Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Sep 23, 2011 |
signed chap.497 |
Sep 12, 2011 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 13, 2011 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.933 substituted for s3626 |
Feb 28, 2011 |
referred to agriculture delivered to senate passed assembly |
Feb 24, 2011 |
advanced to third reading cal.43 |
Feb 15, 2011 |
reported |
Jan 05, 2011 |
referred to agriculture |
Assembly Bill A20
Signed By Governor2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CAHILL
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
William Magee
Mark J.F. Schroeder
Marcus Molinaro
William Boyland
multi-Sponsors
Joseph Giglio
Peter Lopez
John McEneny
Ann Rabbitt
2011-A20 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-A20 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Provides, upon the request of a municipality, farm owner or operator, the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall render an opinion to local government officials as to whether farm operations would be unreasonably restricted or regulated by proposed changes in local land use regulations, ordinances, or local laws pertaining to agricultural practices; further requires the commissioner to disclose information received from Cornell and the USDA to the municipality in which the agricultural practice is being evaluated is located.
2011-A20 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 20 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL, MAGEE, SCHROEDER, MOLINARO, BOYLAND -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO, P. LOPEZ, McENENY, RABBITT, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to author- izing requests to the commissioner of agriculture and markets to render an opinion to government officials on local land use regu- lations, ordinances or local laws pertaining to agricultural practices THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 305-a of the agri- culture and markets law is relettered paragraph c and a new paragraph b is added to read as follows: B. UPON THE REQUEST OF ANY MUNICIPALITY, FARM OWNER OR OPERATOR, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL RENDER AN OPINION TO THE APPROPRIATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AS TO WHETHER FARM OPERATIONS WOULD BE UNREASONABLY RESTRICTED OR REGULATED BY PROPOSED CHANGES IN LOCAL LAND USE REGU- LATIONS, ORDINANCES OR LOCAL LAWS PERTAINING TO AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND TO THE APPROPRIATE LOCAL LAND USE ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ADMINISTER- ING LOCAL LAND USE REGULATIONS, ORDINANCES, OR LOCAL LAWS OR REVIEWING A PERMIT PERTAINING TO AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES. S 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 308 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by chapter 120 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: b. Sound agricultural practices refer to those practices necessary for the on-farm production, preparation and marketing of agricultural commodities. Examples of activities which entail practices the commis- sioner may consider include, but are not limited to, operation of farm equipment; proper use of agricultural chemicals and other crop protection methods; direct sale to consumers of agricultural commodities or foods containing agricultural commodities produced on-farm; agricul- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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