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NY A02369
Bill
Status
9/25/2015
Primary Sponsor
Didi Barrett
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AI Summary
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Amends Agriculture and Markets Law sections 324 and 324-a to require county and municipal agricultural protection plans to include efforts supporting the transfer of agricultural land from existing owners to new owners and operators, especially new and beginning farmers
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Expands the description of activities, programs and strategies that counties must use to promote continued agricultural use to explicitly include land transfer support initiatives
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Allows counties to implement these transfer support efforts through revisions to comprehensive plans under General Municipal Law sections 239-D or 239-I
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Allows municipalities to implement these transfer support efforts through revisions to comprehensive plans under Town Law section 272-a or Village Law section 7-722
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment
Legislative Description
Relates to agriculture and farmland protection programs; includes efforts to support the successful transfer of agricultural land from existing owners to new owners and operators, especially new and beginning farmers in what should be included in agricultural and farmland protection plans.
Last Action
signed chap.248
9/25/2015