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2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 15 - New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust › 643 - Collective Negotiation.

§  643.  Collective  negotiation.  1.  The city of New York collective
  bargaining law shall apply to the trust.
2. For the purpose of article fourteen of the civil  service  law  and
  the  New  York city collective bargaining law, as applicable, the trust,
  acting by and through its president, shall be deemed to  be  the  public
  employer  and  as  such  shall  negotiate  with  and  enter into written
  agreements with employee organizations representing  the  staff  of  the
  trust  that  have  been  certified  or  recognized  in  accordance  with
  applicable law. In carrying on such negotiations, the president  of  the
  trust may consult with and seek assistance from the city office of labor
  relations  and  NYCHA. The president of the trust shall consult with the
  appropriate public employee organization on the  establishment  of,  and
  bargain  all terms and conditions of, any new titles established for the
  trust which have a community of interest with titles already represented
  by the public employee organization which presently  has  representation
  rights  for  those titles for NYCHA or for the city. Any such titles for
  which terms and conditions are bargained pursuant  to  this  subdivision
  shall  be deemed to be successor titles within the meaning of applicable
  law and, so long as the responsibilities of employees  in  these  titles
  are  reasonably  related  to the responsibilities of employees currently
  represented by a public employee organization, shall be accreted to  the
  appropriate  bargaining  certificates  for  which  such  public employee
  organization shall be voluntarily recognized  as  the  bargaining  agent
  under procedures acceptable to the office of collective bargaining.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 15 - New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust › 644 - Application of State and Local Human Rights Laws.

§   644.   Application   of   state   and  local  human  rights  laws.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, article fifteen of
  the executive law and title eight of the administrative code of the city
  of New York shall apply to the trust.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 15 - New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust › 647 - Jurisdiction Over Trust.

§  647.  Jurisdiction  over  trust. 1. The trust shall not be deemed a
  "covered organization" as  defined  in  the  New  York  state  financial
  emergency act for the city of New York.
2.  The department of investigation of the city shall be authorized to
  conduct  investigations  relating  to  the  trust  pursuant  to  chapter
  thirty-four of the New York city charter.
3.  The  comptroller  of  the  city,  or his or her legally authorized
  representative, is hereby authorized and empowered from time to time  to
  examine  the  books  and  accounts  of the trust including its receipts,
  disbursements, contracts, reserve funds, sinking funds, investments, and
  any other matters relating to its financial standing.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 15 - New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust › 648 - Effect of Inconsistent Provisions.

§ 648. Effect of inconsistent provisions. Insofar as the provisions of
  this  article  are  inconsistent  with  the provisions of any other law,
  general, special or local or of the New York city charter or  any  local
  law,  ordinance or resolution of the city, the provision of this article
  shall be controlling, provided that nothing contained  in  this  section
  shall  be held to supplement or otherwise expand the powers or duties of
  the trust otherwise set forth in this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 15 - New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust › 649 - Severability.

§  649.  Severability.  If  any  provision  of  this  article  or  its
  application to any person or circumstance is  held  unconstitutional  or
  invalid,   in   whole  or  in  part,  by  any  court,  such  holding  of
  unconstitutionality or invalidity shall in no way affect or  impair  any
  other provision of this article or the application of any such provision
  to  any  other person or circumstance, and to this end the provisions of
  this article are severable.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 60 - Short Title

* §  60. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited and
  referred to as the "municipal housing authorities law."
* NB The text of Article 5 of the  former  State  Housing  Law  (cited
  herein  as  the  "Municipal  Housing  Authorities Law"), as such article
  existed immediately prior to its  repeal  pursuant  to  section  227  of
  Chapter  808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of reference
  and historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for  the
  New  York  City  Housing Authority pursuant to the provisions of section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 61 - Finding.

