STATE OF NEW YORK
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6295--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 3, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to create a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by
certain localities for an industrial use
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Any town within a county with a population of fifty-five
2 thousand or less that has completed an agricultural and farmland
3 protection plan pursuant to section 324 of the agriculture and markets
4 law prior to the effective date of this act, may impose a moratorium,
5 not to exceed one year, on the annexation of agricultural land greater
6 than two hundred acres for an industrial use, to allow for the develop-
7 ment of an updated agricultural and farmland protection plan.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11303-05-9
