Expands agricultural tourism to include, but not be limited to, the production and processing of grapes, grains or other crops used to create alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in an on-farm brewery, winery, cidery, meadery or distillery, the production and processing of fiber such as sheep or alpaca wool, and the production of processed food commodities, including but not limited to ice cream, jams, baked goods and similar items.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5513
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to expand-
ing agricultural tourism
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 301 of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as amended by chapter 87 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 15. "Agricultural tourism" means activities, including but not limited
5 to the production of maple sap and pure maple products made therefrom,
6 the production and processing of grapes, grains or other crops used to
7 create alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in an on-farm brewery,
8 winery, cidery, meadery or distillery, the production and processing of
9 fiber such as sheep or alpaca wool, and the production of processed
10 food commodities, including but not limited to ice cream, jams, baked
11 goods and similar items, conducted by a farmer on-farm for the enjoyment
12 and/or education of the public, which primarily promote the sale,
13 marketing, production, harvesting or use of the products of the farm and
14 enhance the public's understanding and awareness of farming and farm
15 life.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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