Section 89. Over state lands

The commissioner of general services shall
  have power to grant to any pipe line corporation any lands belonging  to
  the  people  of this state which may be required for the purposes of its
  incorporation on such terms as may be agreed, or  such  corporation  may
  acquire  title  thereto  by  condemnation,  except  that  no  pipe  line
  corporation may condemn  any  canal  lands  abandoned  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of article four of the public lands law, constituting chapter
  fifty of the laws of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, until after they
  have  been  sold and conveyed in the manner provided by the public lands
  law. If any lands owned by any county, city or town be required by  such
  corporation  for such purposes, the county, city or town officers having
  charge of such lands may grant them to the corporation  upon  terms  and
  compensation agreed upon.