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                                   5007
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE, FRIEND, DiPIETRO -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 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.
   §  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.
   §  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:
   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

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

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 A. 5007                             2
 
 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
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.