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Senate Bill S6646

Signed By Governor

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Designates the Bushkill stream as an inland waterway

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2009-S6646 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9096
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง911, Exec L

2009-S6646 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates the Bushkill stream as an inland waterway.

2009-S6646 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6646 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6646

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the  Bush-
  kill stream as an inland waterway

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 911 of the executive law, as sepa-
rately amended by chapters 110 and 151 of the laws of 2009,  is  amended
to read as follows:
  4.  "Inland  waterways"  shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
consisting of lakes Big Tupper, Black, Canandaigua,  Cayuga,  Champlain,
Chautauqua,  Conesus, Cranberry, George, Great Sacandaga, Honoeye, Indi-
an, Keuka, Long, Oneida, Onondaga,  Otisco,  Otsego,  Owasco,  Raquette,
Sacandaga, Saratoga, Schroon, Seneca, Skaneateles, Silver (in the county
of  Wyoming) and Saranac, and the Fulton chain of lakes; (b) the state's
major rivers comprised of the Ausable, Black, Boquet, Canisteo, Chaumont
(including Chaumont bay), Chemung, Cohocton,  Delaware,  Deer,  Genesee,
Grasse,  Hudson  north of the federal dam at Troy, Indian, Little Salmon
(including north and south branches), Mad,  Mettowee,  Mohawk,  Oswegat-
chie,  Racquette,  Salmon,  Saranac,  Susquehanna, Tioga and Tioughnioga
rivers, and the north and middle branches of the Moose  river;  (c)  the
state's major creeks comprised of the [Cincinatti] BUSHKILL, CINCINNATI,
East  Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Fish (including
east and west branches), Gooseberry,  Little  Sandy,  Sandy,  Schoharie,
South  Sandy,  Oatka  and  Tonawanda  and West Kill; (d) the Barge Canal
System as defined in section two of the canal law; and (e) the  adjacent
shorelands  to the extent that such inland waters and adjacent lands are
strongly influenced  by  each  other  including,  but  not  limited  to,
islands,  wetlands,  beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs, bluffs and
erosion prone areas.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14594-01-9

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