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2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 17-A - Abandonment of Claims Under Defective Tax Sales; Recovery of Taxes Paid Thereon by State.

§ 17-a. Abandonment  of  claims under defective tax sales; recovery of
  taxes paid thereon by state.  Where the claim of title of the  state  to
  any  land  is  based  on  a  tax sale, which title in the opinion of the
  attorney-general would be declared void by the courts, the  commissioner
  of  general  services,  on  the  filing with him of such opinion and the
  evidence upon which such opinion was based, may, by order,  abandon  any
  claim  of title to such land, but, notwithstanding such abandonment, the
  people of the state shall have a lien upon the real property affected by
  the abandonment, prior and superior to all other liens, for  the  amount
  of  all taxes, fees and charges admitted or paid by the people upon such
  real property to the date of the abandonment of  the  state's  claim  of
  title,  together  with  interest  thereon  from  the  dates  of payment.
  Provided such lien remains unpaid after the expiration of one year  from
  the  date of the abandonment, the people of the state may foreclose such
  lien as a mortgage on real property  is  foreclosed;  but  in  any  such
  action  establishment  of  payments  of  taxes  on said land or any part
  thereof by the adjudged or admitted owner of the property during any  of
  the  same  years  in  which payments were also made by the people of the
  state shall reduce the lien of the people by the larger of the  two  tax
  payments  for  each  of the years affected by duplicate payments, and in
  the event that wholly identical areas are not affected by the  duplicate
  payments  the  court shall have power to apportion and adjust the amount
  of the lien as equity may require.   This remedy  for  recovery  of  tax
  payments  shall  be  in  addition  to  any other remedy now or hereafter
  available in law or in equity, and shall be  without  prejudice  to  any
  defense or offset available to an adverse claimant in law or in equity.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 2 - Office of General Services › 18 - Expenses Chargeable to Special Funds.

§ 18. Expenses  chargeable to special funds.  All expenses of surveys,
  appraisements or other expenses attendant  on  the  sale  of  any  lands
  belonging  to any of the special funds of the state, shall be chargeable
  on and paid out of the funds, respectively, to which such lands belong.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 34 - Transfer of Unappropriated State Lands for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Park, Recreation, Playground, Reforestation, Street or Highway Purposes.

§ 34. Transfer  of  unappropriated  state  lands  for  mental  health,
  developmental disabilities, 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,  developmental
  disabilities  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.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 34-A - Leasing and Granting of Unappropriated State Lands to the United States or Any Instrumentality Thereof.

§ 34-a. Leasing  and  granting  of  unappropriated  state lands to the
  United States or any  instrumentality  thereof.    The  commissioner  of
  general  services  may  grant  and  convey  in  fee title or such lesser
  interest than fee title or, notwithstanding any other provision  of  law
  to  the  contrary, lease without bid, for such periods of time as he may
  deem appropriate to the  United  States  of  America,  its  departments,
  agencies and other instrumentalities, including the United States Postal
  Service,  authorized by law to take such fee title, lesser interest than
  fee title or leasehold interest in real property, upon application by an
  authorized  officer  or  employee  thereof,  and  upon  such  terms  and
  conditions  as  the  commissioner deems proper, any parcel or parcels of
  unappropriated state land which are needed to carry out the functions of
  such department, agency or instrumentality.  The  use  of  any  property
  conveyed  under  this  section  shall  be  subject  to  local  land  use
  regulation.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 36 - Issue of Patents.

§ 36. Issue  of  patents.    On  the production to the commissioner of
  general services by the purchaser, his representative or assignee of any
  certificate heretofore issued  by  the  state  engineer  and  a  receipt
  showing  payment  to  the  state of the whole of the purchase-money, the
  purchaser's bond on such sale shall be cancelled by the state department
  having custody of such bond and such commissioner shall deliver  letters
  patent  for  the  lands  sold  to the person entitled thereto.   If such
  certificate be lost or wrongfully withheld by any person from the  owner
  thereof, such commissioner may receive evidence of such loss or wrongful
  detention,  and issue a patent to the person who, on satisfactory proof,
  appears to him to be entitled thereto.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 37 - Collection, Forfeiture and Cancellation of Purchase-Money Bonds.

