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Senate Bill S4036

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Specifies watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights

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2025-S4036 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §198, Town L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S3189
2023-2024: S2819

2025-S4036 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Specifies watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights.

2025-S4036 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4036 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4036
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the  town  law,  in  relation  to  specifying  watershed
   protection  improvement districts may work towards the preservation of
   development rights

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 10-g of section 198 of the town law, as added
 by chapter 378 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   10-g. Watershed protection improvement district.   After  a  watershed
 protection improvement district has been established, the town board may
 take  such  action  as may be required to adopt plans and specifications
 and enter into a contract or contracts, or take such  other  actions  as
 may  be  required,  for  the  protection and restoration of groundwater,
 surface waters, and drinking water quality as it may deem to  be  neces-
 sary  or  desirable,  including  but not limited to stormwater treatment
 projects [and], wetland construction, AND  PRESERVATION  OF  DEVELOPMENT
 RIGHTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07893-01-5

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