Assembly Bill A6687

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Permits certain not-for-profit conservation organizations to apply for agricultural protection state assistance payments

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A6687 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4476
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §325, Ag & Mkts L

2009-A6687 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits certain not-for-profit conservation organizations to apply for agricultural protection state assistance payments.

2009-A6687 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6687

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 11, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Agriculture

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
  farmland protection program

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 325 of the agriculture and markets
law, as amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 1996, paragraphs  (a)  and
(b) as amended by chapter 527 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
follows:
  2.  (a)  A county agricultural and farmland protection board, two such
boards acting jointly, a municipality or two such municipalities  acting
jointly shall make application to the commissioner in such manner as the
commissioner  may  prescribe.  Application for state assistance payments
for planning activities may be made at any time after the  county  agri-
cultural  and  farmland  protection  board  has formed and has elected a
chairperson. A county agricultural and  farmland  protection  board  may
make  application  for state assistance payments for plan implementation
at any time after the commissioner has approved  a  county  agricultural
and  farmland  protection plan pursuant to section three hundred twenty-
four of this article. Application made jointly by  two  county  agricul-
tural and farmland protection boards may be made after such agricultural
and  farmland protection plan is approved by each county pursuant to the
provisions of section three hundred twenty-four of this article.   STATE
ASSISTANCE  PAYMENTS  TO  SUCH  COUNTIES  SHALL  NOT EXCEED SEVENTY-FIVE
PERCENT OF THE COST OF IMPLEMENTING THE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND FARMLAND
PROTECTION PLAN OR PORTION OF THE PLAN FOR WHICH  STATE  ASSISTANCE  HAS
BEEN  REQUESTED.  THE COMMISSIONER MAY REQUIRE SUCH INFORMATION OR ADDI-
TIONAL PLANNING AS HE OR SHE DEEMS NECESSARY TO EVALUATE SUCH A  REQUEST
FOR STATE ASSISTANCE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10189-02-9

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