Bill Text: NY A01482 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use for one year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to local governments [A01482 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01482-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1482

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to create a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land  by
          certain localities for an industrial use

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Any town within a county with a  population  of  fifty-five
     2  thousand  or  less  that  has  completed  an  agricultural  and farmland
     3  protection plan pursuant to section 324 of the agriculture  and  markets
     4  law  prior  to  the effective date of this act, may impose a moratorium,
     5  not to exceed one year, on the annexation of agricultural  land  greater
     6  than  two hundred acres for an industrial use, to allow for the develop-
     7  ment of an updated agricultural and farmland protection plan.
     8    § 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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