Assembly Bill A5487

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Allows local governments to regulate pesticide use and notification more stringently than the commissioner of environmental conservation

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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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2013-A5487 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง33-0101 & 33-0303, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2662
2011-2012: A4649
2015-2016: A2984

2013-A5487 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows local governments to regulate pesticide use and notification more stringently than the commissioner of environmental conservation has elected to.

2013-A5487 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5487

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 28, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  BRENNAN, CLARK, COLTON, COOK, HOOPER, ORTIZ, PERRY, WEISENBERG -- read
  once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
  government  authority  to  regulate  pesticide  use  and  notification
  requirements

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

  Section 1. Section 33-0101 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
amended by adding a new subdivision 50 to read as follows:
  50.  "PESTICIDE USE" MEANS MIXING, LOADING, HANDLING, APPLYING, TRANS-
PORTING, DISPOSING AND STORING OF PESTICIDES, AND CLEANING AND  DISPOSAL
OF PESTICIDE CONTAINERS.
  S  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 33-0303 of the environmental conserva-
tion law is amended to read as follows:
  1. Jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to the  distribution,  sale,
use  and  transportation of pesticides, is by this article vested exclu-
sively in the commissioner, EXCEPT THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS  MAY  REGULATE
PESTICIDE  USE  AND NOTIFICATION OF PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS MORE RESTRIC-
TIVELY THAN THE COMMISSIONER.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09235-01-3

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