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                                 3024--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2015
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Introduced  by Sens. YOUNG, FUNKE, O'MARA, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and
  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
  Agriculture  -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accord-
  ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the  education  law,
  in relation to farm conservation practices

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 49 to read as follows:
  49. DEFINE AND REVIEW ON AN ON-GOING BASIS FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION  COMMITTEE  TO
DETERMINE  THE  SCOPE  OF  ENGINEERING,  LAND  SURVEYING OR ARCHITECTURE
NECESSARY FOR SUCH PRACTICES.
  S 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 7 of section  7209  of  the  education
law,  as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
follows:
  b. To alterations to any building or structure  costing  ten  thousand
dollars  or  less  which do not involve changes affecting the structural
safety or public safety thereof nor to farm buildings, including  barns,
sheds,  poultry  houses and other buildings used directly and solely for
agricultural purposes; NOR TO FARM  CONSERVATION  PRACTICES,  EXCEPT  AS
DETERMINED  NECESSARY  BY  THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS AND
THE STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE; nor to residence build-
ings of gross floor area of fifteen hundred square  feet  or  less,  not
including  garages,  carports,  porches, cellars, or uninhabitable base-
ments or attics.
  S 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision 5 of section  7307  of  the  education
law,  as  amended by chapter 994 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read
as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05586-02-6
              

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  1. Farm buildings, including barns, sheds, poultry  houses  and  other
buildings  used  directly  and  solely for agricultural purposes; NOR TO
FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES,  EXCEPT  AS  DETERMINED  NECESSARY  BY  THE
DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS  AND  THE STATE SOIL AND WATER
CONSERVATION  COMMITTEE;  nor  to  residence  buildings of gross area of
fifteen hundred square feet or less, not  including  garages,  carports,
porches, cellars, or uninhabitable basements or attics; or
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.