Bill Text: NY A02662 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2662 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local government authority to regulate pesticide use and notification requirements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A02662 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02662-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2662
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 21, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LATIMER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. BRENNAN, CLARK,  COLTON,  COOK,  EDDINGTON,  HOOPER,  MAYERSOHN,
         ORTIZ,  PERRY,  PHEFFER,  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
         government  authority  to  regulate  pesticide  use  and  notification
         requirements
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 33-0101 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new subdivision 50 to read as follows:
    3    50.  "PESTICIDE USE" MEANS MIXING, LOADING, HANDLING, APPLYING, TRANS-
    4  PORTING, DISPOSING AND STORING OF PESTICIDES, AND CLEANING AND  DISPOSAL
    5  OF PESTICIDE CONTAINERS.
    6    S  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 33-0303 of the environmental conserva-
    7  tion law is amended to read as follows:
    8    1. Jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to the  distribution,  sale,
    9  use  and  transportation of pesticides, is by this article vested exclu-
   10  sively in the commissioner, EXCEPT THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS  MAY  REGULATE
   11  PESTICIDE  USE  AND NOTIFICATION OF PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS MORE RESTRIC-
   12  TIVELY THAN THE COMMISSIONER.
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06161-01-9