2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 5 - Powers, Limitations and Liabilities › 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