Section 11. Gifts, devises and bequests  


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  • Whenever any gift or bequest of
      money is lawfully made to the state, or to any department, board, bureau
      or officer thereof, the amount of such gift or bequest shall be paid  to
      the  department of taxation and finance to be held by such department in
      trust for the uses and purposes specified by the donor. Any such  grant,
      gift  or  bequest  shall  be deposited by the department of taxation and
      finance in the treasury to the credit of a special fund to be designated
      by the state comptroller. Such trust fund  shall  be  disbursed  by  the
      department  of taxation and finance after audit by the state comptroller
      for the uses and purposes specified by the donor upon  certification  of
      the department, board, bureau or officer for whose benefit the trust was
      created.
        No  gift,  grant, devise or bequest, other than grants from the United
      States, shall hereafter be received or accepted by the state or  by  any
      department,  board, bureau or officer thereof without specific statutory
      authority unless such gift, grant, devise or bequest  is  unconditional.
      The  provisions of this section shall be controlling, any other general,
      special or local law inconsistent therewith  notwithstanding,  provided,
      however,  that nothing herein contained shall prohibit the acceptance of
      conditional gifts or devises of real property or  any  interest  therein
      for highway or parkway right of ways.