STATE OF NEW YORK
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9410
IN ASSEMBLY
February 29, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
declaring the waters of the state as public trust resources
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 15-0103 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended to read as follows:
3 13. The waters of this state are deemed to be public trust resources.
4 It is in the best interest of the state that provision be made for the
5 regulation and supervision of activities that deplete, defile, damage or
6 otherwise adversely affect the waters of the state and land resources
7 associated therewith.
8 § 2. The opening paragraph of section 15-0105 of the environmental
9 conservation law is amended to read as follows:
10 In recognition that the waters of the state are public trust
11 resources, and in recognition of its sovereign duty to conserve and
12 control its water resources for the benefit of all inhabitants of the
13 state, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of New
14 York that:
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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