STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
April 29, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. DARLING -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the village of Freeport, county of
Nassau, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands
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 village of Free-
2 port, located in the county of Nassau, acting by and through its village
3 board and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such board, is
4 hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands and alienate the lands
5 more particularly described in section three of this act no longer need-
6 ed for park purposes. The provisions of this act shall not extinguish
7 any existing easements.
8 § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
9 effect only upon the condition that the village of Freeport dedicate an
10 amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the parklands
11 being discontinued towards the acquisition of new parklands and/or
12 towards capital improvements to existing parkland and recreational
13 facilities.
14 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be alien-
15 ated are described as follows:
16 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being
17 in the incorporated village of Freeport, town of Hempstead, county of
18 Nassau, state of New York and being bounded and described as follows:
19 BEGINNING at a point in the easterly line of Buffalo avenue where it
20 intersects the northerly boundary line of the "Revised Map of Freeport
21 Centre";
22 THENCE North 09 degrees 51 minutes 00 seconds East, 855.32 feet, to a
23 point;
24 THENCE South 47 degrees 07 minutes 00 seconds East, 702.48 feet, to a
25 point;
26 THENCE South 08 degrees 39 minutes 10 seconds West, 500.00 feet, to a
27 point;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 THENCE North 77 degrees 31 minutes 20 seconds West, through Meadow-
2 brook State Park Property and along the northerly line of "Revised Map
3 of Freeport Centre", a distance of 600.00 feet to the point or place of
4 BEGINNING.
5 Such premises containing 9.218 acres of land.
6 § 4. In the event that the village of Freeport received any funding,
7 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
8 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
9 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
10 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the village of
11 Freeport has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
12 alienation or conversion of such parklands, including satisfying the
13 secretary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies
14 with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary
15 to ensure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
16 market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
17 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.