New York Laws
Article 3 - Unappropriated State Lands
30 - Unappropriated State Lands Defined.

§ 30. Unappropriated state lands defined. The term "unappropriated
state lands," as used in this chapter, includes all escheated lands; all
lands conveyed to the state for the benefit of the canal fund and not
devoted in pursuance of law to any public use; all lands purchased by or
for the state on the foreclosure of any mortgage given on the loan of
any United States deposit funds or on any loan of money for the state;
all state lands lying within the limits of any city or village not
devoted to any public use; and all other lands belonging to this state
which are not directed by law to be kept for or applied to any specific
purpose, except lands under water the disposition of which is governed
by article six of this chapter and except the lands the disposition of
which is governed by the salt springs law and except abandoned canal
lands the disposition of which is governed by article four of this
chapter, and chapters eight hundred and ninety-three and eight hundred
and ninety-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven.