N.Y. Public Lands Law § 21: Conveyance of strips of abandoned canal lands and Onondaga salt springs reservation land

§ 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 as he may deem proper, all the

right, title and interest of the state in and to certain strips of

abandoned canal lands or Onondaga salt springs reservation land, which

strips adjoin the old beds of the Erie canal and Oswego canal and

side-cut canals, which beds were heretofore conveyed by the people of

the state of New York and in which said strips of land there remains a

right, title or interest in the people of the state of New York. Any

such private sale, if made, shall be to the state's grantee or to the

successor to the title or interest of the beds so previously granted by

the state and shall be for a consideration not less than the appraised

value of the said right, title or interest.

b. The commissioner of general services is authorized, in his

discretion, to sell and convey at private sale, upon such terms and

conditions as he may deem proper, all the right, title and interest of

the state in and to any parcel of land of the Onondaga salt springs

reservation to the person or persons having a deed of record of such

land, or their successors in interest, since the first day of January,

eighteen hundred ninety-nine, or to any person or persons who have been

in continuous, open, notorious and adverse possession of such land since

the first day of January, eighteen hundred ninety-nine.