Senate Bill S7721

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to regulations to restrict docks, boathouses and moorings on Otsego Lake in the town of Springfield

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  • Introduced
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S7721 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8244
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §46-a, Nav L

2023-S7721 - Summary

Permits the town of Springfield to adopt and enforce regulations restricting docks, boathouses and moorings on Otsego lake within such town.

2023-S7721 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7721 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7721
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law,  in relation to regulations to
   restrict docks, boathouses and moorings on Otsego Lake in the town  of
   Springfield

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 46-a of the navigation law is amended by  adding  a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   (7) THE LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY  OF  THE   TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD  IN  THE
 COUNTY  OF  OTSEGO MAY ADOPT,   AMEND  AND  ENFORCE  LOCAL  LAWS,  RULES
 AND  REGULATIONS  NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE LAWS OF THE  UNITED  STATES,
 WITH    RESPECT   TO   THE   RESTRICTION AND REGULATION OF THE MANNER OF
 CONSTRUCTION AND LOCATION OF   BOATHOUSES,   MOORINGS   AND   DOCKS   IN
 WATERS  OF  OTSEGO LAKE WITHIN THE  AFOREMENTIONED TOWN TO A DISTANCE OF
 FIFTEEN HUNDRED  FEET  FROM THE SHORELINE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11845-01-3

2023-S7721A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8244
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §46-a, Nav L

2023-S7721A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the town of Springfield to adopt and enforce regulations restricting docks, boathouses and moorings on Otsego lake within such town.

2023-S7721A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7721A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7721--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to
   the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks  and  Recreation  in
   accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law,  in relation to regulations to
   restrict docks, boathouses and moorings on Otsego Lake in the town  of
   Springfield
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 46-a of  the   navigation law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  569  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (2) The local legislative body of the village of Sodus Point  and  the
 town  of  Huron in the county of Wayne, the villages of Croton-on-Hudson
 and Mamaroneck and the town of Cortlandt in the county  of  Westchester,
 the  town  of  Stony  Point in the county of Rockland, the town of Grand
 Island in the county of Erie, the towns of Conesus,  Geneseo,  Groveland
 and  Livonia  in  the  county  of  Livingston, the towns of Irondequoit,
 Webster, and Penfield in the county of Monroe, the village of  Greenwood
 Lake  and the town of Warwick in the county of Orange, the town of Carl-
 ton in the county of Orleans, the village of Sackets Harbor in the coun-
 ty of Jefferson, and the villages of Union Springs,  Aurora  and  Cayuga
 and  the towns of Genoa and Ledyard in the county of Cayuga, the town of
 Ithaca in the county of Tompkins, the city of Kingston and  the  village
 of  Saugerties  in  the  county  of Ulster and the town of Porter in the
 county of Niagara, the village of North Haven in the county of  Suffolk,
 the  towns  of  Fayette  and  Varick  in the county of Seneca, [and] the
 village of Skaneateles and the town of  Skaneateles  in  the  county  of
 Onondaga, AND THE TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF OTSEGO may adopt,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11845-02-4

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