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NY Pub Lands L § 19 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 19 - Taxes and Assessments for Local Improvements on State Lands.

§ 19. Taxes  and  assessments for local improvements on state lands. A   person, body or board authorized to assess lands for local  improvements   or  purposes, shall submit to the comptroller of the state an invoice of   assessment on state lands, showing the purpose for which the  assessment   is  made,  the  state  lands assessed and the amounts for which they are   assessed, and referring to the law authorizing the assessment.  No  fee,   interest,  penalty  or  expense  shall  be  added  to  or  accrue on any   assessment against state lands, nor shall such lands be  sold  therefor;   but  such  assessments  shall, if confirmed and uncontested, be paid and   discharged out of any moneys appropriated therefor. All sales  of  state   lands for unpaid taxes or assessments for local improvements or purposes   are void. All taxes and assessments legally made on state lands, and all   legal  rents or charges thereon, shall be audited by the comptroller and   paid  out  of  the  treasury.  On  or  before  January   fifteenth   the   comptroller,  in  consultation  with  the  board  of  real  property tax   services and other agencies as may be appropriate, shall submit  to  the   governor   and  the  legislature  an  annual  accounting  of  taxes  and   assessments paid pursuant to  this  section  during  the  preceding  and   current  fiscal years. Such accounting shall include, but not be limited   to the number, type and amount of such payments, as well as an  estimate   of  payments  to be made during the remainder of the current fiscal year   and during the following fiscal year. If any provision of  this  section   conflict  with any provision of any other general, special or local law,   this section shall prevail; and no other general, special or  local  law   shall  be  deemed  to  repeal,  alter  or  abridge any provision of this   section, unless  this  section  or  this  article  or  this  chapter  be   expressly  and  specifically  referred  to  therein.  This section shall   extend, in its operation and effect, so as to include  all  actions  and   proceedings,  whether  judicial  or administrative, heretofore commenced   under any general, special or local law and now pending.
NY Pub Lands L § 19-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 19-B - State Aid; Certain State-Owned or Reacquired Lands.

§ 19-b. State  aid; certain state-owned or reacquired lands.  1. State   aid shall be payable to any municipal corporation or special district as   such terms are defined by section one hundred two of the  real  property   tax  law  and  hereinafter  collectively  referred to in this section as   "taxing authority", when on any assessment  roll  the  taxable  assessed   valuation in such taxing authority is decreased in any year by reason of   the  transfer  of title or possession of land or improvements thereon to   the state or an agency of the state located at West Valley,  Cattaraugus   county  and  theretofore  utilized  by the corporation known as "Nuclear   Fuel Services, Inc.".2. The state aid payable  to  a  taxing  authority  pursuant  to  this   section  shall  be computed and paid during the first fiscal year of any   such taxing authority commencing on or  after  January  first,  nineteen   hundred  eighty-one,  and during each fiscal year thereafter. Such state   aid shall in each year be equal to the amount of taxes levied  or  which   would  have  been levied by or in behalf of the taxing authority against   such lands and the improvements thereon  on  the  last  assessment  roll   finally completed in nineteen hundred eighty.3.  Such  state  aid  shall  be  payable upon application to the state   comptroller by the chief fiscal officer of the  taxing  authority  which   qualifies  for  aid  pursuant  to this section. The application shall be   made on a form prescribed by such comptroller  and  shall  contain  such   information  as  such  comptroller  shall  require. On or before January   fifteenth the comptroller,  in  consultation  with  the  board  of  real   property services and other agencies as may be appropriate, shall submit   to  the  governor  and the legislature an annual accounting of state aid   paid pursuant to this section during the preceding  and  current  fiscal   years.  Such accounting shall include, but not be limited to the number,   type and amount of such payments, as well as an estimate of payments  to   be  made  during the remainder of the current fiscal year and during the   following fiscal year.
NY Pub Lands L § 20 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 20 - Grants of Lands in Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation Designated on Certain Map.

