Assembly Bill A1629

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes the state to convey certain forest preserve land

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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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2019-A1629 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1959
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 14 §1, Constn
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S8028
2017-2018: A5739, S2041
2021-2022: A794, S5333
2023-2024: A2486, S27

2019-A1629 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the state to convey certain forest preserve land; such sale shall be subject to legislative approval and the proceeds of such conveyance shall be used for acquisitions to the forest preserve.

2019-A1629 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1629
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. JONES, PHEFFER AMATO, STEC, D'URSO, B. MILLER,
   LAWRENCE, MONTESANO, CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing  an  amendment to section 1 of article 14 of the constitution,
   in relation to authorizing the sale of certain  forest  preserve  land
   which was not intended to be included in the forest preserve
 
   Section  1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 1 of article
 14 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   Section 1. The lands of the state, now owned  or  hereafter  acquired,
 constituting  the  forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever
 kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or  exchanged,
 or  be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber
 thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. Nothing  herein  contained  shall
 prevent  the  state  from  constructing,  completing and maintaining any
 highway heretofore specifically authorized by constitutional  amendment,
 nor  from  constructing and maintaining to federal standards federal aid
 interstate highway route five hundred two from a point in  the  vicinity
 of  the  city  of  Glens  Falls, thence northerly to the vicinity of the
 villages of Lake George and Warrensburg, the hamlets  of  South  Horicon
 and  Pottersville  and  thence northerly in a generally straight line on
 the west side of Schroon Lake to the vicinity of the hamlet of  Schroon,
 then  continuing  northerly  to  the  vicinity of Schroon Falls, Schroon
 River and North Hudson, and to the east of Makomis Mountain, east of the
 hamlet of New Russia, east of the village of Elizabethtown and  continu-
 ing northerly in the vicinity of the hamlet of Towers Forge, and east of
 Poke-O-Moonshine  Mountain  and  continuing northerly to the vicinity of
 the village of Keeseville and the city of Plattsburgh, all of the afore-
 said taking not to exceed a total of three hundred acres of state forest
 preserve land, nor from constructing and maintaining not more than twen-
 ty-five miles of ski trails thirty to two hundred  feet  wide,  together
 with  appurtenances  thereto,  provided  that no more than five miles of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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