S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2407--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the education law,
in relation to farm conservation practices
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 49 to read as follows:
49. DEFINE AND REVIEW ON AN ON-GOING BASIS FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE TO
DETERMINE THE SCOPE OF ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING OR ARCHITECTURE
NECESSARY FOR SUCH PRACTICES.
S 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 7 of section 7209 of the education
law, as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
follows:
b. To alterations to any building or structure costing ten thousand
dollars or less which do not involve changes affecting the structural
safety or public safety thereof nor to farm buildings, including barns,
sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly and solely for
agricultural purposes; NOR TO FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES, EXCEPT AS
DETERMINED NECESSARY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS AND
THE STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE; nor to residence build-
ings of gross floor area of fifteen hundred square feet or less, not
including garages, carports, porches, cellars, or uninhabitable base-
ments or attics.
S 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision 5 of section 7307 of the education
law, as amended by chapter 994 of the laws of 1971, 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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1. Farm buildings, including barns, sheds, poultry houses and other
buildings used directly and solely for agricultural purposes; NOR TO
FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES, EXCEPT AS DETERMINED NECESSARY BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS AND THE STATE SOIL AND WATER
CONSERVATION COMMITTEE; nor to residence buildings of gross area of
fifteen hundred square feet or less, not including garages, carports,
porches, cellars, or uninhabitable basements or attics; or
S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.