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Assembly Bill A8300A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the forest preserve health and safety account and public utility improvements

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2017-A8300 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 9 Title 21 §§9-2101 - 9-2105, En Con L; amd §97-e, St Fin L

2017-A8300 - Summary

Relates to the forest preserve health and safety land account and public utility improvements; enacts legislation to implement a constitutional amendment authorizing public utility lines and bicycle paths on certain state lands in the forest preserve and establishes a forest preserve health and safety land account.

2017-A8300 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8300
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   forest  preserve  health  and  safety  land account and public utility
   improvements

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Article 9 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 by adding a new title 21 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 21
     FOREST PRESERVE HEALTH AND SAFETY LAND ACCOUNT AND PUBLIC UTILITY
                               IMPROVEMENTS
 SECTION 9-2101. HEALTH AND SAFETY LAND ACCOUNT CREATION AND USE.
         9-2103. HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY PUBLIC UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
 § 9-2101. HEALTH AND SAFETY LAND ACCOUNT CREATION AND USE.
   1. DEFINITIONS. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
   A. "ELIGIBLE PROJECT" MEANS A PUBLIC HEALTH OR SAFETY-RELATED  PROJECT
 NECESSARY WHERE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE EXISTS, LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
   (I) ADDRESS BRIDGE HAZARDS OR SAFETY ON COUNTY HIGHWAYS AND TOWN HIGH-
 WAYS;
   (II)  ELIMINATION  OF  THE  HAZARDS  OF DANGEROUS CURVES AND GRADES ON
 COUNTY AND TOWN HIGHWAYS;
   (III) RELOCATION, MAINTENANCE, AND RECONSTRUCTION OF  COUNTY  HIGHWAYS
 AND  TOWN  HIGHWAYS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDRESSING PUBLIC SAFETY PROVIDED
 THAT NO RELOCATION OF ANY SINGLE RELOCATED PORTION SHALL EXCEED ONE MILE
 IN LENGTH;
   (IV) WATER WELLS AND  NECESSARY  APPURTENANCES  WHEN  SUCH  WELLS  ARE
 NECESSARY TO MEET DRINKING WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND ARE LOCATED WITH-
 IN  FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FEET OF STATE HIGHWAYS, COUNTY HIGHWAYS AND TOWN
 HIGHWAYS; AND

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13092-01-7
              

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2017-A8300A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 9 Title 21 §§9-2101 - 9-2105, En Con L; amd §97-e, St Fin L

2017-A8300A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the forest preserve health and safety land account and public utility improvements; enacts legislation to implement a constitutional amendment authorizing public utility lines and bicycle paths on certain state lands in the forest preserve and establishes a forest preserve health and safety land account.

2017-A8300A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8300--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation -- reported  and  referred  to
   the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the state finance
   law, in relation to the forest preserve health and safety land account
   and public utility improvements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Article 9 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
 by adding a new title 21 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 21
     FOREST PRESERVE HEALTH AND SAFETY LAND ACCOUNT AND PUBLIC UTILITY
                               IMPROVEMENTS
 SECTION 9-2101. HEALTH AND SAFETY LAND ACCOUNT CREATION AND USE.
         9-2103. HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY PUBLIC UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
         9-2105. DEPARTMENT REPORTING.
 § 9-2101. HEALTH AND SAFETY LAND ACCOUNT CREATION AND USE.
   1. DEFINITIONS. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
   A.  "ELIGIBLE PROJECT" MEANS A PUBLIC HEALTH OR SAFETY-RELATED PROJECT
 NECESSARY WHERE NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE EXISTS, LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
   (I) ADDRESS BRIDGE HAZARDS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY ON COUNTY HIGHWAYS
 AND TOWN HIGHWAYS;
   (II) ELIMINATION OF THE HAZARDS OF  DANGEROUS  CURVES  AND  GRADES  ON
 COUNTY AND TOWN HIGHWAYS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY;
   (III)  RELOCATION,  MAINTENANCE, AND RECONSTRUCTION OF COUNTY HIGHWAYS
 AND TOWN HIGHWAYS, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED CULVERTS,  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF
 ADDRESSING PUBLIC SAFETY PROVIDED THAT NO RELOCATION OF ANY SINGLE RELO-
 CATED PORTION SHALL EXCEED ONE MILE IN LENGTH;
   (IV)  WATER  WELLS  AND  NECESSARY  APPURTENANCES  WHEN SUCH WELLS ARE
 NECESSARY TO MEET DRINKING WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND ARE LOCATED WITH-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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