STATE OF NEW YORK
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5039
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 18, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
changing the definition of the word "weed"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 45 of section 33-0101 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as added by chapter 685 of the laws of 1978 and as
3 renumbered by chapter 612 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 45. "Weed" means any plant [which grows where not wanted] species
6 designated as noxious, harmful, exotic, invasive, injurious or poisonous
7 pursuant to state or federal law, and shall not include any endangered
8 species or any plants indigenous to this state.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09699-01-5
