RUNNING THENCE north 8 degrees 08 minutes 13 seconds west 219.30 feet
    11    RUNNING THENCE north 49 degrees 11 minutes 33 seconds east 178.83 feet
    12    RUNNING THENCE north 19 degrees 51 minutes 33 seconds east 301.79 feet
    13    RUNNING THENCE north 05 degrees 00 minutes 28 seconds east 276.60 feet
    14    RUNNING THENCE south 88 degrees 51 minutes 55 seconds east 215.98 feet
    15    RUNNING THENCE south 08 degrees 27 minutes 26 seconds east 379.64 feet
    16    RUNNING THENCE north 81 degrees 32 minutes 34 seconds east 145.29 feet
    17    RUNNING THENCE south 08 degrees 27 minutes 26 seconds east 29.00 feet
    18    RUNNING THENCE north 81 degrees 32 minutes 34 seconds east 187.82 feet
    19  to the point or place of beginning.
    20    §  5. If the land that is the subject of this act has received funding
    21  pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the discontin-
    22  uance of parklands authorized by the provisions of this  act  shall  not
    23  occur  until the municipality has complied with the federal requirements
    24  pertaining to the conversion  of  parklands,  including  satisfying  the
    25  secretary  of  the  interior  that  the  discontinuance will include all
    26  conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
    27  the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
    28  and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontinued.
    29    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.