ยง 5. Letters patent, form and contents; to be recorded in the office
of the secretary of state. All letters patent shall be in such form as
the commissioner of general services directs. All letters patent
granting unappropriated state lands, as defined by this chapter, shall
contain an exception and reservation of all gold and silver mines. All
letters patent shall be recorded in a book or books to be kept for that
purpose in the office of the department of state, and the record thereof
in any such book or a copy of any letters patent duly certified by the
secretary of state to be a copy of such record thereof, whether
heretofore or hereafter recorded, shall be received in evidence in any
court in this state with the same force and effect as the original of
such letters patent.
Structure New York Laws
Article 2 - Office of General Services
2 - State-Owned Real Property Inventory and Management Program.
2-B - Transfers of Certain Funds.
3 - Powers and Duties; Leases.
4 - Vesting of Crown Lands in the People of the State.
5 - Letters Patent, Form and Contents; to Be Recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State.
6 - Determination of Claims Based on Alleged Failure of Title.
7 - Partition of Lands Held by the State in Joint Tenancy or Tenancy in Common.
8 - Trespasses Upon State Lands.
10 - Power to Investigate Before Grant.
11 - Power to Confirm Defective Grant.
12 - Certain Patents and Grants Ratified.
12-A - Certain Patents Ratified and Confirmed.
13 - Grants to Heirs, Devisees or Successors in Interest.
14 - Time of Performing Conditions of Grant.
15 - Prohibitions as to Grants in Lake George.
15-A - Filling in the State Owned Bed of Lake George Prohibited.
16 - Reservation of Esopus Island.
17 - Payment of Incumbrances on Public Lands; Adverse Claims; Costs.
17-A - Abandonment of Claims Under Defective Tax Sales; Recovery of Taxes Paid Thereon by State.
18 - Expenses Chargeable to Special Funds.
19 - Taxes and Assessments for Local Improvements on State Lands.
19-A - State Aid; Certain State-Leased or State-Owned Lands.
19-B - State Aid; Certain State-Owned or Reacquired Lands.
20 - Grants of Lands in Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation Designated on Certain Map.
21 - Conveyance of Strips of Abandoned Canal Lands and Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation Land.
22 - Management of Sand and Gravel Resources.
23 - Disposition of Moneys Received From Sale of Certain State Lands and Sand and Gravel Thereon.
24 - Sale or Exchange of Certain Detached Parcels of Forest Preserve Lands.
26 - Refunds When Sales Cannot Be Completed.
27 - Acquisition of Real Property by Purchase or Appropriation.
29 - Watershed Conservation Easements and Watershed Agricultural Easements.