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2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 23 - Direct Marketing › 282 - Definitions.

§ 282. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "Direct  marketing"  means  the  sale  of  farm  and food products
  directly from producers to consumers and food buyers.
2. "Farm and food  product"  means  any  agricultural,  horticultural,
  forest,  or  other  product  of  the  soil or water that has been grown,
  harvested, or produced  wholly  within  the  state  of  New  York.  Such
  products  shall include but not be limited to: fruits, vegetables, eggs,
  dairy products, meat and meat products, poultry  and  poultry  products,
  fish   and  fish  products,  grain  and  grain  products,  honey,  nuts,
  preserves, maple sap products, apple cider, fruit juice,  ornamental  or
  vegetable   plants,   nursery  products,  flowers,  firewood,  fermented
  agricultural products, and Christmas trees.
3. "Producer" means any person who grows, produces, or  causes  to  be
  grown  or  produced  any  farm and food products in New York state. This
  term shall also  include  members  of  the  producer's  family  and  the
  producer's employees.
4.  "Farmers'  market"  means  any  building,  structure or place, the
  property of a municipal corporation or under lease to or  in  possession
  of  a  public  or  private agency, used or intended to be used by two or
  more producers for the direct  sale  of  farm  and  food  products  from
  producers  to  consumers  and  food buyers. Such market may also include
  facilities for  the  packing,  shipping,  first-instance  processing  or
  storage  of farm and food products, and shall include all equipment used
  or intended to be used in connection with such facilities.  Such  market
  may  also  include other businesses which reasonably serve the public or
  make the market more convenient, efficient,  profitable  or  successful,
  including,  but  not  limited  to,  food  service,  baking, and non-food
  retailing.
5. "Public  or  private  agencies"  means  any  department,  division,
  bureau,  or  program  of  the  federal  or  state  government,  or local
  governments,   public   benefit   corporations,    private    non-profit
  organizations, or educational institutions.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 23 - Direct Marketing › 283 - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.

§ 283. Powers  and  duties of the commissioner. The commissioner shall
  have the powers and duties to:
1. Develop  and  implement  programs  designed  to  facilitate  direct
  marketing.
2.  Encourage  direct  marketing  through  the cooperative selling and
  buying of farm products or production supplies.
3. Provide technical or educational assistance to  producers  of  farm
  products  seeking  new  or  improved methods of direct marketing of such
  products.
4. Provide assistance to wholesale buyers and retail stores seeking to
  purchase farm and food products directly from producers.
5. Provide assistance to consumer or non-profit organizations,  public
  or  private agencies, hospitals and other health care facilities seeking
  to purchase or facilitate the purchase of farm  products  directly  from
  producers.
6. Publicize and encourage participation by producers and consumers in
  direct marketing programs.
7.  Encourage the direct marketing of food and farm products to public
  and private agencies within the state.
8. Encourage the development of direct marketing programs within areas
  of the state which are identified as  having  poor  consumer  access  to
  reasonably priced and high quality farm products.
8-a.  Encourage  the  development of direct marketing programs, within
  areas of the state designated by the department of health  as  having  a
  high  incidence  of childhood obesity and to increase the consumption of
  fresh fruits and vegetables to help  curb  the  incidence  of  childhood
  obesity.
9.  Conduct conferences, seminars or workshops designed to promote the
  direct marketing of farm products within the state.
10. Contract, where necessary, and cooperate with other federal, state
  and local governmental, private non-profit agencies, and  other  private
  business organizations for the development, design and implementation of
  any activities authorized hereunder.
11.  Establish  a  statewide  advisory  council  which  shall  provide
  information to and advise the commissioner, as  prescribed  by  him,  on
  policy, planning and programs.
12.  Undertake  any  other  activities  which  he  deems  necessary to
  accomplish the purposes of this article.
13. Promulgate rules and regulations necessary to supplement and  give
  full force and effect to the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 23 - Direct Marketing › 284 - Establishment of Statewide Direct Marketing Activities.

