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Senate Bill S5675

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes the city of Troy to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland

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2015-S5675 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7806
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Troy, City of

2015-S5675 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the city of Troy to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.

2015-S5675 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5675 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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    S. 5675                                                  A. 7806

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2015
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
  ment

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Cities

AN  ACT  authorizing  the  city  of  Troy to alienate and convey certain
  parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire 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. The city of Troy,  county  of  Rensselaer,  acting  by  and
through its city council, is hereby authorized to discontinue and alien-
ate as parklands, the lands described in section three of this act.
  S  2.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
effective only upon the condition that the  city  of  Troy  dedicate  an
amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the parklands
being alienated to the acquisition of new parklands and/or toward  capi-
tal improvements to existing parkland and recreational facilities.
  S  3.  The  lands  to  be  discontinued as parklands and alienated and
conveyed is more fully described as follows:
  ALL that certain tract, piece, or parcel of land, situate,  lying  and
being  in  the  City  of Troy, County of Rensselaer and the State of New
York, being more particularly bounded and described:  BEGINNING  at  the
northeast  corner  of Federal Street and Sixth Avenue and running thence
along the easterly margin of Sixth Avenue N23° 16' 00" E for a  distance
of  417.27  feet  to  a  capped  iron rod; Thence the following four (4)
courses along the lands conveyed to the Kennedy Towers Housing  Develop-
ment Fund Company by a deed dated July 1, 2003 and recorded in the Rens-
selaer  County Clerk's Office in Book of Deeds 548 at Page 318; S66° 44'
00" E for a distance of 7.77 feet to a capped iron rod  at  a  point  of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11248-01-5

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