Authorizes the town of Kinderhook to alienate certain parklands and to convey such land to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad for the purpose of providing emergency medical services to the town of Kinderhook.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8947--A
Cal. No. 900
IN SENATE
April 2, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 town of Kinderhook to transfer ownership of
certain parkland to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc.
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 town of Kinder-
2 hook, county of Columbia, acting by and through its governing body, and
3 upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body, is hereby
4 authorized to discontinue as parklands and to sell and convey at fair
5 market value the lands described in section three of this act, to the
6 Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc. for use by the Valatie Volunteer
7 Rescue Squad, Inc. for the purpose of providing emergency medical
8 services to the town of Kinderhook.
9 § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
10 effect only upon the condition that the town of Kinderhook shall dedi-
11 cate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the
12 parklands being discontinued towards the acquisition of new parklands
13 and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facili-
14 ties.
15 § 3. The parklands authorized to be alienated and discontinued as
16 parklands by the town of Kinderhook in section one of this act are
17 located, bounded and described as follows:
18 ALL that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in
19 the Town of Kinderhook, County of Columbia, and State of New York,
20 bounded and described as follows:
21 BEGINNING at a steel pin at the southwesterly corner of the parcel
22 herein to be described, said point of beginning being at the southeast-
23 erly corner of the lands now or formerly of The State of New York said
24 point of beginning being further referenced as S 66°10'52" E a distance
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of 380.86 feet from a steel pin on the easterly side of a Town of
2 Kinderhook highway commonly known as State Farm Road;
3 thence from said point of beginning and along lands of said State of New
4 York: N 34°15'00" E a distance of 456.84 feet to a point;
5 Thence through lands of the Town of Kinderhook on the following four
6 courses;
7 S 62°25'13" E a distance of 602.24 feet to a point;
8 S 32°59'21" W a distance of 370.14 feet to a point;
9 N 89°51'57" W a distance of 110.48 feet to a point;
10 N 66°10'52" W a distance of 523.50 feet to the point of beginning;
11 having an area of 261069.10 square feet or 5.99 acres of land.
12 § 4. In the event that the town of Kinderhook received any funding
13 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
14 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
15 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
16 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of
17 Kinderhook has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
18 alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secre-
19 tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
20 conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to ensure
21 the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
22 and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
23 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
