Bill Text: NY S04266 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4266--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 18, 2013
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       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