Directs the department of agriculture and markets and the state soil and water conservation committee to review and define farm conservation practices which are within the professions of engineering, land surveying and architecture.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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852
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 5, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, FUNKE, O'MARA, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law and the education law,
in relation to farm conservation practices
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 by
2 adding a new subdivision 49 to read as follows:
3 49. Define and review on an on-going basis farm conservation practices
4 in conjunction with the state soil and water conservation committee to
5 determine the scope of engineering, land surveying or architecture
6 necessary for such practices.
7 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 7 of section 7209 of the education
8 law, as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
9 follows:
10 b. To alterations to any building or structure costing ten thousand
11 dollars or less which do not involve changes affecting the structural
12 safety or public safety thereof nor to farm buildings, including barns,
13 sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly and solely for
14 agricultural purposes; nor to farm conservation practices, except as
15 determined necessary by the department of agriculture and markets and
16 the state soil and water conservation committee; nor to residence build-
17 ings of gross floor area of fifteen hundred square feet or less, not
18 including garages, carports, porches, cellars, or uninhabitable base-
19 ments or attics.
20 § 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision 5 of section 7307 of the education
21 law, as amended by chapter 994 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read
22 as follows:
23 1. Farm buildings, including barns, sheds, poultry houses and other
24 buildings used directly and solely for agricultural purposes; nor to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 farm conservation practices, except as determined necessary by the
2 department of agriculture and markets and the state soil and water
3 conservation committee; nor to residence buildings of gross area of
4 fifteen hundred square feet or less, not including garages, carports,
5 porches, cellars, or uninhabitable basements or attics; or
6 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
