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Assembly Bill A10936

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of tidal wetlands

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2025-A10936 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9479
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §25-0103, En Con L

2025-A10936 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Specifies the marine and coastal district as part of the definition of tidal wetlands.

2025-A10936 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10936
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   definition of tidal wetlands
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1 of section 25-0103 of the
 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 790 of the  laws  of
 1973, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  those  areas  which  border on or lie beneath tidal waters OF THE
 MARINE AND COASTAL DISTRICT, AS DESCRIBED IN  SECTION  13-0103  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER,  such  as, but not limited to, banks, bogs, salt marsh, swamps,
 meadows, flats or other low lands subject  to  tidal  action,  including
 those areas now or formerly connected to tidal waters;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15249-05-6

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