* §  61.  Finding.  It  is  hereby  declared  that in certain areas of
  counties, cities and first class  villages  of  the  state  there  exist
  unsanitary  or substandard housing conditions owing to over-crowding and
  concentration of population, improper planning, excessive land coverage,
  lack of proper light, air and space, unsanitary design and  arrangement,
  or  lack  of  proper  sanitary facilities; that there is not an adequate
  supply of decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons
  of low income; that these conditions cause an  increase  and  spread  of
  disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals,
  welfare,  and  comfort of the citizens of the state, and impair economic
  values; that  these  conditions  cannot  be  remedied  by  the  ordinary
  operation  of  private  enterprise;  that the clearance, replanning, and
  reconstruction of the areas in which unsanitary or  substandard  housing
  conditions  exist  and  the  providing  of  decent,  safe,  and sanitary
  dwelling accommodations in said areas and elsewhere for persons  of  low
  income  are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent
  and private property acquired; and the necessity in the public  interest
  for the provisions hereinafter enacted is hereby declared as a matter of
  legislative determination.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 64 - Officers and Employees.

* §  64.  Officers  and  employees.  1.  When  the office of the first
  chairman of the authority becomes vacant, the authority shall  select  a
  chairman  from  among  its  members. An authority shall select among its
  members a vice-chairman, and it may employ a  secretary,  who  shall  be
  executive  director,  technical  experts and such other officers, agents
  and employees, permanent and temporary, as it  may  require,  and  shall
  determine  their  qualifications, duties and compensation.  An authority
  may call upon the corporation  counsel  or  chief  law  officer  of  the
  municipality  for  such  legal  services  as it may require and it shall
  reimburse the municipality for the cost of  such  services,  or  it  may
  employ  its  own counsel and legal staff. The secretary, and any counsel
  and assistant attorneys employed by an authority, shall be in the exempt
  class of the civil service.
2. No member or employee of an authority shall  acquire  any  interest
  direct  or  indirect  in a project or in any property then or thereafter
  included or planned to be included in a project, nor retain any interest
  direct  or  indirect  in  any  property  acquired  subsequently  to  his
  appointment  or  employment  which is later included or to his knowledge
  planned to be included in a project, nor  shall  he  have  any  interest
  direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract for materials or
  services  to be furnished or used in connection with any project. If any
  member or employee of any authority owns or controls an interest  direct
  or  indirect in any property included in any project, which was acquired
  prior to his appointment or employment, he shall disclose such  interest
  and the date of acquisition thereof in writing to the authority and such
  disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 65 - Loans and Payments by Municipality.

* §  65.  Loans  and  payments  by municipality. 1. A municipality may
  advance, lend or agree to lend to an authority, or it may pay  or  agree
  with  an  authority  or  government  to  pay  to  an  authority, without
  reimbursement by or liability of the authority or  government  therefor,
  such  sums  as the authority may require for its administrative expenses
  not exceeding one million dollars for a city  of  more  than  a  million
  inhabitants,  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  for any other city, fifty
  thousand dollars for  any  county,  or  ten  thousand  dollars  for  any
  village.
2.  A  municipality  may  make such loans or payments out of any funds
  available for that purpose or it may direct the comptroller to issue and
  sell  special  revenue  bonds  or  other  similar  obligations  of   the
  municipality  and  out  of  the  proceeds  thereof to make such loans or
  payments. The amount necessary to pay the principal and interest of such
  bonds or other obligations shall be included in the estimates of  monies
  necessary  to  be  raised  by  taxation  to carry on the business of the
  municipality and shall be made a part of the tax levy for the year  next
  following the year in which such loans or payments are made.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 67 - Powers and Duties of Board.

* §  67.  Powers  and  duties  of  board.  The board shall collect and
  distribute  information  relating  to  the  administration  of   housing
  authorities  and  to  the  construction,  maintenance  and  operation of
  projects. The board shall suggest  and  assist  in  the  preparation  of
  legislation  relating  to  housing authorities and their functions.  The
  board may, in its discretion, prescribe methods and  forms  for  keeping
  accounts,  records  and books to be used by an authority.  The board may
  require an  authority  to  file  periodical  reports  not  oftener  than
  quarterly covering its operations and activities in a form prescribed by
  the  board  and  may,  from  time  to  time, require specific answers to
  questions upon which the board may desire information. For  the  purpose
  of  gathering  information  to enable the formulation of suggestions for
  legislation, the board may require an  authority  to  submit  additional
  information  relating  to the condition and affairs of an authority, its
  dealings, transactions or relationships.
* NB The text of Article 5 of the  former  State  Housing  Law  (cited
  herein  as  the  "Municipal  Housing  Authorities Law"), as such article
  existed immediately prior to its  repeal  pursuant  to  section  227  of
  Chapter  808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of reference
  and historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for  the
  New  York  City  Housing Authority pursuant to the provisions of section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 68 - Projects.

