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4688--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
April 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT authorizing the town of Fallsburg, county of Sullivan to alienate
and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The town of Fallsburg, in the county of Sullivan, is here-
by authorized to discontinue use of certain parklands more particularly
described in section three of this act and sell and convey in fee simple
for its fair market value and upon such terms and conditions as deter-
mined by the town board to SYDA Foundation such lands which are no long-
er useful for parkland recreation purposes.
S 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
effect only upon the condition that the town of Fallsburg dedicate an
amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the property
being alienated in section three of this act toward acquisition of addi-
tional parkland and/or capital improvements to existing parkland.
S 3. The lands to be discontinued as parklands and alienated and
conveyed pursuant to section one of this act are bounded and described
as follows:
Parcel One:
ALL that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Fallsburg, Coun-
ty of Sullivan and State of New York, intended to be a portion of the
premises as described in a deed from Samuel Carmel and Max Cohen to Town
of Fallsburg, dated July 18, 1958, recorded in the Sullivan County
Clerk's Office in Deed Liber 571 at Page 13, being the 0.810 Acre Parcel
as designated on a map entitled "Survey Map of a Lot Improvement Involv-
ing Lands of Town of Fallsburg & SYDA Foundation", last revised July
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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28, 2014, proposed to be filed in the Sullivan County Clerk's Office,
more particularly bound and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the approximate center of Purvis Brook on the
assumed southwesterly bounds of Seldon Road (County Road No. 52), also
known as Brickman Road, said point being at a northwesterly corner
(after highway taking) of said lands of Town of Fallsburgh and the most
easterly corner of a certain parcel of land now of SYDA Foundation (see
Deed Liber 921 at Page 6), formerly known as Siddha Yoga Dham of New
York, Inc., and running thence from said point of beginning along the
approximate center of the main channel of Purvis Brook, running along
the common line separating lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at
Page 13 and lands described in said Deed Liber 921 at Page 6, the
following twenty-one courses and distances:
(1) South 25 degrees 06 minutes 41 seconds West 106.31 feet,
(2) South 33 degrees 42 minutes 38 seconds West 60.56 feet,
(3) South 45 degrees 36 minutes 12 seconds West 33.23 feet,
(4) South 60 degrees 43 minutes 16 seconds West 62.68 feet,
(5) South 42 degrees 45 minutes 37 seconds West 202.33 feet,
(6) South 51 degrees 44 minutes 11 seconds West 29.17 feet,
(7) South 46 degrees 20 minutes 48 seconds West 53.71 feet,
(8) South 28 degrees 40 minutes 09 seconds West 34.28 feet,
(9) South 59 degrees 35 minutes 27 seconds West 24.76 feet,
(10) South 86 degrees 27 minutes 29 seconds West 19.43 feet,
(11) North 64 degrees 40 minutes 33 seconds West 39.04 feet,
(12) North 61 degrees 12 minutes 09 seconds West 55.02 feet,
(13) South 55 degrees 05 minutes 43 seconds West 20.62 feet,
(14) South 30 degrees 37 minutes 48 seconds West 50.48 feet,
(15) South 41 degrees 28 minutes 18 seconds West 28.95 feet,
(16) South 35 degrees 06 minutes 48 seconds West 47.11 feet,
(17) South 25 degrees 26 minutes 48 seconds West 32.26 feet,
(18) South 40 degrees 32 minutes 38 seconds West 95.01 feet,
(19) South 36 degrees 51 minutes 28 seconds West 50.42 feet,
(20) South 20 degrees 20 minutes 18 seconds West 13.57 feet, and
(21) South 47 degrees 28 minutes 08 seconds West 32.91 feet
to a point in the approximate center of said Purvis Brook on the common
line separating lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page 13 and
lands described in said Deed Liber 921 at Page 6;
thence running through lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page
13, North 63 degrees 06 minutes 58 seconds East 36.23 feet to the
approximate top of the bank on the southeasterly side of said Purvis
Brook;
thence continuing through lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page
13, running along the approximate top of the bank on the southeasterly
side of said Purvis Brook, the following four courses and distances:
(1) North 28 degrees 55 minutes 38 seconds East 22.71 feet,
(2) North 38 degrees 56 minutes 28 seconds East 63.16 feet,
(3) North 44 degrees 52 minutes 28 seconds East 66.22 feet, and
(4) North 52 degrees 24 minutes 38 seconds East 61.90 feet;
thence continuing through lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page
13, North 49 degrees 30 minutes 28 seconds East 89.06 feet to a point on
a chain link fence;
thence continuing through lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page
13, running along said chain link fence, the following nine courses and
distances:
(1) South 80 degrees 13 minutes 50 seconds East 46.24 feet,
(2) North 71 degrees 51 minutes 21 seconds East 62.10 feet,
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(3) North 48 degrees 57 minutes 56 seconds East 128.19 feet,
(4) South 86 degrees 48 minutes 23 seconds East 18.42 feet,
(5) North 38 degrees 06 minutes 45 seconds East 43.65 feet,
(6) North 43 degrees 41 minutes 37 seconds East 82.55 feet,
(7) North 40 degrees 07 minutes 25 seconds East 99.40 feet,
(8) North 52 degrees 45 minutes 39 seconds East 69.86 feet, and
(9) North 35 degrees 46 minutes 00 seconds East 166.58 feet
to a point on said chain link fence on the assumed southwesterly bounds
of said Brickman Road;
thence running along the assumed southwesterly bounds of said Brickman
Road, being the southwesterly bounds of Parcel No. 52-26-A as designated
on R.O.W. Map No. 52-26-A on file in the Sullivan County Department of
Public Works Office, North 59 degrees 55 minutes 49 seconds West 53.74
feet to the point of beginning, containing 0.810 acre of land.
