Senate Bill S9538

                             
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                                   9538
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 20, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  BASKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of general services to transfer  and
   convey certain state land to the Richardson Center Corporation
 
   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, upon the consent of the  commissioner  of  mental  health,  is
 hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the Richardson Center Corpo-
 ration the state land described in section two of this act, said proper-
 ty being a portion of the former Buffalo Psychiatric Center.  Conveyance
 of  such  land shall be made at such time and upon such terms and condi-
 tions, including consideration, as the commissioner of general  services
 may fix and determine.
   § 2. The lands authorized by section one of this act to be transferred
 and conveyed are as follows:
   ALL  that certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land situate, lying and
 being in the City of Buffalo, County of Erie, State of New  York,  lying
 generally Northerly of Forest Avenue, Easterly of Rees Street and South-
 erly of Rockwell Road, and being more particularly bounded and described
 as follows:
   Commencing  at  the  point  of  intersection of the westerly bounds of
 Elmwood Avenue with the southerly bounds of Rockwell Road; thence  North
 89°31'  West  along  said Rockwell Road a distance of 888+/- feet to the
 point of beginning; thence through the lands of the People of the  State
 of  New  York (Buffalo Psychiatric Center) the following six (6) courses
 and distances:
 1) South 00°29' West, a distance of 151+/- feet to a point;
 2) South 67°52' West, a distance of 248+/- feet to a point of curvature;
 3) Along a non-tangent curve to the right having a radius of 60+/- feet,
 an arc length of 97+/- feet, and a chord North 14°07' West,  87+/-  feet
 to a point;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 4) North 32°25' East, a distance of 63+/- feet to a point of curvature;
 5)  Along  a  curve  to  the left having a radius of 365+/- feet, an arc
 length of 118+/- feet, and a chord North 23°07' East, 118+/- feet  to  a
 point on the southerly bounds of Rockwell Road; and
 6) South 89°31' East, a distance of 172+/- feet to the point or place of
 beginning.
 Containing 1.00 acres of land, more or less.
 Commencing  at  the point of intersection of the easterly bounds of Rees
 Street with the northerly bounds of Forest Avenue, thence  North  89°06'
 East along said Forest Avenue, a distance of 230+/- feet to the point of
 beginning;  thence  through  the lands of the People of the State of New
 York (Buffalo Psychiatric Center) the following  four  (4)  courses  and
 distances:
 1) North 02°36' East, a distance of 265+/- feet to a point;
 2) South 89°59' East, a distance of 95+/- feet to a point;
 3) South 00°38' East, a distance of 263+/- feet to a point on the north-
 erly bounds of Forest Ave; and
 4) South 89°06' West along said avenue, a distance of 110+/- feet to the
 point or place of beginning.
 Containing 0.62 acres of land, more or less.
   §  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 only
 to identify the premises to be conveyed. As a condition of purchase, the
 Richardson Center Corporation shall submit to the commissioner of gener-
 al services for such commissioner's  approval  an  accurate  survey  and
 description of the lands generally described in section two of this act,
 which may be used in the conveyance thereof.
   § 4. The commissioner of general services shall not transfer or convey
 the land described in section two of this act unless application is made
 therefore  to  the  office  of general services by the Richardson Center
 Corporation within one year after the effective date of this act.
   § 5. Any lands transferred pursuant to this act shall be  used  exclu-
 sively  for  the  purposes  of  the  Richardson  Center  Corporation  to
 construct a mixed-use campus for the community benefit and  upon  termi-
 nation  of  such  use, title to the lands so transferred shall revert to
 the state of New York. The forgoing sentence shall not negatively impact
 a certain right of reversion of such lands that runs to the  benefit  of
 the city of Buffalo.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.