S7734-2011 Actions

• Jun 22, 2012: referred to environmental conservation
• Jun 21, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 21, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 21, 2012: HOME RULE REQUEST
• Jun 20, 2012: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1445
• Jun 15, 2012: REFERRED TO RULES

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S7734-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S7734

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the navigation law, in relation to the regulation of the manner
of construction and location of boathouses, moorings and docks

PURPOSE:
To authorize the Town of Ulysses to use its zoning powers to regulate
boathouses, moorings and docks.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Subdivision 2 of Section 46-a of the Navigation Law is amended to
allow the Town of Ulysses in Tompkins County to adopt, amend and
enforce local laws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with the
laws of this state or the United States, with respect to the
restriction and regulation of the manner of construction and location
of boathouses, moorings and docks in any waters within or bounding
the respective municipality to a distance of fifteen hundred feet
from the shoreline.

JUSTIFICATION:
The Town of Ulysses has requested that the town be authorized to
regulate boathouses, moorings, and docks pursuant to Section 46-a of
the New York State Navigation Law. This will enhance the Town of
Ulysses' ability to "preserve and protect the Town's natural and
environmental resources" as outlined in their Comprehensive Plan.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S7734-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         7734
 I N  SENATE
 June 15, 2012
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 

AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to the regulation of the
 manner of construction and location of boathouses, moorings and docks
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 46-a of the navigation law, as
 amended by chapter 278 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:

 (2)  The  local legislative body of the village of Sodus Point and the
 town of Huron in the county of Wayne, the villages  of  Croton-on-Hudson
 and  Mamaroneck  and the town of Cortlandt in the county of Westchester,
 the town of Stony Point in the county of Rockland,  the  town  of  Grand
 Island  in  the county of Erie, the towns of Conesus, Geneseo, Groveland
 and Livonia in the county  of  Livingston,  the  towns  of  Irondequoit,
 Webster,  and Penfield in the county of Monroe, the village of Greenwood
 Lake and the town of Warwick in the county of Orange, the town of  Carl
 ton in the county of Orleans, the village of Sackets Harbor in the coun
 ty  of  Jefferson,  and the villages of Union Springs, Aurora and Cayuga
 and the towns of Genoa and Ledyard in the county of Cayuga,  the  [town]
 TOWNS of Ithaca AND ULYSSES in the county of Tompkins, the city of King
 ston  and the village of Saugerties in the county of Ulster and the town
 of Porter in the county of Niagara, and the village of  North  Haven  in
 the county of Suffolk may adopt, amend and enforce local laws, rules and
 regulations  not  inconsistent with the laws of this state or the United
 States, with respect to the restriction and regulation of the manner  of
 construction  and  location  of  boathouses,  moorings  and docks in any
 waters within or bounding the respective municipality to a  distance  of
 fifteen hundred feet from the shoreline.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD16272-01-2

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