Parcel Two:
ALL that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Fallsburg,
County of Sullivan and State of New York, intended to be a portion of
the premises as described in a deed from Samuel Carmel and Max Cohen to
Town of Fallsburgh, dated July 18, 1958, recorded in the Sullivan County
Clerk's Office in Deed Liber 571 at Page 13, being the 0.811 Acre Parcel
as designated on a map entitled "Survey Map of a Lot and Improvement
Involving Lands of Town of Fallsburgh & SYDA Foundation", last revised
July 28, 2014, proposed to be filed in the Sullivan County Clerk's
Office, more particularly bound and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the approximate center of Smith Brook, also
known as Sheldrake Stream, at a northwesterly corner of said lands of
Town of Fallsburgh and the most westerly corner of a certain parcel of
land now of SYDA Foundation (see Deed Liber 921 at Page 6), formerly
known as Siddha Yoga Dham of New York, Inc., on the southeasterly bounds
of the first described parcel of land in a deed to SYDA Foundation
recorded in Land Records Liber 3193 at Page 77, said point being North
25 degrees 13 minutes 03 seconds East 101.13 feet, as measured along the
southeasterly bounds of said first described parcel in Land Records
Liber 3193 at Page 77 and the northwesterly bounds of said lands of Town
of Fallsburgh, from a 3/4-inch diameter iron rod set, said point also
being South 73 degrees 35 minutes 33 seconds West 1314.63 feet from a
point in the approximate center of Purvis Brook on the assumed southwes-
terly bounds of Seldon Road (County Road No. 52), also known as Brickman
Road, at the point of beginning of the above described 0.810 Acre
Parcel, and running thence from said point of beginning along the
approximate center of the main channel of Smith Brook, running along the
common line separating lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page 13
and lands described in said Deed Liber 921 at Page 6, the following
twenty-five courses and distances:
(1) South 59 degrees 42 minutes 52 seconds East 61.12 feet,
(2) South 83 degrees 28 minutes 32 seconds East 11.53 feet,
(3) South 50 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds East 77.08 feet,
(4) South 45 degrees 41 minutes 02 seconds East 36.28 feet,
(5) South 62 degrees 36 minutes 22 seconds East 25.16 feet,
(6) South 23 degrees 30 minutes 42 seconds East 33.64 feet,
(7) South 12 degrees 59 minutes 38 seconds West 11.11 feet,
(8) South 44 degrees 45 minutes 42 seconds East 42.93 feet,
(9) South 71 degrees 32 minutes 32 seconds East 14.99 feet,
(10) North 68 degrees 04 minutes 18 seconds East 38.19 feet,
(11) North 15 degrees 28 minutes 58 seconds East 10.01 feet,
(12) North 43 degrees 28 minutes 48 seconds East 20.38 feet,
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(13) North 70 degrees 46 minutes 48 seconds East 38.38 feet,
(14) North 32 degrees 50 minutes 08 seconds East 74.54 feet,
(15) North 79 degrees 46 minutes 08 seconds East 10.82 feet,
(16) South 62 degrees 06 minutes 32 seconds East 18.84 feet,
(17) South 28 degrees 16 minutes 52 seconds East 47.82 feet,
(18) South 01 degrees 06 minutes 28 seconds West 32.63 feet,
(19) South 34 degrees 48 minutes 48 seconds West 57.85 feet,
(20) South 58 degrees 15 minutes 48 seconds West 11.98 feet,
(21) South 28 degrees 33 minutes 08 seconds West 82.49 feet,
(22) South 21 degrees 17 minutes 38 seconds West 25.16 feet,
(23) South 73 degrees 46 minutes 12 seconds East 34.86 feet,
(24) South 19 degrees 30 minutes 12 seconds East 24.38 feet, and
(25) South 04 degrees 41 minutes 32 seconds East 20.98 feet
to a point in the approximate center of the main channel of said Smith
Brook on the common line separating lands described in the said Deed
Liber 571 at Page 13 and lands described in said Deed Liber 921 at Page
6, the last mentioned point being South 77 degrees 33 minutes 57 seconds
West 187.82 feet from a point in the approximate center of Purvis Brook
at the most southerly corner of the above described 0.810 Acre Parcel;
thence running through lands described in said Deed Liber 571 at Page 13
the following six courses and distances:
(1) North 62 degrees 26 minutes 22 seconds West 6.71 feet,
(2) North 45 degrees 51 minutes 52 seconds West 75.42 feet,
(3) North 47 degrees 15 minutes 32 seconds West 44.46 feet,
(4) North 36 degrees 19 minutes 52 seconds West 70.85 feet,
(5) North 44 degrees 21 minutes 32 seconds West 77.94 feet, and
(6) North 36 degrees 12 minutes 22 seconds West 15.92 feet
to a point in the approximate center of a secondary channel of Smith
Brook;
thence running along the approximate center of said secondary channel
the following seven courses and distances;
(1) North 74 degrees 14 minutes 22 seconds West 28.19 feet,
(2) North 59 degrees 58 minutes 32 seconds West 49.99 feet,
(3) North 70 degrees 14 minutes 52 seconds West 16.98 feet,
(4) North 54 degrees 54 minutes 52 seconds West 87.46 feet,
(5) North 06 degrees 09 minutes 12 seconds West 35.52 feet,
(6) North 14 degrees 17 minutes 38 seconds East 16.04 feet, and
(7) North 02 degrees 13 minutes 07 seconds West 15.06 feet
to the point of beginning, containing 0.811 acre of land.
S 4. In the event that the town of Fallsburg received any funding
support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
of this act, the discontinuance and conveyance of parkland authorized by
the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of Fallsburg
has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the alienation
or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secretary of the
interior that the alienation or conversion complies with 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 alienated or converted.
S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
