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      S5227

2025-2026 Legislative Session Relates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County

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Pete Harckham

(D, WF) 40th Senate District

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Daniel G. Stec

(R, C, IP) 45th Senate District

Leroy Comrie

(D) 14th Senate District

Robert Jackson

(D, WF) 31st Senate District

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See Assembly Version of this Bill: A7454 Law Section: Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend Laws Affected: Amd Art 14 §1, Constn Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions: 2021-2022: S7222, A9416
2023-2024: S5540, A2452

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Relates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County.

2025-S5227

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        - Sponsor Memo

BILL NUMBER: S5227

SPONSOR: HARCKHAM
 
TITLE OF BILL:

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment
to section 1 of article 14 of the constitution, in relation to the Mount
Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County

 
PURPOSE OF THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION:

First passage of a constitutional amendment to authorize the
construction, operation, and maintenance of the Mount Van Hoevenberg
Olympic Sports Complex on Forest Preserve land in the Town of North
Elba, Essex County, and add at least 2500 additional acres to the Forest
Preserve and to establish a sunset date for the authority granted to
NYCO Minerals, Inc or its successor to engage in mineral sampling oper-
ations in exchange for land of equal or greater value to the disturbed
land.

 
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K

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                               5227

                    2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                         I N  S E N A T E

                         February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, STEC -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 14 of the constitution,
in relation to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in
Essex County

Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 1 of arti-
cle 14 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
Section 1. The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired,
constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever
kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged,
or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber
thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. Nothing herein contained shall
prevent the state from constructing, completing and maintaining any
highway heretofore specifically authorized by constitutional amendment,
nor from constructing and maintaining to federal standards federal aid
interstate highway route five hundred two from a point in the vicinity
of the city of Glens Falls, thence northerly to the vicinity of the
villages of Lake George and Warrensburg, the hamlets of South Horicon
and Pottersville and thence northerly in a generally straight line on
the west side of Schroon Lake to the vicinity of the hamlet of Schroon,
then continuing northerly to the vicinity of Schroon Falls, Schroon
River and North Hudson, and to the east of Makomis Mountain, east of the
hamlet of New Russia, east of the village of Elizabethtown and continu-
ing northerly in the vicinity of the hamlet of Towers Forge, and east of
Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain and continuing northerly to the vicinity of
the village of Keeseville and the city of Plattsburgh, all of the afore-
said taking not to exceed a total of three hundred acres of state forest
preserve land, nor from constructing and maintaining not more than twen-
ty-five miles of ski trails thirty to two hundred feet wide, together
with appurtenances thereto, provided that no more than five miles of
such trails shall be in excess of one hundred twenty feet wide, on the

EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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