Section 75.23. Transfer of real property

Notwithstanding  any  requirement  of  law  to  the  contrary  or  any
  provision of any general, special or local law,  charter  or  ordinance,
  every  executor,  administrator,  trustee,  guardian,  or  other  person
  holding trust funds or  acting  in  a  fiduciary  capacity,  unless  the
  instrument  under  which such fiduciary is acting expressly forbids, and
  the state, its subdivisions, municipalities, all  other  public  bodies,
  all  public  officers, persons, partnerships, and corporations owning or
  holding any real property, may grant, sell, lease, or otherwise transfer
  any such real property or interest therein to a company and receive  and
  hold  any  cash, exchanged therefor by such company and may execute such
  instruments and do such acts as may be deemed necessary or desirable  by
  them  or  it and by the company in connection with a project or projects
  and such sale, lease, or transfer may be made without public auction  or
  bidding;  provided,  however, that where such real property is within an
  urban renewal area, the disposition thereof shall be in accordance  with
  the  provisions  of  paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision two of section five
  hundred seven of the general municipal law.