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Whenever the sale of any real property of the city shall have been authorized pursuant to this charter or other applicable law, the mayor or the commissioner of citywide administrative services and the city clerk, or for a sale of real property of the city that is under the jurisdiction of the department of housing preservation and development, the mayor or the commissioner of the department of housing preservation and development and the city clerk, shall execute proper conveyances of such real property signed by them and bearing the seal of the city. A conveyance of such real property shall not be delivered to the grantee until the proceeds of such sale have been received by the city.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
The board of estimate is authorized by a three-fourths vote upon the application of any agency of the city to whose use any lands of the city have been assigned and upon the determination of such board that such real property of the city as shall be specified in such application is no longer needed for departmental or public purposes, to convey any such land, with or without the improvements thereon, and, in exchange therefor, the mayor is authorized to acquire other land of equal or greater value of private owners lying within the same borough; provided that the mayor shall determine that such lands of private owners are needed for a public purpose. To determine the value of the land of the city, and of the land to be exchanged therefor, the board shall have such property of the city and the mayor shall have the property of the owners duly appraised by three discreet and disinterested appraisers to be appointed by such board and the mayor. The appraisers shall be residents of the borough in which such lands are situated, and such appraisal shall be made within three months prior to the date of such exchange. The corporation counsel, as directed by a resolution duly adopted and certified by the board and by order of the mayor, shall approve the form of all legal instruments necessary on the part of the city to effect such exchange in law, and the board and the mayor shall designate and authorize the proper officer to execute and deliver any and all legal instruments necessary to effectuate such exchange. The land so acquired by the exchange shall be assigned to the agency requiring the use of the same upon proper application therefor.
The board of estimate shall have power, by three-fourths vote, to settle and adjust by mutual conveyances or otherwise, and upon such terms and conditions as may seem to them proper, disputes existing between the city and private owners of real property, in respect to boundary lines, and to release such interest of the city in real property as the corporation counsel shall certify in writing to be mere clouds upon titles of private owners, in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as in its judgment shall seem proper.
a. The board of estimate shall have discretion to direct the demolition or removal of all buildings or other structures owned by the city and not needed for any public purpose.
b. Upon the failure of the board of estimate to receive any bids for the demolition or removal of buildings or other structures on land acquired by the city for a public improvement, the agency under whose jurisdiction such public improvement is to be made may provide for such demolition or removal in the contract or contracts relating to such improvement.
Every deed, lease or instrument made or entered into by the city, or any agency thereof, for the conveyance, lease or disposal of real property or any interest therein for the purpose of housing construction pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen of the general municipal law and laws supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof shall provide that no person seeking dwelling accommodations in any structure erected or to be erected on such real property shall be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry.
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