STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2135--A Cal. No. 178 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2021 ___________ 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. LBD02878-03-1