Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to The Arc Westchester New York, the official text

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.