Bill Text: NY A06038 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the removal of phragmites where such phragmites grow continuously in an area containing five acres of land or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in environmental conservation [A06038 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06038-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6038
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 26, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
          removal of phragmites
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The title heading of title 15 of article 9 of the environ-
     2  mental conservation law, as amended by chapter 602 of the laws of  2003,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4                 REMOVAL OF TREES [AND], PROTECTED PLANTS AND
     5                                 PHRAGMITES
     6    §  2.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
     7  section 9-1505 to read as follows:
     8  § 9-1505. Removal of phragmites.
     9    The department shall remove phragmites from any area of the  state  in
    10  which such phragmites grow continuously in an area containing five acres
    11  of  land  or  more.  Upon removal of such phragmites, such land shall be
    12  replanted with wetland plantings native to the area in which such phrag-
    13  mites are removed. No action for trespass shall lie on account of injury
    14  to private property as a result of such  removal,  if  such  removal  is
    15  performed in the protection of the lands of the state from fire.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09836-01-9