Bill Text: NY S04844 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4844 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Declares the waters of the state to be public trust resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04844-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4844--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 26, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed 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
         declaring the waters of the state as public trust resources
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  13  of  section 15-0103 of the environmental
    2  conservation law is amended to read as follows:
    3    13. ALL THE WATERS OF  THIS  STATE  ARE  DEEMED  TO  BE  PUBLIC  TRUST
    4  RESOURCES. THE WATERS OF THE STATE ARE VALUABLE PUBLIC NATURAL RESOURCES
    5  AND  THIS  STATE HAS A DUTY AS TRUSTEE TO CONSERVE AND MANAGE ITS WATERS
    6  EFFECTIVELY FOR THE USE AND ENJOYMENT OF PRESENT AND FUTURE  INHABITANTS
    7  AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT. It is in the best interest of
    8  the  state  that provision be made for the regulation and supervision of
    9  activities that deplete, defile, damage or  otherwise  adversely  affect
   10  the waters of the state and land resources associated therewith.
   11    S  2.  The  opening  paragraph of section 15-0105 of the environmental
   12  conservation law is amended to read as follows:
   13    In  recognition  THAT  THE  WATERS  OF  THE  STATE  ARE  PUBLIC  TRUST
   14  RESOURCES,  AND  IN  RECOGNITION  of  its sovereign duty to conserve and
   15  control its water resources for the benefit of all  inhabitants  of  the
   16  state, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of New
   17  York that:
   18    S 3. 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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