§ 37. Collection, forfeiture and cancellation of purchase-money bonds.
  The  commissioner  of general services may direct the comptroller to sue
  upon any bond heretofore received by the office of general  services  or
  its  predecessors  including  the  state  engineer,  the commissioner of
  transportation or the secretary of state on the sale  of  unappropriated
  state lands, if any payment stipulated in such bond shall remain due one
  year,  or  the  commissioner  may  direct  the  sale of the land for the
  payment of which such bond was given, and in  case  of  such  sale,  all
  previous payments made on account of such land shall be forfeited to the
  people  of the state, and the bonds may be delivered up and cancelled on
  the surrender of the certificates of sale.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 37-A - Resale of Lands.

§ 37-a. Resale  of  lands.    The  commissioner  of  general services,
  whenever he resells any such lot, shall include in the amount for  which
  such  lot  is  offered for sale, the sum unpaid at the time of such sale
  for principal and interest on the purchase-moneys  thereof,  the  amount
  due  on the books in the comptroller's office for taxes and the interest
  and charges thereon and the costs of such sale. If the total  amount  of
  such  charges  be  not  bid therefor, he shall purchase the same for the
  state at such amount. If on any such sale, the commissioner becomes  the
  purchaser  in behalf of the state, in case such lands are not within the
  forest  preserve,  the  commissioner  shall  direct,  whether  the  land
  purchased  be  offered  for  sale  by  him at the price for which it was
  purchased, or a new appraisement made thereof under  his  direction.  He
  may  sell such lots to any person applying to purchase the same, for the
  amount at which the same was purchased for the state, on the like  terms
  and  conditions  as  he  is  authorized to sell the unappropriated state
  lands. If the commissioner directs a new appraisal of  such  lands,  the
  commissioner  may  sell  the  same as prescribed in this section for the
  prices at which the lots are respectively appraised.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 38 - Payment on Resale.

§ 38. Payment  on  resale.    The  purchaser  shall complete the sale,
  immediately, by paying into the treasury the amount due on the land  and
  receiving  a  patent,  or by executing a proper bond and receiving a new
  certificate of the sale.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 38-A - Removal of Occupants of Land Resold.

§ 38-a. Removal of occupants of land resold.  When a resale of land is
  directed,  the commissioner of general services shall cause notice to be
  given to every occupant of such land to remove therefrom, and if he does
  not comply with such notice, he shall direct the  district  attorney  of
  the  county  in which such lands may be situated to commence proceedings
  for his removal before the county judge of such county. On proof, by the
  production of a certificate from the commissioner that a resale of  such
  land  has  been  duly  ordered  for default of payment, such judge shall
  issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county,  commanding  him  within
  ten  days  after  the receipt thereof, to remove such occupant from such
  lands; and the sheriff shall remove such person within such  time,  and,
  for  that  purpose, shall possess the same powers as in the execution of
  criminal process. The sheriff shall retain such warrant  in  his  hands,
  and  if  any person so removed shall return to occupy such lands without
  the consent of the commissioner, he shall be forthwith  removed  by  the
  sheriff  pursuant to such warrant.  The sheriff, for executing a warrant
  under this section, shall be allowed such compensation, to be  paid  out
  of the treasury, as the comptroller shall certify to be reasonable.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 39 - Application for Grant Under Special Law.

§ 39. Application  for  grant  under special law.  The commissioner of
  general services shall not grant any of the unappropriated  state  lands
  to  any person applying therefor by virtue of a special law, unless such
  application be made within one year  after  the  passage  of  such  law,
  unless  otherwise  provided  therein, but such land shall be sold in the
  manner directed for the sale of unappropriated state lands.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands › 40 - Exchange of Unappropriated State Lands.

