N.Y. Public Lands Law Section 6
Determination of claims based on alleged failure of title


Whenever a legal claim is made for a refund of purchase-money because of the alleged failure of the title of the state to lands sold or granted under its authority including any right, title or interest of the state in and to lands under water, the commissioner of general services, if satisfied that such claim is just and is made by a person entitled thereto, may certify such facts to the court of claims, whereupon such court is empowered to determine the amount of compensation, if any, which should be awarded on account thereof, which in no event shall exceed the amount of the purchase price originally paid for such land.

Source: Section 6 — Determination of claims based on alleged failure of title, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBL/6 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 13, 2024).

2
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

Accessed:
Apr. 13, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 6’s source at nysenate​.gov

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