Bill Text: NY A08374 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the use of the chemical Methoprene, trade name ALTOSID, as a pesticide.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - reported referred to codes [A08374 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A08374-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8374--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 9, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the use of Methoprene
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 33-1301 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
3 12. FOR ANY PERSON TO USE ANY PESTICIDE CONTAINING THE ACTIVE INGREDI-
4 ENT ISOPROPYL(2E, 4E)-11 METHOXY-3, 7, 11 TRIMETHYL-2, 4 DODECADIENOATE
5 (METHOPRENE) IN ANY STORM DRAIN, CONVEYANCE FOR WATER OR FISH HABITAT IN
6 ANY MUNICIPALITY ADJOINING THE LONG ISLAND SOUND AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN,
7 AND THEIR CONNECTING WATER BODIES, BAYS, HARBORS, SHALLOWS AND MARSHES
8 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, AN EMERGENCY APPLICATION OF SUCH PESTICIDE MAY BE
9 MADE AS DETERMINED BY THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN CASES WHERE THERE
10 IS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on January 1, 2016.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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