Bill Text: NY S00890 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish the Zoar Valley state park.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-09 - REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION [S00890 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00890-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           890
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation
        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to establishing the Zoar Valley state park
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The parks, recreation  and  historic  preservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new section 13.33 to read as follows:
     3    §  13.33  Zoar Valley state park. 1. The commissioner shall designate,
     4  pursuant to section 13.03 of this article, those parcels of land  speci-
     5  fied  in  subdivision  two  of this section to be part of the state park
     6  system to be known as the "Zoar Valley state park".
     7    2. The Zoar Valley state park shall constitute those lands  designated
     8  by  the  commissioner  of  environmental conservation as the Zoar Valley
     9  multiple use area pursuant to section 190.25 of title  six  of  the  New
    10  York state codes, rules and regulations being:
    11    All those state lands, excluding the East Otto state forest, lying and
    12  situated  in the towns of Otto and Persia, in the county of Cattaraugus,
    13  and the town of Collins, in the county of Erie,  including  a  five-mile
    14  segment  of Cattaraugus creek and a two-mile segment of the south branch
    15  of Cattaraugus creek, and being the  same  lands  as  more  particularly
    16  described  in  several  deeds  conveying said lands to the people of the
    17  state, on file with the  department  of  environmental  conservation  at
    18  Albany, and duly recorded in the office of the county clerk of the coun-
    19  ty  of  Cattaraugus  and the office of the county clerk of the county of
    20  Erie, respectively. The provisions of this section shall not  apply  to,
    21  and  the references to the Zoar Valley state park shall not include, the
    22  detached parcel of the former Zoar Valley multiple use  area,  generally
    23  located between Wickham road and Forty road.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04032-01-9
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