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                                  5259

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 11, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and
  convey certain unappropriated state land to the village of Otisville

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subject to the provisions of this act but notwithstanding
any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of  general
services  is  hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the village of
Otisville the state land described in section two of  this  act  at  the
Otisville  correctional  facility,  in  the village of Otisville and the
county of Orange, declared to be abandoned state land by the  department
of  corrections  and community supervision.  The transfer and conveyance
of the land described in section two  of  this  act  shall  be  made  in
consideration  of  the sum of one dollar and upon such conditions as the
commissioner of general services may deem proper.
  S 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
and conveyed are as follows:
  ALL that certain tract, piece or parcel of land,  situate,  lying  and
being  in the Town of Mount Hope, Village of Otisville, County of Orange
and the State of New York, being more particularly bounded and described
as follows:
  BEGINNING at a point on the northwest bounds of NYS Route No. 211,  at
the  southeast  corner  of  lands granted to the Village of Otisville by
Letters Patent dated October 9, 1964,  recorded  in  the  Department  of
State in Book 77 of Patents at page 438, thence northwesterly along said
lands  of the Village of Otisville a distance of 235 feet, more or less,
to a point, thence through lands of the People of the State of New  York
the following two (2) courses and distances;
  1. easterly a distance of 97 feet, more or less, to a point, and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  2.  southeasterly  a distance of 144 feet, more or less, to a point on
the first mentioned northwest bounds of NYS Route No. 211, thence south-
westerly along said bounds a distance of 70 feet more  or  less  to  the
point or place of beginning, containing 0.4 acre of land, more or less.
  S  3. The description in section two of this act is not intended to be
a legal description but  is  intended  to  identify  the  parcel  to  be
conveyed.   As a condition of the transfer, the village of Otisville may
submit to the commissioner of general services, for his or her approval,
an accurate survey and description of the lands to  be  conveyed,  which
may be used in the conveyance thereof.
  S  4.  The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
aforesaid land unless application is  made  to  the  office  of  general
services  by  the village of Otisville within 1 year after the effective
date of this act. Said application shall be in the form of a  resolution
setting  forth  a comprehensive statement approved by its managing board
acknowledging and accepting the use restrictions set  forth  in  section
five of this act.
  S  5.  The  transfer and conveyance made pursuant to this act shall be
subject to the following use restrictions and reverter:
  (a) The land described in this act shall be used exclusively  for  the
Village of Otisville's fire department.
  (b)  The  conveyance of the land described in this act shall contain a
covenant and restriction  requiring  that  the  land  be  used  for  the
purposes  set forth in subdivision (a) of this section. In the event the
premises are not accepted and/or used for such purposes, it shall revert
to the state of New York.
  S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.