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New York Environmental Conservation Law Section 9-0307 - Forest Preserve Lands; Detached Parcels Outside Adirondack And Catskill ParksLegal Research Home > New York Lawyer > Environmental Conservation > New York Environmental Conservation Law Section 9-0307 - Forest Preserve Lands; Detached Parcels Outside Adirondack And Catskill Parks Sponsored Links
§ 9-0307. Forest preserve lands; detached parcels outside Adirondack and
Catskill parks.
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 100 contiguous acres entirely separated from any other portion of
the forest preserve, may be dedicated, used, sold or exchanged as
follows:
1. The department may dedicate any of such lands for the practice of
forest or wild life conservation, or may use any of such lands for
public recreational or other state purposes, under the care, custody and
control of the division of lands and forests. Such dedication or use
shall be by written order of the commissioner, filed in his office, a
certified copy of which shall be forthwith filed by him in the office of
the Secretary of State.
2. The department may consent to a transfer of jurisdiction over any
such lands by the Office of General Services, and such office may make
such transfer in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 4 of
section 3 of the Public Lands Law governing transfers of jurisdiction in
general, for the purpose of thereby dedicating such lands for the
practice of forest or wild life conservation or for the use thereof for
public recreational or other state purposes.
3. The department may consent to a sale or exchange of any of such
lands in accordance with the provisions of section 24 of the Public
Lands Law.
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