§ 284. Establishment  of  statewide  direct  marketing activities. The
department shall conduct statewide  direct  marketing  activities  which
shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
1.  Communications  and  promotion  of direct marketing activities, to
include, where appropriate, cooperation with the  cooperative  extension
service in the area of education.
2.  Development of institutional direct marketing programs to increase
the purchase of New York state farm and food  products  in  coordination
with the office of general services and the department of education.
3.  Development  of  a  technical  assistance  program for initiating,
improving, and expanding direct marketing activities and developing  new
forms of direct marketing.
4. Development of guidelines for direct marketing operations that will
assist   individual  producers  in  reducing  costs  and  improve  their
financial returns and help assure consumers of high quality food.
5. Assistance to retail food stores in purchasing  directly  from  New
York state food producers.
6. Assistance to direct marketing organizations in areas identified as
having  poor  consumer access to high quality and reasonably priced food
and farm products.
7. Assistance to producers or consumers to initiate or improve  retail
and wholesale farmers' markets.
8.  (a)  Submission  of  a quinquennial report to the legislature, the
first of which shall be submitted in the year two  thousand  six,  which
shall  include an evaluation of the regional and institutional effect of
direct marketing activities during the previous five years.
(b) Between report  due  dates,  the  department  shall  maintain  the
necessary  records and data required to satisfy such report requirements
and to  satisfy  information  requests  received  from  the  legislature
between such report due dates.
9.  Establish  the  Hudson  valley  agricultural  center to serve as a
marketing, promotional, informational and cultural center for the Hudson
river valley  agricultural  region  and  greenway  and  to  promote  the
production  of  fruits  (including  juices,  jellies, and preserves made
therefrom), wine, cider, vegetables, and other agricultural products.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 24 - Promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Arts; Agricultural Societies › 286-A - Construction of Certain Terms of Lease of Lands Used for Fair Purposes.

§ 286-a. Construction of certain terms of lease of lands used for fair
  purposes.  The inability of any agricultural society entitled to receive
  moneys from the state under  section  two  hundred  eighty-six  of  this
  chapter, to hold its annual fair or exposition on lands leased to it for
  that  purpose which is occasioned by the use of such lands, for military
  or war purposes, during either of the years nineteen hundred  forty-two,
  nineteen  hundred forty-three and nineteen hundred forty-four, shall not
  be deemed to be a failure to hold such fair or  exposition  contemplated
  by  the  parties to, or within the meaning of the terms of any contract,
  agreement or lease therefor, executed prior thereto, which provides  for
  the termination of such contract, agreement or lease upon the failure of
  such  agricultural  society to hold its annual fair or exposition and no
  action or proceeding for the termination of such a  contract,  agreement
  or lease shall be maintained for failure of such agricultural society or
  institute  to  hold its annual fair or exposition, where such failure is
  occasioned by the use of such lands, building or property  for  military
  or war purposes.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 24 - Promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Arts; Agricultural Societies › 287 - Supervision of Agricultural Fairs and Expositions.

§ 287. Supervision   of  agricultural  fairs  and  expositions.    The
  commissioner, after consultation with the dean of the State  College  of
  Agriculture  at  Cornell  University,  shall have power to establish and
  promulgate from time to time standards for the conduct of such fairs and
  expositions in respect to premium lists,  exhibits,  judging  and  other
  educational  and agricultural activities.  No disbursement shall be made
  to any agricultural society or to said institute if the  last  preceding
  fair or exposition of such society or said institute shall not have been
  of  a standard worthy, in the opinion of the commissioner, of state aid,
  based upon its contribution to the promotion of agriculture and domestic
  arts.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 24 - Promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Arts; Agricultural Societies › 288 - Gambling; Obscene Shows; State Police Enforcement.

§ 288. Gambling;  obscene shows; state police enforcement. No immoral,
  lewd, obscene or indecent show or exhibition, and no gambling device  or
  devices,  instrument  or  contrivance in the operation of which bets are
  laid or wagers made, wheel of fortune,  or  game  of  chance,  shall  be
  permitted upon the grounds during the annual meeting, fair or exposition
  of  any  county  agricultural  society  or  town  or  other agricultural
  society, and it shall be the duty of the state police  to  enforce  this
  prohibition.  This  prohibition shall not be construed to prohibit horse
  racing, tests or trials of skill,  or  raffles  as  defined  in  article
  nine-A of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 24 - Promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Arts; Agricultural Societies › 290 - Association of Farmers; Powers Of.

