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Assembly Bill A6487

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires a party to provide for the replacement of trees removed for purposes relating to mining

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2011-A6487 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Public Lands Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง83, Pub Lds L

2011-A6487 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a party to provide for the replacement of trees removed for purposes relating to mining.

2011-A6487 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6487

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 21, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CASTELLI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to amend the public lands law, in relation to requiring a party
  to provide for the replacement of trees removed for purposes  relating
  to mining

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 83 of the  public  lands  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  643  of  the  laws  of 1962, is amended to read as
follows:
  1.  Nothing contained in this article shall affect any  right  hereto-
fore  granted  by special act of the legislature nor affect the terms of
any consent heretofore given by the commissioner of general services  to
persons having discovered deposits of minerals but any such person shall
upon  the taking effect of this act be otherwise subject to and bound by
the provisions of this article; nor give any person  a  right  to  enter
upon  or break up the lands of any other persons, or of the state, or to
work any mine in such lands, unless and  until  there  shall  have  been
recorded  in  the  office of the clerk of the county in which such lands
are located or of the register, if the recording officer in such  county
is  a  register,  the written and duly acknowledged consent of the owner
thereof, or when the lands belong to the state, a certified copy of  the
consent given by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision two of section
eighty-one of this article, upon such terms and conditions as such owner
or  said  commissioner, as the case may be, may make and specify in such
consent. Permission to erect buildings  for  working  mines  upon  state
lands may be given by the commissioner, when such commissioner is satis-
fied  that  the  erection  or  occupation  of such buildings will not be
detrimental to the interests of the state. Nothing in this article shall
authorize any person working a mine upon state lands to cut  or  destroy
any timber whatever except such trees as it may be actually necessary to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08883-01-1

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