Bill Text: NY A09861 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the sale of state lands to municipal corporations either without consideration or for such consideration and upon terms approved by the commissioner of general services without a public auction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-24 - referred to governmental operations [A09861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09861-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9861

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 24, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in relation to the sale  of  state
          lands to municipal corporations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 33 of the public lands law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary,
     4  the commissioner of general services may sell, transfer or lease  to  or
     5  exchange with any municipal corporation, school district, board of coop-
     6  erative educational services, or fire district, either without consider-
     7  ation  or  for  such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as
     8  shall be approved by such commissioner, any unappropriated  state  lands
     9  without  public auction or sealed bids; and any municipal corporation or
    10  fire district may acquire or lease such real  property  as  provided  in
    11  this  section.  The  term  of  any  lease  entered  into pursuant to the
    12  provisions of this section shall not exceed ten years but nothing herein
    13  contained shall prevent the renewal of any such lease.
    14    (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any real proper-
    15  ty which is made  inalienable  under  the  provisions  of  any  general,
    16  special or local law or of any charter.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10642-01-3