N.Y. STL Law § 52-A
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Governor may execute deed or release with sundry reservations; Fort Drum
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§ 52-a. 1. Governor may execute deed or release with sundry\nreservations; Fort Drum. The governor is hereby authorized to cede to\nthe United States full concurrent jurisdiction over the tracts of land\ncomprising the Fort Drum military installation and any other lands that\nmay be acquired by the United States for military purposes at or near\nFort Drum upon conditions that the jurisdiction so ceded should not\nprevent the execution on such tracts of any process, civil or criminal,\nissued under the authority of this state, nor prevent from operating\nwithin the bounds of such tracts any of the laws or regulations of the\nstate, not incompatible with the free use and enjoyment of the premises\nby the United States or the purposes for which such cession is made, nor\nprevent from operating within the same tracts or parcels of land the\nlaws or ordinances of the counties of Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence,\nor the towns thereof, not incompatible with the free use and enjoyment\nof the premises by the United States or the purposes for which such\ncession is made; and that the United States shall retain such\njurisdiction so long only as such tracts or parcels of land shall be\nused for military purposes.\n 2. Sections fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-five and fifty-six of this\narticle shall not apply to the provisions of section fifty-two-a of this\narticle.\n
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