New York Public Lands Law Article 2 - OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 3 - Powers and Duties; Leases.
1. The office of general services shall have the general care and superintendence of all state lands, the superintendence whereof is not vested in some...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 17 - Payment of Incumbrances on Public Lands; Adverse Claims; Costs.
The commissioner of general services, whenever he deems it for the best interest of the state may cause to be paid off and canceled any...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 19-a - State Aid; Certain State-Leased or State-Owned Lands.
1. State aid shall be payable to any city having a population of seventy-five thousand or more inhabitants, according to the most recent federal decennial...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 22 - Management of Sand and Gravel Resources.
1. The commissioner of general services is authorized to manage, license and regulate the removal of sand, gravel or other material by dredging or otherwise...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 27 - Acquisition of Real Property by Purchase or Appropriation.
1. The commissioner of general services when moneys therefor have been appropriated by the legislature or are otherwise available, may acquire any real property which...
- 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...
- 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...
Last modified: February 3, 2019