STATE OF NEW YORK
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5529--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LAVINE, SCHIMEL, ROSENTHAL, QUART,
AUBRY, MILLER, JAFFEE, COLTON, COOK, GALEF, SKARTADOS, RIVERA, HOOPER,
BRONSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, BRENNAN, FARRELL,
GLICK, GOTTFRIED, McDONALD, PEOPLES-STOKES, SOLAGES, THIELE -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation --
recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the use of the chemicals atrazine, metalaxyl and the neon-
icotinoids class of chemicals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 37-0115 to read as follows:
3 § 37-0115. Prohibition of use of the chemicals atrazine, metalaxyl or
4 the neonicotinoids class of chemicals.
5 It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, sell, offer for
6 sale or use the chemicals atrazine, metalaxyl or the class of chemicals
7 neonicotinoids, including imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam,
8 within this state or deliver for transportation or transport in intra-
9 state commerce or between points within this state through any point
10 outside this state.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018; provided, however,
12 that effective immediately, the addition and/or repeal of any rule or
13 regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
14 date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
15 such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08995-03-6
