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                                   6593
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 7, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to authorize the town of Binghamton, county of Broome, to  alien-
   ate  and  discontinue  the use of certain parklands for the purpose of
   accommodating equipment and serving as a  training  facility  for  the
   Town of Binghamton Volunteer Fire Department
 
   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 town of Bingham-
 ton, county of Broome, acting by and  through  its  governing  body,  is
 hereby  authorized to discontinue the use of parklands and alienate such
 lands more particularly described in section three of this act,  to  the
 Town of Binghamton Volunteer Fire Department Station #3, for the purpose
 of  accommodating  equipment  and serving as a training facility for the
 Fire Department.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall take
 effect only upon the condition that the town of Binghamton  shall  dedi-
 cate  an  amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the
 parklands being discontinued towards the acquisition  of  new  parklands
 and/or  capital  improvements  to existing park and recreational facili-
 ties.
   § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
 tinued as parklands are described as follows:
   All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate in the Town  of  Bing-
 hamton,  County  of  Broome and State of New York, described as follows:
 Being all that parcel of land commencing in the east  line  of  the  Old
 Hawleyton  Turnpike at the northwest corner of lands of the party of the
 second part herein, thence running northerly along the easterly line  of
 the  said  highway, one hundred and six point three (106.3) feet; thence
 running east on a line parallel to the original south line of the second
 party herein two hundred seventy-seven point sixty-four (277.64) feet to

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

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 a point; thence running south at right angles to the last described line
 two hundred two point fifty-four (202.54) feet to  a  point;  thence  at
 right angles to the last described line westerly one hundred thirty-sev-
 en  point eighty-three (137.83) feet to the original southeast corner of
 premises of the second party herein; thence  northerly  along  the  east
 line  of  second  party  ninety-eight point eighteen (98.18) feet to the
 northeast corner of the second party and thence westerly along the north
 line of the said second party one hundred sixty (160) feet to the  place
 of beginning.  Containing one acre be the same more or less.
   Being  the same premises described on the Broome County Tax Map of the
 Town of Binghamton as Parcel No. 2-9-28.
   § 4. In the event that the town of  Binghamton  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  town  of
 Binghamton  has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
 alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying  the  secre-
 tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
 conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
 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.