* §  68.  Projects.  An  authority shall file with the board a copy of
  each proposed project embodying the plans, layout, estimated  costs  and
  proposed method of financing. The board shall with reasonable promptness
  transmit  to  the  authority  its criticisms and suggestions. Any change
  made in the project shall be filed with the board by the  authority.  At
  any  time,  upon request of the authority, the board shall submit to the
  authority its criticisms and suggestions with reference to any change in
  the project.
* NB The text of Article 5 of the  former  State  Housing  Law  (cited
  herein  as  the  "Municipal  Housing  Authorities Law"), as such article
  existed immediately prior to its  repeal  pursuant  to  section  227  of
  Chapter  808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of reference
  and historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for  the
  New  York  City  Housing Authority pursuant to the provisions of section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 71 - Sale or Lease of Projects to Limited Dividend Corporations.

* § 71. Sale or lease of projects to limited dividend corporations. 1.
  A public limited dividend corporation may lease or purchase a project or
  a  part  thereof from an authority. The lease or sale shall be upon such
  terms  including  limitation  of  rentals,  regulation   of   occupancy,
  recapture by the authority or by the municipality, as may be agreed upon
  between  the  corporation and the authority and approved by the board. A
  municipality, subject to the right of any government  or  the  authority
  shall  have  the right of recapture of any property sold or leased by an
  authority to a public limited dividend corporation  in  the  manner  and
  upon  the  terms set forth in subdivision seven of section twenty-two of
  this act, but without limitation as to the time of exercise thereof.
2. Any provisions in this act to  the  contrary  notwithstanding,  the
  certificate  of  incorporation  of a public limited dividend corporation
  may, with the approval of the board, empower the corporation to purchase
  or lease property from an  authority  and  operate  it  subject  to  the
  supervision of the board and shall provide that any surplus or excess of
  the  par  value  of the stock, together with cumulative dividends at the
  rate of six per centum per annum, shall upon dissolution revert  to  the
  authority.  The capital structure of a corporation formed to purchase or
  lease such property shall be entirely in the  discretion  of  the  board
  except  that the number of shares of stock of such corporation shall not
  be less than ten. The restrictions contained in this act as to the  type
  of  project,  and  the  amounts  to be represented by mortgage, mortgage
  bonds,  income  debentures  or  stock,  shall  be  inapplicable   to   a
  corporation formed to purchase or lease property from an authority.
3.  The  authority  shall  have  the  power  to  appoint a director to
  represent it on the board of directors of such corporation and to remove
  the director appointed by it at any time with or without cause, and upon
  the death,  resignation  or  removal  of  such  director  to  appoint  a
  successor.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 73 - Non-Liability of State or Municipality.

* §  73.  Non-liability  of  state or municipality. The bonds or other
  obligations of an authority shall not be a debt  of  the  state  or  the
  municipality  and neither the state nor the municipality shall be liable
  thereon nor shall an authority have power  in  any  way  to  pledge  the
  credit of the state or the municipality, nor shall the transfer from the
  authority  to  the  municipality  or  the vesting in the municipality of
  property  theretofore  belonging  to  an  authority  impose   upon   the
  municipality any obligation except such as it may expressly assume.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 74 - Tax Exemptions.

* §  74.  Tax  exemptions.  1.  An  authority shall be exempt from the
  payment of any taxes or fees to the state or any subdivision thereof  or
  to any officer or employee of the state or subdivision thereof.
2. Bonds and mortgages of an authority are declared to be issued for a
  public  purpose  and  to  be public instrumentalities, and together with
  interest thereon, shall be exempt from tax.
3. The property of an authority shall be exempt  from  all  local  and
  municipal taxes. A municipality may (a) fix a sum which shall be paid to
  it  annually  by  the authority in respect of each project; or (b) agree
  that the authority shall not pay or be liable to pay any sum  whatsoever
  in  respect of a project or projects for any year or years; or (c) agree
  with an authority or government upon the sum to be paid by the authority
  for any year or years in respect of a project or projects, or accept or
  agree to accept a fixed sum or  other  consideration  in  lieu  of  such
  payment;  provided, however, that the sum fixed, or agreed to be paid by
  the authority, for any year shall in no case exceed the sum last  levied
  as an annual tax upon the property included in such project prior to the
  time of its acquisition by the authority.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 76 - Disolution.

