Section 1358. Grants from commissioner of general services  


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  • 1.  The
      commissioner of general services shall have power,  in  his  discretion,
      from  time  to  time  to  transfer  and convey to the authority for such
      consideration as may be determined by him to be paid to the state of New
      York, unappropriated  state  lands  and  lands  under  water  which  the
      authority  shall  certify to be necessary or desirable for the corporate
      purposes of the authority, and may, when the barge  canal  terminal  and
      barge  canal  terminal  lands  in  the  city  of Oswego become no longer
      necessary or useful for canal or terminal purposes, lease for a term  or
      terms  of  years  or  convey  said  barge canal terminal and barge canal
      terminal lands as hereinafter  described,  to  the  authority  for  such
      consideration  as  may  be determined by him to be paid to the people of
      the state of New York and upon the terms and  conditions  set  forth  in
      this act.
        2.  There  is  hereby  ratified  and confirmed in and to the authority
      title to the  barge  canal  terminal  and  barge  canal  terminal  lands
      described  herein,  conveyed  to  said authority by letters patent dated
      September tenth, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, pursuant  to  resolutions
      of   the  board  of  commissioners  of  the  land  office  adopted  July
      twenty-ninth,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-eight,  and   September   tenth,
      nineteen  hundred  fifty-eight,  subject  to the conditions set forth in
      said letters patent and in this title.
        3. The authority  shall  establish  and  maintain  a  port  facilities
      development  fund  and  shall  cause  all moneys received by it from the
      operation of such port facilities to be deposited in such fund  for  the
      payment  of  all  costs of operation, maintenance and repair of the port
      facilities and the repayment to the people of the state of New  York  of
      any  advance  made by the state to the authority, which repayment to the
      people of the state of New York shall not exceed in any one  year  fifty
      per  cent of the moneys received by the authority in excess of the costs
      of operation, maintenance and repair of said port facilities.
        4. Upon the issuance of said lease or grant  by  the  commissioner  of
      general  services  pursuant  to  this act the authority shall assume all
      expense of or incidental  to  the  operation,  maintenance,  repair  and
      administration of said port facilities.
        5.  Except  as  to  moneys and rates accrued thereunder at the time of
      vesting in the authority all the right, title and interest of the  state
      in  and  to  said  port  facilities  as herein provided, and as incident
      thereto, there shall also vest in the authority all the right, title and
      interest of the state in and to and in  connection  with  the  following
      contracts,  agreements  and  permits with third persons: (a) any and all
      executory contracts, agreements and permits for the  use  of  said  port
      facilities  by third persons as tenants, licensees, or otherwise, or for
      the docking, mooring or anchorage thereat  of  vessels  owned  by  third
      persons, or for the loading, unloading, handling, storage, processing or
      manipulation  of  grain, freight, or other property of third persons, or
      for the rendering of any other services to third persons  at  said  pier
      properties  as  wharfinger or warehouseman or otherwise; (b) any and all
      executory contracts and agreements for the furnishing by  third  persons
      of  electricity,  gas,  steam,  water  or telephone service at said port
      facilities.
        6. The authority  shall  not  grant  or  convey  title  to  said  port
      facilities  to  any  person or legal entity other than the people of the
      state of New York.
        7. If the authority shall violate any of  the  conditions  herein  set
      forth or such other conditions as the board of commissioners of the land
      office heretofore included in any lease or grant of said port facilities
      or any other conditions as the office of general services may include in
    
      any  lease or grant of said port facilities and such violation of any of
      said conditions shall not have been remedied  by  the  authority  within
      ninety  days  after  the  giving  of  notice  of  the  existence of such
      violation  by  the  commissioner  of  transportation of the state of New
      York, then at the option of the state such port facilities shall  revert
      to the people of the state of New York.
        8.  If  the  port  facilities revert to the people of the state of New
      York they shall be and shall be deemed to be unappropriated state lands.
        9. Officers and employees of the state departments  and  agencies  now
      employed  at  said  port  facilities may be transferred to the authority
      without loss of any civil service status or rights but no such  transfer
      may be made except with the approval of the head of the state department
      or  division thereof charged with the operation of such port facilities,
      the director of the  budget,  and  in  compliance  with  the  rules  and
      regulations of the state civil service commission.
        10.  a.  The  premises  constituting  the  port  facilities  so  to be
      transferred consist of:
        All that tract or parcel or land situate, lying and being in the  city
      of Oswego, county of Oswego and state of New York, bounded and described
      as follows:
        Beginning  at  a  monument  in  the  west  line  of Water Street, said
      monument being 231 feet northerly along said street line from the center
      line of Van Buren Street; thence S 67 degrees -47'  W  along  the  Barge
      Canal  Terminal  Right  of  Way line 102 feet to a monument; thence N 22
      degrees -13' W along a line parallel to the  east  line  of  West  First
      Street  and  2 feet distant westerly therefrom, a distance of 38 feet to
      its intersection with the original shore line of  Lake  Ontario  (1838);
      thence westerly along said original shore line a distance of 100 feet to
      its  intersection  with  the west line of West First Street; thence S 22
      degrees -13' E along said west street line a distance of 126 feet  to  a
      monument  set in the westerly line of W. First Street at a point therein
      140' northerly from the center line of Van Buren  Street,  thence  S  67
      degrees  -47'  W  along  the  division  line between the property of the
      People of the State of New York on the north and  the  property  of  the
      Delaware,  Lackawanna  and  Western  Railroad Co. (reputed owner) on the
      south a distance of 193 feet to a monument; thence N 71 degrees  -37'  W
      along  the  aforementioned  division  line  a distance of 9.22 feet to a
      monument set in the east line of West Second Street; thence N 22 degrees
      - 13' W along said street line and said street line  extended  into  the
      waters  of  Lake Ontario a distance of 1430 feet to a point; thence N 67
      degrees -47' E and for part of  the  distance  along  the  line  of  the
      northerly  wall  of  the New York State Lake Terminal Pier a distance of
      425 feet to a point; thence S 22 degrees -13' E a distance of  888  feet
      to  a point in line with the northerly line of Parcel No. T-88, Terminal
      Contract No. 33, appropriated by the State of New  York  on  August  25,
      1914 pursuant to Chapter 746, Laws of 1911; thence S 67 degrees -47' W a
      distance  of  25  feet  to the northeast corner of said Parcel No. T-88;
      thence S 22 degrees -13' E along the easterly line of  said  Parcel  No.
      T-88  and  for  part  of  the  distance along the westerly line of Water
      Street a distance of 485.8 feet to the point  of  beginning,  containing
      13.31 acres more or less.
        All Bearings are referred to the true meridian.
        The above described parcel constitutes all of Parcels Nos. T-86, T-87,
      T-88  and  T-89,  Terminal Contract No. 33, appropriated by the State of
      New York on August 25, 1914 pursuant to Chapter 746, Laws of  1911,  and
      certain lands now or formerly under the waters of Lake Ontario.
        b.  It is hereby found and determined that the properties described in
      paragraph a hereof, heretofore constituting a portion of the barge canal
    
      terminal and barge canal terminal lands in the city of  Oswego,  are  no
      longer necessary or useful for canal or terminal purposes and are hereby
      abandoned.
        11.  The  commissioner  of  general services shall issue said lease or
      grant to said lands to the authority  only  upon  the  delivery  to  and
      filing  with  said  commissioner a certified copy of a resolution of the
      authority signifying its willingness to accept said port  facilities  on
      the conditions hereinabove set forth, all of which may be made a part of
      said  lease  or  grant, which lease or grant may also contain such other
      and further conditions as  the  commissioner  of  general  services  may
      determine to be appropriate.