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Assembly Bill A9888

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Adds Doodletown Brook to the definition of inland waterways

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2021-A9888 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §911, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A5206
2025-2026: A266

2021-A9888 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds Doodletown Brook to the definition of inland waterways.

2021-A9888 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9888
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  adding  Doodletown
   Brook to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes of water-
   front revitalization
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 4 of section  911  of
 the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 273, 278 and 449 of
 the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   (d) THE STATE'S MAJOR BROOKS COMPRISED OF THE DOODLETOWN BROOK LOCATED
 IN ROCKLAND COUNTY; (E) the Barge Canal System as defined in section two
 of  the  canal  law; and [(e)] (F) the adjacent shorelands to the extent
 that such inland waters and adjacent lands are  strongly  influenced  by
 each  other  including,  but not limited to, islands, wetlands, beaches,
 dunes, barrier islands, cliffs, bluffs and erosion prone areas.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14825-01-2

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