§ 50. Authority to abandon canal lands. 1. Authority is hereby
conferred upon the corporation to abandon any portion of barge canal
lands, barge canal terminal lands, or old canal lands and appertaining
structures constituting the canal system prior to the barge canal
improvement, which have or may become no longer necessary or useful as a
part of the barge canal system, as an aid to navigation thereon, or for
barge canal terminal purposes. This authority, however, shall not
include the abandonment of a barge canal terminal unless such terminal
has been by a special act of the legislature previously determined to
have become no longer necessary or useful as a part of the barge canal
system, as an aid to navigation thereon, or for barge canal terminal
purposes.

2. Abandonments authorized pursuant to this section shall be subject
to the provisions of subdivision seventeen of section ten of this
chapter.