STATE OF NEW YORK
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10156
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law and the village law, in relation to floor
area ratio requirements for buildings on farms
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 264 of the town law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Floor area ratio requirements; farmland. (a) No zoning ordinance
4 shall restrict the floor area ratio of a dwelling located on an active
5 farm which is more restrictive than the floor area ratio requirements
6 established under any chapter of law.
7 (b) Any zoning ordinance in violation of this section shall be deemed
8 repealed and unenforceable.
9 § 2. Section 7-710 of the village law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
11 6. (a) No zoning local law shall restrict the floor area ratio of a
12 dwelling located on an active farm which is more restrictive than the
13 floor area ratio requirements established under any chapter of law.
14 (b) Any zoning local law in violation of this section shall be deemed
15 repealed and unenforceable.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
17 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
18 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
19 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
20 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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