Authorizes the town of Huntington to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Huntington African American Museum, the official text

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                                  5932--A
     Cal. No. 899
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
   mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with  Senate
   Rule  6,  sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
   first and second report, ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the town of Huntington to alienate and
   discontinue  the  use  of  certain parklands to the Huntington African
   American Museum
 
   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, the town of Hunting-
 ton,  county of Suffolk, is hereby authorized, acting by and through its
 governing body, and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such
 governing body, to discontinue the use  as  parkland  and  alienate  the
 lands  described in section three of this act, to the Huntington African
 American Museum for the  purpose  of  displaying  exhibits  and  holding
 events.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
 be  effective  on  the condition that the town of Huntington dedicate an
 amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of  the  parklands
 being alienated pursuant to section one of this act towards the acquisi-
 tion  of  new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and
 recreational facilities.
   § 3. The parkland authorized by section one of this act to be  discon-
 tinued as parkland is described as follows:
 ALL  that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being
 in the Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk  and  State  of  New  York,
 being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
 BEGINNING  at  a  point on the northerly side of Pulaski Road at or near
 its intersection with the westerly side of Park Avenue;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 RUNNING THENCE along the northerly side of Pulaski Road, N 60°01'00"  W,
 a distance of 525.72 feet to a point;
 THENCE  along  land  now or formerly of Huntington Country Life, Inc., N
 29°59'00" W, a distance of 778.87 feet to a point;
 THENCE along the arc of a curve radius 332.33 feet bearing to the left a
 distance of 137.59 feet to a point on the southerly side of  East  Fifth
 Street;
 THENCE  along  the  southerly side of East Fifth Street and/or Grandview
 Avenue, N 44°41'50" E, a distance of 561.69 feet to a point at  or  near
 the northerly side of Park Avenue;
 THENCE continuing along the westerly side of Park Avenue, S 44°34'58" E,
 a distance of 31.05 feet to a point;
 THENCE  continuing  along the westerly side of Park Avenue along the arc
 of a curve radius 215.58 feet bearing to the right a distance of  196.38
 feet to a point;
 THENCE continuing along the westerly side of Park Avenue, S 37°59'15" W,
 a distance of 585.56 feet to a point;
 THENCE continuing along the westerly side of Park Avenue, S 30°17'01" E,
 a distance of 96.49 feet to a point.
 THENCE continuing along the westerly side of Park Avenue, S 15°01'00" W,
 a distance of 30.87 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING.
 Containing 9.733 acres.
   §  4.  In  the  event that the town of Huntington received any funding
 support or assistance from the  federal  government  for  the  purchase,
 maintenance,  or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parklands author-
 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur  until  the  town  of
 Huntington  has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
 alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying  the  secre-
 tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
 conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
 the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
 and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.