Bill Text: NY S02135 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2135 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to agricultural custom operators.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - SIGNED CHAP.282 [S02135 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02135-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2135--A
            Cal. No. 178

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, BIAGGI, BROUK, JORDAN, MANNION, MAY, PARKER
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the  Committee  on Agriculture -- reported favorably from said commit-
          tee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a  third  reading,
          passed  by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote recon-
          sidered, restored to third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricul-
          tural custom operators

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 305-a of the  agri-
     2  culture and markets law, as added by chapter 497 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    b.  Upon the request of any municipality, farm owner or operator, or a
     5  person or entity performing agricultural practices on behalf of  a  farm
     6  owner  or  operator,  the  commissioner  shall  render an opinion to the
     7  appropriate local government officials, as to  whether  farm  operations
     8  would  be  unreasonably  restricted  or regulated by proposed changes in
     9  local land use regulations, ordinances or local laws pertaining to agri-
    10  cultural practices and to the appropriate  local  land  use  enforcement
    11  officials administering local land use regulations, ordinances, or local
    12  laws or reviewing a permit pertaining to agricultural practices.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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