Assembly Bill A5295

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows for counties through their local governing body to elect to participate in a stream maintenance and flood control program

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A5295 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§15-0501, 15-0505 & 16-0111, En Con L; add §120-dd, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3979
2011-2012: A4526
2013-2014: A1823
2015-2016: A2067
2017-2018: A1817
2019-2020: A943
2023-2024: A2493

2021-A5295 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish a stream maintenance and flood control program; allows for the local governing body of a county to elect to pass a local law providing for a local option into such program; provides for the county to be responsible for performing the work outlined in an approved stream maintenance and flood control plan.

2021-A5295 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5295
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law and the general
   municipal law, in relation to authorizing and directing the establish-
   ment of a stream maintenance and flood  control  program  as  a  local
   option for counties

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 15-0501 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
   6-A. NO PERMIT UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE REQUIRED FOR STREAM MAINTE-
 NANCE  AND FLOOD CONTROL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED IN FURTHERANCE OF A STREAM
 MAINTENANCE AND FLOOD CONTROL  PLAN  APPROVED  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE
 PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 16-0111 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  2. Section 15-0505 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
   4-A. NO PERMIT UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE REQUIRED FOR STREAM MAINTE-
 NANCE AND FLOOD CONTROL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED IN FURTHERANCE OF A  STREAM
 MAINTENANCE  AND  FLOOD  CONTROL  PLAN  APPROVED  IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 16-0111 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. Section 16-0111 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
 by chapter 727 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 § 16-0111. Powers and duties of commissioner.
   1.  The  commissioner  is  hereby  authorized  and directed for and in
 behalf of the state to carry out the state's participation in a  federal
 program  of  flood  control, to sign all necessary agreements, and to do
 and perform all necessary acts in connection therewith to consummate the
 intent and purpose running with the approval by the  federal  government
 of  flood control projects in New York state and the allotment of moneys
 for such projects, if, as and when made by the federal government.  [He]
 THE  COMMISSIONER is authorized and empowered, notwithstanding any other
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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