* § 76. Dissolution. An authority or the city may apply to the supreme
  court  in  any  county in which the city or any part thereof is located,
  for an order dissolving the authority. The court thereupon shall hold  a
  hearing  in  open  court  after  such notice of hearing as the court may
  require. Upon a showing to the satisfaction of the court that  provision
  has  been made for the payment or satisfaction of all of the outstanding
  obligations of the authority and for  the  necessary  expenses  for  the
  liquidation   thereof,  the  court  may  order  that  the  authority  be
  dissolved. Upon such dissolution the property of the authority shall  be
  and become the property of the city.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 77 - Miscellaneous.

* §  77.  Miscellaneous. 1. For the purposes of the application of the
  lien law and of the general corporation law an authority shall be deemed
  to be a municipal corporation. The term "public improvement" used in the
  lien law shall be deemed to include an improvement  upon  real  property
  belonging to an authority; the secretary of the authority shall, for the
  purposes  of  the lien law, be deemed to be the financial officer of the
  authority and the head of the department or bureau having charge of  the
  construction of an improvement.
2.  All  projects  of  an  authority shall be subject to the planning,
  zoning,  sanitary  and  building  laws,   ordinances   and   regulations
  applicable to the locality in which the project is situated.
3.  In  order  to  protect funds deposited by an authority, all banks,
  bankers,  trust  companies  or  other  persons  carrying  on  a  banking
  business,  organized under the laws of the state, are authorized to give
  to the authority an undertaking with such sureties as shall be  approved
  by  the authority, faithfully to keep and pay over upon the order of the
  authority any such deposits and agreed interest thereon, or in  lieu  of
  the  said  sureties,  to  deposit  with the authority as collateral such
  securities and in such amounts as may be agreed upon with the  authority
  pursuant   to   a   collateral  deposit  agreement  in  form  and  terms
  satisfactory to the authority. The  collateral  to  be  deposited  shall
  consist  of  securities  in which savings banks may legally invest funds
  within their control.
4. This article is to be construed liberally to secure the  beneficial
  interests and purposes thereof.
* NB  The  text  of  Article  5 of the former State Housing Law (cited
  herein as the "Municipal Housing  Authorities  Law"),  as  such  article
  existed  immediately  prior  to  its  repeal  pursuant to section 227 of
  Chapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of  reference
  and  historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the
  New York City Housing Authority pursuant to the  provisions  of  section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 78 - Effect of Partial Invalidity.

* § 78. Effect of partial invalidity. If any provision of this article
  or  the  application  thereof  to  any  person  or circumstances is held
  invalid, the validity of the  remainder  of  this  article  and  of  the
  application  of  such provision to other persons and circumstances shall
  not be affected thereby.
* NB The text of Article 5 of the  former  State  Housing  Law  (cited
  herein  as  the  "Municipal  Housing  Authorities Law"), as such article
  existed immediately prior to its  repeal  pursuant  to  section  227  of
  Chapter  808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of reference
  and historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for  the
  New  York  City  Housing Authority pursuant to the provisions of section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 2 - State-Owned Real Property Inventory and Management Program.

