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. The director may execute all deeds or conveyances necessary to
convey any real property or interest therein to be sold or exchanged
under the provisions of this code. He may insert in any such deed or
conveyance such conditions, covenants, exceptions and reservations
as in his opinion are in the public interest or may convey in fee
simple absolute. All statutes relating to state lands or to
reservations of minerals therein or to reservations of rights to
prospect for or mine or remove such minerals are inapplicable to
lands heretofore or hereafter acquired by the State or conveyed by
the State pursuant to the provisions of this code or pursuant to the
provisions of previously existing statutes codified in this code, and
no such statute in respect to state lands hereafter enacted shall be
applicable thereto unless the Legislature expressly so declares.
It shall be conclusively presumed in favor of any purchaser for
value and without notice of any real property or interest therein
conveyed pursuant to the provisions of this code that the department
acted within its lawful authority in acquiring the property, and that
the director acted within his lawful authority in executing any deed
or conveyance or lease authorized by this code.