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                                 9528--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2010
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHRISTENSEN -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

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:

  Section 1.   The county of  Onondaga  is  authorized,  acting  by  and
through  its  county  board and upon such terms and conditions as deter-
mined by such board, to discontinue the use of certain municipally owned
waterfront park land and to lease to the Syracuse Chargers  Rowing  Club
said  waterfront park land as described in section three of this act for
the purpose of conducting rowing activities, for a term  not  to  exceed
twenty-five years.
  S  2.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
effective only upon the condition that the County of  Onondaga  dedicate
an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lease of
the  waterfront park land described in section three of this act for the
acquisition of  additional  waterfront  park  land  and/or  for  capital
improvements to existing waterfront park and recreational facilities.
  S  3.  The waterfront park land authorized to be leased by section one
of this act are more particularly described as follows
  All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Geddes, County
of Onondaga and State of New York, being part of Farm Lot No. 8 in  said
Town, bounded and described as follows:
  Beginning  at  a point in the northeasterly shoreline of Onondaga Lake
Outlet (Barge Canal), said point being the  westerlymost  corner  of  an
existing  2.5  Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease by the County
of Onondaga with the Syracuse Chargers;  running  thence  northwesterly,
northerly, northeasterly and easterly along the northeasterly, easterly,
southeasterly  and  southerly  shoreline  of  said  Onondaga Lake Outlet
(Barge Canal) as it winds and turns, a distance of about 533 feet  to  a
point  in  the  southwesterly  edge  of pavement in Teneck Drive; thence
southeasterly,  southerly,  southwesterly,  along   the   southwesterly,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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westerly,  and  northwesterly  edge of pavement of said Teneck Drive, an
existing edge of driveway and its southwesterly prolongation, a distance
of about 905 feet to a point in a northeasterly boundary of  the  afore-
mentioned  2.5  Acre  more  or  less,  Ten  Eyck Boathouse Lease; thence
northwesterly along said northeasterly boundary of said 2.5 Acre more or
less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease, a distance of  about  113  feet  to  the
northerlymost  corner  of said 2.5 Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse
Lease; thence southwesterly along the northwesterly boundary of said 2.5
Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease, a  distance  of  about  236
feet  to  the point and place of beginning, containing 1.6 Acres of land
more or less.
  S 4. Should the leased lands described in  section  one  of  this  act
cease  to be used for the purposes described in section one of this act,
the lease shall terminate and those lands shall revert to the County  of
Onondaga  for  public  waterfront park and recreational purposes. At the
time of such reversion, the property shall be returned to  its  previous
state, consistent with public waterfront park and recreational purposes.
  S  5.  Such  land described in section three of this act shall be made
available to the general public on an equitable basis. Where availabili-
ty of public facilities is limited, the use of such facilities  must  be
determined  by  a  reservation policy which provides priority use to the
general public.
  S 6. If the park land that is the  subject  of  this  legislation  has
received  funding  pursuant  to  the federal land and water conservation
fund, the discontinuance of park land authorized by  the  provisions  of
this  legislation  shall  not  occur until the municipality has complied
with the federal requirements  pertaining  to  the  conversion  of  park
lands,  including  satisfying  the  secretary  of  the interior that the
discontinuance will include all conditions which the  secretary  of  the
interior deems necessary to assure the substitution of other lands shall
be  equivalent  in  fair market value and recreational usefulness to the
lands being discontinued.
  S 7. This act shall take effect immediately.