N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 9-0307: Forest preserve lands; detached parcels outside Adirondack and Catskill parks

§ 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.