STATE OF NEW YORK
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1608--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, CHU, HELMING, HINCHEY, MAY, O'MARA -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recre-
ation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law and
the general municipal law, in relation to farmers' markets in state
and local parks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3.09 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
2 vation law, is amended by adding a new subdivision 24 to read as
3 follows:
4 24. Encourage and promote farmers' markets which offer for sale farm
5 and food products, as such terms are defined in section two hundred
6 sixty of the agriculture and markets law, at state parks when such farm-
7 ers' market does not harm the natural environment or integrity of the
8 park. Such promotion shall include but not be limited to:
9 (a) posting information on the office's website pertaining to
10 locations and times of operation for such farmers' markets held in state
11 parks;
12 (b) identifying opportunities to expand farmers' markets to additional
13 state park locations; and
14 (c) coordinating with other state agencies, including but not limited
15 to empire state development and the department of agriculture and
16 markets, to further the goals of this subdivision.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04805-05-4
