New York Laws
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

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