Bill Text: NY S00315 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for local tidal wetlands protection; authorizes that if a town, village, city or county does not possess the technical capacity or the procedures to effectively carry out the requirements of this title, such local function shall be transferred to the county or the department thereof; provides for exemptions from local implementation under this title those tidal wetlands which, by reason of their size or special characteristics of unique environmental value or by reason of common characteristics, are appropriately to be administered pursuant to this article by the department alone; makes related provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-29 - PRINT NUMBER 315A [S00315 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00315-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 315--A A. 26--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conser- vation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local tidal wetlands protection The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Article 25 of the environmental conservation law is amended 2 by adding a new title 5 to read as follows: 3 TITLE 5 4 LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION 5 Section 25-0501. Local tidal wetlands protection procedures. 6 25-0503. Transfer of function to county; supersession by depart- 7 ment. 8 25-0505. Exemption from local implementation. 9 25-0507. Reservation of local jurisdiction. 10 25-0509. Relationship to other laws. 11 § 25-0501. Local tidal wetlands protection procedures. 12 1. On or after September first, two thousand sixteen, each local 13 government may adopt, amend, and, upon the filing of the appropriate 14 tidal wetlands map, implement a tidal wetlands protection law or ordi- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00807-02-6