§ 290. Association  of farmers; powers of. Any association of farmers,
  residing in any neighborhood, town or county  in  this  state,  now,  or
  hereafter  to  be organized, and acting under a constitution and by-laws
  adopted by themselves for their guidance, which shall be  filed  in  the
  clerk's  office  of  such  town or county and which are not inconsistent
  with the laws of this state, is hereby authorized to lease and  maintain
  grounds  and  structures  for the exhibition and sale of the products of
  their farms or their skill, and for the instruction  and  recreation  of
  its  members  and visitors. Any such association shall have authority to
  let, for  rent,  locations  on  their  leased  grounds  to  exhibitions,
  entertainments,   shopmen   and  persons  wishing  to  furnish  suitable
  refreshments for victualing members  and  visitors  or  for  storage  of
  personal  property  when  property  is  available  for such activity; to
  license peddlers to sell on their grounds articles of  merchandise,  not
  forbidden  to  be sold by any law of this state without license from the
  state; and in the name of such  association  and  upon  the  action  and
  direction of its officers, to sue for and collect the stipulated sums of
  such  rentals  and  licenses, and to enforce the observance of its rules
  and regulations by the several members  of  its  association.  And  such
  association is hereby empowered to issue certificates of indebtedness in
  amounts  of five dollars each, providing that the whole amount shall not
  exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, which they may sell at  a  price
  not  below  the  par value thereof, for the purpose of raising money for
  the erection of buildings, or for such  other  improvements  as  may  be
  deemed necessary by a majority of the members of such association.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-A - Food and Agriculture Industry Development › 296 - Legislative Findings and Intent.

§  296.  Legislative  findings  and  intent.  Agriculture,  a  leading
  industry in  the  state,  is  the  foundation  upon  which  hundreds  of
  thousands of jobs are based. Agriculture related employment is found not
  only  in  the production of crops and other basic foods, but also in the
  processing, distribution and sale thereof. Rapid changes taking place in
  the  food  and  agriculture  industry  require  new  approaches  in  the
  research,   development,  production,  processing  and  distribution  of
  agricultural products which capitalize on the state's  unique  resources
  and  strategic  location  near significant markets. Failure to keep pace
  with such changes would be detrimental to this major state industry  and
  to the supply of quality food for the public. It is essential that those
  engaged  in  agriculture and related businesses be offered encouragement
  and incentives to keep pace with the rapid changes. It is the intent  of
  the  legislature  to  provide  matching  grants  for  projects that will
  promote such strategic business undertakings as are necessary to  assure
  the  continued  prominence  of  agriculture as a leading industry in the
  state and of the state as a supplier of quality foods.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 300 - Declaration of Legislative Findings and Intent.

§ 300. Declaration  of  legislative  findings and intent. It is hereby
  found and declared that many of the agricultural lands in New York state
  are in jeopardy of  being  lost  for  any  agricultural  purposes.  When
  nonagricultural  development  extends  into  farm areas, competition for
  limited land resources results. Ordinances inhibiting  farming  tend  to
  follow,  farm  taxes  rise,  and  hopes for speculative gains discourage
  investments in  farm  improvements,  often  leading  to  the  idling  or
  conversion of potentially productive agricultural land.
The  socio-economic vitality of agriculture in this state is essential
  to the economic stability and growth of many local communities  and  the
  state  as a whole. It is, therefore, the declared policy of the state to
  conserve, protect and encourage the development and improvement  of  its
  agricultural   land  for  production  of  food  and  other  agricultural
  products. It is also the declared policy of the state  to  conserve  and
  protect  agricultural  lands  as valued natural and ecological resources
  which provide needed open spaces for clean air sheds,  as  well  as  for
  aesthetic purposes.
The  constitution  of the state of New York directs the legislature to
  provide for the protection of agricultural lands. It is the  purpose  of
  this article to provide a locally-initiated mechanism for the protection
  and  enhancement  of  New  York  state's  agricultural  land as a viable
  segment of the  local  and  state  economies  and  as  an  economic  and
  environmental resource of major importance.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 303-C - Consolidation of Agricultural Districts.

