Requires the preparation of recommendations for best practices in treating livestock and farm property for Asian longhorned tick treatment, prevention and management.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8098
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 3, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
ing the preparation of recommendations for best practices in treating
livestock and farm properties for Asian longhorned tick treatment,
prevention, and management
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 50 to read as follows:
3 50. Develop, in consultation with the commissioner of the department
4 of health and the New York state land grant university, best-practice
5 recommendations for treatment, prevention and management of livestock
6 and farm property to protect against Asian longhorned ticks. Such recom-
7 mendations shall be based upon scientific data and shall include, but
8 not be limited to, the use of landscape techniques demonstrated to be
9 safe for livestock, people, pets and the environment, methods to
10 discourage rodent activity, and, as a method of last resort, the use of
11 effective active ingredients, as defined in subdivision one of section
12 33-0101 of the environmental conservation law, including usage informa-
13 tion and any label warnings or caution statements. The commissioner, in
14 consultation with the New York state land grant university, shall devel-
15 op and distribute to farmers information on Asian longhorned tick treat-
16 ment, management, and prevention. Such information and recommendations
17 shall also be made available on the department's website.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11790-06-9
