Bill Text: NY S04266 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of general services to maintain an inventory and audit of every state-owned real property or unappropriated state land that has been sold, transferred, conveyed or exchanged and contain a reverter clause pursuant to the public lands law or the unconsolidated laws.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04266 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S04266-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4266--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 18, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in relation to the inventory of unappropriated state land sales THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 2 of the 2 public lands law is designated paragraph a and a new paragraph b is 3 added to read as follows: 4 B. THE COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL SERVICES SHALL ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND 5 HAVE THE CUSTODY OF AN INVENTORY OF ALL STATE-OWNED REAL PROPERTY AND 6 UNAPPROPRIATED STATE LAND THAT HAS BEEN SOLD, TRANSFERRED, CONVEYED OR 7 EXCHANGED WHICH CONTAIN A REVERTER CLAUSE, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE THREE OF 8 THIS CHAPTER AND PURSUANT TO ANY LAND SALE, TRANSFER, CONVEYANCE OR 9 EXCHANGE WHICH CONTAIN A REVERTER CLAUSE, PROVIDED FOR IN THE UNCONSOL- 10 IDATED LAWS OF NEW YORK STATE. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL AUDIT EACH LAND 11 SALE, TRANSFER, CONVEYANCE OR EXCHANGE WHICH CONTAIN A REVERTER CLAUSE, 12 TO ENSURE EACH TRANSACTION HAS MET THE REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE THREE OF 13 THIS CHAPTER OR AS PROVIDED IN THE UNCONSOLIDATED LAW, WITHIN ONE YEAR 14 OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS PARAGRAPH. EACH TRANSACTION SHALL BE 15 AUDITED EVERY THREE YEARS THEREAFTER. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REPORT 16 WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS PARAGRAPH AND ANNUALLY 17 THEREAFTER TO THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE A COPY OF THE INVENTORY, THE 18 AUDIT STATUS OF EACH PARCEL OF STATE LAND IN THE INVENTORY, AND THE 19 AUDIT FINDING OF EACH PARCEL OF STATE LAND IN THE INVENTORY. 20 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 21 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09170-06-3