Bill Text: NY S06360 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the creation of an agricultural district with two hundred fifty acres or at least ten per cent of the land proposed to be included in the district, whichever is greater; decreases the amount from five hundred acres to two hundred fifty acres.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-11-21 - SIGNED CHAP.463 [S06360 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06360-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6360--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 21, 2014
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       Introduced by Sens. VALESKY, CARLUCCI, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agricul-
         ture  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricul-
         tural districts
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 303 of the agriculture and markets
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 357 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    1. Any owner or owners of land may submit a  proposal  to  the  county
    5  legislative  body  for  the  creation of an agricultural district within
    6  such county, provided that such owner  or  owners  own  at  least  [five
    7  hundred]  TWO  HUNDRED  FIFTY acres or at least ten per cent of the land
    8  proposed to be included in the  district,  whichever  is  greater.  Such
    9  proposal shall be submitted in such manner and form as may be prescribed
   10  by  the  commissioner,  shall  include  a  description  of  the proposed
   11  district, including a map delineating the  exterior  boundaries  of  the
   12  district  which  shall conform to tax parcel boundaries, and the tax map
   13  identification numbers for every parcel in the  proposed  district.  The
   14  proposal  may  recommend  an  appropriate review period of either eight,
   15  twelve or twenty years.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   17  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11473-02-4