N.Y. Canal Law § 50: Authority to abandon canal lands

§ 50. Authority to abandon canal lands. 1. Authority is hereby

conferred upon the corporation to abandon any portion of barge canal

lands, barge canal terminal lands, or old canal lands and appertaining

structures constituting the canal system prior to the barge canal

improvement, which have or may become no longer necessary or useful as a

part of the barge canal system, as an aid to navigation thereon, or for

barge canal terminal purposes. This authority, however, shall not

include the abandonment of a barge canal terminal unless such terminal

has been by a special act of the legislature previously determined to

have become no longer necessary or useful as a part of the barge canal

system, as an aid to navigation thereon, or for barge canal terminal

purposes.

2. Abandonments authorized pursuant to this section shall be subject

to the provisions of subdivision seventeen of section ten of this

chapter.