New York Public Lands Law Article 3 - UNAPPROPRIATED STATE LANDS

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 34 - Transfer of Unappropriated State Lands for Mental Health, Mental Retardation, 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...

Last modified: February 3, 2019