Senate Bill S341

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires open space conservation projects to be undertaken with willing sellers

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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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2011-S341 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A147
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §92-s, St Fin L; amd §§54-0301 & 54-0303, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S358, A587

2011-S341 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires open space conservation projects to be undertaken with willing sellers; provides that the use of eminent domain for such projects shall be limited to lands where the owner thereof has consented thereto or where the eminent domain is required to quiet title.

2011-S341 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S341 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

    S. 341                                                    A. 147

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. SAYWARD -- read once and  referred
  to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the environmental conservation
  law, in relation to requiring open space land conservation projects to
  be undertaken with willing sellers

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 6 of section 92-s of the state
finance law, as amended by section 13 of part E of  chapter  61  of  the
laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  (d) Moneys from the open space account shall be available, pursuant to
appropriation,  for  any open space land conservation project UNDERTAKEN
WITH A WILLING SELLER, bio-diversity stewardship and  research  pursuant
to chapter five hundred fifty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred nine-
ty-three,  for  the  purposes  of  agricultural  and farmland protection
activities as authorized by article twenty-five-AAA of  the  agriculture
and  markets law, non-point source abatement and control projects pursu-
ant to section 17-1409 of the environmental conservation law and section
eleven-b of the soil and water  conservation  districts  law,  for  Long
Island  Central  Pine  Barrens  area planning or Long Island south shore
estuary reserve planning pursuant to title thirteen  of  article  fifty-
four  of  the  environmental  conservation  law,  and  for operation and
management of the Albany  Pine  Bush  preserve  commission  pursuant  to
subdivision  two  of  section  54-0303 of the environmental conservation
law.
  S 2. Section 54-0301 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
by chapter 610 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:

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

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