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                                   8559
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 20, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 799 of the laws of 2021, relating to authorizing
   the city of New Rochelle, county of Westchester to  sell,  convey  and
   alienate  certain  land,  in  furtherance  of  an economic development
   interest of the state and/or city of  New  Rochelle,  in  relation  to
   making technical changes thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 8 of chapter 799 of the laws of 2021,  relating  to
 authorizing  the  city  of  New Rochelle, county of Westchester to sell,
 convey and alienate certain land, in furtherance of an economic develop-
 ment interest of the state and/or city of New Rochelle,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   §  8.  The  commissioner  of general services is hereby authorized and
 directed to take such action as is necessary to release, extinguish, and
 relinquish to the city of New Rochelle, its successors and assigns,  any
 and  all  conditions and/or reservations of the state that limit the use
 of the real property more particularly described in  section   four   of
 this  act,  commonly  known  as the New York State Armory at City of New
 Rochelle, for park, recreation, street and highway  purposes,  including
 incidental,  necessary  municipal business in conjunction therewith, and
 to release, extinguish and convey to the city of New  Rochelle  any  and
 all  rights  of  reverter and/or of reversion that the state may have in
 and to such real property, such that any limits of use and/or the rights
 of reverter and/or reversion,  shall  be  permanently  released,  extin-
 guished,  and  relinquished  forever.  This section shall not affect any
 conditions established pursuant to PARAGRAPH (II) OF SUBDIVISION (B)  OF
 section two of this act.
   §  2. Subdivision (b) of section 2 of chapter 799 of the laws of 2021,
 relating to authorizing the city of New Rochelle, county of  Westchester
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 to sell, convey and alienate certain land, in furtherance of an economic
 development  interest  of  the  state  and/or  city  of New Rochelle, as
 amended by chapter 467 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (b) any such deed transferring the parcel described in section four of
 this  act  provides  (i)  for  the  preservation of the Armory Building,
 including the annex, and (ii) a dedicated space for  veterans  organiza-
 tion  use  at no charge or a de minimis rental amount as approved by the
 city council.  Such deed or other document of conveyance  shall  provide
 that  in  the  event of a breach of the [conditions] CONDITION in [this]
 paragraph (II) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, title to the  [land  transferred  to
 the  city  of  New Rochelle by section four of this act] DEDICATED SPACE
 FOR VETERANS ORGANIZATION USE AS APPROVED BY THE CITY  COUNCIL  PURSUANT
 TO THIS SUBDIVISION shall revert to the state of New York.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.