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N.Y. State Law § 52-b: Governor may execute deed or release with sundry reservations; Pershing Center, West Point Military Reservation

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  1. State Law
  2. Article 4. Purchase and Acquisition of Land By the United States

§ 52-b. Governor may execute deed or release with sundry reservations;

Pershing Center, West Point Military Reservation. 1. Notwithstanding

section fifty-seven of this article, the governor is hereby authorized

to cede to the United States full concurrent jurisdiction over the

tracts of land comprising the Pershing Center, United States Military

Academy, West Point Military Reservation, acquired by the United States

for military purposes upon conditions that the jurisdiction so ceded

should not prevent the execution on such tracts of any process, civil or

criminal, issued under the authority of this state, nor prevent from

operating within the bounds of such tracts any of the laws or

regulations of the state, not incompatible with the free use and

enjoyment of the premises by the United States or the purposes for which

such cession is made, nor prevent from operating within the same tracts

or parcels of land the laws or ordinances of the county of Orange, town

of Highlands, or the village of Highland Falls, not incompatible with

the free use and enjoyment of the premises by the United States or the

purposes for which such cession is made; and that the United States

shall retain such jurisdiction so long only as such tracts or parcels of

land shall be used for military purposes.

2. Sections fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-five and fifty-six of this

article shall not apply to the provisions of this section.

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