Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land, the Freeport Armory, to the village of Freeport.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4609
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- 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 village of Freeport
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 village of
4 Freeport, in consideration of one dollar and upon such other consider-
5 ation as the commissioner may deem proper, the state land located at 63
6 Babylon Turnpike, Freeport, in the county of Nassau, known as the Free-
7 port Armory, declared to be abandoned state land by the division of
8 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)
24 feet easterly from the center line of the 18 inch diameter water main
25 tank header pipe; thence running northwesterly about fifty-eight (58)
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 linear feet and parallel with the 18 inch diameter water main tank head-
2 er pipe, to a point which would be about one hundred sixty-eight (168)
3 linear feet southerly from the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turn-
4 pike, when measured at right angles thereto; thence running southwester-
5 ly and ten (10) feet parallel with and northerly from the 12 inch diam-
6 eter water main tank header pipe, when measured at right angles thereto,
7 about one hundred seven (107) linear feet to a point in the easterly
8 line of Lakeview Avenue; thence running northerly and along the easterly
9 line of Lakeview Avenue about two hundred fifty-eight (258) linear feet
10 to a point in the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike, the
11 point or place of beginning, containing within said bounds about three
12 (3) acres.
13 BEING the same lands described in a deed from the Village of Freeport
14 to the People of the State of New York, dated June 13, 1949 and recorded
15 in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on June 20, 1949 in Book 3857 of
16 Deeds at page 384.
17 § 3. The description in section two of this act of the land to be
18 conveyed is not intended to be a legal description but is intended to
19 identify the parcel to be conveyed. As a condition of the purchase, the
20 Village of Freeport may submit to the commissioner of general services,
21 for his or her approval, an accurate survey and description of the lands
22 to be conveyed, which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
23 § 4. The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
24 aforesaid land unless application in a form acceptable to the office of
25 general services is made to the office of general services by the
26 village of Freeport which application must be made within one year after
27 the effective date of this act.
28 § 5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used for the
29 purposes of the village of Freeport to utilize the subject property and
30 improve the structures on the subject property for general municipal
31 purposes, and upon termination of such use, title to the lands so trans-
32 ferred shall revert to the state of New York.
33 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
