Bill Text: NY S06608 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6608 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes provisions relating to retail farm operations; defines retail farm operations as a seasonal or annual enterprise operated for the purpose of selling predominantly farm and food products which are in support of agricultural production; includes retail farm operations under the definition of farm operations and the provisions of sound agricultural practices necessary for on-farm production, preparation and marketing.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [S06608 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06608-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6608
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 1, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. RITCHIE, YOUNG, AKSHAR, O'MARA, PANEPINTO, VALESKY
          -- (at request of the Legislative Commission on  Rural  Resources)  --
          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  retail
          farm operations
          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 384 of the laws of 2011, is amended
     3  and a new subdivision 18 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  sixteen  of  this  section [and], "commercial equine operation" as
    12  defined in subdivision seventeen of this  section  and  a  "retail  farm
    13  operation" as defined in subdivision eighteen of this section. Such farm
    14  operation  may  consist  of one or more parcels of owned or rented land,
    15  which parcels may be contiguous or noncontiguous to each other.
    16    18. "Retail farm operation" means a seasonal or annual enterprise with
    17  either permanent or nonpermanent structures that are  operated  for  the
    18  purposes  of selling predominantly farm and food products in conjunction
    19  with or in support of land used in agricultural production as defined in
    20  subdivision four of this section. Such portion  of  the  farm  and  food
    21  products  shall  exceed fifty percent of the gross annual income of such
    22  retail farm operation.  For purposes of this subdivision, farm and  food
    23  products  shall  mean  any  agricultural, horticultural, forest or other
    24  product of the soil or water, including but  not  limited  to  fresh  or
    25  processed  fruits,  vegetables,  eggs,  dairy  products,  meat  and meat
    26  products, poultry and poultry products, fish and  fish  products,  apple
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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