§   303-c.   Consolidation   of   agricultural   districts.   Existing
  agricultural districts may be consolidated  with  an  existing  district
  undergoing  review  pursuant  to  and  in the same manner prescribed for
  district review in section three hundred three-a of  this  article.  The
  notice  of  public  hearing required by subdivision two of section three
  hundred three-a of this article shall be given in writing by first class
  mail to those municipalities whose territories encompass  the  districts
  proposed  to  be consolidated; and to all persons, as listed on the most
  recent assessment  roll,  whose  land  is  the  subject  of  a  proposed
  consolidation.    In addition to the information required by subdivision
  two of section three hundred three-a of  this  article,  the  notice  of
  hearing  shall identify the district into which the existing district or
  districts will be consolidated and the  new  anniversary  date  for  the
  consolidated district.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 304-B - Agricultural District Data Reporting.

§ 304-b. Agricultural  district  data  reporting.  1. The commissioner
  shall file a written report with the governor  and  the  legislature  on
  January  first,  two  thousand eight and biennially thereafter, covering
  each  prior  period  of  two  years,  concerning  the  status   of   the
  agricultural  districts  program.  Such report shall include, but not be
  limited to, the total number of agricultural districts, the total number
  of acres in agricultural districts, a list of  the  counties  that  have
  established  county  agricultural  and  farmland protection plans, and a
  summary of the agricultural protection grants program.
2. Between report due  dates,  the  commissioner  shall  maintain  the
  necessary  records and data required to satisfy such report requirements
  and to satisfy information requests received from the governor  and  the
  legislature between such report due dates.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 305-A - Coordination of Local Planning and Land Use Decision-Making With the Agricultural Districts Program.

§ 305-a. Coordination  of  local planning and land use decision-making
  with the agricultural districts program. 1. Policy of local governments.
  a.  Local  governments,  when  exercising  their  powers  to  enact  and
  administer  comprehensive  plans  and  local  laws, ordinances, rules or
  regulations, shall exercise these powers in such manner as  may  realize
  the  policy  and  goals  set  forth  in  this  article,  and  shall  not
  unreasonably restrict or regulate farm  operations  within  agricultural
  districts in contravention of the purposes of this article unless it can
  be shown that the public health or safety is threatened.
b.  Upon the request of any municipality, farm owner or operator, or a
  person or entity performing agricultural practices on behalf of  a  farm
  owner  or  operator,  the  commissioner  shall  render an opinion to the
  appropriate local government officials, as to  whether  farm  operations
  would  be  unreasonably  restricted  or regulated by proposed changes in
  local land use regulations,  ordinances  or  local  laws  pertaining  to
  agricultural practices and to the appropriate local land use enforcement
  officials administering local land use regulations, ordinances, or local
  laws or reviewing a permit pertaining to agricultural practices.
c.  The  commissioner,  upon  his  or  her  own initiative or upon the
  receipt of a complaint from a person within  an  agricultural  district,
  may bring an action to enforce the provisions of this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 305-B - Agricultural Data Statement.

§  305-b.  Agricultural data statement. 1. Submission, evaluation. Any
  application for a special use permit, site plan approval, use  variance,
  or  subdivision  approval  requiring  municipal review and approval by a
  planning board, zoning board of appeals, town board, or village board of
  trustees pursuant to article sixteen of the town law or article seven of
  the village law, that would occur on  property  within  an  agricultural
  district  containing  a  farm  operation  or on property with boundaries
  within five hundred feet of a farm operation located in an  agricultural
  district,  shall  include  an  agricultural data statement. The planning
  board, zoning board of appeals, town board, or village board of trustees
  shall evaluate and consider  the  agricultural  data  statement  in  its
  review  of  the  possible  impacts  of  the  proposed  project  upon the
  functioning of farm operations within such  agricultural  district.  The
  information  required  by an agricultural data statement may be included
  as part of any other application form required by local  law,  ordinance
  or regulation.
2.  Notice  provision.  Upon  the  receipt  of such application by the
  planning board, zoning board of appeals, town board, or village board of
  trustees, the clerk of such board shall  mail  written  notice  of  such
  application  to the owners of land as identified by the applicant in the
  agricultural data statement. The notice shall include a  description  of
  the  proposed  project  and its location, and may be sent in conjunction
  with any other notice required by state or local law, ordinance, rule or
  regulation for the project. The cost of  mailing  the  notice  shall  be
  borne by the applicant.
3. Content. An agricultural data statement shall include the following
  information: the name and address of the applicant; a description of the
  proposed  project and its location; the name and address of any owner of
  land  within  the  agricultural  district,  which  land  contains   farm
  operations  and  is  located within five hundred feet of the boundary of
  the property upon which the project is proposed; and a tax map or  other
  map showing the site of the proposed project relative to the location of
  farm operations identified in the agricultural data statement.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 305-C - Review of Proposed Rules and Regulations of State Agencies Affecting the Agricultural Industry.