§ 20. Grants  of lands in Onondaga salt springs reservation designated   on certain map.  All grants of lands made by the people of this state of   any lands in the  Onondaga  salt  springs  reservation  prior  to  March   twenty-eight,  in the year eighteen hundred forty-three, shall be deemed   and considered as having been granted according to the designations upon   the map of said reservation made by John  Randel,  junior,  formerly  on   file in the office of the state engineer and surveyor and now on file in   the  office  of  the department of transportation, and not as designated   upon the map of said reservation made by said Randel, formerly  on  file   in the office of the secretary of state and now on file in the office of   his department.
NY Pub Lands L § 21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 21 - Conveyance of Strips of Abandoned Canal Lands and Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation Land.

§ 21. Conveyance  of strips of abandoned canal lands and Onondaga salt   springs reservation land.  a. The commissioner of  general  services  is   authorized,  in  his discretion, to sell and convey at public or private   sale, upon such terms and conditions as he  may  deem  proper,  all  the   right,  title  and  interest  of  the  state in and to certain strips of   abandoned canal lands or Onondaga salt springs reservation  land,  which   strips  adjoin  the  old  beds  of  the  Erie canal and Oswego canal and   side-cut canals, which beds were heretofore conveyed by  the  people  of   the  state  of New York and in which said strips of land there remains a   right, title or interest in the people of the state  of  New  York.  Any   such  private  sale,  if made, shall be to the state's grantee or to the   successor to the title or interest of the beds so previously granted  by   the  state  and shall be for a consideration not less than the appraised   value of the said right, title or interest.b.  The  commissioner  of  general  services  is  authorized,  in  his   discretion,  to  sell  and  convey  at private sale, upon such terms and   conditions as he may deem proper, all the right, title and  interest  of   the  state  in  and  to  any parcel of land of the Onondaga salt springs   reservation to the person or persons having a deed  of  record  of  such   land,  or  their successors in interest, since the first day of January,   eighteen hundred ninety-nine, or to any person or persons who have  been   in continuous, open, notorious and adverse possession of such land since   the first day of January, eighteen hundred ninety-nine.
NY Pub Lands L § 23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 23 - Disposition of Moneys Received From Sale of Certain State Lands and Sand and Gravel Thereon.

§ 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 section seventy-five of this chapter, and   not including abandoned canal lands provision with respect to  which  is   made  under  article  four  of  this  chapter  and not including certain   detached  parcels  of  forest  preserve  lands  with  respect  to  which   provision is made in section twenty-four of this chapter, shall be paid,   less  any  refunds  made pursuant to 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  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.
NY Pub Lands L § 24 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 24 - Sale or Exchange of Certain Detached Parcels of Forest Preserve Lands.

§ 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 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.
NY Pub Lands L § 25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 25 - Sale or Exchange of Real Property Owned by the State and Devoted to the Use of the Organized Militia.

§ 25. Sale or exchange of real property owned by the state and devoted   to  the  use  of  the  organized  militia.    Upon  the  filing with the   commissioner  of  general  services  by  the  adjutant  general  of  his   certificate  in  writing of his determination that certain real property   owned by the state and devoted to the use of the  organized  militia  of   the  state  is  no  longer needed or adapted for such use and consenting   that the same be sold or exchanged by the commissioner pursuant  to  the   provisions  of  this  section,  the  commission, if such certificate and   consent be approved by the director of the budget and be accompanied by,   annexed to, or endorsed upon an accurate map  and  description  of  such   real  property,  may  sell  or exchange such real property in accordance   with and subject to the terms, if any, of such consent.   All  sales  of   any such property shall be in accordance with the procedure specified in   article  three  of  this  chapter  for  the sale of unappropriated state   lands.  Upon compliance by the purchaser with the terms of sale, or,  in   the  case  of  an  exchange of lands, with the terms of the order of the   commissioner authorizing such exchange, the sale or  exchange  shall  be   consummated  by  the issuance of letters patent granting the state-owned   real property.   All  moneys  constituting  the  proceeds  of  any  such   disposition  of  such  state-owned real property shall be paid, less any   refunds made pursuant to the provisions of section  twenty-six  of  this   law,  first  to  repay  any  expenditures  made by the office of general   services 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  into the state treasury through  the  office   of  general  services  to  the  credit  of  the  capital  projects  fund   established by section ninety-three of the state finance law.
NY Pub Lands L § 26 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 26 - Refunds When Sales Cannot Be Completed.

