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                                   6080
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 6, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to  convey  real
   property at the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdens-
   burg

   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 city of  Ogdens-
 burg  for  fair  market  value,  upon  such terms and conditions as such
 commissioner may fix and determine. Due to the proximity of the land and
 improvements to be transferred and conveyed to  existing  mental  health
 and  correctional  facilities, said terms and conditions of any transfer
 and conveyance, including the proposed use of said land and improvements
 and the retention, or replacement in kind,  of  existing  staff  housing
 serving  the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and located on the lands to
 be conveyed, shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of the
 state office of mental health, the commissioner  of  the  department  of
 corrections  and community supervision, and the director of the division
 of budget.
   § 2. The lands authorized by this act to be conveyed consists  of  one
 parcel  of  land  at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, in the city of
 Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, and is generally described as follows:
   Parcel B: 50 acres for residential development bounded  by  the  Saint
 Lawrence  River to the northwest, on the south by River Drive, northeast
 of Bridgeview to include all of the  surplus  land  abutting  the  Saint
 Lawrence  River  between Bridgeview and Trinity buildings NOT to include
 building numbers 10, 13, 17, 31, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 88, 89, or 217.
   § 3. The description in section two of this act of  the  lands  to  be
 conveyed is not intended to be a legal description, but is intended only
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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 to  identify the premises to be conveyed. As a condition of purchase the
 City of Ogdensburg shall submit to the commissioner  of  the  office  of
 general services for said commissioner's approval an accurate survey and
 description of the lands generally described in section two of this act,
 which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
   §  4.  The  commissioner  of  the office of general services shall not
 grant the land description in section two of this act unless application
 and improvements is made therefor by the city of Ogdensburg  within  one
 year after the effective date of this act.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.