[Adopted 9-5-1979]
The Town Board of the Town of Massena finds as follows:
A.
That the aforesaid petition for annexation[1] substantially complies in form and content with Article 17 of
the General Municipal Law.
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Editor's Note: The preamble to the enactment states that a petition
was presented to the Town Board of the Town of Massena requesting annexation
of land in the town to the Village of Massena and that a joint hearing of
the Town and Village Boards was held on September 5, 1979.
B.
That the proposed annexation of certain territory in
the Town of Massena to the Village of Massena as described in the petition
is in the overall public interest.
The consent and approval of the Town Board of the Town of Massena is
hereby given to the annexation of the territory now situated in the Town of
Massena and described in Exhibit A, petition to the Village of Massena:
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Exhibit A
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Pursuant to Article 17 of the General Municipal Law of the State of
New York, as amended, the petitioner herein, the Massena Industrial Development
Corporation, petitions for annexation to the Village of Massena of all the
territory which is not in a city or village, which is in the Town of Massena,
St. Lawrence County, New York, which adjoins said village and which is described
in Paragraph 2 of this petition; and the petitioner states therefor as follows:
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The Village of Massena is and for over 50 years last past has been an
incorporated village in the Town of Massena, County of St. Lawrence, State
of New York.
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Petitioner petitions to have annexed to said village territory in the
Town of Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York, which territory adjoins said
village; said territory, which petitioner petitions to have so annexed, is
described as follows:
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Beginning at the intersection of the division line between the Town
of Massena and the Village of Massena with the division line between the Town
of Norfolk and the Town of Massena; thence southeasterly along the Massena
- Norfolk division line 2,005 feet more or less to a point, said point being
the southwest corner of lands acquired by the Massena Industrial Development
Corporation (Massena IDC) from Joseph A. and Ann Marie Giorgi by deed recorded
in the St. Lawrence County Clerk's office in Liber 935 of Deeds at Page
973; thence northeasterly along the southerly bounds of the aforereferenced
Massena IDC property 1,005 feet more or less to the southeast corner of said
Massena IDC lands; thence northwesterly along the easterly bounds of said
Massena IDC lands 1,142 feet more or less to a point, said point being the
southwest corner of lands acquired by the Massena Industrial Development Corporation
from Rose E. Syakos and William S. Crapser by deed recorded in the St. Lawrence
County Clerk's Office in Liber 937 of Deeds at Page 1139; thence northeasterly
along the southerly bounds of the last referenced Massena IDC property 668
feet more or less to the southeast corner of said Massena IDC lands; thence
northwesterly 400 feet more or less to a point, said point being the intersection
of the easterly bounds of the last mentioned Massena IDC property with the
southerly bounds of the lands owned by Fred and Flora R. Thebert, as recorded
in Liber 763 of Deeds at Page 500; thence southwesterly along the southerly
bounds of said Thebert property 3 feet more or less, said point being the
southwest corner of said Thebert property; thence northwesterly along the
easterly bounds of the last referenced Massena IDC property 438 feet more
or less to a point on the Town of Massena - Village of Massena division line;
thence southwesterly along said division line 1,655 feet more or less to the
point and place of beginning.
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The petitioner herein is the owner of the majority in assessed valuation
of the property in said territory (which territory is described in Paragraph
2 of this petition) assessed upon the last preceding Town Assessment Roll
of the Town of Massena.
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The number of inhabitants of said territory (described in Paragraph
2 of this petition) adjoining the Village of Massena, which territory the
petitioner petitions to have annexed to said Village of Massena is approximately
1.
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Attached hereto, marked "Exhibit A," is an outline map of said territory
(described in Paragraph 2 of this petition) adjoining said Village of Massena,
which territory is herein sought to be annexed to said village.[1]
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[1]
Editor's Note: A copy of the outline map, Exhibit A, is on file
in the office of the Village Clerk.
