Section 24. Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands  


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  • Any state department or agency, at the time having  jurisdiction
      over  any  of  the lands hereinafter specified, may consent to a sale or
      exchange by the commissioner of general services of  any  lands  of  the
      state,   now  owned  or  hereafter  acquired,  constituting  the  forest
      preserve, but outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as now  fixed
      by  law and not acquired or dedicated for the practice of forest or wild
      life conservation, and consisting in any  case  of  not  more  than  one
      hundred  contiguous  acres  entirely separated from any other portion of
      the  forest  preserve.    Upon  such  consent  being  filed   with   the
      commissioner in writing, accompanied by a description of such lands, the
      commissioner may in his discretion sell or exchange any of such lands in
      accordance with the consent.
        All  sales  shall  be  subject  to  and  governed by the provisions of
      sections  thirty-three,   thirty-five,   thirty-seven,   thirty-seven-a,
      thirty-eight,  thirty-eight-a  and  thirty-nine  of  this chapter, being
      general provisions governing the sale  of  unappropriated  state  lands.
      All  moneys  derived  by the commissioner from such sales, not including
      any refunds made pursuant to section twenty-six of this  law,  shall  be
      paid  first  to  repay  any  expenditures  made by the office of general
      services with relation to forest preserve lands from moneys appropriated
      to said office in the first instance for the administration, management,
      utilization and disposition of real property of the state and any rights
      or interests therein, and any balance of  such  moneys  remaining  after
      repayment  of  the first instance expenditures shall be paid through the
      office of general services into a special fund of  the  state  treasury,
      provided  for  that  purpose  by  the state finance law and known as the
      forest preserve expansion fund, and shall be expended only  as  provided
      in  that law.   All of such moneys received during any month shall be so
      paid on or before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month.
        All exchanges shall be  only  for  additional  lands  for  the  forest
      preserve  within  either the Adirondack or Catskill park as now fixed by
      law and shall be subject to approval by  the  attorney  general  of  the
      title to the lands thus to be acquired by the state.