§ 40. Exchange  of  unappropriated  state lands.   The commissioner of
  general services may, from time to time, exchange a part or all  of  any
  parcel  or  parcels  of  unappropriated  state  lands  for real property
  required by or of benefit to the state of New York and in which title is
  held by the United States of America or a  city,  incorporated  village,
  town  or  county  when  the  combined value of such unappropriated state
  lands and required real property does not exceed five  hundred  thousand
  dollars.  An  appraisal of the value of the real property to be acquired
  by the state and of the property to be conveyed by the  state  shall  be
  completed  by  a  qualified  professional  real estate appraiser. If the
  value of either property is in excess of one hundred  thousand  dollars,
  two appraisals of that property shall be required prior to the exchange.
  The  terms  and  conditions  of  such  exchange,  including any monetary
  consideration to  be  paid  to  equalize  the  value  of  such  exchange
  properties,  shall  be  subject  to  the  prior  approval  of  the state
  comptroller. The attorney general shall approve the title to  the  lands
  to be thus acquired by the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 4 - Abandoned Canal Lands and Structures › 50 - Sale of Abandoned Canal Lands.

§ 50. Sale  of  abandoned  canal  lands.   The commissioner of general
  services may sell and convey at public or private sale the right,  title
  and  interest  of  the  state  in and to any real property, acquired for
  canal purposes, which the commissioner of transportation  may  determine
  to have been abandoned for such purposes, or as to which a determination
  of  abandonment  shall  have  been heretofore made pursuant to law.  The
  commissioner of general services may  sell  and  convey  such  abandoned
  lands in the same manner and with the same discretion as he may sell and
  convey  unappropriated  state  land  pursuant  to  article three of this
  chapter. The commissioner may sell such abandoned canal  lands  for  not
  less  than  the  appraised  value thereof to occupants of such abandoned
  canal lands or owners of adjacent land who have used  or  improved  such
  abandoned  canal  lands either under a permit issued pursuant to section
  one hundred of the canal law or in good  faith  without  knowledge  that
  such  canal  lands were owned by the state; provided that such appraised
  value shall be exclusive of  the  value  of  improvements  made  on  the
  property by the purchaser.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 4 - Abandoned Canal Lands and Structures › 51 - Maintenance and Repair of Highway Crossings on Abandoned Canal Lands.

§ 51. Maintenance  and  repair of highway crossings on abandoned canal
  lands.  The maintenance and repair of highways on  any  parcel  of  such
  canal  lands  which  have  heretofore been abandoned pursuant to law and
  which have been converted into crossings at grade or which may hereafter
  be  abandoned  pursuant  to  law  and  so   converted   shall   be   the
  responsibility of the municipality within which such parcel of abandoned
  canal  lands  is situated.  The provisions of this subdivision shall not
  supersede any of the provisions of the highway law.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 4 - Abandoned Canal Lands and Structures › 59-A - Disposition of Proceeds.

§ 59-a. Disposition of proceeds.  The proceeds from a sale or grant of
  such  lands shall be applied 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
  disposal 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  applied  to  the  cost  of  the
  improvement  which  renders  such  lands  no  longer  necessary, and the
  expenses incurred by the attorney general for searches  and  examination
  of  the  title  to  such  lands  shall  be deemed an item of the cost of
  improvement.  Any surplus from the sale of  abandoned  lands  above  the
  cost  of the entire improvement shall be applied to the sinking fund for
  the payment of the improvement bonds.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 6 - Grants of Lands Under Water › 76 - Surrender of Grant.

§ 76. Surrender of grant.  A grantee or his successor in interest, may
  at  his  option  surrender  to the state, without consideration or for a
  compensation to be determined by the commissioner, the lands under water
  theretofore granted to him or any  part  thereof,  by  filing  with  the
  commissioner a certificate duly executed and acknowledged, declaring his
  intention  of  such  surrender and containing a description of the lands
  surrendered,  subject  to  the  acceptance  of  such  surrender  by  the
  commissioner;  and  such  surrender  when  so  accepted shall be without
  prejudice to an  application  for  a  new  grant  upon  such  terms  and
  conditions as the commissioner may determine.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 6 - Grants of Lands Under Water › 77 - Notice of Application Therefor.

