Assembly Bill A3948

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A3948 (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
2019-2020: A2678
2021-2022: A6408

2023-A3948 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A3948 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3948
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee 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.
                                                            LBD05468-01-3

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