2006 New York Code - Making And Recording Of "blue Line" Maps

 
    §  25.  Making  and recording of "Blue Line" maps. The commissioner of
  transportation shall cause the preparation of maps of the Erie,  Oswego,
  Champlain  and the Cayuga and Seneca canals as they existed prior to and
  independent of lands appropriated for barge canal purposes  and  of  all
  lands  belonging  to  the state adjacent thereto or connected therewith,
  and there shall be designated on such maps the boundaries of  the  lands
  to  which the state holds title, and so far as possible the names of the
  owners of the  adjoining  lands.  Every  map  when  completed  shall  be
  approved   and   certified   to   as  correct  by  the  commissioner  of
  transportation and be certified to as correct by the chief engineer. The
  original of said map shall be filed in the office of the corporation and
  copies thereof, duly signed and certified as aforesaid, shall  be  filed
  in  the  office  of  the department of state. Each of said maps so filed
  shall be regarded as an original copy. A blue or  white  print  copy  of
  such  map  or  portion  of such map or maps as related or applies to any
  particular county of the state shall be transmitted to and filed in  the
  office  of  the  clerk  of  such county, or in the office in such county
  wherein conveyances are required by law to be recorded and  such  filing
  shall  constitute  a  notice  to all persons of the state's title to and
  ownership of said lands. A transcript of such maps certified as  correct
  by  the  officer  with  whom  such  map  or maps shall be filed shall be
  received as presumptive evidence of the state's title to the canal lands
  as of the date  designated  on  such  maps  in  all  judicial  or  legal
  proceedings.