Bill Text: NJ A4055 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits NJ State Forest Nursery from undercutting private nurseries by selling forestation stock below average market price.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-11 - Assembly Floor Amendment Passed (Jasey) [A4055 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4055-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4055

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 12, 2015

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  RONALD S. DANCER

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman  BOB ANDRZEJCZAK

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits NJ State Forest Nursery from undercutting private nurseries by selling forestation stock below average market price.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the General Assembly on June 11, 2015.

  

An Act concerning the State forest management program and supplementing P.L.1983, c.324 (C.13:1L-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  a.  Notwithstanding any provision of the "State Park and Forestry Resources Act," P.L.1983, c.324 (C.13:1L-1 et seq.), or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary, the New Jersey State Forest Nursery, established pursuant to section 14 of P.L.1983, c.324 (C.13:1L-14), shall not provide trees or any forestation stock for solely aesthetic improvement, aesthetic screening, or any other solely aesthetic purpose.

     b.    Forestation stock from the State forest nursery shall not be resold or removed from the property upon which it is planted, whether as live trees or severed from the stump for ornamental use, or for use as Christmas trees or holiday decorations.

     c.     The New Jersey State Forest Nursery shall not sell for less than the average market price any trees or forestation stock for any of the following purposes:

     (1)   for any project which is mandated by federal or State law, rule, or regulation, or by local ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation, including, but not limited to, projects required pursuant to the federal "Clean Water Act" (33 U.S.C. s.1251 et seq.);

     (2)   for any project that is required to fulfill a permit obligation, such as, but not limited to, a wetland, stream bank, or conservation mitigation project;

     (3)   for any project required to fulfill a municipal or county permit obligation, such as, but not limited to, plantings required for site plan or subdivision approval; and

     (4)   for any voluntary project where the landowner is to profit from the installation of the plants, such as, but not limited to, commercial development or wetland mitigation banks.

     d.    As used in this section, "forestation stock" means any native tree seed ¹[or] ,¹ seedling, ¹or sapling, or any hybrid or genetically altered or improved seed, seedling, or sapling that is at least in part a native tree seed, seedling, or sapling,¹ sold either as a bare root or in a pot or tub.  ¹"Hybrid or genetically altered or improved seed, seedling, or sapling" shall include, but not be limited to, the pitch-lob seedling created by crossing the pitch pine and the loblolly pine.¹

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.