§ 26. Refunds  when  sales  cannot  be completed.   Within three years   after the receipt thereof, moneys heretofore received by the division of   the land office in the department of state and transferred to the office   of general services or heretofore or hereafter received by the office of   general services on account of  sales  of  interests  in  real  property   ordered  by the office of general services or its predecessor, the board   of commissioners of the land office, may be refunded to  the  person  or   party  for  whose  account  same  were received, upon satisfactory proof   being submitted to the commissioner of general services that the sale or   sales so ordered cannot be completed by the issuance of  letters  patent   or an instrument of conveyance.Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of section one hundred twenty-one of   the state  finance  law,  such  refunds  shall,  upon  approval  by  the   commissioner  of general services and after audit by the comptroller, be   paid from any moneys in the custody of the office of general services or   heretofore transferred or received from the division of the land  office   as  proceeds  of  sale of real property, except that moneys derived from   the sale of detached parcels of forest preserve  lands  as  provided  in   section  twenty-four  of  the public lands law shall not be used to make   refunds with respect to inability  to  complete  sales  affecting  other   lands  and such moneys shall be the sole fund from which to make refunds   in cases of inability on the part of the state  to  complete  sales,  as   aforesaid, of such detached parcels of forest preserve lands.
NY Pub Lands L § 28 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 28 - Transfer of State Lands or Watershed Conservation Easements to the City of New York for Water Supply Protection Purposes.

§  28.  Transfer of state lands or watershed conservation easements to   the city of  New  York  for  water  supply  protection  purposes.    The   commissioner  of general services may, with the concurrence of the mayor   of the city of New York, transfer and convey to the city of New York, in   consideration of one dollar to be paid to the state of New York and upon   such other terms and conditions as agreed upon by such commissioner  and   the  mayor  of  the  city  of  New  York,  parcels  of land or watershed   conservation easements  owned  by  the  state  and  located  within  the   counties of Dutchess, Putnam, or Westchester and within the watershed of   the water supply of the city of New York, whether or not such parcels or   watershed conservation easements are unappropriated state lands, for the   purpose  of  protecting  the  water supply of the city of New York.  The   city of New York may, with the prior agreement of  the  commissioner  of   the  department  of health, transfer and convey any such parcels for the   sole purpose of purchasing lands in areas of higher priority  for  water   supply  protection  purposes,  provided  that the city of New York shall   either  (1)  transfer  and  convey  to  the  state  of  New   York,   in   consideration  of  one  dollar  paid  to  the city of New York, any such   parcels provided that the  city  of  New  York  continues  to  pay  real   property  taxes  on  any  such  parcels  and  upon  such other terms and   conditions as agreed upon by the commissioner of  general  services  and   the  mayor  of  the city of New York; or (2) sell any such parcels to an   entity other than the state of New York and provide to the state of  New   York  monies  equal  to the original purchase price paid by the state of   New York for such parcels.   For purposes  of  this  section,  the  term   "watershed conservation easement" shall have the same meaning as defined   in section five hundred eighty-three of the real property tax law.
NY Pub Lands L § 29 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 2 - Office of General Services 29 - Watershed Conservation Easements and Watershed Agricultural Easements.

§  29.  Watershed  conservation  easements  and watershed agricultural   easements. Restriction on alienation. A watershed conservation  easement   or  watershed  agricultural  easement held by the city of New York shall   not be transferred or conveyed by  the  city  of  New  York  unless  the   written  consent  of  the  record owner of the real property burdened by   such easement is affixed to the  instrument  transferring  or  conveying   such  easement.  For  purposes  of  this  section,  the terms "watershed   conservation easement" and "watershed agricultural easement" shall  have   the same meanings as defined in section five hundred eighty-three of the   real property tax law.
NY Pub Lands L § 30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands 30 - Unappropriated State Lands Defined.

