N.Y. Public Lands Law Section 11
Power to confirm defective grant

Whenever a sale is lawfully made, or directed to be made by the commissioner of general services, or has been made by his predecessor, the board of commissioners of the land office, including a sale of land under water, if, at the time of the making of the grant, the necessary jurisdictional facts existed to authorize the grant, and by reason of accidental omission or manifest error, the patent is not acutally issued, or has been issued to the applicant deficient or manifestly erroneous in description or otherwise, the commissioner may, in his discretion, and on such terms as seem to him proper, cause to be issued to such applicant, or to persons deriving claim or title from him subsequently to the making of the grant, a release or confirmatory grant of such lands or any parts thereof, which release or confirmatory grant shall vest in the grantee therein named such right and estate, to the extent of the right or title of the state in such lands, or parts thereof, as is therein named.

Source: Section 11 — Power to confirm defective grant, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBL/11 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 26, 2025).

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State-owned real property inventory and management program 2–A
Certain transfers of jurisdiction over state-owned lands and declarations of abandonment by the commissioner of general services 2–B
Transfers of certain funds 3
Powers and duties 4
Vesting of crown lands in the people of the state 5
Letters patent, form and contents 6
Determination of claims based on alleged failure of title 7
Partition of lands held by the state in joint tenancy or tenancy in common 8
Trespasses upon state lands 9
Penalty for trespasses 10
Power to investigate before grant 11
Power to confirm defective grant 12
Certain patents and grants ratified 12–A
Certain patents ratified and confirmed 13
Grants to heirs, devisees or successors in interest 14
Time of performing conditions of grant 15
Prohibitions as to grants in Lake George 15–A
Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited 16
Reservation of Esopus island 17
Payment of incumbrances on public lands 17–A
Abandonment of claims under defective tax sales 18
Expenses chargeable to special funds 19
Taxes and assessments for local improvements on state lands 19–A
State aid 19–B
State aid 20
Grants of lands in Onondaga salt springs reservation designated on certain map 21
Conveyance of strips of abandoned canal lands and Onondaga salt springs reservation land 22
Management of sand and gravel resources 23
Disposition of moneys received from sale of certain state lands and sand and gravel thereon 24
Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands 25
Sale or exchange of real property owned by the state and devoted to the use of the organized militia 26
Refunds when sales cannot be completed 27
Acquisition of real property by purchase or appropriation 28
Transfer of state lands or watershed conservation easements to the city of New York for water supply protection purposes 29
Watershed conservation easements and watershed agricultural easements
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Accessed:
Apr. 26, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 11’s source at nysenate​.gov

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