Bill Text: NY A01459 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to protecting newly acquired state land.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A01459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01459-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1459
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          protecting newly acquired state land
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3-0107 of the  environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  The  commissioner  shall  add  one new full time equivalent forest
     4  ranger position for every thirty thousand acres of land that is acquired
     5  by the state and placed under the jurisdiction of the  department.  Each
     6  position  shall  be filled prior to the implementation of the property's
     7  unit management plan or resource management plan.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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