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                                  7018--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 24, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Cities  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  authorizing the city of Schenectady to alienate certain parcels
   of land used as parkland and to  provide  other  parcels  of  land  to
   replace such parkland
 
   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 city of Schenec-
 tady, Schenectady county, acting by and through its governing  body,  is
 hereby  authorized  to  discontinue the parkland and alienate such lands
 more particularly described in  section  three  of  this  act,  for  the
 purpose of relocating Stockade Historic District structures at high risk
 from flooding, and upon such other terms and conditions as determined by
 the governing body of the city of Schenectady.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
 effect  only upon the condition that the city of Schenectady shall dedi-
 cate an amount equal to or greater than the fair  market  value  of  the
 waterfront  parkland  being  discontinued towards the acquisition of new
 waterfront parkland and/or  towards  capital  improvements  to  existing
 waterfront parkland and recreational facilities.
   § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
 tinued  as parkland are described as follows:  All that certain piece or
 parcel of land located, situate and lying on the northerly side of Front
 Street in the City of Schenectady, County of Schenectady, State  of  New
 York and being bounded and described as follows:
   BEGINNING  at a point on the northerly street boundary of Front Street
 at its intersection with the property division line between lands now or
 formerly of City of Schenectady as described in Book  763  Of  Deeds  at

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 page  300  on the East and lands now or formerly of Francis M. McGovern,
 Sr. as described in book 1813 of deeds at page 730 on the West.
   THENCE  North  29  Degrees  57' 32" West, along said property division
 line, a distance of 290.02 feet to a point at its intersection with  the
 property  division line between said lands of City of Schenectady on the
 South and lands now or formerly of the Trustees of Union College in  the
 County of Schenectady and State of New York as described in Book 1525 of
 Deeds at page 98 on the North.
   THENCE  running  along said property division line the following seven
 courses and distances:
   North 74 Degrees 13' 21" East, a distance of 54.63 feet to a point;
   North 15 Degrees 50' 17" West, a distance of 82.61 feet to a point;
   North 73 Degrees 45' 08" West, a distance of 38.52 feet to a point;
   North 40 Degrees 48' 17" West, a distance of 57.65 feet to a point;
   North 11 Degrees 30' 05" West, a distance of 29.56 feet to a point;
   North 61 Degrees 16' 47" East, a distance of 57.54 feet  to  a  point;
 and
   South 73 Degrees 48' 38" East, a distance of 113.78 feet to a point at
 its  intersection  with the property division line between said lands of
 City of Schenectady on the west and lands now or formerly of cost corpo-
 ration as described in book 1566 of deeds at page 469 on the East.
   THENCE South 16 Degrees 16' 07" East,  along  said  property  division
 line,  a distance of 418.26 feet to a point on the said northerly street
 boundary of Front Street.
   THENCE South 74 Degrees 00' 31" West, a distance of 84.75 feet to  the
 point or place of beginning.
   Containing 54,611 square feet or 1.25 acres of land.
   §  4.  In  the event that the city of Schenectady 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 city of
 Schenectady 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  assure  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.