Enacts the wetlands homeowner's relief act; provides that a homeowner who currently lives within a wetlands designated area shall not have to apply for a building permit for use of land within a fifty foot periphery of the house and garage; provides that new maps may not be issued without prior approval from the legislature; prohibits DEC from delineating wetlands beyond the boundaries shown on official wetlands maps.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6928
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. FINCH, KOLB, McDONOUGH, BLANKENBUSH, LAWRENCE --
read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
enacting the wetlands homeowner's relief act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "wetlands
2 homeowner's relief act".
3 § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new
4 section 24-0303 to read as follows:
5 § 24-0303. Homeowners; wetlands.
6 1. A homeowner who currently lives within a wetlands designated area
7 shall not have to apply for building permits issued by the department
8 for use of land within fifty feet from the periphery of such homeowner's
9 house and garage.
10 2. Once the department has issued a wetlands map for any given
11 geographical area, a new map shall not be issued without approval by the
12 legislature.
13 3. The department is prohibited from delineating wetlands beyond the
14 boundaries of mapped wetlands shown on the department's official
15 wetlands maps.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05519-01-9
