2015 New York Laws
PBL - Public Lands
Article 4 - (Public Lands) ABANDONED CANAL LANDS AND STRUCTURES
50 - Sale of abandoned canal lands.

 50. Sale  of  abandoned  canal  lands.   The commissioner of general
  services may sell and convey at public or private sale the right,  title
  and  interest  of  the  state  in and to any real property, acquired for
  canal purposes, which the commissioner of transportation  may  determine
  to have been abandoned for such purposes, or as to which a determination
  of  abandonment  shall  have  been heretofore made pursuant to law.  The
  commissioner of general services may  sell  and  convey  such  abandoned
  lands in the same manner and with the same discretion as he may sell and
  convey  unappropriated  state  land  pursuant  to  article three of this
  chapter. The commissioner may sell such abandoned canal  lands  for  not
  less  than  the  appraised  value thereof to occupants of such abandoned
  canal lands or owners of adjacent land who have used  or  improved  such
  abandoned  canal  lands either under a permit issued pursuant to section
  one hundred of the canal law or in good  faith  without  knowledge  that
  such  canal  lands were owned by the state; provided that such appraised
  value shall be exclusive of  the  value  of  improvements  made  on  the
  property by the purchaser.