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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4266--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
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 § 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
