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Assembly Bill A7890A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines

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2025-A7890 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7158
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Tioga County
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 412 of 1990

2025-A7890 - Summary

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of ten years.

2025-A7890 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7890
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT to amend chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to authorizing
   the commissioner of environmental conservation to lease a  portion  of
   state  land  to public television station WSKG, in relation to leasing
   such land, tower and associated utility  lines  to  the  Tioga  county
   emergency  services,  the  Newark  Valley central school district, the
   Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to
 authorizing the commissioner of environmental conservation  to  lease  a
 portion  of  state land to public television station WSKG, as amended by
 chapter 270 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   Section 1. The commissioner of environmental  conservation  is  hereby
 authorized  to  lease  to the Tioga county [bureau of fire, the Northern
 Tioga] emergency [medical] services, the Newark  Valley  central  school
 district,  the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire high-
 way department for such consideration as [he or she] SUCH  PERSON  deems
 just  compensation  to the state, that portion of Tioga state forest #7,
 town of Newark Valley, upon which is installed a  television  translator
 station.  Lease  of such land, and television translator system shall be
 made upon such terms and conditions as  the  commissioner  may  fix  and
 determine,  provided  that  such lease shall be for a term not to exceed
 [ten] TWENTY years.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11508-02-5

2025-A7890A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7158
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Tioga County
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 412 of 1990

2025-A7890A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of ten years.

2025-A7890A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7890--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Govern-
   ments in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN  ACT to amend chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to authorizing
   the commissioner of environmental conservation to lease a  portion  of
   state  land  to public television station WSKG, in relation to leasing
   such land, tower and associated utility  lines  to  the  Tioga  county
   emergency  services,  the  Newark  Valley central school district, the
   Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 412 of the laws of 1990 relating to
 authorizing the commissioner of environmental conservation  to  lease  a
 portion  of  state land to public television station WSKG, as amended by
 chapter 270 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   Section 1. The commissioner of environmental  conservation  is  hereby
 authorized  to  lease  to the Tioga county [bureau of fire, the Northern
 Tioga] emergency [medical] services, the Newark  Valley  central  school
 district,  the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire high-
 way department for such consideration as [he or she] SUCH  PERSON  deems
 just  compensation  to the state, that portion of Tioga state forest #7,
 town of Newark Valley, upon which is installed a  television  translator
 station.  Lease  of such land, and television translator system shall be
 made upon such terms and conditions as  the  commissioner  may  fix  and
 determine,  provided  that  such lease shall be for a term not to exceed
 ten years.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11508-03-6

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