§  305-c.  Review  of proposed rules and regulations of state agencies
  affecting the agricultural industry. Upon request of the state  advisory
  council  on  agriculture,  or  upon  his  or  her  own  initiative,  the
  commissioner may review and comment upon a proposed rule  or  regulation
  by  another state agency which may have an adverse impact on agriculture
  and farm operations in this  state,  and  file  such  comment  with  the
  proposing  agency  and the administrative regulations review commission.
  Each comment shall be in  sufficient  detail  to  advise  the  proposing
  agency  of the adverse impact on agriculture and farm operations and the
  recommended modifications.  The  commissioner  shall  prepare  a  status
  report  of any actions taken in accordance with this section and include
  it in the department's annual report.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 307 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations.

§ 307. Promulgation  of  rules  and  regulations.  The commissioner of
  taxation  and  finance  and  the  commissioner  are  each  empowered  to
  promulgate  such  rules  and  regulations and to prescribe such forms as
  each shall deem necessary to effectuate the purposes  of  this  article.
  Where  a document or any other paper or information is required, by such
  rules and regulations, or by any provision of this article, to be  filed
  with,  or  by, a county clerk or any other local official, such clerk or
  other local official may file such document, paper, or information as he
  or she deems proper, but shall also file or  record  it  in  any  manner
  directed  by  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and  finance,  by rule or
  regulation. In promulgating such a rule or regulation, such commissioner
  shall consider, among any other relevant factors, the need for  security
  of  land  titles,  the  requirement  that purchasers of land know of all
  potential tax and penalty liabilities, and  the  desirability  that  the
  searching  of  titles not be further complicated by the establishment of
  new sets of record books.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AA - Agricultural Districts › 310 - Disclosure.

§ 310. Disclosure. 1. When any purchase and sale contract is presented
  for  the  sale, purchase, or exchange of real property located partially
  or wholly within an agricultural district established  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of this article, the prospective grantor shall present to the
  prospective grantee a disclosure notice which states the following:
"It  is  the  policy  of  this  state  and this community to conserve,
  protect and encourage the development and  improvement  of  agricultural
  land  for  the  production of food, and other products, and also for its
  natural and ecological  value.  This  disclosure  notice  is  to  inform
  prospective  residents  that the property they are about to acquire lies
  partially or wholly within an agricultural  district  and  that  farming
  activities  occur  within  the  district.  Such  farming  activities may
  include, but not be limited to, activities that cause  noise,  dust  and
  odors.  Prospective  residents  are  also  informed that the location of
  property within an agricultural  district  may  impact  the  ability  to
  access  water  and/or  sewer  services  for  such property under certain
  circumstances.  Prospective purchasers are urged to contact the New York
  State  Department  of  Agriculture  and  Markets  to  obtain  additional
  information  or  clarification  regarding  their  rights and obligations
  under article 25-AA of the Agriculture and Markets Law."
1-a. Such disclosure notice shall be signed by the prospective grantor
  and grantee prior to  the  sale,  purchase  or  exchange  of  such  real
  property.
2.  Receipt  of such disclosure notice shall be recorded on a property
  transfer report form prescribed by  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and
  finance  as  provided  for  in section three hundred thirty-three of the
  real property law.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 321 - Statement of Legislative Findings and Intent.