§ 30. Unappropriated  state  lands defined.   The term "unappropriated   state lands," as used in this chapter, includes all escheated lands; all   lands conveyed to the state for the benefit of the canal  fund  and  not   devoted in pursuance of law to any public use; all lands purchased by or   for  the  state  on the foreclosure of any mortgage given on the loan of   any United States deposit funds or on any loan of money for  the  state;   all  state  lands  lying  within  the  limits of any city or village not   devoted to any public use; and all other lands belonging to  this  state   which  are not directed by law to be kept for or applied to any specific   purpose, except lands under water the disposition of which  is  governed   by  article  six of this chapter and except the lands the disposition of   which is governed by the salt springs law  and  except  abandoned  canal   lands  the  disposition  of  which  is  governed by article four of this   chapter, and chapters eight hundred and ninety-three and  eight  hundred   and ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven.
NY Pub Lands L § 31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands 31 - Surveys by Commissioner of General Services.

§ 31. Surveys  by  commissioner of general services.  The commissioner   of general services may, whenever he deems it  necessary,  cause  actual   surveys to be made of any state lands.
NY Pub Lands L § 32 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands 32 - Maps.

§ 32. Maps.   The commissioner of general services shall make or cause   to be made a map of each tract so  surveyed,  distinguishing  upon  such   maps  the  towns  and county in which the lots are situated, and deposit   the same in his office. Such maps shall be open  to  the  inspection  of   every  person,  during  the  office  hours  of business, until the lands   described thereupon be sold.
NY Pub Lands L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBL - Public Lands Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands 34 - Transfer of Unappropriated State Lands for Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Park, Recreation, Playground, Reforestation, Street or Highway Purposes.

§ 34. Transfer of unappropriated state lands for mental health, mental   retardation,  park,  recreation,  playground,  reforestation,  street or   highway purposes. 1. Such commissioner of  general  services  may,  from   time  to time, transfer and convey to a city, incorporated village, town   or county, in consideration of one dollar to be paid to the state of New   York, and on such terms and conditions as such commissioner may  impose,   a  part  or  all  of any parcel or parcels of unappropriated state lands   upon certification that such parcel or  parcels  are  useful  for  local   mental   health   facilities,   mental   retardation  facilities,  park,   recreation, playground, reforestation, street or highway  purposes,  and   that  they  will  be properly improved and maintained for one or more of   such purposes and provided that  this  disposition  of  such  parcel  or   parcels is not otherwise prohibited. Certification shall be evidenced by   a  formal  request  from  the board of estimate, common council, village   board, town board or county  board  of  supervisors,  setting  forth  in   detail  the  parcel  or parcels to be released, transferred and conveyed   and the availability and usefulness of such parcel or parcels for one or   more of such purposes. In the city of New  York  however,  certification   shall be evidenced by a formal request from the mayor. In the event that   lands  transferred under the provisions of this section are not properly   improved and maintained for one or more of the purposes contemplated  by   this  section  by  the  city, village, town or county to which they were   transferred, the title thereto shall revert to the people of  the  state   of  New  York,  and  the attorney-general may institute an action in the   supreme court for a judgment declaring a revesting of such title in  the   state.  Such  commissioner  may  also  transfer any unappropriated state   lands to the office of parks, recreation and  historic  preservation  or   the  department  of  environmental conservation, upon the application of   the commissioner thereof indicating that such unappropriated state lands   are required for state park purposes within the area of jurisdiction  of   such office or department.2. The commissioner of general services may, in his or her discretion,   and upon such terms and conditions as such commissioner may impose, upon   application  of  the mayor of the city of New York, grant to the city of   New York, for public streets, parks, parkways,  playgrounds,  recreation   and  conservation  purposes, all of the right, title and interest of the   people of the state of New York, of, in and to any portion of the  lands   and  lands  under  water  in  Jamaica  bay  and  Rockaway inlets and the   tributaries thereto.