STATE OF NEW YORK
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3540--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT authorizing the county of Cattaraugus to discontinue as refor-
ested lands certain reforested lands in the town of Perrysburg
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding section 219 of the county law to the
2 contrary, the county of Cattaraugus acting by and through its governing
3 body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body, is
4 hereby authorized to discontinue the use of lands described in section
5 two of this act acquired for reforestation purposes for the purposes of
6 rehabilitating the dam and developing the land for future use. The lands
7 described in section two of this act are currently vacant property not
8 used by the public for recreational or reforestation purposes. The
9 authorization provided in this section shall be effective only upon the
10 acquisition by the county of Cattaraugus of lands described in section
11 three of this act.
12 § 2. The lands authorized to be leased by the county of Cattaraugus
13 pursuant to section one of this act are described as follows:
14 (a) ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in Lot No. 16, Town 6,
15 Range 9 of the Holland Land Company's survey, in the Town of Perrysburg,
16 bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the south line
17 of Lot 16, which point is 2,258.24 feet west of the southeasterly corner
18 of Lot 16; thence north parallel with the west line of Lot 16, 1,160.28
19 feet; thence east on a line parallel with the south bounds of Lot 16.
20 739.2 feet; thence southeasterly at an interior angle of 119° 21',
21 981.81 feet; thence east at an exterior angle of 119° 21', 790.6 feet to
22 the center of the public highway commonly known as Easton Road; thence
23 southeasterly along the center of said highway or public road 66.18
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 feet; thence west on a line parallel to the south bounds of said
2 lot1,780 feet; thence south 232.98 feet to the south bounds of Lot 16,
3 thence west on the south bounds of said lot, 286.44 feet to the point of
4 beginning, comprising an area of 23.73 acres more or less.
5 (b) ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in Lot No. 16, Town 6,
6 Range 9 of the Holland Land Company's survey, in the Town of Perrysburg,
7 bounded and described as follows: Beginning on the north line of Parcel
8 D of lands conveyed to Vernon Croker and Harold Croker by Warranty Deed
9 recorded in the Cattaraugus County Clerk's Office in Liber 555 of Deeds
10 at Page 290 on March 2, 1956, at a point 1680.6 feet east of the center
11 line of North Road (said center line of North Road being the west line
12 of said Lot 16); thence easterly, along the north line of the above
13 mentioned Deed, 1169.94 feet to a stake at the northeast corner of lands
14 conveyed by above mentioned Deed; thence southerly along the east line
15 of lands conveyed by above mentioned Deed and parallel to the west line
16 of Lot 16, 1160.28 feet to the southeast corner of lands conveyed by
17 above mentioned Deed; thence westerly along the south bounds of land
18 conveyed by the above mentioned Deed, 1169.94 feet to a stake; thence
19 north, parallel to the west line of Lot 16, 1160.28 feet to the point or
20 place of beginning, comprising an area of 31 acres more or less.
21 (c) ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in Lot 16, Town 6, Range
22 9 of the Holland Land Company's survey, in the Town of Perrysburg,
23 bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the south
24 bounds of Lot 16, which point is 2,014.3 feet measured along the south
25 bounds of Lot 16 and an extension thereof from the center line of the
26 public highway commonly known as Eaton Road; thence north on a line
27 parallel to the west bounds of Lot 16, 232.98 feet; thence east on a
28 line parallel to the south bounds of said lot, 935 feet; thence south on
29 a line parallel to the west bounds of Lot 16, 232.98 feet to the south
30 bounds of Lot 16; thence west along the south bounds of Lot 16, 935 feet
31 to the point of beginning, comprising an area of 5 acres more or less.
32 (d) ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in Lot 15, Town 6, Range
33 9 of the Holland Land Company's survey, in the Town of Perrysburg,
34 bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the north
35 bounds of Lot 15, which point is 2014.3 feet measured along the south
36 bounds of Lot 16 and an extension thereof from the center line of the
37 public highway commonly known as Eaton Road; thence south on a line
38 parallel with the west bounds of Lot 15, 400 feet; thence west on a line
39 parallel to the north bounds of Lot 15, 435.6 feet; thence north on a
40 line parallel to the west bounds of Lot 15, 400 feet to the north bounds
41 of Lot 15; thence east along the north bounds of Lot 15, 435.6 feet to
42 the point of beginning, comprising an area of 4 acres more or less.
43 Said tract of lands comprising a total of 63.73 acres more or less.
44 § 3. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
45 effective only upon the condition that on or before the alienation and
46 conveyance of lands described in section two of this act, the county of
47 Cattaraugus shall acquire and dedicate real property for reforestation
48 purposes, of equal or greater fair market value to the lands being
49 alienated. In the event that the lands to be acquired by the county of
50 Cattaraugus for reforestation purposes pursuant to this act are not
51 equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lands to be alien-
52 ated by the county of Cattaraugus, the county shall dedicate the differ-
53 ence between the fair market value of the lands to be alienated and the
54 fair market value of the lands to be acquired for the acquisition of
55 additional lands for reforestation purposes or for the improvement of
56 existing reforested lands.
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1 § 4. If the property described in section two of this act shall ever
2 be used for a purpose other than the purpose described in section one of
3 this act, such land shall be restored to its original state and main-
4 tained as reforested lands in accordance with section 219 of the county
5 law.
6 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
