N.Y. Public Lands Law Section 23
Disposition of moneys received from sale of certain state lands and sand and gravel thereon

All moneys received by the commissioner of general services from the sale of sand and gravel on, or from the sale of, any land of the state, or from the grant of rights or easements therein or thereover, not including land under water provision with respect to which is made in § 75 (Grants of land under water)section seventy-five of this chapter, and not including abandoned canal lands provision with respect to which is made under article 4 (Abandoned Canal Lands and Structures)article four of this chapter and not including certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands with respect to which provision is made in § 24 (Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands)section twenty-four of this chapter, shall be paid, less any refunds made pursuant to § 26 (Refunds when sales cannot be completed)section twenty-six of this law, and less any sum required to be deposited to the credit of the environmental protection fund provision with respect to which is made by chapter six hundred ten of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-three, into the state treasury through the office of general services to the credit of the capital construction fund established by State Finance Law § 93 (Capital projects fund)section ninety-three of the state finance law. All such moneys received during a month, less any refunds, shall be so paid on or before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month.

Source: Section 23 — Disposition of moneys received from sale of certain state lands and sand and gravel thereon, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBL/23 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 29, 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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Verified:
Nov. 29, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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