§ 77. Notice  of application therefor.  Every applicant for a grant of
  land under water  shall,  previous  to  his  application,  cause  notice
  thereof   to  be  published  at  least  once  a  week  for  four  weeks,
  successively, in a newspaper printed in the county in which the land  so
  intended  to  be  applied  for  is  situated,  unless the said lands are
  situated wholly or in part in a city or village  where  a  newspaper  is
  published  then  such notice shall be published in such newspaper; and a
  copy of such notice to be posted for the same period upon  the  door  of
  the court house of such county or at such other place in or at the court
  house  as  is  generally  used  for the posting of legal notices, and if
  there be no court house in the county, at such place as the commissioner
  directs. The aforementioned four-week period shall be a full  period  of
  twenty-eight  days. In cities having a population of one million or more
  inhabitants, the applicant for a grant comprising ten thousand  or  more
  square  feet  shall also serve personally, or by registered or certified
  mail, a written notice containing  a  description  of  such  land  under
  water,  together  with  the  name and address of the applicant, upon all
  owners of waterfront land  within  three  hundred  feet  from  the  side
  boundaries  of the upland of the applicant.  For purposes of identifying
  such owners of waterfront land, the latest completed assessment roll may
  be used in lieu of title search.  The  applicant  shall  file  with  the
  commissioner  proof of service of such notice at least twenty days prior
  to the date of application. However for the purposes of jurisdiction and
  the validity of any grant issued under this section, the  commissioner's
  finding  that the notice requirements of this section have been complied
  with is final and conclusive.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 6 - Grants of Lands Under Water › 78 - Failure to Comply With Conditions of Grant; Annulment.

§ 78. Failure  to  comply  with conditions of grant; annulment.  On or
  before the tenth day of January in each year the commissioner of general
  services shall examine the records of all grants of land under water for
  which patents  shall  have  been  issued  containing  conditions  to  be
  complied  with  within  fixed  period  of  time  after the issue of such
  patents and make a list of all such grants containing such conditions of
  which the periods for performance have expired. It  shall  thereupon  be
  the   duty   of  the  commissioner  of  general  services  to  cause  an
  investigation to be made without delay for the purpose  of  ascertaining
  whether  or  not compliance with the conditions contained in such grants
  shall  have  been  had,   and   he   shall   report   thereon   to   the
  attorney-general.  It shall be the duty of the attorney-general to begin
  actions against all such patentees or their successors  in  interest  or
  assigns  for  the annulment of all patents the conditions of which shall
  be found not to have been complied with within the period fixed in  such
  grants for compliance.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 7 - Mines, Minerals and Metals › 80 - Definitions.

§ 80. Definitions.  As used in this article:
1.  "Gold mine" means a mineral deposit in which the total sales value
  of the gold is more than fifty per centum of  the  value  of  all  other
  minerals associated or occurring with the gold in the mine.
2.  "Silver  mine"  means  a  mineral deposit in which the total sales
  value of the silver is more than fifty per centum of the  value  of  all
  other minerals associated or occurring with the silver in the mine.
3.  "Minerals"  means  all  minerals  and rocks, more particularly any
  inorganic substance which can be extracted  from  the  earth,  excepting
  gas, oil and water.
4.  "State  lands" means all lands now or hereafter owned by the state
  of New York except lands in the forest preserve as  defined  by  section
  sixty-three of the conservation law.
5.  "Filer"  means  the  person  filing  a notice of discovery, or his
  heirs, distributees, representatives or successors in interest.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 7 - Mines, Minerals and Metals › 81 - Minerals Subject to State Ownership; Exploration of Mines on State Lands.

