NY State Senate Bill 2025-S5536

Senate Bill S5536

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the county of Suffolk to alienate certain lands used as parklands and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee

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Feb 24, 2025	referred to local government

2025-S5536 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5900
Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Parks

2025-S5536 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the county of Suffolk to alienate certain lands used as parklands and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands.

2025-S5536 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5536

SPONSOR: MATTERA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act authorizing the county of Suffolk to alienate certain lands used
as parklands and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands

 
PURPOSE:

To permit the alienation of certain parkland in the County of Suffolk
and provide for the substitution and dedication of alternative lands as
parkland by the county.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill would authorize the county of Suffolk to discontinue as park-
land a .23-acre parcel of land adjacent to a residential property and
convey the interest in such parcel to the owner of the residential
parcel. In exchange for the county parcel, the owners of the residential
property will convey to the county a parcel of land that is adjacent to
the current park for dedication as county parkland.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The county of Suffolk is seeking authority to alienate a quarter-acre
piece of parkland in the town of Smithtown in exchange for a like sized
parcel of land.

Adjacent to the county of Suffolk parcel is a parcel owned by Russel and
Deana Galindo. In improving their property, the Galindo's-constructed
improvements that extended onto the county owned land adjoining their
property.

The County is seeking to alienate and convey to the Galindo's the
.23-acre strip of county owned land that these improvements were made
on. In exchange for the conveyance of the county owned lands, the
Galindo's have agreed to convey to the county their interest in a simi-
lar sized parcel of property boarding the current eastern line of the
county parkland. Such lands will be dedicated by the county as parkland
and in doing so it will ensure that the county park will maintain its
current size and usefulness.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: A.7609-B - Remained in Local Governments Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S5536 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5536
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT authorizing the county of Suffolk to alienate certain lands  used
   as parklands and to dedicate certain other lands as 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  county  of
 Suffolk,  acting  by  and through its governing body and upon such terms
 and conditions as determined by  such  board  is  hereby  authorized  to
 discontinue  as  parklands  and  alienate the lands described in section
 three of this act to Russel and Deana Galindo for the purpose  of  resi-
 dential improvements.
   §  2.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
 effective only upon the condition that Russel and Deana  Galindo  convey
 to  the  county  of  Suffolk, and that the county of Suffolk acquire and
 dedicate the lands described in section four of this act  as  parklands,
 provided that the county of Suffolk has never used such lands for public
 open space or park purposes.
   §  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,  with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate,
 lying and being in Smithtown, town of Smithtown, county of  Suffolk  and
 the  state  of  New  York  situated  being  more  particular bounded and
 described as follows:
 BEGINNING at a point of being south 80 degrees  13  minutes  30  seconds
 west 75.71 feet from the south easterly corner of map entitled "prestige
 estates  at  smithtown"  filed  in  the Suffolk county clerk's office on
 September 9, 2005 under map no. 11304
 THENCE running south 09 degrees 46 minutes 04 seconds east 56.91 feet.
 THENCE running south 79 degrees 36 minutes 19 seconds west 227.94 feet.
 THENCE running north 27 degrees 33 minutes27 seconds west 14.99 feet.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09109-01-5

 S. 5536                             2
 
 THENCE running along a curve bearing to  the  right  with  a  radius  of
 600.00  feet  and a length of 234.12 feet said curve also having a chord
 bearing of north 69 degrees 02 minutes 48 seconds east and a  length  of
 232.64 feet.
 THENCE  running north 80 degrees 13 minutes 30 seconds east 4.29 feet to
 a point or place of beginning. Containing a total  of  10,113.62  square
 feet or approximately 0.232 acres.
 Parcel Also known as Suffolk County Tax Map # 0800-022.00-01.00- Part of
 009.000.
   §  4.    Prior  to  the  discontinuance  of the parklands described in
 section three of this act, Russel and Deana Galindo shall convey to  the
 county  of Suffolk, and the county of Suffolk shall acquire and dedicate
 as parklands, such land described as follows:
   All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and
 improvements thereon erected, situate, lying  and  being  in  Smithtown,
 town  of Smithtown, county of Suffolk and the State of New York situated
 being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
   BEGINNING at a point being the south easterly corner of  map  entitled
 "prestige  estates  at  smithtown"  filed  in the Suffolk county clerk's
 office on September 9, 2005 under Map No.  11304;
   THENCE running south 80 degrees 13 minutes 30 seconds west 75.71 feet.
   THENCE running north 09 degrees 46  minutes  04  seconds  west  132.98
 feet.
   THENCE running north 75 degrees 01 minutes 50 seconds east 76.01 feet.
   THENCE running south 09 degrees 46 minutes 30 seconds east 139.86 feet
 to  the point of place of beginning. Containing 10,327.43 square feet or
 approximately 0.237 acres.
   Parcel also known as Suffolk County tax map  #  0800-022.00-01.00-Part
 of 008.004.
   §  5.  In  the  event  that  the  fair  market  value of the parklands
 described in section four of this act to be dedicated by the  county  of
 Suffolk  pursuant  to this act are not equal to or greater than the fair
 market value of the parklands to be alienated as  described  in  section
 three  of  this act, the county of Suffolk shall dedicate the difference
 of the fair market value of the lands to be alienated and the  lands  to
 be  dedicated for the acquisition of additional parklands and/or capital
 improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
   § 6. In the event that the county  of  Suffolk  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 Suffolk  county
 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
 usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

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