Bill Text: NY S07392 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7392 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the use of ballast water to increase a wake within six hundred feet from shore on lakes within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07392-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7392
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation
        AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to prohibiting  the  use
          of  ballast  water to increase a wake within six hundred feet from the
          shore of lakes located in the state
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 45 of the navigation law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
     3    1-b.  No  operator  of a vessel on any lake located in the state shall
     4  use ballast water on such lake for the  purpose  of  increasing  a  wake
     5  within six hundred feet of the shore.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13359-02-8