Bill Text: NY S00807 | 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: (Engrossed) 2025-01-22 - referred to local governments [S00807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00807-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           807

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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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