Bill Text: NY S06342 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6342 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S06342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06342-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6342
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  includ-
          ing urban farming written agricultural districts
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11  of  section  301  of  the  agriculture  and
     2  markets  law,  as  amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2016, is amended
     3  and a new subdivision 19 is added to read as follows:
     4    11. "Farm operation" means the land and on-farm buildings,  equipment,
     5  manure  processing and handling facilities, and practices which contrib-
     6  ute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and
     7  livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including  a  "commercial
     8  horse  boarding  operation"  as  defined in subdivision thirteen of this
     9  section, a "timber operation" as defined in subdivision fourteen of this
    10  section, "compost, mulch or other biomass crops" as defined in  subdivi-
    11  sion  seventeen  of this section [and], "commercial equine operation" as
    12  defined in subdivision eighteen of this section and "urban  farming"  as
    13  defined in subdivision nineteen of this section. Such farm operation may
    14  consist  of  one  or more parcels of owned or rented land, which parcels
    15  may be contiguous or noncontiguous to each other.
    16    19. "Urban farming" means the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flow-
    17  ers and ornamental plants, as well as the limited keeping and raising of
    18  fowl or bees and the practice of aquaculture.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11588-01-7