Authorizes the county of Onondaga to enter into a twenty-five year lease with the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club for the purpose of conducting rowing activities on Onondaga Lake.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6464--A
Cal. No. 390
IN SENATE
January 15, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT authorizing the county of Onondaga to enter into a lease with the
Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The county of Onondaga is authorized, acting by and
2 through its county board and upon such terms and conditions as deter-
3 mined by such board, to discontinue the use of certain municipally owned
4 waterfront park land and to lease to the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club
5 said waterfront park land as described in section three of this act for
6 the purpose of conducting rowing activities, for a term not to exceed
7 twenty-five years.
8 § 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
9 effective only upon the condition that the County of Onondaga dedicate
10 an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lease of
11 the waterfront park land described in section three of this act for the
12 acquisition of additional waterfront park land and/or for capital
13 improvements to existing waterfront park and recreational facilities.
14 § 3. The waterfront park land authorized to be leased by section one
15 of this act are more particularly described as follows
16 All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Geddes, County
17 of Onondaga and State of New York, being part of Farm Lot No. 8 in said
18 Town, bounded and described as follows:
19 Beginning at a point in the northeasterly shoreline of Onondaga Lake
20 Outlet (Barge Canal), said point being the westerlymost corner of an
21 existing 2.5 Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease by the County
22 of Onondaga with the Syracuse Chargers; running thence northwesterly,
23 northerly, northeasterly and easterly along the northeasterly, easterly,
24 southeasterly and southerly shoreline of said Onondaga Lake Outlet
25 (Barge Canal) as it winds and turns, a distance of about 533 feet to a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 point in the southwesterly edge of pavement in Teneck Drive; thence
2 southeasterly, southerly, southwesterly, along the southwesterly,
3 westerly, and northwesterly edge of pavement of said Teneck Drive, an
4 existing edge of driveway and its southwesterly prolongation, a distance
5 of about 905 feet to a point in a northeasterly boundary of the afore-
6 mentioned 2.5 Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease; thence
7 northwesterly along said northeasterly boundary of said 2.5 Acre more or
8 less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease, a distance of about 113 feet to the
9 northerlymost corner of said 2.5 Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse
10 Lease; thence southwesterly along the northwesterly boundary of said 2.5
11 Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease, a distance of about 236
12 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 1.6 Acres of land
13 more or less.
14 § 4. Should the leased lands described in section one of this act
15 cease to be used for the purposes described in section one of this act,
16 the lease shall terminate and those lands shall revert to the County of
17 Onondaga for public waterfront park and recreational purposes. At the
18 time of such reversion, the property shall be returned to its previous
19 state, consistent with public waterfront park and recreational purposes.
20 § 5. Such land described in section three of this act shall be made
21 available to the general public on an equitable basis. Where availabili-
22 ty of public facilities is limited, the use of such facilities must be
23 determined by a reservation policy which provides priority use to the
24 general public.
25 § 6. If the park land that is the subject of this legislation has
26 received funding pursuant to the federal land and water conservation
27 fund, the discontinuance of park land authorized by the provisions of
28 this legislation shall not occur until the municipality has complied
29 with the federal requirements pertaining to the conversion of park
30 lands, including satisfying the secretary of the interior that the
31 discontinuance will include all conditions which the secretary of the
32 interior deems necessary to assure the substitution of other lands shall
33 be equivalent in fair market value and recreational usefulness to the
34 lands being discontinued.
35 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
