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                                  8373--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Local  Governments  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the town of Cortlandville  to  discon-
   tinue 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  town  of  Cort-
 landville,  located in the county of Cortland, acting by and through its
 governing body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by  such
 body,  is  hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands and to lease at
 fair market value to Park Outdoor Advertising of New York,  Inc.  for  a
 term  not  to  exceed  ten years the land more particularly described in
 section four of this act for the purpose of  erecting,  maintaining  and
 operating an electronic sign.
   §  2. Notwithstanding the failure of the town of Cortlandville to seek
 and receive state legislative authorization to  alienate  certain  park-
 lands  as  described  in section four of this act prior to the parklands
 being leased to Park Outdoor Advertising of New York, Inc,  such  alien-
 ation is hereby validated, legalized, ratified and confirmed.
   §  3.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
 effective only upon the condition that the town of Cortlandville, county
 of Cortland, dedicate all proceeds of the lease toward  the  acquisition
 of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recre-
 ational facilities.
   § 4. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
 tinued as parklands and leased are described as follows:
   All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Cortlandville,
 County  of  Cortland,  and State of New York, being part of military lot
 #92 and being bounded and described as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 Beginning at a point on the northerly highway boundary of NYS Route  13,
 which  point being S 50°22'54" W a distance of 141.00 feet from the east
 line of lands of the Town of  Cortlandville  (R.O.,  2017-920,  tax  map
 parcel:  105.00-04-02.2);  running  THENCE  along  the northerly highway
 boundary  of  NYS  Route  13 S 50°22'54" W a distance of 30.00 feet to a
 point;
 running THENCE through the lands of the  Town  of  Cortlandville  (R.O.,
 2017-920, tax map parcel: 105.00-04-02.2) the following three (3) cours-
 es:
   1. N 39°37'06" W a distance of 40.00 feet to a point;
   2. N 50°22'54" E a distance of 30.00 feet to a point;
   3. S 39°37'06" E a distance of 40.00 feet to a point;
 The last mentioned point being the point and place of beginning contain-
 ing  0.03 Acres± of land, as shown as 'Proposed Sign Outparcel' on a map
 by Denkenberger Surveying, P.C. titled 'Survey of the Lands of  Town  of
 Cortlandville' dated June 10, 2021 and last revised May 6, 2025.
 Excepting  and reserving from the above described premises any/all ease-
 ments of record pertaining to said premises.
   § 5. Should the lands described in section four of this act  cease  to
 be used for the purposes described in section one of this act, the lease
 shall terminate and such lands shall revert to the town of Cortlandville
 for  public  park  and recreational purposes. At the time of such rever-
 sion, the removal of such electronic sign shall take place and the prop-
 erty shall be returned to its previous state, consistent with  park  and
 recreational purposes.
   §  6. In the event that the town of Cortlandville received any funding
 support or assistance from the  federal  government  for  the  purchase,
 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section four of
 this  act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland authorized
 by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the  town  of  Cort-
 landville  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 ensure
 the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
 and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.