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Assembly Bill A5269

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Decreases the distance from the high water mark certain lands under water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays have to be to be ceded to a county

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2025-A5269 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13-0302, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7417

2025-A5269 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Decreases the distance from the high water mark certain lands under water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays have to be ceded to a county from one thousand feet to five hundred feet.

2025-A5269 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5269
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   decreasing the distance from the high water mark certain  lands  under
   water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays have to be to be ceded to a coun-
   ty

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 1, paragraph a of subdivision 4, and paragraph
 a of subdivision 8 of section 13-0302 of the environmental  conservation
 law,  subdivision 1 and paragraph a of subdivision 8 as amended by chap-
 ter 34 of the laws of 2022 and paragraph a of subdivision 4  as  amended
 by chapter 656 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
   1.  Underwater  lands ceded to county of Suffolk. All the right, title
 and interest in which the people of the state of New York have in and to
 the lands under water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays in  the  county  of
 Suffolk, except underwater lands within [one thousand] FIVE HUNDRED feet
 of  the high water mark is hereby ceded to such county, for the purposes
 of shellfish or seaweed cultivation, to be  managed  and  controlled  by
 such  county,  provided  that  such lands shall revert to the state when
 they shall cease to be used for shellfish or  seaweed  cultivation.  For
 the  purposes  of  this  section, the term "Gardiner's and Peconic bays"
 shall mean the waters of Gardiner's and Peconic bays and the tributaries
 thereof between the westerly shore of Great Peconic bay and an  easterly
 line  running  from the most easterly point of Plum island to Goff point
 at the entrance of Napeague harbor.
   a. Underwater lands within [one thousand] FIVE  HUNDRED  feet  of  the
 high water mark shall not be included in a shellfish cultivation zone.
   a.  Underwater  lands  within  [one thousand] FIVE HUNDRED feet of the
 high water mark shall not be included in a seaweed cultivation zone.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08505-01-5

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