New York S 9260: Authorizes the county of Chautauqua to alienate and discontinue the use of certain reforested lands

Status: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (as of 2026-02-19)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 9260

Sponsors: George Borrello

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S09260 Summary:

BILL NOS09260 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10161

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SPONSORBORRELLO

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Authorizes the county of Chautauqua to alienate and discontinue the use of certain reforested lands.

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02/19/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9260

 IN SENATE

 February 19, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

 AN ACT authorizing the county of Chautauqua to alienate and discontinue
 the use of certain reforested lands

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding section 219 of the county law to the
 2 contrary, the county of Chautauqua acting by and through its governing
 3 body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body, is
 4 hereby authorized to discontinue the use of lands described in section
 5 two of this act acquired for reforestation purposes for the purposes of
 6 acquiring and dedicating other reforested lands or parklands adjacent to
 7 currently existing parkland. The lands described in section two of this
 8 act are currently vacant property not used by the public for recreation-
 9 al or reforestation purposes. The authorization provided in this section
 10 shall be effective only upon the acquisition by the county of Chautauqua
 11 of lands described in section three of this act, which is currently
 12 vacant property not used by the public for recreational, parkland, or
 13 reforestation purposes.
 14 § 2. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be alien-
 15 ated are described as follows:
 16 PARCEL 1:
 17 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Ellery, Coun-
 18 ty of Chautauqua and State of New York being part of Lot 7, Town 3 and
 19 Range 13 of the Holland Land Company's Survey and being further bounded
 20 and described as follows:
 21 On the North by Lot number 8, fourteen (14) chains and eighty three
 22 (83) links, East by Town 3, Range 12 of the Holland Land Company's
 23 Survey, twenty six (26) chains and ninety (90) links, South by land
 24 deeded to John S. Marsh, fourteen (14) chains and eighty three (83)
 25 links, West by lands deeded to Nicholas Thumb, twenty six (26) chains
 26 and ninety (90) links containing 40.734 acres more or less and being the
 27 same piece of land described in a deed from John Duer, Morris Robinson &
 28 William H. Seward by their attorney, George W. Patterson, to Pearly

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14678-01-6

 S. 9260 2

 1 Young dated the 11th day of February 1846 and recorded in the Chautauqua
 2 County Clerk's Office on February 12, 1846 in Liber 31 of Deeds at page
 3 148.
 4 PARCEL 2:
 5 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Ripley, Coun-
 6 ty of Chautauqua and State of New York being part of Lot 74, Town 3 and
 7 Range 15 of the Holland Land Company's Survey and being further bounded
 8 and described as follows:
 9 BEGINNING at a point on the centerline of Irish Road, said centerline
 10 being also the southerly line of said Lot 74, at the southeasterly
 11 corner of lands of the County of Chautauqua as firstly described in a
 12 deed dated April 30, 1951 and recorded in the Chautauqua County Clerk's
 13 Office on May 9, 1952 in Liber 717 of Deeds at page 96, said point of
 14 beginning being also the southwesterly corner of lands of Kimberly
 15 Greentree as described in a deed dated September 22, 2020 and recorded
 16 in the Chautauqua County Clerk's Office on November 24, 2020 as Instru-
 17 ment No. DE2020006554;
 18 THENCE N 88°-14'-32" W along the centerline of Irish Road and along
 19 the southerly line of Lot 74 and along the southerly line of said lands
 20 of the County of Chautauqua, a distance of 40.01 feet to a point;
 21 THENCE N 00°-20'-00" E through the said lands of the County of Chau-
 22 tauqua, 30.

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