STATE OF NEW YORK
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6420
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT alienating and substituting certain parklands in the village of
Waterford, county of Saratoga
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 Waterford in the county of Saratoga, acting by and through the village
3 board, is hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands, the lands more
4 particularly described in section three of this act and to use said
5 lands for village fire department purposes. The commissioner of general
6 services shall amend a deed from the state to the village conveying the
7 lands described in section three, relating to the use of the said lands
8 for village fire department purposes.
9 § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
10 effect only upon the condition that the village of Waterford shall dedi-
11 cate an amount equal or greater than the fair market value of the prop-
12 erty being alienated in this act toward the acquisition of additional
13 parklands and/or capital improvements to existing parklands.
14 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
15 tinued as parklands are as follows:
16 All that piece or parcel of land situate in the village of Waterford,
17 town of Waterford, county of Saratoga and state of New York, being bound
18 and described as follows:
19 Beginning at a point at the northwest corner of parcel no. 1, lands
20 retained by New York state department of transportation, said point
21 being N. 73°58' E. a distance of 107.00 feet from Station 197+83.26 of
22 the centerline of the improved Erie canal; thence from said point of
23 beginning along the bounds of said parcel no. 1 the following three
24 courses and distances:
25 1. N. 73°58'E a distance of 311.06 feet to a point;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. S. 17°23'40"W a distance of 299.83 feet to a point; and
2 3. S. 63°06'E a distance of 98.09 feet to a point on the westerly
3 bounds of eighth street;
4 thence S. 26°54'W along the westerly bounds of eighth street a
5 distance of 30.0 feet to a point; thence N. 63°06'W along the bounds of
6 said parcel no. 1 a distance of 93.07 feet to a point; thence S.
7 46°42'31"W through said parcel no. 1 a distance of 71.21 feet to a
8 point; thence along the bounds of said parcel no. 1 the following three
9 courses and distances:
10 1. S. 46°42'40"W. a distance of 41.79 feet to a point;
11 2. N. 31°03'14" W. a distance of 30.61 feet to a point; and
12 3. N. 20°01'05" W. a distance of 298.53 feet to the point or place of
13 beginning, containing 1.465 acres of land, more or less
14 Being a portion of parcel no. 1 on map no. 1 on a map entitled "New
15 York State Department of Transportation Description and Map of Lands to
16 be Retained, Canal Lands, Saratoga County", dated March 3, 1993 and
17 filed in the New York State Office of General Services as O.G.S. Map No.
18 2052.
19 § 4. In the event that the village of Waterford received any funding
20 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
21 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
22 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
23 ized by the provisions of section one of this act shall not occur until
24 the village of Waterford has complied with any federal requirements
25 pertaining to the alienation or conversion of such parklands, including
26 satisfying the secretary of the interior that the alienation or conver-
27 sion complies with all conditions which the secretary of the interior
28 deems necessary to assure the substitution of other lands shall be
29 equivalent in fair market value and usefulness to the lands being alien-
30 ated or converted.
31 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
