Assembly Bill A10709

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the removal of managed natural landscapes

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A10709 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §§1320 & 1321 to be §§1321 & 1322, amd §§1321 & 1322, add §1320, Pub Health L; amd §64, Town L; amd §17-145, NYC Ad Cd

2023-A10709 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the removal of managed natural landscapes that are maintained within the bounds of private property.

2023-A10709 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10709
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 18, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
   thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, the town law and the  administra-
   tive  code  of  the  city  of New York, in relation to prohibiting the
   removal of managed natural landscapes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Sections 1320 and 1321 of the public health law are renum-
 bered sections 1321 and 1322 and a new section 1320 is added to read  as
 follows:
   § 1320. DEFINITIONS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS TITLE:
   (A) "MANAGED NATURAL LANDSCAPE" SHALL MEAN A PLANNED, INTENTIONAL, AND
 MAINTAINED PLANTING OF NATIVE OR NON-NATIVE GRASSES, WILDFLOWERS, FORBS,
 FERNS,  SHRUBS,  OR  TREES,  INCLUDING  BUT NOT LIMITED TO RAIN GARDENS,
 MEADOW VEGETATION, AND ORNAMENTAL  PLANTS.  MANAGED  NATURAL  LANDSCAPES
 DOES  NOT  INCLUDE  TURF  GRASS LAWNS LEFT UNATTENDED FOR THE PURPOSE OF
 RETURNING TO A NATURAL STATE AND ANY RAGWEED OR OTHER SPECIES  OF  WEED,
 PLANT OR GROWTH WHICH IS NOXIOUS OR DETRIMENTAL TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH, OR
 THE  SEED, POLLEN OR OTHER EMANATION THEREFROM, WHEN CARRIED THROUGH THE
 AIR OR OTHERWISE DISPERSED, IS NOXIOUS  OR  DETRIMENTAL  TO  THE  PUBLIC
 HEALTH.
   (B)  "MEADOW  VEGETATION"  SHALL MEAN GRASSES AND FLOWERING BROAD LEAF
 PLANTS THAT ARE NATIVE TO, OR ADAPTED TO, THE STATE  OF  NEW  YORK,  AND
 THAT  ARE  COMMONLY  FOUND  IN MEADOW AND PRAIRIE PLANT COMMUNITIES, NOT
 INCLUDING NOXIOUS WEEDS.
   (C) "ORNAMENTAL PLANTS" SHALL MEAN GRASSES, PERENNIALS,  ANNUALS,  AND
 GROUNDCOVERS PURPOSEFULLY PLANTED FOR AESTHETIC REASONS.
   (D)  "RAIN  GARDEN"  SHALL  MEAN  A  LAWN  COMPRISED MOSTLY OF GRASSES
 COMMONLY USED IN REGULARLY CUT LAWNS OR PLAY AREAS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO BLUEGRASS, FESCUE, AND RYEGRASS BLENDS, INTENDED TO BE MAIN-
 TAINED AT A HEIGHT OF NO MORE THAN EIGHT INCHES.
   § 2. Section 1321 of the public health law, as renumbered  by  section
 one of this act, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15957-02-4
              

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