Senate Bill S6940

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Directs department of environmental conservation or its successor agency to establish management areas for newly acquired forest preserve lands

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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-S6940 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 14 §1, Constn
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S1499

2009-S6940 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of environmental conservation, and any successor agency thereto, to establish a reasonable number of forest preserve management areas upon state lands, acquired on or after the effective date of this amendment to the constitution, which are made a part of the state forest preserve; authorizes the cutting, sale and removal of timber on such lands, and the use of motorized equipment for such purposes.

2009-S6940 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6940 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6940

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 26, 2010
                               ___________

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

            CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 14 of  the  constitution,
  in relation to the management and use of the lands of the state forest
  preserve

  Section  1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 1 of arti-
cle 14 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
  Section 1. The lands of the state, now owned  or  hereafter  acquired,
constituting  the  forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever
kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or  exchanged,
or  be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber
thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY  INCONSISTENT
PROVISION OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION,
OR  ANY  OTHER  STATE DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY WHICH SUCCEEDS TO THE POWERS,
DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSERVATION
RELATING  TO THE MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF THE FOREST PRESERVE, SHALL
BE AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH UPON  ANY  LANDS  OF  THE  STATE
ACQUIRED ON OR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS PARAGRAPH CONSTITUTING A
PORTION  OF  THE FOREST PRESERVE, A REASONABLE NUMBER OF FOREST PRESERVE
MANAGEMENT AREAS. THE STATE, ACTING BY AND  THROUGH  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION OR SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY THERE-
TO,  MAY  CUT, SELL AND CONTRACT FOR THE SALE AND REMOVAL OF TIMBER UPON
SUCH LANDS CONSISTENT WITH SUCH PROVISIONS OF  LAW  AS  THE  LEGISLATURE
SHALL  ENACT RELATING THERETO. FURTHERMORE, MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT SHALL BE
AUTHORIZED TO BE USED UPON SUCH LANDS,  AND  ROADS  MAY  BE  CONSTRUCTED
THEREON  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARA-
GRAPH.
  Nothing herein contained shall prevent the  state  from  constructing,
completing  and  maintaining any highway heretofore specifically author-
ized by constitutional amendment, nor from constructing and  maintaining
to  federal  standards federal aid interstate highway route five hundred
two from a point in the vicinity of the  city  of  Glens  Falls,  thence
northerly  to  the  vicinity of the villages of Lake George and Warrens-
burg, the hamlets of South Horicon and Pottersville and thence northerly

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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