Prohibits the use of glyphosate and products containing glyphosate in any park, playground or picnic area owned or operated by New York state, New York city, or any municipality.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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182--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, ADDABBO, BIAGGI, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN,
KENNEDY, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the use of glyphosate and products containing glyphosate
in certain parks, playgrounds and picnic areas
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 glyphosate and products containing glyphosate
4 in parks, playgrounds and picnic areas.
5 1. No person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability compa-
6 ny, corporation, municipality or government entity shall use glyphosate
7 or any products containing glyphosate in any park, playground or picnic
8 area owned or operated by New York state, New York city, or any munici-
9 pality thereof.
10 2. For the purposes of this section:
11 (a) Glyphosate means a synthetic compound that is a non-selective
12 systemic herbicide, also known as N-(phosphonomethyl) glycerine with a
13 chemical formula of C3H8NO5P.
14 (b) "Municipality" means a city, county, town, village, public benefit
15 corporation or school district or and improvement district within a
16 city, county, town or village, or any combination thereof.
17 3. The department is authorized to promulgate such rules and regu-
18 lations as it shall deem necessary to implement the provisions of this
19 section.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
2 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
3 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
4 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
5 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
6 effective date.
