STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 4763 A. 7241
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
April 20, 2011
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. SAYWARD -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including the Sacanda-
ga River within the definition of "inland waterways" for the purposes
of waterfront revitalization
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 911 of the executive law, as sepa-
2 rately amended by chapters 9 and 184 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 4. "Inland waterways" shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
5 consisting of lakes Big Tupper, Black, Canandaigua, Cayuga, Champlain,
6 Chautauqua, Conesus, Cranberry, George, Great Sacandaga, Honoeye, Indi-
7 an, Keuka, Long, Mirror, Oneida, Onondaga, Otisco, Otsego, Owasco, Plac-
8 id, Raquette, Ronkonkoma, Sacandaga, Saratoga, Schroon, Seneca, Skanea-
9 teles, Silver (in the county of Wyoming) and Saranac, and the Fulton
10 chain of lakes; (b) the state's major rivers comprised of the Ausable,
11 Black, Boquet, Canisteo, Chaumont (including Chaumont bay), Chemung,
12 Cohocton, Delaware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Hudson north of the federal
13 dam at Troy, Indian, Little (in the Adirondack park), Little Salmon
14 (including north and south branches), Mad, Mettowee, Mohawk, Oswegat-
15 chie, Racquette, Sacandaga, Salmon, Saranac, Susquehanna, Tioga and
16 Tioughnioga rivers, and the north and middle branches of the Moose
17 river; (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the Bushkill, Cincinna-
18 ti, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Fish
19 (including east and west branches), Gooseberry, Little Sandy, Onondaga,
20 Sandy, Schoharie, South Sandy, Oatka and Tonawanda and West Kill; (d)
21 the Barge Canal System as defined in section two of the canal law; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (e) the adjacent shorelands to the extent that such inland waters and
2 adjacent lands are strongly influenced by each other including, but not
3 limited to, islands, wetlands, beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs,
4 bluffs and erosion prone areas.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
