Real Property

ARTICLE 2
TENURE OF REAL PROPERTY
Section 10. Capacity to hold real property.
11. Capacity to transfer real property.
15. Title through alien.
16. Liabilities of alien holders of real property.
17. Heirs of patriotic Indian.
18. Mines in Saint Lawrence county.

S 10. Capacity to hold real property. 1. A citizen of the United
States is capable of holding real property within this state, and of
taking the same by descent, devise or purchase.
2. Aliens are empowered to take, hold, transmit, and dispose of real
property within this state in the same manner as native-born citizens
and their heirs and devisees take in the same manner as citizens.
3. For the purpose of maintaining offices and places of residence for
its ambassadors and consular officers and for its representatives at the
United Nations, a foreign government is empowered to hold, transmit and
dispose of real property within this state. Title to such property may
be taken either in the name of the foreign government or in the name of
its ambassador or consul or in the name of its minister to the United
Nations. If a conveyance of real property is made to an ambassador or
consul or minister of a foreign government as such, or contains
appropriate words showing the intention to vest the title in the holder
of the office rather than in the named individual, the title to the real
property shall pass from time to time without any further conveyance to
the respective successors in such office, who shall have full power to
dispose of such property.

S 11. Capacity to transfer real property. A person other than a minor,
a mentally retarded person, or person of unsound mind, seized of or
entitled to an estate or interest in real property, may transfer such
estate or interest.

S 15. Title through alien. The right, title or interest in or to real
property in this state now held or hereafter acquired by any person
entitled to hold the same can not be questioned or impeached by reason
of the alienage of any person through whom such title may have been
derived. Nothing in this section affects or impairs the right of any
heir, devisee, mortgagee, or creditor by judgment or otherwise.

S 16. Liabilities of alien holders of real property. Every alien
holding real property in this state is subject to duties, assessments,
taxes and burdens as if he were a citizen of the state.

S 17. Heirs of patriotic Indian. The heirs of an Indian to whom real
property was granted for military services rendered during the war of
the Revolution may take and hold such real property by descent as if
they were citizens of the state at the time of the death of their
ancestors. A conveyance of such real property to a citizen of this
state, executed by such Indian or his heirs after March seventh,
eighteen hundred and nine, is valid, if executed with the approval of
the surveyor-general or state engineer and surveyor prior to January
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and thereafter with the
approval of the commissioner of transportation indorsed thereon.

S 18. Mines in Saint Lawrence county. The proprietors of any mines or
veins of lead or copper in the county of Saint Lawrence, may demise,
lease, or rent the same for a period not to exceed twenty-one years from
the date of any such lease, to any foreign individual or company, and
such lessee may take, hold, work, use or convey the same during the said
term, in the same manner and subject to the same liabilities as if such
lessee were a natural born citizen.