S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1122
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 9, 2025
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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.
LBD01465-01-5