S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7207
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 12, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to convey real
property in Westchester county to the county of Westchester
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The commissioner of the office of general services is
authorized and empowered to transfer and convey certain state property,
as further described in section two of this act, to the county of West-
chester for one dollar, upon such terms and conditions as such commis-
sioner may fix and determine.
§ 2. The land authorized by this act to be conveyed consists of the
North County Trailway, and is generally described as follows:
A parcel of land located in the Towns of Mount Pleasant, New Castle,
Yorktown and Somers in Westchester consisting of approximately 20.8
miles with varying width, as described in the lease agreement dated
December 3, 2018 between the commissioner of transportation for the
people of the state of New York and the county of Westchester, as
described and on Exhibit A - Depiction of Proposed Lease Area delineated
on Sheet Nos. 1-40 of Map 1, Parcels 1-39 subject to any and all ease-
ments and conveyances granted by the state by and through the commis-
sioner; Exhibit B - Map of the existing North County Trailway; and
further described as:
From 110 feet south of old saw mill river road in eastview, north to
3,000 feet south of route 1117, a total distance of approximately 15,000
linear feet.
From route 117 to 350 feet south of route 9A for a total distance of
approximately 8,800± linear feet.
From a point 2,000± feet north of route 9A/100 intersection to camp-
fire road, approximately 4,000 linear feet.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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From a point 2,000± feet south of route 133 in miliwood, north to the
south side of underhill avenue located in the hamlet of Yorktown
Heights, town of Yorktown, a distance of 52,400 linear feet.
From the north side of underhill avenue to the south side of hanover
street for a distance of 1,250± linear feet.
From hanover street, located in Yorktown Heights, north to the Putnam
county boundary, a total distance of approximately 28,000± linear feet.
The entire linear distance of the parcel of land is approximately 20.8
miles (109,530± linear feet).
§ 3. The commissioner of 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 county of Westchester which application must be
made within one year after the effective date of this act.
§ 4. Any land transferred pursuant to this act shall be used and main-
tained by the county of Westchester for the purpose of a pedestrian and
non-motorized bicycle trailway, and upon termination of such use, title
to the land so transferred shall revert to the state of New York.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.