Bill Text: NY A04293 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the wetlands homeowner's relief act; provides that a homeowner who currently lives within a wetlands designated area shall not have to apply for a building permit for use of land within a fifty foot periphery of the house and garage; provides that new maps may not be issued without prior approval from the legislature; prohibits DEC from delineating wetlands beyond the boundaries shown on official wetlands maps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04293 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04293-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4293

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          enacting the wetlands homeowner's relief act

          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 "wetlands
     2  homeowner's relief act".
     3    § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  section 24-0303 to read as follows:
     5  § 24-0303. Homeowners; wetlands.
     6    1.  A  homeowner who currently lives within a wetlands designated area
     7  shall not have to apply for building permits issued  by  the  department
     8  for use of land within fifty feet from the periphery of such homeowner's
     9  house and garage.
    10    2.  Once  the  department  has  issued  a  wetlands  map for any given
    11  geographical area, a new map shall not be issued without approval by the
    12  legislature.
    13    3. The department is prohibited from delineating wetlands  beyond  the
    14  boundaries  of  mapped  wetlands  shown  on  the  department's  official
    15  wetlands maps.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01227-01-3