2006 New York Code - Forest and wild life conservation; use or disposition of certain forest preserve lands authorized.

 
    §  3.  1.  Forest and wild life conservation are hereby declared to be
  policies of the state. For the purpose of carrying out such policies the
  legislature may appropriate moneys for the acquisition by the  state  of
  land,  outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as now fixed by law,
  for the practice of forest or wild life conservation.  The  prohibitions
  of  section 1 of this article shall not apply to any lands heretofore or
  hereafter acquired or dedicated for  such  purposes  within  the  forest
  preserve  counties  but  outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as
  now fixed by law, except that such lands shall not be  leased,  sold  or
  exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private.
    2.  As  to  any  other  lands  of  the  state,  now owned or hereafter
  acquired, constituting the forest preserve referred to in section one of
  this article, but outside of the Adirondack and Catskill  parks  as  now
  fixed  by  law,  and consisting in any case of not more than one hundred
  contiguous acres entirely separated from any other portion of the forest
  preserve,   the   legislature   may    by    appropriate    legislation,
  notwithstanding   the   provisions  of  section  one  of  this  article,
  authorize: (a) the dedication thereof for  the  practice  of  forest  or
  wildlife conservation; or (b) the use thereof for public recreational or
  other state purposes or the sale, exchange or other disposition thereof;
  provided,  however,  that  all  moneys  derived  from  the sale or other
  disposition of any of such lands shall be paid into a  special  fund  of
  the  treasury  and  be  expended  only for the acquisition of additional
  lands for such forest preserve within either such Adirondack or Catskill
  park.