US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §   5-402   Agreements   as   to  compensation.  The  commissioner  of
  environmental protection, subject  to  the  approval  of  the  board  of
  estimate,  may  agree with the owners and persons interested in any real
  estate laid down on such maps as to the amount  of  compensation  to  be
  paid  to  such  owners or persons interested for the taking or using and
  occupying such real estate. In case any such real estate shall be owned,
  occupied or enjoyed by the people of this state or by any  county,  town
  or  school district within this state, such rights, titles, interests or
  properties may be paid for upon agreement respectively with  the  office
  of  general  services, who shall act for the people of the state, with a
  chairman and a majority in numbers of the board of  supervisors  of  any
  county  who  shall  act  for  such  county, and with the supervisors and
  commissioner of highways, of any town who shall all act for  such  town,
  and  with  the  trustees  of  any school district who shall act for such
  district. The office of general services shall have power  to  grant  to
  the  city  any  real estate belonging to the people of this state, which
  may be required for the purposes indicated in this subchapter,  on  such
  terms   as  may  be  agreed  on  between  it  and  the  commissioner  of
  environmental protection, always, however, reserving and maintaining the
  rights of the people and riparian owners to go to the water at any point
  to which the same may be drawn. If any real estate of any  county,  town
  or  school  district  is  required  by the city for the purposes of this
  subchapter the majority of the board  of  supervisors  acting  for  such
  county,  or  the supervisors of any such town, with the commissioners of
  highway therein acting for such town, or  the  trustees  of  any  school
  district  acting  for  such  district,  may grant or surrender such real
  estate for such compensation as may be agreed upon between such officers
  respectively and the commissioner of environmental protection.