S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9636--B
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 22, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of general services to transfer and
convey certain unappropriated state land to the Cedarmore Corporation
for community programs
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 the Cedarmore
Corporation, a community development corporation, in consideration of
one dollar and upon such other consideration as the commissioner may
deem proper, the state land located at 63 Babylon Turnpike, Freeport, in
the county of Nassau, known as the Freeport Armory, declared to be aban-
doned state land by the division of military and naval affairs.
S 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, lying and being in the
Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, State of New York, more
particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point where the easterly line of Lakeview Avenue is
intersected by the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike and
running from said Point of Beginning thence southeasterly along the
southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about six hundred forty-six
(646) linear feet to the land of the City of New York and the Long
Island State Park Commission; thence running southwesterly and along the
lands of the City of New York and along the Long Island State Park
Commission two hundred (200) linear feet; thence running northwesterly
and parallel with the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike about
four hundred thirty (430) linear feet to a point which would be ten (10)
feet easterly from the center line of the 18 inch diameter water main
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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tank header pipe; thence running northwesterly about fifty-eight (58)
linear feet and parallel with the 18 inch diameter water main tank head-
er pipe, to a point which would be about one hundred sixty-eight (168)
linear feet southerly from the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turn-
pike, when measured at right angles thereto; thence running southwester-
ly and ten (10) feet parallel with and northerly from the 12 inch diam-
eter water main tank header pipe, when measured at right angles thereto,
about one hundred seven (107) linear feet to a point in the easterly
line of Lakeview Avenue; thence running northerly and along the easterly
line of Lakeview Avenue about two hundred fifty-eight (258) linear feet
to a point in the southerly line of Hempstead-Babylon Turnpike, the
point or place of beginning, containing within said bounds about three
(3) acres.
BEING the same lands described in a deed from the Village of Freeport
to the People of the State of New York, dated June 13, 1949 and recorded
in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on June 20, 1949 in Book 3857 of
Deeds at page 384.
S 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
Cedarmore Corporation 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.
S 4. The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
aforesaid land unless application in a form acceptable to the office of
general services is made to the office of general services by the Cedar-
more Corporation which application must be made within one year after
the effective date of this act. As part of that application the Cedar-
more Corporation must submit to the office of general services a report
containing a master plan setting forth a proposed use and occupancy of
such land pursuant to an advertised public hearing that conforms with
the public purpose set forth in section five of this act, including
letters of commitment from not less than six community organizations not
affiliated with the Cedarmore Corporation or its parents and subsid-
iaries. Such report shall also contain a health and safety assessment,
including but not limited to, possible asbestos contamination and abate-
ment, air and soil and groundwater quality, the structural integrity of
the buildings performed by a certified structural engineer, and any
health and safety improvements including such environmental remediation
as may be necessary. Such report shall also contain an independent audit
of the financial operations of the Cedarmore Corporation for the past
three years, and the record of three public hearings documenting commu-
nity response if such public purpose includes the placement of a charter
school.
S 5. The land described in section two of this act shall be used by
the Cedarmore Corporation exclusively for voluntary youth associations,
educational and recreational programs to assist at-risk youth, and
public safety purposes and upon termination of such use title to the
lands so transferred along with any improvements made thereto shall
revert to the state of New York.
S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.