§ 2. State-owned  real  property inventory and management program.  1.
  Definitions.   As used in this section,  unless  the  context  otherwise
  requires:
a.   "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  department,  division,  board,
  commission, bureau, office or other agency of the  state  other  than  a
  public  authority  or  public  benefit  corporation, except that for the
  purpose of subdivision two hereof, the term  shall  include  any  public
  authority  or public benefit corporation any member or director of which
  is appointed by the governor and having jurisdiction, custody or control
  of any state-owned real property.
b. "State-owned real property" shall include all lands and  buildings,
  structures,  facilities,  and  improvements  thereon,  title to which is
  vested in the people of the state of New York.
2. State-owned real property inventory. The  commissioner  of  general
  services  shall establish, maintain and have the custody of an inventory
  of all state-owned real property, as  an  aid  in  the  utilization  and
  management  of  the  land  resources  of  the state. The inventory shall
  include any state-owned real property under the jurisdiction, custody or
  management of any  state  agency,  whether  acquired  by  appropriation,
  purchase, gift or otherwise. In order to provide an accurate and current
  inventory  for  use  by  the  commissioner  of  general  services, state
  agencies and the legislature, the commissioner may by rule or regulation
  prescribe the elements, extent and  format  of  the  information  to  be
  included   and   the   procedures   for   collection,  presentation  and
  verification of the information to be contained in the inventory.    The
  commissioner  shall  by  rule  or regulation, and upon the advice of the
  comptroller,  prescribe  the  elements,  extent  and   format   of   the
  information   to   be   included  and  the  procedures  for  collection,
  presentation,  and  verification  of  such  information   necessary   to
  establish and maintain a set of general fixed asset accounts that comply
  with  generally  accepted accounting principles. Each state agency shall
  deliver to the commissioner of general services such information at  the
  times  and  in  the  manner as determined by him to be necessary for the
  establishment and maintenance of the  inventory  and  shall  permit  the
  commissioner   and   his  agents  to  make  such  physical  and  records
  inspections as deemed necessary by the commissioner for the purposes  of
  the inventory program.
3.  State-owned  real property management program. The commissioner of
  general services is authorized  and  directed  to  study,  evaluate  and
  coordinate  state  agency management practices, plans and procedures for
  the  acquisition,  utilization  and  disposition  of  state-owned   real
  property,  and to advise and assist state agencies in the improvement of
  such management practices, plans and procedures.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 2-A - Certain Transfers of Jurisdiction Over State-Owned Lands and Declarations of Abandonment by the Commissioner of General Services.

§ 2-a. Certain  transfers  of  jurisdiction over state-owned lands and
  declarations of abandonment by the commissioner of general services.  1.
  When  the  commissioner  of  general  services  proposes   to   transfer
  jurisdiction  over  state  lands pursuant to subdivision four of section
  three without the application or consent therein provided  or  when  the
  commissioner  proposes to declare real property as abandoned pursuant to
  subdivision two of section thirty-a, he shall  give  written  notice  of
  such  intention to the agency having jurisdiction over such land, and in
  the case of a transfer of jurisdiction pursuant to subdivision  four  of
  section  three, to the state agency to which jurisdiction is proposed to
  be transferred.
2. Unless within thirty days from the date such notice  is  given,  an
  agency  entitled to notice pursuant to subdivision one hereof objects to
  such proposed action, the commissioner of general  services  may  effect
  such transfer of jurisdiction or declaration of abandonment.
3.  If  within  thirty  days  of  the giving of such notice, any state
  agency entitled to notice pursuant to subdivision one hereof objects  to
  the  action proposed by the commissioner by filing notice to such effect
  with the commissioner of general services, such proposed action shall be
  reviewed by the director of the budget, and the secretary of state. They
  shall affirm or reverse the proposed action by the commissioner and that
  decision shall be final. If they affirm the proposed action or  fail  to
  render  a  determination  within  six  months  of the date of the notice
  referred to in subdivision one, the commissioner  may  thereupon  effect
  such transfer or declaration of abandonment.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 2-B - Transfers of Certain Funds.

§ 2-b. Transfers  of  certain  funds.   Subject to the approval of the
  director of the budget, any funds which have  been  appropriated  and/or
  allocated  for the operation or maintenance of state-owned real property
  abandoned under section thirty-a shall be transferred to the  office  of
  general  services  for  the  continued operation and maintenance of such
  real property and any funds which have been allocated to or  transferred
  to any state agency for the operation or maintenance of state-owned real
  property  jurisdiction  over  which  has  been  transferred  pursuant to
  subdivision four of section three shall be  transferred  to  the  agency
  receiving  such jurisdiction for the continued operation and maintenance
  of such real property.  As herein used, operation and maintenance  shall
  include,  without  limitation,  fuel,  utilities,  repairs  and  upkeep,
  supervision and security, and any local taxes or assessments.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 4 - Vesting of Crown Lands in the People of the State.

