Assembly Bill A2678

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A2678 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §301, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9712
2021-2022: A6408
2023-2024: A3948

2019-A2678 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts.

2019-A2678 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2678
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 24, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Agriculture
 
 AN  ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to includ-
   ing urban farming written agricultural districts
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  11  of  section  301  of the agriculture and
 markets law, as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of  2016,  is  amended
 and a new subdivision 19 is added to read as follows:
   11.  "Farm operation" means the land and on-farm buildings, equipment,
 manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which  contrib-
 ute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and
 livestock  products  as a commercial enterprise, including a "commercial
 horse boarding operation" as defined in  subdivision  thirteen  of  this
 section, a "timber operation" as defined in subdivision fourteen of this
 section,  "compost,  mulch or other ORGANIC biomass crops" as defined in
 subdivision seventeen of this section [and], "commercial  equine  opera-
 tion"  as  defined  in  subdivision  eighteen of this section AND "URBAN
 FARMING" AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION NINETEEN OF THIS SECTION.  Such  farm
 operation  may  consist  of one or more parcels of owned or rented land,
 which parcels may be contiguous or noncontiguous to each other.
   19. "URBAN FARMING" MEANS THE CULTIVATION OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES, FLOW-
 ERS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, AS WELL AS THE LIMITED KEEPING AND RAISING OF
 FOWL OR BEES AND THE PRACTICE OF AQUACULTURE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00046-01-9

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