2010 New York Code
EDN - Education
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 8 - (350 - 365) STATE UNIVERSITY AND STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
352 - State university of New York established.

§ 352. State  university  of  New York established. 1. There is hereby
  created in the state education department and within the  university  of
  the  state  of  New  York  as  established  under the board of regents a
  corporation to be known as the state university of New York which  shall
  be  responsible  for  the  planning,  supervision  and administration of
  facilities and programs in accordance with  the  plan  proposed  by  the
  state university trustees as approved by the regents pursuant to section
  two  hundred  thirty-seven  of  this chapter. The state university shall
  provide for higher education supported in whole or in  part  with  state
  moneys  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section three hundred
  fifty-eight hereof, and shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be
  entrusted  to  it  by  the provisions of this article and any other law.
  Subject to the terms of any agreement to  which  it  is  a  party,  such
  corporation  shall have the care, custody, control and management of the
  lands,  grounds,  buildings,  facilities  and  equipment  used  for  the
  purposes of the state-operated institutions of the state university, and
  it shall have power to protect, preserve and improve the same.
    2. Whenever such corporation acquires, absorbs, merges or consolidates
  with or becomes the successor to any higher educational institution, all
  the  right, title and interest in real property held by such predecessor
  institution shall vest in and be held and enjoyed by the people  of  the
  state  of  New  York and state university of New York shall thereupon be
  deemed to be vested with and become the successor to  all  right,  title
  and  interest  in  any  personal  property,  or  any beneficial interest
  therein, or any other rights and powers possessed by  such  institution,
  whether  derived  by  gift,  grant,  devise  or  bequest,  in  trust  or
  otherwise.
    3. The state university shall consist of the four  university  centers
  at  Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated colleges
  of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo,
  New Paltz, Old  Westbury,  Oneonta,  Oswego,  Plattsburgh,  Potsdam  and
  Purchase,  empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges
  at Alfred,  Canton,  Cobleskill,  Delhi,  Farmingdale  and  Morrisville,
  downstate  medical  center,  upstate  medical  center,  the  college  of
  optometry, the college of environmental science and  forestry,  maritime
  college,  the  college  of  technology  at  Utica/Rome, the statutory or
  contract colleges at Cornell university and Alfred university, and  such
  additional universities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and
  research centers as have been or hereafter may be acquired, established,
  operated  or  contracted  to  be  operated  for  the  state by the state
  university trustees.