Bill Text: NY A01473 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the department of environmental conservation from charging any application fee or any other fee for activities undertaken pursuant to a lake program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to local governments [A01473 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01473-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1473

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN  ACT  to  amend  a  chapter  of the laws of 2024 amending the general
          municipal law relating to including lakes in  adopt-a-municipal  park,
          shoreline  or  roadway  programs,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills
          numbers S. 4636 and A. 4563, in relation to fees for activities under-
          taken pursuant to a lake program

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  3  of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
     2  general municipal law relating to including lakes  in  adopt-a-municipal
     3  park,  shoreline  or  roadway programs, as proposed in legislative bills
     4  numbers S. 4636 and A. 4563 is renumbered section 4 and a new section  3
     5  is added to read as follows:
     6    §  3.  Subdivision 7 of section 70-0117 of the environmental conserva-
     7  tion law, as amended by chapter 329 of the laws of 1995, is  amended  to
     8  read as follows:
     9    7.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law, the department shall
    10  not charge any application fee or any other fee for any activity  under-
    11  taken  pursuant  to  an  adopt-a-park,  shoreline  [or], roadway or lake
    12  program pursuant to section two hundred  seventy-seven  of  the  general
    13  municipal law.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    15  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the  general  municipal
    16  law  relating to including lakes in adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or
    17  roadway programs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  4636  and
    18  A.  4563, takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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