Directs the commissioner of transportation to waive the annual security deposit fee specified in Use and Occupancy Permit No. 82771 issued to the Bedford Hills Fire District, Town of Bedford, Westchester County allowing for the use of approximately 4,000 square feet of state land for parking for volunteer firefighter members of the Bedford Hills Fire District.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6662
SPONSOR: Burdick TITLE OF BILL:
An act directing the commissioner of transportation to waive an annual
security deposit fee
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Allowing for the use of approximately 4,000 square feet of state land
located adjacent to 325 Bedford Road for the purpose of providing exclu-
sive parking for volunteer firefighter members of the Bedford Hills Fire
District.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Directs the commissioner of transportation to waive the annu-
al security deposit fee specified in Use and Occupancy Permit No. 82771
issued to the Bedford Hills Fire District, Town of Bedford, Westchester
County allowing for the use of approximately 4,000 square feet of state
land located adjacent to 325 Bedford Road for the purpose of providing
exclusive parking for volunteer firefighter members of the Bedford Hills
Fire 8 District.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):
This is a new bill.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Bedford Hills Fire Department serves and protects their community on
a volunteer basis. Adjacent to the fire station is a vacant property
owned by the New York State Department of Transportation. The Depart-
ment has issued a permit which allows parking by the members of the
Bedford Hills Fire Department but the annual cost to the fire department
to lease the land is in excess of $17,000. This vacant property
currently generates no revenue for the state and there is no competing
use that would lead to any revenue in the future. This bill provides
access to the property without an unjust enrichment by New York State.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None to the state.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill takes effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6662
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT directing the commissioner of transportation to waive an annual
security deposit fee
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
2 commissioner of transportation shall waive the annual security deposit
3 fee specified in Use and Occupancy Permit No. 82771 issued to the
4 Bedford Hills Fire District, Town of Bedford, Westchester County allow-
5 ing for the use of approximately 4,000 square feet of state land located
6 adjacent to 325 Bedford Road for the purpose of providing exclusive
7 parking for volunteer firefighter members of the Bedford Hills Fire
8 District. The provisions of this act shall not affect or impair any
9 other provision of said Use and Occupancy Permit.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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