S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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S. 5666 A. 7743
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
June 3, 2013
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
ment
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Local Governments
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, said point being the westerly most corner of an existing 2.5
Acre more or less, Ten Eyck Boathouse Lease by the County of Onondaga
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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with Syracuse University; running thence northwesterly, northerly,
northeasterly and easterly along the northeasterly, easterly, southeast-
erly and southerly shoreline of said Onondaga Lake Outlet as it winds
and turns, a distance of about 533 feet to a point in the southwesterly
edge of pavement in Ten Eyck Drive; thence southeasterly, southerly,
southwesterly, along the southwesterly, westerly, and northwesterly edge
of pavement of said Ten Eyck 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 aforementioned 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 northerly most 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 waterfront park land described in section three of this act
shall be made available to the general public on an equitable basis.
Where availability 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.
