N.Y. General Municipal Law § 72-f: Acquisition of lands for parkway and airport purposes and dedication of the same by counties and municipal corporations

§ 72-f. Acquisition of lands for parkway and airport purposes and

dedication of the same by counties and municipal corporations. 1.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or the

provisions of this article, the governing board of any municipal

corporation or the board of supervisors of any county may acquire by

purchase, gift, devise or condemnation real estate or any interest

therein for conservation purposes or for a state park, parkway or

boulevard or incidental to the separation of grades at the intersection

of a state parkway or boulevard and a county, town or village road,

highway or street, and may donate or dedicate the same to the state or

may release and convey to the state for such purpose presently owned

lands, existing rights of way or easements, wheresoever located, not

required for county, city, town or village purposes. Such municipal

corporations or boards of supervisors may also purchase options to carry

out the purposes of this section in aid of the state park and parkway

system. Such municipal corporations or boards of supervisors may acquire

such real estate or interest therein by purchase, gift, devise, or by

condemnation in the manner provided by law. Several of the

municipalities herein mentioned may contribute toward the cost of

acquisition of a state park wholly or partly within their boundaries or

adjacent or near to them on the basis of probable benefit to such

municipalities. In the event that a state park is acquired by agreement

involving contributions by several municipalities, the purchase price

may be met by one or more payments over a period of not to exceed two

years in accordance with the terms of the agreement.

2. The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized to

agree with owners respecting the extent and use of easements for slope

protection acquired prior to March first, nineteen hundred thirty-one,

and to grant to owners of lands abutting upon lands heretofore acquired

by such board for such purpose pursuant to authority conferred by this

section rights of way over and access to lands so acquired upon such

terms and for such considerations, as to such board may seem reasonable

and proper.

3. If the acquisition be by a county, the governing board thereof may

cause such moneys to be raised, in whole or in part, by taxation and

levied and collected as other taxes in such county or such moneys may be

raised, in whole or in part, pursuant to the local finance law; if the

acquisition be by a town, the moneys necessary therefor shall constitute

a town charge and be raised, in whole or in part, by taxation as other

town charges or such moneys may be raised, in whole or in part, pursuant

to the local finance law; if the acquisition be by a village, the moneys

therefor may be raised, in whole or in part, by taxation, as other

village taxes or such moneys may be raised, in whole or in part,

pursuant to the local finance law.

* 4. The governing board of any municipal corporation in the county of

Suffolk or the board of supervisors of said county of Suffolk may

acquire by purchase, gift, devise or condemnation, real estate or any

interest therein necessary for or incidental to the establishment,

construction, equipment, maintenance and operation of an airport or

landing field and may enter into a contract or agreement with any other

governmental authority, both federal and state, in relation to the

establishment, construction, equipment, maintenance and operation of an

airport or landing field. Such municipal corporations or the board of

supervisors may acquire such real estate or interest therein in the

manner provided by chapter one hundred ninety of the laws of nineteen

hundred twenty-seven as amended, and all provisions of such act shall,

as far as practicable, apply to the acquisition of real estate or

interest therein in the same manner and with the same effect as though

the lands herein authorized to be acquired were mentioned in such act.

If the acquisition be by the county of Suffolk, the board of

supervisors may cause such moneys to be raised by taxation and levy and

collected as other taxes in such county or may borrow money therefor on

the credit of such county by the issuance and sale of county bonds in

the manner provided by law for the issuance and sale of other county

obligations. If the acquisition be by a town, the moneys necessary

therefor shall constitute a town charge and be raised by taxes as other

town charges or the town board may in its discretion cause town bonds to

be issued and sold in the manner provided by law for the issuance and

sale of town bonds under the town law. If the acquisition be by a

village, the moneys therefor may be raised by taxes as other village

taxes or by the issuance and sale of village bonds in the manner

provided by the laws governing such village relating to village

obligations after the adoption of a resolution therefor by the board of

trustees, without other authorization.

* NB Expired July 1, 1946