§ 321. Statement  of  legislative  findings  and  intent. It is hereby
  found and declared  that  agricultural  lands  are  irreplaceable  state
  assets.   In   an   effort  to  maintain  the  economic  viability,  and
  environmental  and  landscape  preservation   values   associated   with
  agriculture, the state must explore ways to sustain the state's valuable
  farm economy and to protect farm operations and the land base associated
  with  it. External pressures on farm stability such as population growth
  in non-metropolitan areas, lack of access to  affordable  farmland,  and
  public  infrastructure  development  pose  a  significant threat to farm
  operations, yet are the pressures over  which  farmers  have  the  least
  control.   Local   initiatives   in   agricultural   protection  policy,
  facilitated by the agricultural districts program established in article
  twenty-five-AA of this chapter, have proved effective as a basic step in
  addressing  these  pressures.  In  an  effort   to   encourage   further
  development  of  agricultural  and  farmland protection programs, and to
  recognize  both  the  crucial  role  that  local  government  plays   in
  developing  these strategies, plus the state constitutional directive to
  the legislature to provide for the protection of agricultural lands,  it
  is  therefore  declared  the  policy  of  the  state  to  promote  local
  initiatives for agricultural and farmland protection.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 322 - Definitions.

§ 322. Definitions. When used in this article:
1.  "Agricultural  and  farmland  protection"  means the preservation,
  conservation, management or improvement  of  lands  which  are  part  of
  viable  farming operations, for the purpose of encouraging such lands to
  remain in agricultural production. Such preservation efforts include the
  use of  farmland  protection  conservation  easements  and  purchase  of
  development rights.
2.  "Plan"  means  the  county and municipal agricultural and farmland
  protection plan as provided for in this article.
3. "Program" means the  state  agricultural  and  farmland  protection
  program created pursuant to the provisions of this article.
4. "Not-for-profit conservation organization" means an organization as
  defined  in  subdivision  two  of  section  49-0303 of the environmental
  conservation law.
5. "Soil and water conservation district" means an entity  as  defined
  in  subdivision  one of section three of the soil and water conservation
  districts law.
6. "Farmer-purchaser farmland protection agreement"  means  preemptive
  purchase  rights  or  other  provisions  that are part of or linked to a
  farmland protection conservation easement providing the easement  holder
  the   preferential   right   to   purchase  protected  farmland  at  its
  agricultural use value in the event the landowner intends to  sell  such
  farmland  to  a  purchaser  who  does not intend to maintain the land in
  commercial agricultural production and who does not have  the  requisite
  farming  experience  and  farming  income  to  demonstrate,  in a manner
  acceptable to the department, a good faith plan to maintain the land  in
  commercial agricultural production. The purpose of such provisions is to
  ensure  that  farmer-purchasers who would maintain protected farmland in
  commercial agricultural production can afford such farmland  that  might
  otherwise be sold at a higher price to other purchasers.
7.  "Agricultural use value" means the fair market value of a property
  that  is  restricted  by  an  easement  to  its  productive   commercial
  agricultural use value rather than the highest and/or best potential use
  value for residential or other non-agricultural purposes.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 323 - State Agricultural and Farmland Protection Program.

§  323.  State  agricultural  and  farmland  protection  program.  The
  commissioner shall  initiate  and  maintain  a  state  agricultural  and
  farmland   protection   program   to  provide  financial  and  technical
  assistance, within funds available, to  counties,  municipalities,  soil
  and   water  conservation  districts,  and  not-for-profit  conservation
  organizations for their agricultural and  farmland  protection  efforts.
  Activities to be conducted by the commissioner shall include, but not be
  limited to:
1.   developing   guidelines   for   the   creation  by  counties  and
  municipalities of agricultural and farmland protection plans;
2. providing technical assistance to county agricultural and  farmland
  protection  boards,  as  established  in  article twenty-five-AA of this
  chapter, and municipalities;
3. administering state assistance payments to county agricultural  and
  farmland   protection   boards,   municipalities   and  soil  and  water
  conservation districts;
4. disseminating information to county and municipal governments, soil
  and water conservation districts, owners of agricultural lands and other
  agricultural  interests  about  the  state  agricultural  and   farmland
  protection program established pursuant to this article;
5.   administering   state   assistance   payments  to  not-for-profit
  conservation organizations; and
6. reporting biennially to the governor and the legislature  regarding
  the  activities  of  the commissioner, the types of technical assistance
  rendered  to  county  agricultural  and  farmland   protection   boards,
  municipalities, soil and water conservation districts and not-for-profit
  conservation   organizations,  and  the  need  to  protect  the  state's
  agricultural economy and land resources.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 324 - County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plans.

