Relates to authorizing the village of Malverne to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8009--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Local
   Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  in  relation to authorizing the village of Malverne to alienate
   and discontinue the use of certain parklands
 
   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 village of
 Malverne, located in the county of Nassau, acting  by  and  through  its
 governing  body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such
 body, is hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands and alienate  the
 lands  more  particularly described in section three of this act, and to
 sell and convey such lands at fair market  value,  for  the  purpose  of
 constructing housing.
   §  2.  The  authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
 effective only upon the condition that the village of  Malverne,  county
 of  Nassau,  dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market
 value of the parklands being discontinued toward the acquisition of  new
 parklands  and/or capital improvements to existing property for park and
 recreational use.
   § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be  alien-
 ated are described as follows:
   All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and
 improvements  thereon  erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorpo-
 rated Village of Malverne, County of Nassau and State of New York, known
 and designated as Lots 114 and 115 on a certain  map  entitled  "Map  of
 Malverne  Plaza situated in the Incorporated Village of Malverne, Nassau
 County, N.Y. January, 1927, owned and developed by McGolrick Realty Co.,
 Inc." filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of  Nassau  January
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 19,  1927,  as  Map  No.  847,  New  No.  2491, bounded and described as
 follows:
   BEGINNING  at  a  point on the northerly side of Church Street distant
 1034.50 feet westerly from the corner formed by the intersection of  the
 northerly  side  of  Church  Street  and  the new westerly side of Ocean
 Avenue, which point of beginning is also the division line between  Lots
 115  and  116  on  the aforesaid map; running thence South 63 degrees 58
 minutes West 40 feet along the northerly side of Church Street;  running
 thence  North  26  degrees  02  minutes  West  100 feet; thence North 63
 degrees 58 minutes East 40 feet to the division line  between  Lots  115
 and  116  on aforesaid map; running thence along last mentioned division
 line South 26 degrees 02 minutes East 100 feet to the northerly side  of
 Church  Street  at  the point or place of BEGINNING, consisting of 0.095
 acres, more or less.
   § 4. In the event that the village of Malverne  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 parkland author-
 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the village  of
 Malverne  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 ensure
 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.