2023 New York Laws › STL - State › Article 4 - Purchase and Acquisition of Land by the United States › 50-A - Fire Island National Seashore.

§ 50-a. Fire  Island  National Seashore. 1. To assist the conservation
and preservation of the natural features of Fire Island and environs and
to authorize the acquisition by the United States of  America  of  lands
necessary  for  the  establishment  by  the  Secretary  of  the Interior
pursuant to public law 88-587 (78 Stat.   928) of Fire  Island  National
Seashore in the county of Suffolk, state of New York, the consent of the
state  of  New  York is hereby given to the United States of America, to
acquire by purchase, exchange, donation, condemnation or  otherwise  any
tract,  piece  or  parcel  of  land  (including  lands under water which
include all lands seaward of the  mean  high  water  line),  within  the
boundaries  of  the  Fire  Island  National  Seashore  as  delineated on
boundary map OGP-0003 entitled "Map of  Fire  Island  National  Seashore
including  the  William Floyd Estate" (on file with the Federal Register
and in the office of the Department of Interior of the  United  States),
from  the  state  of  New York, the county of Suffolk, any city, town or
village within said county and from any  individual  or  individuals  or
bodies politic or corporate.
2.  The  commissioner  of  general  services may authorize the use and
occupation by the United States of America of lands of the  state  under
water,  said  lands  including  all lands seaward of the mean high water
line within the boundaries of  the  Fire  Island  National  Seashore  as
delineated  on  boundary  map  OGP--0003  entitled  "Map  of Fire Island
National Seashore including the William Floyd Estate". The instrument by
which the authority to use and occupy said lands may  be  given  by  the
commissioner  of  general services to the United States of America shall
also include a cession of jurisdiction over the lands therein described;
and such cession of jurisdiction shall be  upon  the  express  condition
that  the state of New York shall retain jurisdiction over said lands so
far as that all civil and criminal process which  may  issue  under  the
laws  or  authority  of the state of New York may be executed thereon in
the same way and manner as if such jurisdiction had not  been  ceded  to
the United States of America. Such instrument, by which the commissioner
of  general  services may authorize the use and occupation by the United
States of  America  of  said  lands  and  the  cession  of  jurisdiction
thereover,  shall be subject to any and all rights of any person or body
politic or corporate acquired by prior grant or held by  reason  of  the
ownership  of  any uplands adjacent to any part of the lands under water
herein referred to.
3. The commissioner of general services, after the  United  States  of
America  has  become  the  owner  of  any waterfront property within the
boundaries of the Fire Island National Seashore referred  to  above,  is
hereby  authorized  to  execute  and  deliver  to  the  Secretary of the
Interior of the United States of America with or without  consideration,
appropriate  instruments of conveyance quitclaiming to the United States
of America all of the right, title and interest, if any, of the state of
New York in and to all of  the  lands  under  water  as  above  defined,
situate within the boundaries of said Fire Island National Seashore. Any
such instrument of conveyance shall include a cession of jurisdiction in
confirmation  of the cession of jurisdiction provided for in subdivision
two of this section and in form similar thereto.
4. Any conveyance of lands to the United  States  of  America  by  the
county  of  Suffolk,  or  any city, town or village or bodies politic or
corporate may be made at private sale and with or without  consideration
notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  any  law,  general or
special, or any charter. Upon the conveyance to  the  United  States  of
America  by  the  county  of Suffolk, or by any city, town or village or
body politic or corporate or by any private grantor of any lands  within
the boundaries of said Fire Island National Seashore the commissioner of

general  services  is  also  authorized  to cede to the United States of
America jurisdiction thereover expressly retaining jurisdiction  of  the
state  of New York over said lands so far as that all civil and criminal
process, which may issue under the laws or authority of the state of New
York,  may  be  executed  thereon  in the same way and manner as if such
jurisdiction had not been ceded to the United States of America.
5. Each conveyance of lands or the use and occupation of lands to  the
United States of America made pursuant to the provisions of this section
shall  further  expressly provide that at such time as the United States
of America shall cease to use the lands for said  Fire  Island  National
Seashore  such  jurisdiction  as may have been ceded by the state of New
York to the United States of America  for  the  purposes  of  said  Fire
Island National Seashore pursuant to this section shall cease, determine
and  become void; and all of the right, title and interest of the United
States of America
(a) with respect to such lands granted to the United States of America
by the state of New York shall revert to and vest in the  state  of  New
York;
(b)  with  respect to lands granted to the United States of America by
any city, town or village or body politic or corporate, shall revert  to
such city, town or village or body politic or corporate.