STATE OF NEW YORK
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5828--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including the lake of
Drew 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 43 and 255 of the laws of 2017, paragraph (a)
3 as separately amended by chapters 133, 135, 140, 153, 234, 265, 268, 485
4 and 499 of the laws of 2018, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 499 of
5 the laws of 2018, and paragraph (c) as separately amended by chapters
6 131, 140, 232 and 502 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
7 follows:
8 4. "Inland waterways" shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
9 consisting of lakes Baldwin, Ballston, Big Tupper, Black, Campfire,
10 Canadarago, Canandaigua, Carmel, Cazenovia, Cayuga, Champlain, Charles,
11 Chateaugay, Chautauqua, Chazy, Conesus, Cranberry, Drew, East Caroga,
12 Dickiebusch, Echo (in the county of Westchester), George, Glencoma,
13 Great Sacandaga, Honeoye, Indian, Katonah, Kentwood, Keuka, Kitchawan,
14 Little Wolf (in the county of Franklin), Lincolndale, Long, Lost (in the
15 county of Putnam), Meahagh, Mirror, MacGregor, Mahopac, Minerva, Mohe-
16 gan, Nimham, Neatahwanta, Northville, Oceola, Oneida, Onondaga, Oscale-
17 ta, Ossi, Otisco, Otsego, Owasco, Palmer, Peach, Placid, Purdys, Putnam,
18 Raquette, Rippowam, Ronkonkoma, Round, Sacandaga, Saratoga, Schroon,
19 Secor, Seneca, Shenorock, Skaneateles, Silver (in the county of Wyom-
20 ing), Sagamore, Saranac, Seven Hills, Tibet, Tonetta, Teakettle Spout,
21 Truesdale, Waccabuc, West Caroga and Wixon, Simon (in the county of
22 Franklin) and the Fulton chain of lakes; (b) the state's major rivers
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 comprised of the Allegheny, Ausable, Battenkill, Black, Boquet, Bronx,
2 Canisteo, Chaumont (including Chaumont bay), Chemung, Chenango, Cohoc-
3 ton, Delaware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Great Chazy, Hoosic, Hudson north
4 of the federal dam at Troy, Indian, Little (in the Adirondack park),
5 Little Ausable, Little Salmon (including north and south branches), Mad,
6 Mettowee, Mohawk, Oswegatchie, Oswego, Pocantico, Racquette, Sacandaga,
7 Salmon, Saranac, Saw Mill, Schroon, Susquehanna, Tenmile, Tioga, Tiough-
8 nioga, Wallkill and Buffalo rivers, and the north and middle branches of
9 the Moose river; (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile
10 Creek located in Erie county, Chittenango Creek, Bash Bish and Kinder-
11 hook Creek located in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rens-
12 selaer county, Basher Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, Cincinna-
13 ti, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Fish
14 (including east and west branches), Gooseberry, Great Valley, Kennyetto,
15 Little Sandy, Onondaga, Peekskill Hollow, Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout,
16 Sandy, Schoharie, Shawangunk Kill, South Sandy, Oatka, Tonawanda, West
17 Kill, Scajaquada, Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic, Black Creek located in
18 Monroe county, Black Creek located in Genesee and Wyoming counties,
19 Ellicott Creek located in Erie county, Wynantskill, Claverack, Taghkan-
20 ic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek and Butternut Creek located in
21 Onondaga county, and Nanticoke; (d) the Barge Canal System as defined in
22 section two of the canal law; and (e) the adjacent shorelands to the
23 extent that such inland waters and adjacent lands are strongly influ-
24 enced by each other including, but not limited to, islands, wetlands,
25 beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs, bluffs and erosion prone areas.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
