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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2022
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 Introduced  by M. of A. DARLING -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  in  relation  to authorizing the village of Freeport, county of
   Nassau, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain 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 village of Free-
 port, located in the county of Nassau, acting by and through its village
 board and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such board, is
 hereby  authorized  to  discontinue  as parklands and alienate the lands
 more particularly described in section three of this act no longer need-
 ed for park purposes. The provisions of this act  shall  not  extinguish
 any existing easements.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
 effect  only upon the condition that the village of Freeport dedicate an
 amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of  the  parklands
 being  discontinued  towards  the  acquisition  of  new parklands and/or
 towards capital  improvements  to  existing  parkland  and  recreational
 facilities.
   §  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 situate lying and being
 in the incorporated village of Freeport, town of  Hempstead,  county  of
 Nassau, state of New York and being bounded and described as follows:
   BEGINNING  at  a point in the easterly line of Buffalo avenue where it
 intersects the northerly boundary line of the "Revised Map  of  Freeport
 Centre";
   THENCE  North 09 degrees 51 minutes 00 seconds East, 855.32 feet, to a
 point;
   THENCE South 47 degrees 07 minutes 00 seconds East, 702.48 feet, to  a
 point;
   THENCE  South 08 degrees 39 minutes 10 seconds West, 500.00 feet, to a
 point;

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

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   THENCE North 77 degrees 31 minutes 20 seconds  West,  through  Meadow-
 brook  State  Park Property and along the northerly line of "Revised Map
 of Freeport Centre", a distance of 600.00 feet to the point or place  of
 BEGINNING.
   Such premises containing 9.218 acres of land.
   §  4.  In the event that the village of Freeport 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 the village of
 Freeport has complied with any federal requirements  pertaining  to  the
 alienation  or  conversion  of  such 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 ensure the substitution of other lands shall be  equivalent  in  fair
 market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.