Assembly Bill A7360

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Specifies watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2021-A7360 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3189
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §198, Town L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S2819

2021-A7360 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Specifies watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights.

2021-A7360 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7360
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the  town  law,  in  relation  to  specifying  watershed
   protection  improvement districts may work towards the preservation of
   development rights
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 10-g of section 198 of the town law, as added
 by chapter 378 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   10-g. Watershed protection improvement district.   After  a  watershed
 protection improvement district has been established, the town board may
 take  such  action  as may be required to adopt plans and specifications
 and enter into a contract or contracts, or take such  other  actions  as
 may  be  required,  for  the  protection and restoration of groundwater,
 surface waters, and drinking water quality as it may deem to  be  neces-
 sary  or  desirable,  including  but not limited to stormwater treatment
 projects [and], wetland construction, AND  PRESERVATION  OF  DEVELOPMENT
 RIGHTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06534-01-1

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