Enacts the "urban farming land initiative act"; requires each land bank to utilize ten percent of the acreage of its properties for the purpose of urban agriculture or community gardens.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9403
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to
enacting the "urban farming land initiative act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "urban farming land initiative act".
3 § 2. Section 1608 of the not-for-profit corporation law is amended by
4 adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:
5 (k)(i) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, each land bank
6 shall utilize ten percent of the acreage of its properties for the
7 purpose of urban agriculture or community gardens. A land bank is
8 authorized to enter into contracts and any other instruments necessary
9 to effectuate this paragraph.
10 (ii) For the purposes of this paragraph:
11 (1) "community garden" shall mean land bank property upon which citi-
12 zens of the municipality in which the land bank is located have the
13 opportunity to garden but they do not individually own; and
14 (2) "urban farming" shall mean the production of agricultural products
15 such as produce and animal products; this may include growing crops,
16 animal husbandry, beekeeping, aquaculture or aquaponics, vertical farm-
17 ing, and non-food products such as producing seeds, cultivating
18 seedlings, and growing flowers.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14131-01-4
