Senate Bill S7158

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S7158 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7890
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Tioga County
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 412 of 1990

2025-S7158 (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 twenty years.

2025-S7158 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7158 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7158
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 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

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