Assembly Bill A9891

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Adds Wawayanda Channel to the definition of inland waterways

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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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2021-A9891 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §911, Exec L

2021-A9891 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds Wawayanda Channel to the definition of inland waterways.

2021-A9891 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9891
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding Wawayanda Chan-
   nel to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes  of  water-
   front revitalization
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 4 of section  911  of
 the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 273, 278 and 449 of
 the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   (d)  THE  STATE'S  MAJOR  CHANNELS  COMPRISED OF THE WAWAYANDA CHANNEL
 LOCATED IN ORANGE COUNTY; (E) the  Barge  Canal  System  as  defined  in
 section  two  of the canal law; and [(e)] (F) the adjacent shorelands to
 the extent that such inland  waters  and  adjacent  lands  are  strongly
 influenced  by  each  other  including,  but  not  limited  to, islands,
 wetlands, beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs,  bluffs  and  erosion
 prone areas.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14827-01-2

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