STATE OF NEW YORK
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8570
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 13, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
relation to establishing the Ashley Schiff state park preserve
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The parks, recreation and historic preservation law is
2 amended by adding a new section 20.05 to read as follows:
3 § 20.05 Ashley Schiff state park preserve. 1. Subject to the gift or
4 grant by the board of trustees of the state university of New York to
5 the office of the following parcel of land, the commissioner shall
6 establish thereon the Ashley Schiff state park preserve:
7 The area commonly known as the Ashley Schiff Park Preserve, commencing
8 at a point on the westerly boundary of the existing Nicolls Road, County
9 Road No. 97, at the intersection of said boundary line with the most
10 southerly boundary line of the old Nicolls Road; thence along said
11 existing westerly boundary of Nicolls Road the following two courses and
12 distances: (1) N 15° 25' 00" W, 103.66 feet, (2) N 23° 45' 50" W,
13 907.00 feet; thence still along westerly boundary of Nicolls Road,
14 120.79 feet along the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of
15 1,984.98 feet to the point and place of beginning; thence through the
16 property of the State of New York the following seventeen (17) courses:
17 (1) S 69° 27' 45" W, 900.86 feet, (2) N 73° 48' 24" W, 67.85 feet, (3) N
18 24° 42' 48" W, 69.35 feet, (4) N 29° 25' 42" W, 293.83 feet, (5) 576.34
19 feet along the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 1,020.58
20 feet, (6) N 02° 55' 39" E, 164.76 feet, (7) 109.30 feet along the arc of
21 a curve to the left having a radius of 440.00 feet, (8) N 11° 18' 19" W,
22 44.11 feet, (9) N 59° 56' 08" E, 20.61 feet, (10) 264.52 feet along the
23 arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 360.00 feet, (11) S 77°
24 57' 55" E, 41.00 feet, (12) 461.94 feet along the arc of a curve to the
25 left having a radius of 2,200.00 feet, (13) S 82° 59' 45" E, 47.51 feet,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (14) 498.03 feet along the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of
2 290.00 feet, (15) N 08° 23' 13" W, 108.17 feet, (16) 288.96 feet along
3 the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 447.67 feet, (17) S
4 59° 17' 10" E, 164.44 feet to the aforesaid westerly boundary line of
5 Nicolls Road, County Road 97; thence along said boundary line the
6 following nine (9) courses: (1) 288.16 feet along the arc of a curve to
7 the left having a radius of 1,984.98 feet, (2) N 73° 30' 31" W, 30.00
8 feet, (3) S 16° 07' 08" W, 26.38 feet, (4) S 74° 15' 29" E, 30.00 feet,
9 (5) 215.71 feet along the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of
10 1,984.98 feet, (6) S 49° 19' 53" W, 15.56 feet, (7) S 21° 47' 50" W,
11 139.31 feet, (8) S 09° 02' 08" E, 233.35 feet (9) 660.75 feet along the
12 arc of a curve to the left having a radius of 1,984.98 feet to the point
13 or place of beginning, containing 1,231,541 square feet or 28.273 acres,
14 more or less.
15 2. In recognition of its unique and significant ecosystem the Ashley
16 Schiff state park preserve shall be part of the state park preserve
17 system and shall be subject to the provisions of this article.
18 3. The Ashley Schiff state park preserve shall be administered and
19 maintained by a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the state
20 university of New York at Stony Brook pursuant to a contract with the
21 office and subject to the rules of the office.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
