The New York State Senate

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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.
                                                           LBD05586-03-6

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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.