§ 3. Forest and wild life conservation; use or disposition of certain forest preserve lands authorized.

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§ 3. 1. Forest and wild life conservation are hereby declared to be

policies of the state. For the purpose of carrying out such policies the

legislature may appropriate moneys for the acquisition by the state of

land, outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as now fixed by law,

for the practice of forest or wild life conservation. The prohibitions

of section 1 of this article shall not apply to any lands heretofore or

hereafter acquired or dedicated for such purposes within the forest

preserve counties but outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as

now fixed by law, except that such lands shall not be leased, sold or

exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private.

2. As to any other lands of the state, now owned or hereafter

acquired, constituting the forest preserve referred to in section one of

this article, but outside of the Adirondack and Catskill parks as now

fixed by law, and consisting in any case of not more than one hundred

contiguous acres entirely separated from any other portion of the forest

preserve, the legislature may by appropriate legislation,

notwithstanding the provisions of section one of this article,

authorize:

(a)the dedication thereof for the practice of forest or

wildlife conservation; or

(b)the use thereof for public recreational or

other state purposes or the sale, exchange or other disposition thereof;

provided, however, that all moneys derived from the sale or other

disposition of any of such lands shall be paid into a special fund of

the treasury and be expended only for the acquisition of additional

lands for such forest preserve within either such Adirondack or Catskill

park.