§ 4. Vesting  of crown lands in the people of the state.  The absolute
  property of all messuages, lands, tenements and  hereditaments,  and  of
  all  rents,  royalties,  franchises, prerogatives, privileges, escheats,
  forfeitures, debts,  dues,  duties  and  services  by  whatsoever  names
  respectively the same are called and known in the law, and all right and
  title  to  the  same, which next and immediately before the ninth day of
  July,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred   and
  seventy-six, did vest in, or belong, or was, or were due to the crown of
  Great  Britain  be,  and  the same and each and every of them hereby are
  declared to be, and ever since the said ninth day of July, in  the  year
  of  our  Lord  one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, to have been,
  and forever after shall be vested in the people of this state,  in  whom
  the  sovereignty  and seigniory thereof, are and were united and vested,
  on and from the said ninth day of July, in the  year  of  our  Lord  one
  thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 5 - Letters Patent, Form and Contents; to Be Recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State.

§ 5. Letters  patent,  form and contents; to be recorded in the office
  of the secretary of state.  All letters patent shall be in such form  as
  the  commissioner  of  general  services  directs.  All  letters  patent
  granting unappropriated state lands, as defined by this  chapter,  shall
  contain  an  exception and reservation of all gold and silver mines. All
  letters patent shall be recorded in a book or books to be kept for  that
  purpose in the office of the department of state, and the record thereof
  in  any  such book or a copy of any letters patent duly certified by the
  secretary of state  to  be  a  copy  of  such  record  thereof,  whether
  heretofore  or  hereafter recorded, shall be received in evidence in any
  court in this state with the same force and effect as  the  original  of
  such letters patent.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 6 - Determination of Claims Based on Alleged Failure of Title.

§ 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 7 - Partition of Lands Held by the State in Joint Tenancy or Tenancy in Common.

§ 7. Partition  of lands held by the state in joint tenancy or tenancy
  in common.  Whenever the commissioner of general services  directs,  the
  attorney-general  shall  cause partition to be made of any real property
  held in joint tenancy or tenancy in common, in which the people  of  the
  state  are  interested,  and for that purpose he may, in the name of the
  people, do all such acts as any joint tenant  or  tenant  in  common  is
  authorized by law to do.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 8 - Trespasses Upon State Lands.

§ 8. Trespasses  upon  state  lands.    Where,  in the judgment of the
  commissioner  of  general  services,  sufficient  information  has  been
  provided  to  her or him that a possible trespass upon state-owned lands
  has occurred then the commissioner may investigate such  allegations  of
  trespass  upon  state-owned  lands. The commissioner of general services
  may report to the attorney general instances of trespass committed  upon
  Indian  lands, or lands and lands underwater belonging to the state, and
  under the general care and  superintendence  of  the  commissioner.  The
  attorney  general, on receiving such report and whenever directed by the
  commissioner,  shall  commence  and  prosecute  appropriate  actions  or
  proceedings  in  the name of the people of the state, against the person
  or entity committing such trespass.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 9 - Penalty for Trespasses.

§ 9. Penalty  for  trespasses.  Every  person  who shall trespass upon
  Indian lands or any lands belonging to the state and under  the  general
  care  and  superintendence  of the commissioner of general services, any
  lands belonging to the state which are under  the  jurisdiction  of  any
  other state agency, department, board, officer, commission, institution,
  public  authority,  public  benefit  corporation, or bi-state agency, by
  cutting, removing,  injuring  or  destroying  trees  growing  thereupon,
  shall,  for  every  such offense, forfeit to the people of the state the
  sum of two hundred fifty dollars per tree or  treble  damages  or  both,
  based  on the stumpage value, as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision
  six of section 71-0703 of the environmental conservation  law,  of  such
  tree  or  trees,  and  shall be liable for any permanent and substantial
  damage caused to the land or the improvements thereon  as  a  result  of
  such  violation.  Such  reparations  shall  be  of such kind, nature and
  extent as will reasonably restore the lands affected by the violation to
  their condition immediately before the violation  and  may  be  made  by
  physical  restoration of such lands and/or by the assessment of monetary
  payment to make such restoration.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 10 - Power to Investigate Before Grant.

