N.Y. Public Lands Law § 24: Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands

§ 24. Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve

lands. Any state department or agency, at the time having jurisdiction

over any of the lands hereinafter specified, may consent to a sale or

exchange by the commissioner of general services of 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 one

hundred contiguous acres entirely separated from any other portion of

the forest preserve. Upon such consent being filed with the

commissioner in writing, accompanied by a description of such lands, the

commissioner may in his discretion sell or exchange any of such lands in

accordance with the consent.

All sales shall be subject to and governed by the provisions of

sections thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-seven, thirty-seven-a,

thirty-eight, thirty-eight-a and thirty-nine of this chapter, being

general provisions governing the sale of unappropriated state lands.

All moneys derived by the commissioner from such sales, not including

any refunds made pursuant to section twenty-six of this law, shall be

paid first to repay any expenditures made by the office of general

services with relation to forest preserve lands from moneys appropriated

to said office in the first instance for the administration, management,

utilization and disposition of real property of the state and any rights

or interests therein, and any balance of such moneys remaining after

repayment of the first instance expenditures shall be paid through the

office of general services into a special fund of the state treasury,

provided for that purpose by the state finance law and known as the

forest preserve expansion fund, and shall be expended only as provided

in that law. All of such moneys received during any month shall be so

paid on or before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month.

All exchanges shall be only for additional lands for the forest

preserve within either the Adirondack or Catskill park as now fixed by

law and shall be subject to approval by the attorney general of the

title to the lands thus to be acquired by the state.