Bill Text: NY A07976 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires southeast Queens to mitigate property damage caused by environmental issues which are caused by acts or omissions of such municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-20 - reference changed to ways and means [A07976 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07976-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7976--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 12, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. SCARBOROUGH, TITUS, JAFFEE, LAVINE, COOK, TITONE
         -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, PERRY, ROBINSON,  STECK  --
         read  once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
         -- recommitted to  the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation  in
         accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       AN  ACT relating to requiring southeast Queens to mitigate certain prop-
         erty damage caused by environmental issues which are caused by acts or
         omissions of such municipality
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. In southeast Queens, where the municipality or its depart-
    2  ments by acts of  omission  or  commission  either  creates  or  greatly
    3  contributes  to  an environmental crisis which impacts a sizable segment
    4  of its citizens, creating property  damage  and  threatening  residents'
    5  health,  and  where  such municipality or its departments either owns or
    6  controls the infrastructure that can substantially mitigate  this  envi-
    7  ronmental  issue  and bring relief to those residents, then such munici-
    8  pality shall be required and directed to utilize that infrastructure  to
    9  provide  a  clear, objective and quantifiable plan to obtain relief in a
   10  timely manner.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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