STATE OF NEW YORK
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5006
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
Parks and Recreation
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. Permit farmers' markets which offer for sale farm and food
5 products, as such terms are defined in section two hundred sixty of the
6 agriculture and markets law, at state parks when such farmers' market
7 does not harm the natural environment or integrity of the park.
8 § 2. Section 72-p of the general municipal law, as added by chapter
9 506 of the laws of 1989, is renumbered section 72-q and amended by
10 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
11 4. Such municipal corporation may permit farmers' markets which offer
12 for sale farm and food products, as such terms are defined in section
13 two hundred sixty of the agriculture and markets law, in any park over
14 which such corporation has jurisdiction; provided, however, that such
15 farmers' market does not unduly burden nearby residents and does not
16 harm the natural environment or integrity of the park.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08212-01-1
