STATE OF NEW YORK
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3034
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. STEC, BRESLIN, HELMING -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local
Government
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to aquatic plant growth
control districts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10-e of section 198 of the town law, as added
2 by chapter 602 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
3 10-e. Aquatic plant growth control district. After an aquatic plant
4 growth control district has been established, the town board may take
5 such action as may be required to adopt plans and specifications and
6 enter into a contract or contracts, or take such other action as may be
7 required, for the control of aquatic plant growth and for the control of
8 aquatic invertebrates classified as invasive by the department of envi-
9 ronmental conservation within the district as it may deem to be neces-
10 sary or desirable except the town board may not take any action that in
11 any way regulates or permits the application of pesticides to any land
12 not owned by the town or to or in surface waters.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08017-01-3
