New York Laws
Title 4 - General Provisions
1174 - Title of the State Not Affected.

§ 1174. Title of the state not affected. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this article or of section thirteen hundred thirteen of the
real property actions and proceedings law, real property of the state
shall not be sold in any proceeding for the foreclosure of a tax lien
pursuant to this article, nor shall any judgment in any such proceeding
or any conveyance made pursuant to any such judgment be valid or
effectual to bar or foreclose the state with respect to, or to divest
the state of, any estate held by the state in or to any real property
involved in any such proceeding.

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