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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 16, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. JORDAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and
  convey certain unappropriated state land to the Hoosick Area  Partner-
  ship for Parents and Youth for community programs

  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 Hoosick Area
Partnership for Parents and  Youth,  a  501(c)(3)  charitable  community
development  corporation,  the  state  land located at 80 Church Street,
village of Hoosick Falls, in the county  of  Rensselaer,  known  as  the
Hoosick  Falls  Armory, declared to be abandoned state land by the divi-
sion of military and naval affairs. 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  tract  or parcel of land known as the Hoosick Falls Armory,
situate, lying and being in the Village and Town of Hoosick Falls, Coun-
ty of Rensselaer, State of New York, bounded and described as follows:
  BEGINNING at a point on the southerly boundary line of Elm Street,  at
the  intersection of the division line between the lands, now or former-
ly, of the Immaculate Conception Church of Hoosick Falls on the east and
the New York State "Armory Lot" on the west; thence along said  division
line  South 7° 45' West, 94 feet, more or less, to a point on the north-
erly boundary line of lands, now or formerly, of Cleveland E. Dodge Jr.;
thence along said boundary line North 86° 15' West, 109  feet,  more  or
less, and North 86° 15' West, 49.5 feet, more or less, to a point on the
easterly  boundary  line  of  Church  Street; thence along said easterly
boundary line of Church Street North 13° 15'  East,  26  feet,  more  or

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

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less, and North 13° 15' East, 52 feet, more or less, to the southeaster-
ly  boundary line of lands of the People of the State of New York trans-
ferred to the New York State Department of Transportation  by  Order  of
the Commissioner of General Services dated October 20, 2005 and shown on
Map No. 25-T, Parcel No.  25, filed in the Office of General Services as
O.G.S.  Map  No.  2048; thence along said southeasterly boundary line 17
feet, more or less, to the southerly boundary line of Elm Street; thence
along the southerly boundary line of Elm Street the following three  (3)
courses and distances:
  1. North 67° 30' East, 8 feet, more or less;
  2. North 70° 30' East, 18 feet, more or less; and
  3.  South 84° 00' East, 119 feet, more or less, to the point and place
of beginning.
  BEING the same premises acquired by the People of  the  State  of  New
York for the Hoosick Falls Armory by the following deeds:
  1.  Deed  from  Charles  Q.  Eldredge,  et. ux., dated June 7,1888 and
recorded in the Rensselaer County Clerk's Office in Liber 223  of  Deeds
at page 471;
  2.  Deed  from  Gaylord  B.  White,  et.  al.,  dated July 1, 1892 and
recorded in the Rensselaer County Clerk's Office in Liber 242  of  Deeds
at page 318;
  3.  Deed  from  Lucy  E. White, dated July 1, 1892 and recorded in the
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office in Liber 242 of Deeds at page 319;
  4. Deed from Elizabeth Robinson, dated July 1, 1892  and  recorded  in
the  Rensselaer County Clerk's Office in Liber 242 of Deeds at page 320;
and
  5. Deed from Charles Q. Eldredge, et. ux.,  dated  June  1,  1893  and
recorded  in  the Rensselaer County Clerk's Office in Liber 242 of Deeds
at page 321.
  EXCEPTING lands transferred to the New York State Department of Trans-
portation by Order of the Commissioner of General Services dated October
20, 2005 and shown on Map No. 25-T, Parcel No. 25, filed in  the  Office
of General Services as O.G.S. Map No. 2048.
  ALSO  EXCEPTING the rights, if any, of the Village of Hoosick Falls in
and to that portion of the bed of Elm Street which is lying  within  the
above described premises.
  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, Hoosick Area Partnership for
Parents and Youth 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 Hoosick Area Partnership for Parents and Youth 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
purposes  of  housing  various  community  programs  including  programs
pertaining to education, recreation, health and wellness, civic  groups,
cultural  and  youth  associations,  veterans affairs, public safety and
historic preservation.

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  (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.