N.Y. General Municipal Law § 72-h: Sale, lease and transfer to municipal corporations of certain public lands

§ 72-h. Sale, lease and transfer to municipal corporations of certain

public lands. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special

or local law or of any charter, the supervisors of a county, the town

board of a town, the board of trustees of a village, the board of fire

commissioners of a fire district, the board of estimate of a city, or if

there be none the local legislative body of such city, and, in a city

having a population of one million or more, the mayor, subject to

disapproval by the council within thirty days following receipt of

notice of the approval of the mayor, may sell, transfer or lease to or

exchange with any municipal corporation or municipal corporations,

school district, board of cooperative educational services, fire

district, the state of New York, or the government of the United States

and any agency or department thereof, either without consideration or

for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as shall be

approved by such officer or body, any real property owned by such

county, town, village, fire district or city; and any municipal

corporation or fire district may acquire or lease such real property as

provided in this section. The term of any lease entered into pursuant to

the provisions of this section shall not exceed ten years but nothing

herein contained shall prevent the renewal of any such lease.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any real

property which is made inalienable under the provisions of any general,

special or local law or of any charter.