§ 81. Minerals  subject  to  state  ownership; exploration of mines on
state lands.  1. The following minerals are the property of  the  people
of the state of New York in their right of sovereignty:
(a) All deposits of gold and silver in or upon private lands and lands
belonging  to  the  state heretofore or hereafter discovered within this
state.
(b) All deposits of  minerals  and  fossils  heretofore  or  hereafter
discovered  in or upon any lands belonging to the people of the state of
New York.
2. The commissioner of general services may, upon written  application
by  any  citizen of the United States, issue to such applicant a permit,
consent, or  lease  of  such  duration  as  the  commissioner  may  deem
advisable,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions as the commissioner shall
determine, to enter upon state lands, for the purpose of  exploring  for
mines  and  minerals  or  for  the purpose of breaking up such lands and
working any mine or extracting any mineral in such lands.
In the case of state lands other than unappropriated state lands,  the
state  department, agency, commission or institution having jurisdiction
over such lands shall  receive  notice  from  the  commissioner  of  any
application to explore, break-up or mine, and shall have a period of not
less  than thirty days to report thereon in writing to the commissioner,
and no permit, consent or lease shall be issued until  such  report  has
been  received  or  the  thirty day period has expired, and shall not be
effective until approved by the governor.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 7 - Mines, Minerals and Metals › 83 - Entry Upon Lands to Work Mines; Effect of Notice.

§ 83. Entry  upon  lands to work mines; effect of notice.  1.  Nothing
  contained in this article shall affect any right heretofore  granted  by
  special  act  of  the  legislature  nor  affect the terms of any consent
  heretofore given by the commissioner  of  general  services  to  persons
  having  discovered  deposits  of minerals but any such person shall upon
  the taking effect of this act be otherwise subject to and bound  by  the
  provisions of this article; nor give any person a right to enter upon or
  break up the lands of any other persons, or of the state, or to work any
  mine  in  such lands, unless and until there shall have been recorded in
  the office of the clerk of the county in which such lands are located or
  of the register, if the recording officer in such county is a  register,
  the  written and duly acknowledged consent of the owner thereof, or when
  the lands belong to the state, a certified copy of the consent given  by
  the  commissioner  pursuant  to subdivision two of section eighty-one of
  this article, upon such terms and  conditions  as  such  owner  or  said
  commissioner,  as the case may be, may make and specify in such consent.
  Permission to erect buildings for working mines upon state lands may  be
  given  by the commissioner, when such commissioner is satisfied that the
  erection or occupation of such buildings will not be detrimental to  the
  interests  of  the  state.  Nothing  in this article shall authorize any
  person working a mine upon state lands to  cut  or  destroy  any  timber
  whatever  except such trees as it may be actually necessary to remove in
  order to uncover or to erect structures upon or  make  a  road  to  such
  mine,  or  to provide space for such buildings and for mine tailings and
  the like. For each tree measuring four inches or more in diameter  at  a
  height  of  one  foot  from the ground, which shall be so cut, the party
  operating the mine shall pay into the state  treasury  the  sum  of  one
  dollar.
2.  The  filing  of  notice  of  discovery  on  lands other than those
  belonging to the state gives one so filing no right of property in  such
  lands  or  the mines or minerals therein, nor any lien thereon. All such
  rights flow solely from the owner of such lands or those  holding  under
  him except that, in the event that the mines or minerals thereon consist
  of  gold  or  silver,  all rights to explore, mine or work flow from the
  state acting by the commissioner as in the case of  lands  belonging  to
  the state subject to the above said written consent of the owner.
2023 New York Laws › PBL - Public Lands › Article 7 - Mines, Minerals and Metals › 85 - Rules and Regulations.

§ 85. Rules and regulations.  The commissioner of general services may
  prescribe  the  form  and  contents  of all notices provided for by this
  article and may, from time to time, make, adopt and enforce  such  rules
  and  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with  this article, as he may deem
  necessary or proper for the administration of this article.