Section 24-1301. Miscellaneous provisions

1.  The  provisions of this article shall not be construed to limit in
  any manner the functions, powers and duties of the commissioner  or  the
  department   of  environmental  conservation,  or  of  any  other  state
  department or agency, under this chapter or any other laws.
    2. The commissioner, his agents or employees and the personnel of  the
  Adirondack  park  agency  may  enter  upon  any  lands  or  waters after
  reasonable  notice  and  for  good  cause  shown  for  the  purpose   of
  undertaking  any  investigations, examination, survey, or other activity
  for the purposes of this article.
    3. The commissioner may adopt and, from time to time, amend rules  and
  regulations  consistent  with this article to assist him in carrying out
  his functions, powers and duties hereunder.
    4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this  chapter,  a  privately
  owned  parcel of land or part thereof within the county of Richmond that
  did not contain a designation as a freshwater wetland on  the  tentative
  freshwater  wetlands  map  filed  in the office of the clerk of Richmond
  county in 1981 shall not be on any tentative freshwater wetlands map  if
  the landowner has any written determination from the department pursuant
  to  subdivision five of section 24-0703 of this article that such parcel
  of land or part thereof did not  meet  the  statutory  definition  of  a
  freshwater  wetland.  Such  representations  shall be considered to have
  been definitive when made, and such parcel or part thereof shall not  be
  designated  as a freshwater wetland on any final map filed in the office
  of the clerk of Richmond county pursuant to this article. The provisions
  of this subdivision shall not apply  to  any  parcel  of  land  or  part
  thereof,  purchased  after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven,
  or to any such parcel or part thereof owned wholly or  in  part  by  any
  unit  of  government  or agency or subdivision thereof, any authority or
  agency existing pursuant to governmental action, or subdivision thereof;
  including the state and the city of New York.