Bill Text: NY S07018 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the village of Philadelphia to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.197 [S07018 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07018-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7018--A
            Cal. No. 533
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 16, 2016
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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  --
          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
        AN  ACT  authorizing  the village of Philadelphia 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 village of Philadelphia, county of Jefferson, acting by
     2  and through its village council, is hereby authorized to discontinue and
     3  alienate as parklands, the lands described in section three of this act.
     4    § 2. The authorization provided in section one of this  act  shall  be
     5  effective only upon the condition that the village of Philadelphia dedi-
     6  cate  an  amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the
     7  parklands being alienated to the acquisition  of  new  parklands  and/or
     8  toward capital improvements to existing parkland and recreational facil-
     9  ities.
    10    §  3.  The  lands  to  be  discontinued as parklands and alienated and
    11  conveyed is more fully described as follows:
    12    ALL that Tract or Parcel of land situate in the Village of  Philadelp-
    13  hia, County of Jefferson and State of New York and is a part of subdivi-
    14  sion  of  lots  Nos. 610 and 611 of Great Lot No. 4 of McComb's purchase
    15  and bounded as follows, beginning at a point in centre of  road  leading
    16  westerly  from  the  Village  of Philadelphia, past the M.E. Church lot,
    17  also a corner of Philena Jacob's land and north 5 1/2° E. 2 chains  from
    18  an oak stake, thence S. 5 1/2° W. 2 chains and 69 links to an oak stake,
    19  thence  S.  86  1/2°  W. 77 feet to an oak stake, thence N.  5 1/2° E. 2
    20  chains and 69 links to the center of  aforesaid  road,  thence  easterly
    21  along  centre of said road 77 feet to the place of beginning.  The fore-
    22  going description is from a deed by Mattie H. Rodenhurst to Celia Dayton
    23  dated Aug. 11, 1896 and recorded  in  Jefferson  County  Clerk's  Office
    24  March 1, 1897, in Book 285 of Deeds, page 299.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14559-02-6
        S. 7018--A                          2
     1    ALSO,  ALL  THAT  TRACT  OR  PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Village of
     2  Philadelphia, County of Jefferson, State of New York, and being part  of
     3  the  same  premises conveyed by Estella Ashley to James E. Leach and May
     4  E. Leach, his wife, by deed dated April 5,  1921  and  recorded  in  the
     5  Jefferson  County  Clerk's  Office April 12, 1921 in Liber 363 of Deeds,
     6  page 502, and later conveyed by Shirley Armina Davis and  Jeaniene  Muse
     7  Sech  to  Rosanna  D.  Graves  by  warranty deed dated May 23, 1950, and
     8  recorded in the Jefferson County Clerk's Office May 24, 1950,  in  Liber
     9  534  of  Deeds, page 174, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at
    10  the Northwest corner of the above parcel and running along the  westerly
    11  boundary  thereof  as  described and perpendicular to Church Street in a
    12  generally Southerly direction 191 feet to a point; thence  a-  generally
    13  right angles thereto and in a generally Easterly direction and along the
    14  Southerly boundary of said parcel 25 feet to a point; thence at general-
    15  ly  right  angles  thereto  and  in  a generally Northerly direction and
    16  parallel with the Westerly line herein described 191 feet to the  center
    17  of  Church  Street;  thence  at  right angles thereto and in a generally
    18  Westerly direction along the center of Church  Street  25  feet  to  the
    19  place of beginning, said parcel of land containing 15,912 square feet or
    20  0.37 acres, more or less.
    21    §  4. If the land that is the subject of this act has received funding
    22  pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the discontin-
    23  uance of parklands authorized by the provisions of this  act  shall  not
    24  occur  until the municipality has complied with the federal requirements
    25  pertaining to the conversion  of  parklands,  including  satisfying  the
    26  secretary  of  the  interior  that  the  discontinuance will include all
    27  conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
    28  the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
    29  and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontinued.
    30    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.