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                                   5948
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer  and
   convey  certain  unappropriated state land to Rockland Recovery Homes,
   Inc.

   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 Rockland Recov-
 ery Homes, Inc., in consideration of one  dollar  and  upon  such  other
 consideration  as  the  commissioner  may  deem  proper,  the state land
 located at 328 Willow Grove Road, in the Town  of  Haverstraw,  and  the
 County  of  Rockland,  declared to be abandoned state land by the office
 for people with developmental disabilities.
   § 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
 and conveyed are as follows:
   ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the  Town  of  Haverstraw,
 County of Rockland and State of New York being more particularly bounded
 and described as follows:
   BEGINNING  at  a  point at the intersection of the southerly bounds of
 Willow Grove Road with the northerly bounds of a parcel of land conveyed
 to the Town of Haverstraw by Deed dated July 6, 2001 from New York State
 Urban Development  Corporation  and  recorded  in  the  Rockland  County
 Clerk's Office as Instrument ID 2001-00033784; thence from said point of
 beginning  along the southerly bounds of Willow Grove Road the following
 three (3) courses and distances:
   1. N 74° 05' 11" E, a distance of 284.03 feet to a point;
   2. N 71° 42' 11" E, a distance of 467.10 feet to a point; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   3. N 75° 36' 11" E, a distance of 86.91 feet to a point at the  north-
 east corner of the lands herein described; thence S 14° 07' 40" W, along
 the easterly bounds of lands herein described, a distance of 396.34 feet
 to a point on the northerly bounds of said lands conveyed to the Town of
 Haverstraw;  thence  N  78°  53' 35" W, along said lands conveyed to the
 Town of Haverstraw, a distance of 717.51 feet to the point or  place  of
 beginning, containing 3.23 acres of land, be the same, more or less.
   BEING  a  portion  of lands conveyed to the People of the State of New
 York by Deed dated September 2, 1909 from  Samuel  and  Tammy  Rose  and
 recorded  in the Rockland County Clerk's Office in Liber 238 of Deeds at
 page 611.
   All as shown and labeled as a 3.23 acre parcel of land on a map  enti-
 tled  "Map  showing  Subdivision  Lands  N/F, People of the State of New
 York, known as Letchworth Village" dated June 1999,  last  revised  June
 18,  2001, prepared by ABD Engineers Surveyors and filed in the New York
 State Office of General Services as OGS Map No. 1887.
   § 3. The description in section two of this act  of  the  land  to  be
 conveyed  is  not  intended to be a legal description but is intended to
 identify the parcel to be conveyed. As  a  condition  of  the  transfer,
 Rockland Recovery Homes, Inc., 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.
   §  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  Rockland  Recovery  Homes,  Inc. within one 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.
   §  5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used for the
 purposes of Rockland Recovery Homes, Inc. to utilize the subject proper-
 ty and improve the structures on the subject property, and  upon  termi-
 nation  of  such  use, title to the lands so transferred shall revert to
 the state of New York.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.