§ 45-0113. Acquisition and dedication of real property.

Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 45-0113

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

1. For the purposes of this article, the department may, when authorized by an act of the legislature, and when funds are available therefor, acquire in the name of the people of the state of New York fee title or any lesser interest in real property by any method of acquisition, including, but not limited to, appropriation, condemnation, purchase, conditional or unconditional gift, bequest or devise, in accordance with any powers of the department to acquire real property.

2. Only real property owned by the state or real property acquired under this article or sections 51-0705, 52-0701 or 52-0901, or articles fifty-four and fifty-six of this chapter, or real property dedicated to the Albany Pine Bush preserve pursuant to article forty-six of this chapter may be dedicated for the purposes of this article. Such dedication may be effected only by law.