STATE OF NEW YORK
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5715
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, MAISEL, COLTON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to defining
"integrated pest management"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general construction law is amended by adding a new
2 section 23-a to read as follows:
3 § 23-a. Integrated pest management. The term integrated pest manage-
4 ment means a decision making process for pest control that utilizes
5 regular monitoring to determine if and when control is needed, and
6 employs physical, mechanical, cultural, biological and educational
7 tactics to control conditions that promote pest infestations and keep
8 pest populations at tolerable damage and annoyance levels. Such decision
9 making process shall only consider the use of least toxic pesticide
10 controls as a last resort. The overall goals of integrated pest manage-
11 ment shall be the elimination of the unnecessary use of pesticides and
12 the reduction of the use of all pesticides.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09777-01-1
