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                                  8541--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2022
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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 in relation to authorizing the village  of  Freeport,  county  of
   Nassau, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands

   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, the village of Free-
 port, located in the county of Nassau, acting by and through its village
 board and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such board, is
 hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands  and  alienate  the  lands
 more particularly described in section three of this act no longer need-
 ed  for  park  purposes. The provisions of this act shall not extinguish
 any existing easements.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
 effect only upon the condition that the village of Freeport dedicate  an
 amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the parklands
 being discontinued towards  the  acquisition  of  new  parklands  and/or
 towards  capital  improvements  to  existing  parkland  and recreational
 facilities.
   § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be  alien-
 ated are described as follows:
   ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being
 in  the  incorporated  village of Freeport, town of Hempstead, county of
 Nassau, state of New York and being bounded and described as follows:
   BEGINNING at a point in the easterly line of Buffalo avenue  where  it
 intersects  the  northerly boundary line of the "Revised Map of Freeport
 Centre";
   THENCE North 09 degrees 51 minutes 00 seconds East, 855.32 feet, to  a
 point;
   THENCE  South 47 degrees 07 minutes 00 seconds East, 702.48 feet, to a
 point;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   THENCE South 08 degrees 39 minutes 10 seconds West, 500.00 feet, to  a
 point;
   THENCE  North  77  degrees 31 minutes 20 seconds West, through Meadow-
 brook State Park Property and along the northerly line of  "Revised  Map
 of  Freeport Centre", a distance of 600.00 feet to the point or place of
 BEGINNING.
   Such premises containing 9.218 acres of land.
   § 4. In the event that the village of Freeport 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 alienation of such parkland author-
 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the village  of
 Freeport  has  complied  with any federal requirements pertaining to the
 alienation or conversion of such  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  ensure  the  substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
 market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.