Senate Bill S5437

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to agricultural custom operators

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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-S5437 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6668
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§301 & 305-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5256, A7599
2017-2018: S3921, A7294
2021-2022: S2135, A1889

2019-S5437 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to agricultural custom operators.

2019-S5437 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5437 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5437
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. METZGER, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricul-
   tural custom operators
 
   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 biomass crops" as defined in subdivi-
 sion seventeen of this section [and], "commercial equine  operation"  as
 defined  in  subdivision  eighteen  of this section AND AN "AGRICULTURAL
 CUSTOM OPERATOR" AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION  NINETEEN  OF  THIS  SECTION.
 Such farm operation may consist of one or more parcels of owned or rent-
 ed land, which parcels may be contiguous or noncontiguous to each other.
   19.  "AGRICULTURAL CUSTOM OPERATOR" MEANS AN OPERATOR WHOSE FACILITIES
 ARE LOCATED IN AN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT OR WHOSE SERVICES ARE HIRED BY A
 FARM OPERATION THAT IS LOCATED WITHIN AN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT TO UNDER-
 TAKE AN ACTIVITY ON THE FARM OPERATION THAT IS AN ESSENTIAL ACTIVITY  OF
 THE  FARM  OPERATION.  AN AGRICULTURAL CUSTOM OPERATOR'S FUNCTIONS SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:  PLANTING  OR  HARVESTING
 CROPS, SPREADING MANURE, AND APPLYING PESTICIDES OR FERTILIZERS.
   §  2. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 305-a of the agriculture
 and markets law, as added by chapter 497 of the laws of 2011, is amended
 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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