Bill Text: NY A09891 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Adds Wawayanda Channel to the definition of inland waterways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - referred to environmental conservation [A09891 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09891-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9891

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding Wawayanda Chan-
          nel to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes  of  water-
          front revitalization

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 4 of section  911  of
     2  the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 273, 278 and 449 of
     3  the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  the  state's  major  channels  comprised of the Wawayanda Channel
     5  located in Orange county; (e) the  Barge  Canal  System  as  defined  in
     6  section  two  of the canal law; and [(e)] (f) the adjacent shorelands to
     7  the extent that such inland  waters  and  adjacent  lands  are  strongly
     8  influenced  by  each  other  including,  but  not  limited  to, islands,
     9  wetlands, beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs,  bluffs  and  erosion
    10  prone areas.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14827-01-2
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