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Assembly Bill A139

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by localities for an industrial use

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2023-A139 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3326
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7808, S6295
2021-2022: A1482, S1839
2025-2026: A1122

2023-A139 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use for one year.

2023-A139 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    139
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to create a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land  by
   certain localities for an industrial use

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Any town within a county with a  population  of  fifty-five
 thousand  or  less  that  has  completed  an  agricultural  and farmland
 protection plan pursuant to section 324 of the agriculture  and  markets
 law  prior  to  the effective date of this act, may impose a moratorium,
 not to exceed one year, on the annexation of agricultural  land  greater
 than  two hundred acres for an industrial use, to allow for the develop-
 ment of an updated agricultural and farmland protection plan.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01922-01-3

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