Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to develop guidelines for vegetation management plans to be used by persons or corporations that make claims that they provide pollinator protection.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6339--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, ALCANTARA, AVELLA, BAILEY, BROOKS, FUNKE,
HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY, MARCELLINO, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agricul-
ture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to guide-
lines for pollinator protection
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 49 to read as follows:
3 49. Develop, in consultation with the department of environmental
4 conservation and institutions of higher education with expertise in
5 pollinator protection, minimum guidelines for vegetation management
6 plans used by any person, corporation, partnership, association or other
7 organized group of persons who make public claims that their property or
8 commercial enterprise on a property, including, but not limited to solar
9 electric generating systems, is pollinator friendly or provides benefits
10 and protection to pollinators. Such guidelines shall provide guidance
11 for short-term and long-term property management practices that provide
12 and maintain native perennial vegetation to protect the health and well-
13 being of pollinators including, but not limited to the percentage of the
14 property that may be covered with native perennial vegetation; the type,
15 amount, and diversity of native perennial vegetation that may be main-
16 tained on the property; the number of seasons and the minimum number of
17 species of native perennial vegetation that may be in bloom; maintenance
18 practices to be used; the use of pesticides; the width and composition
19 of buffers adjacent to the property; and any other guidelines estab-
20 lished by the department. Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to
21 restrict any farming practices by any person, corporation, partnership,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 association or other organized group of persons not making such public
2 claims.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
