Senate Bill S8588A

                             
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                                  8588--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             November 19, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEC  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
   the  Committee  on Investigations and Government Operations in accord-
   ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT transferring certain  state  property  located  in  the  town  of
   Queensbury to the county of Warren
 
   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, subject to the consent of  the  New  York
 state  division of military and naval affairs, to transfer and convey to
 the county of Warren, the state land described in section  two  of  this
 act,  owned by the New York state division of military and naval affairs
 located at tax map parcel number 295.19-3-70, in the town of  Queensbury
 in  the  county of Warren, declared to be stockpiled property by the New
 York state division of military and  naval  affairs.  The  transfer  and
 conveyance  of  the land described in section two of this act shall be a
 gift to such county.
   § 2. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
 being in the Town of Queensbury, County of Warren, State  of  New  York,
 described as follows:
   Beginning at the point of intersection of the easterly boundary of Fox
 Farm  Road  with  the  common  division line between the property of the
 County of Warren (reputed owner) on the  North  and  the  properties  of
 Floyd  &  Lavancha  Smith  (reputed  owners), Edward & Elinor McCullough
 (reputed owners), John C. & Barbara Tremblay (reputed  owners),  Richard
 S.  & Alice A. Winters (reputed owners), Vivian Farr (reputed owner) and
 Henry J.  Sleight (reputed owner) on the South,  said  point  being  42±
 feet  distant  northerly measured at right angles from Station "P" 0+27±
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 of the hereinafter described survey baseline for the construction of the
 Warren County Civil Defense Site; then easterly along the last mentioned
 common division line 688 feet to a point 20 feet distant easterly  meas-
 ured at right angles from Station "P" 7+75± of said baseline; then North
 15°-04'  East,  340  feet  to  a  point at Station "P" 11+15 of the back
 tangent of said baseline produced ahead; thence North 75°-08' West, 582±
 feet to a point on the first mentioned easterly  boundary  of  Fox  Farm
 Road,  said  point  being  15  feet  distant southerly measured at right
 angles from Station "P" 16+46± of said baseline; thence southerly  along
 the  last  mentioned  easterly  road  boundary 357± feet to the point of
 beginning, being 4.956 acres more or less.
   The above mentioned survey baseline is a portion of the  survey  base-
 line  for  the  construction of the Warren County Civil Defense Site, as
 shown on a map on file in the Office of the State Department  of  Public
 Works and described as follows:
   Beginning  at  Station  "F"  0+00;  thence  North  33°-06'-10" East to
 Station "F" 11+00. ALSO, beginning at  Station  "P"0+00  (?)  Station  F
 4+67.71 (POL); thence South 71°-33'-45" East to Station "P" 6+95; thence
 North  18°-26'-21"  East  to  Station "P" 10+65; thence North 68°34'-19"
 West to Station "P" 14+00; thence North 68°-56'-48" West to Station  "P"
 16+56.11 Station "F" 8+85.18 (POF).
   All  bearings  referred  to True North at the 74°-20' Meridian of West
 Longitude.
   EXCEPTING and RESERVING all that certain piece or parcel of land situ-
 ation, lying and being in the  Town  of  Queensbury,  County  of  Warren
 conveyed  by  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK to the TOWN OF QUEENS-
 BURY by Liber 860 of Deeds  at  page  306  for  highway  purposes,  more
 particularly bounded and described as follows:
   BEGINNING  at the southeast corner of the lands conveyed to The People
 of the State of New York by deed dated February 17, 1967 and recorded in
 Book 479 of Deeds at page 32 on February 27, 1967; running thence  along
 the southerly bounds thereof the following two courses and distances:
   1. North 65°02'40" West, distance of 39.91 feet;
   2.  North  65°04'40"  West,  distance  of  25.01 feet to the northwest
 corner of Farr Lane, a Town Road;
 thence running through the lands of the grantor herein the following two
 courses and distances;
   1. North 25°56'22" East, a distance of 180.77 feet;
   2. North 71°14'48" East, a distance of 85.89 feet to the lands  of  J.
 Buckley  Bryan,  Jr.;  thence  running  along said lands South 25°01'15"
 West, a distance of 240.08 feet to the point  and  place  of  beginning,
 containing 0.30 acre of land, more or less.
   Bearings given in the above description refer to the magnetic meridian
 as of May 1985.
   BEING a portion of the premises acquired by The People of the State of
 New York from Warren County by Deed dated February 17, 1967 and recorded
 in  the Warren County Clerk's Office in Liber 479 of Deeds at page 32 on
 February 27, 1967.
   § 3.  The plot description in section two of this act is not  intended
 to  be  a legal description but is intended to identify the parcel to be
 conveyed.  As a condition of the transfer, Warren County may  submit  to
 the  commissioner of general services, for such 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 land unless application is  made  to  the  office  of  general
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 services by Warren County within 1 year after the effective date of this
 act.    Such  application  shall  be in the form of a resolution setting
 forth a comprehensive statement approved by its managing board  acknowl-
 edging  and  accepting the use restrictions set forth in section five of
 this act.
   § 5. The transfer and conveyance made pursuant to this  act  shall  be
 subject to the following use restrictions and reverter:
   (a) The land described in section two of this act shall be used exclu-
 sively  for  the  public  purposes  set  forth  by the county of Warren,
 including, but not  limited  to,  agency  training,  emergency  communi-
 cations,  operational  deployments, emergency response, and secure stor-
 age. Nothing in this section shall restrict the county  of  Warren  from
 cooperating and coordinating with other municipalities;
   (b)  The  conveyance of the land described in this act shall contain a
 covenant and restriction  requiring  that  the  land  be  used  for  the
 purposes  set forth in subdivision (a) of this section. In the event the
 premises are not accepted and/or used for such purposes, it shall revert
 to the state of New York;
   (c) The closing shall be completed within 3 years after the  effective
 date of this act; and
   (d)  This property shall not be transferred to or conveyed at any time
 to any owner other than the county of Warren or the state of New York.
   § 6. The conveyance described in  this  act  requires  the  county  of
 Warren  to  enter  into an agreement with the New York State division of
 homeland security and emergency services to allow for the continued use,
 operation and maintenance of a  state-owned  antenna  and  communication
 equipment  on  and within a building, commonly known as 5 Fox Farm Road,
 located within such conveyance.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.