Bill Text: NY S03326 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use for one year.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S03326 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S03326-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3326 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 30, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to create a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Any town within a county with a population of fifty-five 2 thousand or less that has completed an agricultural and farmland 3 protection plan pursuant to section 324 of the agriculture and markets 4 law prior to the effective date of this act, may impose a moratorium, 5 not to exceed one year, on the annexation of agricultural land greater 6 than two hundred acres for an industrial use, to allow for the develop- 7 ment of an updated agricultural and farmland protection plan. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01922-01-3