Bill Text: NY A02984 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows local governments to regulate pesticide use and notification more stringently than the commissioner of environmental conservation has elected to.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A02984 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02984-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2984
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         BRENNAN, CLARK, COLTON, COOK, HOOPER, ORTIZ, PERRY --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
         government  authority  to  regulate  pesticide  use  and  notification
         requirements
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  33-0101 of the environmental conservation law is
    2  amended by adding a new subdivision 50 to read as follows:
    3    50. "PESTICIDE USE" MEANS MIXING, LOADING, HANDLING, APPLYING,  TRANS-
    4  PORTING,  DISPOSING AND STORING OF PESTICIDES, AND CLEANING AND DISPOSAL
    5  OF PESTICIDE CONTAINERS.
    6    S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 33-0303 of the  environmental  conserva-
    7  tion law is amended to read as follows:
    8    1.  Jurisdiction  in all matters pertaining to the distribution, sale,
    9  use and transportation of pesticides, is by this article  vested  exclu-
   10  sively  in  the commissioner, EXCEPT THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MAY REGULATE
   11  PESTICIDE USE AND NOTIFICATION OF PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS  MORE  RESTRIC-
   12  TIVELY THAN THE COMMISSIONER.
   13    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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