Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Feb 05, 2014 |
opinion referred to judiciary |
Jan 10, 2014 |
to attorney-general for opinion |
Jan 08, 2014 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Feb 28, 2013 |
opinion referred to judiciary |
Feb 07, 2013 |
to attorney-general for opinion |
Feb 05, 2013 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Assembly Bill A4523
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
STEC
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Joseph Borelli
Raymond Walter
Al Graf
Janet Duprey
multi-Sponsors
David DiPietro
Steven McLaughlin
Claudia Tenney
2013-A4523 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A4523 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4523 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 5, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 14 of the constitution, in relation to the gathering of fallen timber from the lands of the state forest preserve Section 1. RESOLVED (if the Senate concur), That section 1 of article 14 of the constitution be amended to read as follows: Section 1. A. The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the state from constructing, completing and maintaining any highway heretofore specifically authorized by constitutional amendment, nor from constructing and maintaining to federal standards federal aid interstate highway route five hundred two from a point in the vicinity of the city of Glens Falls, thence northerly to the vicinity of the villages of Lake George and Warrensburg, the hamlets of South Horicon and Pottersville and thence northerly in a generally straight line on the west side of Schroon Lake to the vicinity of the hamlet of Schroon, then continuing northerly to the vicinity of Schroon Falls, Schroon River and North Hudson, and to the east of Makomis Mountain, east of the hamlet of New Russia, east of the village of Elizabethtown and continu- ing northerly in the vicinity of the hamlet of Towers Forge, and east of Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain and continuing northerly to the vicinity of the village of Keeseville and the city of Plattsburgh, all of the afore- said taking not to exceed a total of three hundred acres of state forest preserve land, nor from constructing and maintaining not more than twen- ty-five miles of ski trails thirty to two hundred feet wide, together with appurtenances thereto, provided that no more than five miles of such trails shall be in excess of one hundred twenty feet wide, on the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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