Authorizes counties to lease county land for natural gas exploration, development and production for five years or as long as gas is produced in commercially paying quantities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9727
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE, CROUCH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to leases for the explora-
tion and drilling for and extraction of natural gas and liquefied
natural gas
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 215 of the county law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
3 4-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions three and four of
4 this section, a board of supervisors or other county legislative body
5 may lease, upon such terms and conditions as the board or body shall
6 determine, county land for the purposes of the exploration, development
7 and production of natural gas and liquefied natural gas, as such terms
8 are defined in section 23-1705 of the environmental conservation law,
9 for not more than five years and, if any such gas is produced upon the
10 county land prior to the expiration of such five year lease, the lease
11 shall be extended for as long as natural gas or liquefied natural gas is
12 produced in commercially paying quantities.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15131-01-9
