Bill Text: NY A03557 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3557

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows municipalities to regulate pesticides such that they do not conflict with any laws, rules or regulations related thereto.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - referred to environmental conservation [A03557 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03557-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3557

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law  and  the  general
          municipal  law,  in  relation  to  allowing municipalities to regulate
          pesticides

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

     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Municipal
     2  Oversight Of Natural Systems By Allowing Non-Toxic Options Act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 33-0303 of the  environmental  conserva-
     4  tion law is amended to read as follows:
     5    1.  Jurisdiction  in all matters pertaining to the distribution, sale,
     6  use and transportation of pesticides, is by this article  vested  exclu-
     7  sively  in  the  commissioner,  provided, however, that any municipality
     8  within the state may adopt local  laws  to  regulate  the  distribution,
     9  sale, use and transportation of pesticides.
    10    §  3.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    11  139-f to read as follows:
    12    § 139-f. Pesticides. The governing boards of municipal corporations as
    13  defined in section two of this chapter, may adopt local laws to regulate
    14  the distribution, sale, use and transportation of pesticides. Such local
    15  laws shall be supplemental and in addition to the provisions of  article
    16  thirty-three  of  the  environmental  conservation  law and any rules or
    17  regulations relating to pesticides and not in conflict therewith.
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07019-01-5