Bill Text: NY A09050 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires approval by the governing board of a municipality for mining activity in any area which is zoned residential by such municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - referred to environmental conservation [A09050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09050-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9050
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 19, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          requiring municipal approval of mining in residential neighborhoods
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  23-2711 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. After September first, two thousand sixteen, any person who mines
     4  or proposes to mine from a mine site in an area zoned residential by the
     5  municipality in which the mine is  located  shall  not  engage  in  such
     6  mining  unless such person has obtained approval of such mining from the
     7  governing board of such municipality.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10677-02-6