§ 10. Power to investigate before grant.  Before granting any lands or
  any  interest  therein, including lands under water, the commissioner of
  general services may summarily inquire into the  rights  of  the  person
  applying   for  such  grant,  on  such  proof  as,  by  regulation,  the
  commissioner may prescribe.   The commissioner may  take  testimony  and
  proofs  in  any  matter  or  application  before  him,  and  the fees of
  witnesses and the expense of procuring their attendance  shall  be  paid
  from  the  state  treasury  out  of  any  funds  available  therefor  by
  appropriation, on the audit and  warrant  of  the  comptroller,  on  the
  certificate  of  the  commissioner.    The  commissioner shall establish
  reasonable rules to guard against false or fraudulent  applications  and
  for  such  other purposes as he may deem proper.  At any such inquiry or
  hearing, the commissioner may  be  represented  by  a  deputy  or  other
  representative designated by him.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 11 - Power to Confirm Defective Grant.

§ 11. Power  to  confirm defective grant.  Whenever a sale is lawfully
  made, or directed to be made by the commissioner of general services, or
  has been made by his predecessor, the board of commissioners of the land
  office, including a sale of land under water, if, at  the  time  of  the
  making  of  the  grant,  the  necessary  jurisdictional facts existed to
  authorize the grant, and by reason of accidental  omission  or  manifest
  error,  the  patent  is  not  acutally issued, or has been issued to the
  applicant deficient or manifestly erroneous in description or otherwise,
  the commissioner may, in his discretion, and on such terms  as  seem  to
  him proper, cause to be issued to such applicant, or to persons deriving
  claim  or  title  from  him  subsequently  to the making of the grant, a
  release or confirmatory grant of such lands or any parts thereof,  which
  release  or  confirmatory  grant shall vest in the grantee therein named
  such right and estate, to the extent of the right or title of the  state
  in such lands, or parts thereof, as is therein named.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 12 - Certain Patents and Grants Ratified.

§ 12. Certain  patents  and  grants  ratified.    All patents of lands
  issued before July eleventh, eighteen hundred and  eighty-one,  pursuant
  to resolutions of the commissioners of the land office, and sold by them
  at  private  sale  to purchasers in good faith, purporting to convey the
  right, title and interest of the people of this  state  in  and  to  any
  state  lands,  except lands under water in the bay or harbor of New York
  or adjacent thereto, have been ratified and confirmed,  to  as  full  an
  extent  as though the same had been sold at public auction, according to
  law, but not so as to affect any action pending July eleventh,  eighteen
  hundred  and  eighty-one,  or to impair, release or discharge any right,
  claim or interest of any person in and to such lands.   All grants  made
  by  the  commissioners  of  the land office prior to March twenty-fifth,
  eighteen hundred and forty-one, of parts of lots for which payments were
  made and certified in the manner prescribed by law, have been confirmed.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 12-A - Certain Patents Ratified and Confirmed.

§ 12-a. Certain  patents  ratified  and  confirmed.    Patents of real
  property escheated to the state, granted before  the  sixteenth  day  of
  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-two, pursuant to resolutions of the
  commissioners of the land office,  adopted  under  or  in  pursuance  of
  chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and
  ninety,  have  been  ratified  and confirmed unto the patentees therein,
  their heirs and assigns.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 13 - Grants to Heirs, Devisees or Successors in Interest.

§ 13. Grants  to  heirs,  devisees or successors in interest. Where an
  application for a grant of land, including land under water, is made  by
  any  person  who  dies before a grant is ordered or issued, the heirs or
  devisees of such person shall be  entitled  to  such  grant  as  if  the
  application   had  been  made  by  such  heirs  or  devisees.  Where  an
  application for a grant of land under water is made by  any  person  who
  conveys  the land adjacent to the land under water applied for, before a
  grant is ordered or issued, the grantee of such adjacent land  shall  be
  entitled  to  such  grant  as  if  the application had been made by such
  grantee.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 14 - Time of Performing Conditions of Grant.

