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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           508
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
 
        AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and
          convey  certain unappropriated state land to the Cedarmore Corporation
          for community programs
 

          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 but notwithstanding
     2  any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of  general
     3  services  is  hereby  authorized to transfer and convey to the Cedarmore
     4  Corporation, a community development corporation,  in  consideration  of
     5  one  dollar  and  upon  such other consideration as the commissioner may
     6  deem proper, the state land located at 63 Babylon Turnpike, Freeport, in
     7  the county of Nassau, known as the Freeport Armory, declared to be aban-
     8  doned state land by the division of military and naval affairs.
     9    § 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
    10  and conveyed are as follows:
    11    ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate,  lying  and  being  in  the

    12  Village  of  Freeport,  in the County of Nassau, State of New York, more
    13  particularly bounded and described as follows:
    14    BEGINNING at a point where the easterly line  of  Lakeview  Avenue  is
    15  intersected  by  the  southerly  line  of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike and
    16  running from said Point of  Beginning  thence  southeasterly  along  the
    17  southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about six hundred forty-six
    18  (646)  linear  feet  to  the  land  of the City of New York and the Long
    19  Island State Park Commission; thence running southwesterly and along the
    20  lands of the City of New York and  along  the  Long  Island  State  Park
    21  Commission  two  hundred (200) linear feet; thence running northwesterly
    22  and parallel with the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about
    23  four hundred thirty (430) linear feet to a point which would be ten (10)
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05303-01-3
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     1  feet easterly from the center line of the 18 inch  diameter  water  main
     2  tank  header  pipe;  thence running northwesterly about fifty-eight (58)
     3  linear feet and parallel with the 18 inch diameter water main tank head-
     4  er  pipe,  to a point which would be about one hundred sixty-eight (168)
     5  linear feet southerly from the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turn-
     6  pike, when measured at right angles thereto; thence running southwester-
     7  ly and ten (10) feet parallel with and northerly from the 12 inch  diam-
     8  eter water main tank header pipe, when measured at right angles thereto,

     9  about  one  hundred  seven  (107) linear feet to a point in the easterly
    10  line of Lakeview Avenue; thence running northerly and along the easterly
    11  line of Lakeview Avenue about two hundred fifty-eight (258) linear  feet
    12  to  a  point  in  the  southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike, the
    13  point or place of beginning, containing within said bounds  about  three
    14  (3) acres.
    15    BEING  the same lands described in a deed from the Village of Freeport
    16  to the People of the State of New York, dated June 13, 1949 and recorded
    17  in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on June 20, 1949  in  Book  3857  of
    18  Deeds at page 384.
    19    §  3.  The  description  in  section two of this act of the land to be
    20  conveyed is not intended to be a legal description but  is  intended  to
    21  identify  the parcel to be conveyed. As a condition of the purchase, the

    22  Cedarmore  Corporation  may  submit  to  the  commissioner  of   general
    23  services, for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of
    24  the lands to be conveyed, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
    25    §  4.  The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
    26  aforesaid land unless application in a form acceptable to the office  of
    27  general services is made to the office of general services by the Cedar-
    28  more  Corporation  which  application must be made within one year after
    29  the effective date of this act. As part of that application  the  Cedar-
    30  more  Corporation must submit to the office of general services a report
    31  containing a master plan setting forth a proposed use and  occupancy  of
    32  such  land  pursuant  to an advertised public hearing that conforms with
    33  the public purpose set forth in section  five  of  this  act,  including

    34  letters of commitment from not less than six community organizations not
    35  affiliated  with  the  Cedarmore  Corporation or its parents and subsid-
    36  iaries. Such report shall also contain a health and  safety  assessment,
    37  including but not limited to, possible asbestos contamination and abate-
    38  ment,  air and soil and groundwater quality, the structural integrity of
    39  the buildings performed by a  certified  structural  engineer,  and  any
    40  health  and safety improvements including such environmental remediation
    41  as may be necessary. Such report shall also contain an independent audit
    42  of the financial operations of the Cedarmore Corporation  for  the  past
    43  three  years, and the record of three public hearings documenting commu-
    44  nity response if such public purpose includes the placement of a charter
    45  school.
    46    § 5. The land described in section two of this act shall  be  used  by

    47  the  Cedarmore Corporation exclusively for voluntary youth associations,
    48  educational and recreational  programs  to  assist  at-risk  youth,  and
    49  public  safety  purposes  and  upon termination of such use title to the
    50  lands so transferred along with  any  improvements  made  thereto  shall
    51  revert to the state of New York.
    52    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.