Senate Bill S857

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the Flax Pond tidal wetlands sanctuary

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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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2023-S857 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3751
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0306-a, En Con L (as proposed in S.9140 & A.10187); rpld §39-b, Nav L

2023-S857 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the Flax Pond tidal wetlands sanctuary; establishes uses for the sanctuary, including the limited use of certain boats; repeals provisions prohibiting boating in the Flax Pond tidal wetlands sanctuary.

2023-S857 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S857 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    857
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   establishing  the  Flax  Pond  tidal wetlands sanctuary; and to repeal
   section 39-b of the navigation law relating to prohibiting the use  of
   motor boats in the Flax Pond tidal wetlands sanctuary
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-0306-a of the environmental conservation law, as
 added by a chapter of  the  laws  of  2022  amending  the  environmental
 conservation  law  relating to establishing the Flax Pond tidal wetlands
 sanctuary; and amending the navigation law relating to  prohibiting  the
 use  of  motor  boats  in  the  Flax  Pond  tidal wetlands sanctuary, as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9140 and A. 10187,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
 § 11-0306-a. The Flax Pond tidal wetlands sanctuary.
   1.  There  is established a Flax Pond tidal wetlands sanctuary for the
 purpose of protecting areas of special  ecological  significance  within
 the  Flax Pond tidal marsh. The sanctuary shall be composed of the tidal
 wetlands located in the village of Old [Fields] FIELD, county of Suffolk
 as designated on the March  tenth,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-six  survey
 filed  in  the  Suffolk  County Clerk's office as file number 136899 and
 including a permanent easement for the State University of New  York  as
 designated  on  the March ninth, nineteen hundred sixty-six survey filed
 in the Suffolk County Clerk's office as file number 81558, and including
 acreage of 146.162 acres. The sanctuary shall be managed by the  depart-
 ment  in cooperation with the state university at Stony Brook. The sanc-
 tuary shall be managed as a long-term field laboratory for research  and
 education to provide:
   a.  a  natural  area  for  academic  research across a wide variety of
 disciplines including, but not limited to, the fields of community ecol-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04158-01-3

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