N.Y. Public Lands Law Section 24
Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands

Any state department or agency, at the time having jurisdiction over any of the lands hereinafter specified, may consent to a sale or exchange by the commissioner of general services of any lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve, but outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as now fixed by law and not acquired or dedicated for the practice of forest or wild life conservation, and consisting in any case of not more than one hundred contiguous acres entirely separated from any other portion of the forest preserve. Upon such consent being filed with the commissioner in writing, accompanied by a description of such lands, the commissioner may in his discretion sell or exchange any of such lands in accordance with the consent. All sales shall be subject to and governed by the provisions of sections thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-seven, thirty-seven-a, thirty-eight, thirty-eight-a and thirty-nine of this chapter, being general provisions governing the sale of unappropriated state lands. All moneys derived by the commissioner from such sales, not including any refunds made pursuant to § 26 (Refunds when sales cannot be completed)section twenty-six of this law, shall be paid first to repay any expenditures made by the office of general services with relation to forest preserve lands from moneys appropriated to said office in the first instance for the administration, management, utilization and disposition of real property of the state and any rights or interests therein, and any balance of such moneys remaining after repayment of the first instance expenditures shall be paid through the office of general services into a special fund of the state treasury, provided for that purpose by the state finance law and known as the forest preserve expansion fund, and shall be expended only as provided in that law. All of such moneys received during any month shall be so paid on or before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month. All exchanges shall be only for additional lands for the forest preserve within either the Adirondack or Catskill park as now fixed by law and shall be subject to approval by the attorney general of the title to the lands thus to be acquired by the state.

Source: Section 24 — Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBL/24 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 20, 2024).

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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. 20, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 24’s source at nysenate​.gov

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