Bill Text: NY A03948 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A03948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03948-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3948

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  includ-
          ing urban farming written agricultural districts

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11  of  section  301  of  the  agriculture  and
     2  markets  law,  as  amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2016, is amended
     3  and a new subdivision 19 is added to read as follows:
     4    11. "Farm operation" means the land and on-farm buildings,  equipment,
     5  manure  processing and handling facilities, and practices which contrib-
     6  ute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and
     7  livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including  a  "commercial
     8  horse  boarding  operation"  as  defined in subdivision thirteen of this
     9  section, a "timber operation" as defined in subdivision fourteen of this
    10  section, "compost, mulch or other organic biomass crops" as  defined  in
    11  subdivision  seventeen  of this section [and], "commercial equine opera-
    12  tion" as defined in subdivision eighteen  of  this  section  and  "urban
    13  farming"  as  defined in subdivision nineteen of this section. Such farm
    14  operation may consist of one or more parcels of owned  or  rented  land,
    15  which parcels may be contiguous or noncontiguous to each other.
    16    19. "Urban farming" means the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flow-
    17  ers and ornamental plants, as well as the limited keeping and raising of
    18  fowl or bees and the practice of aquaculture.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05468-01-3