Bill Text: NY S07641 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 7641 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Allows aquatic plant growth control districts to also control certain invasive species.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-25 - referred to local governments [S07641 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07641-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7641--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. STEC, BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
          reported favorably from said committee and 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 town  law,  in  relation  to  aquatic  plant  growth
          control districts

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10-e of section 198 of the town law,  as  added
     2  by chapter 602 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
     3    10-e.  Aquatic  plant  growth control district. After an aquatic plant
     4  growth control district has been established, the town  board  may  take
     5  such  action  as  may  be required to adopt plans and specifications and
     6  enter into a contract or contracts, or take such other action as may  be
     7  required, for the control of aquatic plant growth and for the control of
     8  aquatic  invertebrates classified as invasive by the department of envi-
     9  ronmental conservation within the district as it may deem to  be  neces-
    10  sary  or desirable except the town board may not take any action that in
    11  any way regulates or permits the application of pesticides to  any  land
    12  not owned by the town or to or in surface waters.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09057-02-2