NY State Senate Bill 2021-S8938

Senate Bill S8938

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of transportation to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Bedford Hills Fire District

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Delivered to Governor
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Apr 29, 2022	referred to local government

2021-S8938 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10091
Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Transportation, Commissioner of

2021-S8938 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of transportation to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Bedford Hills Fire District.

2021-S8938 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8938

SPONSOR: MAYER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to authorize and direct the commissioner of transportation to
transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Bedford
Hills Fire District

 
PURPOSE:

(Authorizes and directs the commissioner of transportation to transfer
and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Bedford Hills Fire
District

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Authorizes and directs the commissioner of transportation to
transfer and convey to the Bedford Hills Fire District, in consideration
of one dollar and upon such other consideration as the commissioner may
deem proper, the parcel of certain lands referenced and described in
section two of this act.

Section 2. Meets and Bounds of the parcel to be transferred.

Section 3. Directs the Bedford Hills Fire District to submit to the
commissioner of transportation, for his or her approval, an accurate
survey and description of 4 the lands to be conveyed, which may be used
in the conveyance thereof.

Section 3. Directs the BHFD to make an application for the transfer of
property to the Commissioner of Transportation within one year of the
effective date.

Section 5. Directs that any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall
be used by the 11 Bedford Hills Fire District for the purposes of
constructing and maintaining facilities for use by the Bedford Hills
Fire District in the performance of its duties for said fire district,
and upon termination 14 of such use, title to the lands so transferred
shall revert to the state 15 of New York.

Section 6.Establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Bedford Hills Fire District (BHFD) operates an all-volunteer fire
department which fire protection services to the hamlet of Bedford Hills
in the Town of Bedford, Westchester County.

BHDF has used and maintained for over 70 years a parking lot for use of
volunteers in answering calls on surplus NYS Department of Transporta-
tion (DOT) right-of-way property located across from the BHFD firehouse.
BHFD's use began decades before DOT issued use & occupancy permits
permitting such use.

BHFD owns an adjacent property on which it wishes to construct an annex
building to house fire apparatus, emergency vehicles and other equip-
ment. Such annex building is essential to the continued operation and
mission of BHFD.
The DOT over the past 70 years has not used such adjoining property and
to the best knowledge of BHFD has no plans to use such property.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act takes effect immediately.

2021-S8938 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8938
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 29, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to authorize and direct the  commissioner  of  transportation  to
   transfer  and  convey certain unappropriated state land to the Bedford
   Hills Fire District
 
   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  trans-
 portation  is  hereby  authorized and directed to transfer and convey to
 the Bedford Hills Fire District, in consideration of one dollar and upon
 such other consideration as the commissioner may deem proper, the parcel
 of certain lands referenced and described in section two of this act.
   § 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
 and conveyed are as follows:
   ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel  of  land,  situate,  lying  and
 being  in the Town of Bedford, County of Westchester, State of New York,
 being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
   BEGINNING at a point on the northerly boundary line  of  Bedford  Road
 where  the  same is intersected by the division line between Land of the
 People of the Sate of New York, on the west, and property now or former-
 ly belonging to Bedford Hills Fire District, on the east, running thence
 in  generally  southwesterly,  northerly  and  northeasterly   direction
 through Land of the People of the State of New York South 66°58'00" West
 66.53  feet,  on  a  curve to the right having a radius of 21.00 feet, a
 central angle of 137°39'20" for a length of 50.45 feet, North  65°22"40"
 West  2.96  feet  and  North  24°37'20"  East  101.75  feet, thence in a
 northeasterly direction  along  the  southerly  boundary  line  of  land
 belonging  to  Metro  North  - Harlem Division North 61°54'00" East 8.01
 feet, thence in a southerly direction along the westerly  boundary  line
 of  property  now  or  formerly belonging to Bedford Hills Fire District
 South 22°45'40" East 107.96 feet to the point  or  place  of  beginning,
 containing 6,368 Square Feet or 0.1461 Acres, more or less.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15370-01-2

 S. 8938                             2
 
   §  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 purchase, the
 Bedford Hills Fire District may submit to the commissioner of  transpor-
 tation,  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 department of transportation shall not transfer or convey the
 aforesaid land unless application in a form acceptable  to  the  commis-
 sioner  of transportation is made to the department of transportation by
 the Bedford Hills Fire District which application must  be  made  within
 one year after the effective date of this act.
   §  5.  Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used by the
 Bedford Hills Fire District for the purposes of constructing  and  main-
 taining  facilities  for  use  by the Bedford Hills Fire District in the
 performance of its duties for said fire district, and  upon  termination
 of such use, title to the lands so transferred shall revert to the state
 of New York.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

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