§ 14. Time  of performing conditions of grant.  1. The commissioner of
  general services may, unless otherwise provided, fix a reasonable  time,
  not  less  than  one  year,  for  the  performance  of conditions by the
  grantees of lands, including lands under water, directed to  be  granted
  on  the performance of conditions.  If such conditions are not performed
  within the time limited, the persons entitled to any benefit under  such
  grant  shall  forfeit  all  right  to  and title in the premises. If the
  commissioner, after having caused an inspection to be made of the  lands
  granted,  determines that the conditions contained in the letters-patent
  have been complied with, he may issue a certificate to that  effect.  If
  complete   compliance  has  not  been  had,  the  commissioner,  in  his
  discretion, may make an order to the effect that compliance had been had
  with the conditions  in  such  definitely  described  portion  of  lands
  granted  as  have been improved. Such order shall be conclusive evidence
  of the performance of the conditions contained in such letters-patent to
  the extent stated in such order and as to lands described therein.  When
  the  time  within  which any condition contained in any grant of land is
  fixed by the terms of the grant, the commissioner may,  for  good  cause
  shown  before  the expiration of such time, extend the time within which
  such condition is to be performed, not exceeding three years.
2. The commissioner may, in his discretion, upon  application  of  the
  grantee  or  his successor in interest, by order, alter, amend or cancel
  any condition  or  conditions  contained  in  letters-patent  for  land,
  including  lands  under  water,  if  satisfied  by  the  reason or proof
  submitted that such alteration, amendment or cancellation  of  condition
  or  conditions  is  just  and is not detrimental to the interests of the
  state.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 15 - Prohibitions as to Grants in Lake George.

§ 15. Prohibitions  as to grants in Lake George.  1. No grant or lease
  of any of the islands in Lake George, or of any land upon  any  of  such
  islands, shall be made by the commissioner of general services.
2.  No grant or lease of any lands under water in Lake George shall be
  made by the commissioner unless the conservation department of the state
  of New York shall, prior to the issuance of any  such  grant  or  lease,
  advise  the commissioner, in writing, that such grant or lease, if made,
  will not result in a hazard to navigation, impair the scenic  beauty  of
  Lake  George  or  otherwise interfere with the use and enjoyment of Lake
  George and its facilities by the people of  the  state.  To  assist  the
  department in making its determination, the department may hold a public
  hearing  at such time and place as it shall determine for the purpose of
  receiving testimony and evidence.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 15-A - Filling in the State Owned Bed of Lake George Prohibited.

§ 15-a. Filling  in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited.  1.
  No person or corporation shall fill in or cause to be filled in any land
  of the state of New York lying below the mean low  water  line  of  Lake
  George  by  dumping  or  placing  rock,  stone,  concrete, dirt or other
  similar material on said land without first obtaining a grant  or  lease
  of the land to be filled in or an easement, license or permit to fill in
  such land from the commissioner of general services.
2.  This  section  shall  not apply to a person or corporation placing
  wooden or precast concrete timbers, logs or beams or cribs of wooden  or
  precast  concrete  timbers, logs or beams filled with rocks or stones on
  the  bed  of  Lake  George  for  the  sole  purpose   of   constructing,
  reconstructing  or  repairing  the  foundation,  cribs  or supports of a
  private dock or a  private  one-story  boat  house  legally  erected  or
  maintained on the bed of said lake.
3.  Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section
  on or after September  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-three  shall  be
  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  a fine of not more than five
  hundred dollars and by an additional fine of not more  than  twenty-five
  dollars  for  each day that such fill is left on land of the state lying
  below the mean low water line of Lake George after a written  notice  to
  remove  the  same  has  been  personally  served  on  the  person who or
  corporation which made said fill or caused said fill to be made  by  the
  commissioner of general services or pursuant to his direction.
4. For the purposes of this section mean low water line of Lake George
  shall  mean  the  water  level  of  Lake  George  at  one and eighty-one
  hundredths feet on the gage of the United States  Geological  Survey  at
  Rogers Rock on Lake George known as Rogers Rock gage.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 16 - Reservation of Esopus Island.

§ 16. Reservation  of  Esopus  island.    Esopus  island,  in Dutchess
  county, is reserved from  settlement,  occupancy,  lease  or  sale,  and
  dedicated  and  set apart as a public park.  The commissioner of general
  services shall have the same powers to protect such island from trespass
  as he has over other public lands.