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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5864
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 9, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to authorize the town of Vestal, in  the  county  of  Broome,  to
          alienate and convey certain parklands
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The town of Vestal, in the county of Broome, acting by  and
     2  through  its  town board, is hereby authorized to discontinue the use of
     3  certain parklands, described in section three of this act, and  to  sell
     4  and  convey,  in fee simple, such parklands for fair market value to the
     5  Vestal Veterinary Hospital and upon such terms and conditions as may  be
     6  determined by the town board of such town.
     7    §  2.  The  authorization  granted pursuant to section one of this act
     8  shall only be effective upon the condition that the town of Vestal shall
     9  dedicate the fair market value of the lands authorized  to  be  conveyed
    10  for  the  acquisition of additional parkland and/or capital improvements
    11  to existing park facilities in the town of Vestal.
    12    § 3. The lands to  be  discontinued  as  parkland  and  alienated  and
    13  conveyed  pursuant  to section one of this act are bounded and described
    14  as follows:
    15    ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Vestal, County
    16  of Broome, State of New York, being a portion of  the  property  now  or
    17  formerly  of  the  Town  of  Vestal  described in Liber 1112 Page 199 as
    18  recorded in the Broome County Clerk's Office on November  4,  1966  (TM#
    19  158.14-4-1), bounded and described as follows:
    20    BEGINNING  at a point on the southwesterly boundary of African Road at
    21  its intersection with the division line  between  the  property  now  or
    22  formerly  of  Jeffrey  Shafer  &  Laura  Shafer  per L. 1796 P. 820 (TM#
    23  158.13-2-3) on the northwest and the property now  or  formerly  of  the
    24  Town of Vestal per L. 1112 P. 199 (TM# 158.14-4-1) on the southeast;
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11491-02-5
        S. 5864                             2
 
     1    RUNNING  THENCE  S40 00'02"E  along  said  African Road, a distance of
     2  232.63 feet to a point; thence through said Town of Vestal the following
     3  two (2) courses and distances:
     4    1) S49 59'58"W, a distance of 96.62 feet to a point;
     5    2)  N40 00'02"W,  a  distance  of 225.74 feet to a point at its inter-
     6  section with the division line between the property now or  formerly  of
     7  Jyoti  S.  Bhardwaj  per L. 1905 P. 829 (TM# 158.13-2-2) on the west and
     8  said Town of Vestal on the  east;  thence  N04 28'10"W  along  the  last
     9  mentioned  division  line,  a  distance  of 38.16 feet to a point at its
    10  intersection with the division line between said Shafer on the northeast
    11  and said Town of Vestal on the  southwest;  thence  along  the  division
    12  lines  between said Shafer and said Town of Vestal the following two (2)
    13  courses and distances:
    14    1) S54 17'02"E, a distance of 24.94 feet to a point;
    15    2) N49 59'58"E, a distance of 68.29 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
    16    The above described parcel contains 22,743 square feet or 0.522  acre,
    17  more or less.
    18    Bearings  are  referred  to  True North at the 76 35' Meridian of West
    19  Longitude.
    20    The above described parcel is shown on the map entitled "Parcel to  be
    21  Conveyed  by  Town of Vestal to Jeffrey Shafer, Laura Shafer, Portion of
    22  200 African Road,  Town  of  Vestal,  Broome  County,  New  York  State"
    23  prepared by Keystone Associates Architects, Engineers and Surveyors, LLC
    24  as project number 2384.21614, sheet PC-1 dated April 3, 2015.
    25    § 4. In the event that the town of Vestal received any funding support
    26  or  assistance from the federal government for the purchase, maintenance
    27  or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three of this  act,
    28  the   discontinuance  and  conveyance  of  parkland  authorized  by  the
    29  provisions of this act shall not occur until  the  town  of  Vestal  has
    30  complied  with  any federal requirements pertaining to the alienation of
    31  conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secretary of the inte-
    32  rior that the alienation or  conversion  complies  with  all  conditions
    33  which  the  secretary  of  the  interior  deems  necessary to assure the
    34  substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value and
    35  recreational usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
    36    § 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    37  have become a law.