N.Y. State Law Section 35
Cession of jurisdiction to lands acquired for light-house purposes

The jurisdiction to such tracts of land, not exceeding ten acres, acquired by the United States for the construction and maintenance of light-houses and keepers’ dwellings before April eighteenth, eighteen hundred sixty-one, or as shall have been acquired since such date, or as shall be hereafter acquired, upon the selection by an authorized officer of the United States, the approval of the governor, the filing in the office of the secretary of state of a description of the boundaries thereof, with the approval of the governor indorsed thereon, and the filing in such office of a map thereof, which map shall be drawn with pen and India ink upon tracing cloth and shall be otherwise in form and manner suitable to the files, records and purposes of the office of the secretary of state, is ceded to the United States, upon condition that the jurisdiction so ceded shall not prevent the execution thereon of any process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of the state, except as such process might affect the property of the United States therein, and that such jurisdiction shall continue in the United States so long only as the land shall be used and occupied for the purposes of the cession, unless the consent of the state to a different use shall have been granted.

Source: Section 35 — Cession of jurisdiction to lands acquired for light-house purposes, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/STL/35 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 29, 2025).

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Cession without reservation 21
Authorization of acquisition and cession of jurisdiction thereupon without reservation 22
Cession with reservation of right to serve process 23
Authorization of acquisition and cession of jurisdiction thereupon, with reservation of right to serve process 24
Cession during ownership by the United States, with reservation of right to serve process 25
Authorization of acquisition, and cession of jurisdiction thereupon during ownership by the United States, with reservation of right to s... 26
Cession during ownership by the United States and use for public purposes, with reservation of right to serve process 27
Authorization of acquisition by the United States, and cession of jurisdiction thereupon during ownership by the United States and use fo... 28
Cession during use for purposes thereof, with reservation of right to serve process 29
Authorization of acquisition and cession of jurisdiction thereupon, during use for purposes thereof, with reservation of right to serve p... 30
Authorization of acquisition and cession of jurisdiction thereupon, with reservations of concurrent jurisdiction and right to serve process 31
Cession during ownership by the United States and use for purposes thereof, with sundry reservations 32
Cession during use for purposes thereof, with sundry reservations 33
Cession with sundry reservations 34
Cession during use for purposes thereof, with sundry reservations 35
Cession of jurisdiction to lands acquired for light-house purposes 36
Acquisition by condemnation 37
Saving clause 38
Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction by the United States of America to this state
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Verified:
Nov. 29, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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