Bill Text: NY A07706 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to exempting minimal risk pesticides from pesticide applicator certification requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-20 - substituted by s4522b [A07706 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07706-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7706
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 16, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         exempting  minimal  risk  pesticides from pesticide applicator certif-
         ication requirements
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  33-0905 of the environmental
    2  conservation law, as amended by chapter 612 of  the  laws  of  1983,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    2. The provisions of this article relating to registration and certif-
    5  ication shall not apply to:
    6    a.  residential  application of pesticides as defined in this article;
    7  or
    8    b. private application of a general use pesticide as defined  in  this
    9  article; OR
   10    C. ANY PESTICIDE DEFINED BY THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
   11  AGENCY  AS  A  "MINIMAL RISK PESTICIDE" PURSUANT TO SECTION 25(B) OF THE
   12  FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE AND RODENTICIDE ACT, PUBLIC  LAW  92-516,
   13  AS AMENDED.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   15  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
   16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulations necessary for  the  imple-
   17  mentation  of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on
   18  or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10768-01-1