A 8557: Authorizes the village of Malverne to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to develop new parkland or capital improvements to existing parks within the village.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8557 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Local Governments 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: 1 Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the village of 2 Malverne, located in the county of Nassau, acting by and through its 3 governing body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such 4 body, is hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands and alienate the 5 lands more particularly described in section three of this act, and to 6 sell and convey such lands at fair market value, for the purpose of 7 providing needed resources to develop existing village property for park 8 and recreational use. 9 § 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be 10 effective only upon the condition that the village of Malverne, county 11 of Nassau, dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market 12 value of the parklands being discontinued toward the acquisition of new 13 parklands and/or capital improvements to existing property for park and 14 recreational use. 15 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be alien- 16 ated are described as follows: 17 All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and 18 improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorpo- 19 rated Village of Malverne, County of Nassau and State of New York, known 20 and designated as Lots 114 and 115 on a certain map entitled "Map of 21 Malverne Plaza situated in the Incorporated Village of Malverne, Nassau 22 County, N.Y. January, 1927, owned and developed by McGolrick Realty Co., 23 Inc." filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau January 24 19, 1927, as Map No. 847, New No. 2491, bounded and described as 25 follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13090-01-5 
 A. 8557 2 1 BEGINNING at a point on the northerly side of Church Street distant 2 1034.50 feet westerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the 3 northerly side of Church Street and the new westerly side of Ocean 4 Avenue, which point of beginning is also the division line between Lots 5 115 and 116 on the aforesaid map; running thence South 63 degrees 58 6 minutes West 40 feet along the northerly side of Church Street; running 7 thence North 26 degrees 02 minutes West 100 feet; thence North 63 8 degrees 58 minutes East 40 feet to the division line between Lots 115 9 and 116 on aforesaid map; running thence along last mentioned division 10 line South 26 degrees 02 minutes East 100 feet to the northerly side of 11 Church Street at the point or place of BEGINNING 12 § 4. In the event that the village of Malverne received any funding 13 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase, 14 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three 15 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author- 16 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the village of 17 Malverne has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the 18 alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secre- 19 tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all 20 conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to ensure 21 the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value 22 and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted. 23 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.