S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8313
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 2, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer and
convey certain unappropriated state land to The Arc Westchester New
York; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration
thereof
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 but notwithstanding
any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of general
services is hereby authorized to transfer and convey The Arc Westchester
New York, in consideration of one dollar and upon such other consider-
ation as the commissioner may deem proper, the state land located at 39
Sullivan Road, in the Town of North Salem and the County of Westchester,
declared to be abandoned state land by the office for people with devel-
opmental disabilities.
§ 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
and conveyed are as follows:
ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings
thereon erected, situate, lying and being partly in the Town of Lewis-
boro and partly in the Town of North Salem, shown and designated as Lot
No. 2 on a certain map entitled, "Subdivision of Section E Lake Hawt-
horne situate in the Town of North Salem and Town of Lewisboro, West-
chester County, New York," made by Alexander S. Bunney, dated April 28,
1966 and filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Westchester County
(Division of Land Records) on May 9, 1967 as Map No. 15408, said lot
being bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the northwesterly side of Sullivan Road where
the same is intersected by the division line between Lots Nos. 1 and 2
on said map;
Running thence along said last mentioned division line,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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North 5° 17' 00" West 230 feet and
North 54° 05' 25" West 759.01 feet to a point;
thence North 63° 12' 55" East 445.27 feet to the division line between
Lots Nos. 2 and 3 on said map;
thence along the division line between Lots Nos. 2 and 3, South 22°
07' 40" East 883.10 feet to the northwesterly side of Sullivan Road;
thence along the same,
South 58° 55' 00" West 110 feet to the point or place of beginning.
The within described premises are known in North Salem as Sheet 45,
Block 11361, Lot 22 and in Lewisboro as Sheet 12, Block 11361, Lot 3, on
the Tax Assessment Map.
§ 3. The description in section two of this act of the lands to be
conveyed is not intended to be a legal description but is intended to
identify the parcel to be conveyed. As a condition of the transfer, The
Arc Westchester New York, may submit to the commissioner of general
services, for the commissioner's approval, an accurate survey and
description of the lands to be conveyed, which may be used in the
conveyance thereof.
§ 4. The office of general services shall not transfer or convey the
aforesaid lands unless application is made to the office of general
services by The Arc Westchester New York within one year after the
effective date of this act. Said application shall be in the form of a
resolution setting forth a comprehensive statement approved by its
managing board, acknowledging and accepting the use restrictions set
forth in section five of this act.
§ 5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be used for the
purposes of The Arc Westchester New York to utilize the subject property
and improve the structures on the subject property to operate a group
home for adults with disabilities, and upon termination of such use,
title to the lands so transferred shall revert to the state of New York.
The reverter interest, specifying that title to the lands so transferred
shall revert to the state of New York upon termination of such use,
shall be included in any conveyance instrument used to transfer such
lands pursuant to this act.
§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
deemed repealed 2 years after such effective date.
