STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7808--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments -- 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.
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