STATE OF NEW YORK
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8894--A
IN SENATE
March 25, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. WEBER -- 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 in relation to authorizing the village of Haverstraw 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
2 Haverstraw is hereby authorized, acting by and through its governing
3 body, and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such governing
4 body, to discontinue the use as parkland and alienate the lands
5 described in section three of this act, and to convey property interests
6 in such lands to Haverstraw Community Chair Factory, LLC.
7 § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
8 be effective on the condition that the village of Haverstraw dedicate an
9 amount equal to or greater than fair market value of the parklands being
10 alienated pursuant to section one of this act towards the acquisition of
11 new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recre-
12 ational facilities.
13 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
14 tinued as parkland is described as follows:
15 ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate, lying and
16 being in the Village of Haverstraw, County of Rockland and State of New
17 York. Being more fully bounded and described as follows:
18 BEGINNING at a point on the mean high water line of west side of the
19 Hudson River, said point being located at the southeast corner of Tax
20 Lot 27.46-1-81 and the northeast corner of the hereinafter intended to
21 be described parcel; running thence along the mean high water line of
22 the west side of the Hudson River the following two (2) courses and
23 distances:
24 S55-42-32W, 17.57 feet; thence
25 S27-55-46E, 12.80 feet; thence
26 N84-42-00W, 164.14 feet thru Tax Lot 27.54-2-16; thence
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 N05-28-26E, 2.08 feet along the easterly line of Tax Lot 27.46-1-86;
2 running thence along the southerly and easterly line of an unnamed
3 Village of Haverstraw right-of-way;
4 S81-19-02E, 18.14 feet;
5 N00-56-34E, 27.34 feet; thence
6 S82-54-20E, 166.64 feet along the southerly line of Tax Lot 27.46-1-81
7 to the point or place of BEGINNING.
8 Such parcel consisting of 3,999 square feet or .0918 acres of land.
9 § 4. In the event that the village of Haverstraw received any funding
10 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
11 maintenance, or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
12 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parklands author-
13 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the village of
14 Haverstraw has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
15 alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secre-
16 tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
17 conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
18 the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
19 and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
20 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
