§ 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 […]
§ 30-a. Abandonment of state real property. 1. Except as to lands under water, salt springs lands and abandoned canal lands, the head of any state agency having custody or jurisdiction over any state-owned lands may determine that such lands are no longer necessary or useful to the purposes of such agency, and he or […]
§ 31. Surveys by commissioner of general services. The commissioner of general services may, whenever he deems it necessary, cause actual surveys to be made of any state lands.
§ 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 […]
§ 33. Sale of unappropriated state lands; notice and place of public sales. 1. The commissioner of general services may, from time to time, sell unappropriated state lands at public auction or by sealed bids in such parcels as he deems for the best interests of the state. Previous to every sale, he shall fix […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 34-b. Acquisition of air space and air and subsurface rights. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the governing board of a municipal corporation as defined in the general municipal law in which land or real property had previously been acquired by the state or any of its duly constituted agencies […]
§ 35. Terms of sale. The commissioner of general services shall prescribe the terms and conditions of all sales.
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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.
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
