Bill Text: NY A01122 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use for one year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to local governments [A01122 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01122-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1122

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     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:

     1    Section 1. Any town within a county with a  population  of  fifty-five
     2  thousand  or  less  that  has  completed  an  agricultural  and farmland
     3  protection plan pursuant to section 324 of the agriculture  and  markets
     4  law  prior  to  the effective date of this act, may impose a moratorium,
     5  not to exceed one year, on the annexation of agricultural  land  greater
     6  than  two hundred acres for an industrial use, to allow for the develop-
     7  ment of an updated agricultural and farmland protection plan.
     8    § 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