§ 324. County  agricultural  and  farmland protection plans. 1. County
agricultural and  farmland  protection  boards  may  develop  plans,  in
cooperation with the local soil and water conservation district and soil
conservation service, which shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) the location of any land or areas proposed to be protected;
(b)  an  analysis  of  the  following factors concerning any areas and
lands proposed to be protected:
(i) value to the agricultural economy of the county;
(ii) open space value;
(iii) consequences of possible conversion; and
(iv) level of conversion pressure on the lands or areas proposed to be
protected; and
(c)  a  description  of  the  activities,  programs  and   strategies,
including  efforts  to  support  the successful transfer of agricultural
land from existing owners to new owners and  operators,  especially  new
and  beginning  farmers,  intended  to  be used by the county to promote
continued agricultural use, which may include  but  not  be  limited  to
revisions  to  the  county's  comprehensive plan pursuant to section two
hundred thirty-nine-d  or  two  hundred  thirty-nine-i  of  the  general
municipal law.
2. The county agricultural and farmland protection board shall conduct
at least one public hearing for public input regarding such agricultural
and  farmland  protection plan, and shall thereafter submit such plan to
the county legislative body for its approval.
3. The county agricultural protection plan must be  submitted  by  the
county to the commissioner for approval.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 324-A - Municipal Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plans.

§  324-a.  Municipal  agricultural  and  farmland protection plans. 1.
Municipalities may develop agricultural and farmland  protection  plans,
in  cooperation  with  cooperative  extension  and  other organizations,
including local farmers. These plans shall include, but not  be  limited
to:
(a) the location of any land or areas proposed to be protected;
(b)  an  analysis  of  the  following factors concerning any areas and
lands proposed to be protected:
(i) value to the agricultural economy of the municipality;
(ii) open space value;
(iii) consequences of possible conversion; and
(iv) level of conversion pressure on the lands or areas proposed to be
protected; and
(c) a description of activities, programs  and  strategies,  including
efforts  to  support  the  successful transfer of agricultural land from
existing  owners  to  new  owners  and  operators,  especially  new  and
beginning  farmers,  intended  to be used by the municipality to promote
continued agricultural use, which may include  but  not  be  limited  to
revisions  to  the municipality's comprehensive plan pursuant to section
two hundred seventy-two-a of the  town  law  or  section  7-722  of  the
village law as appropriate.
2.  The  municipality  shall  conduct  at least one public hearing for
public input regarding such agricultural and farmland  protection  plan,
and  shall thereafter submit such plan to the municipal legislative body
and the county agricultural farmland protection board for approval.
3. The municipal agricultural and farmland  protection  plan  must  be
submitted by the municipality to the commissioner for approval.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 325-A - State Assistance Payments to Not-for-Profit Conservation Organizations.

§  325-a.  State  assistance  payments  to not-for-profit conservation
  organizations. 1. Subject to the availability of  funds,  a  program  is
  hereby  established  for  the  purpose  of  awarding state assistance to
  not-for-profit  conservation  organizations  for  activities  that  will
  assist  counties and municipalities with their agricultural and farmland
  protection efforts. To be eligible, an organization shall have at  least
  one active farmer on their board of directors at the time of application
  or  shall  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a farmer to such board of
  directors in a manner approved by the commissioner.
2. Awards of state assistance payments shall be made on a  competitive
  basis  through  a request for proposal process which shall set forth the
  standards for the selection process, the required proposal  format,  the
  costs  which  are eligible for funding, reporting requirements, and such
  other provisions as the  commissioner  may  deem  necessary,  proper  or
  desirable  to  achieve  the  purposes  of this section. Applications for
  state assistance payments must  be  endorsed  by  the  agricultural  and
  farmland protection board for the county or counties in which the funded
  activities would be implemented.
3. In evaluating applications, the commissioner shall give priority to
  activities  that  will  assist  counties  and  municipalities with their
  agricultural  and   farmland   protection   efforts   by   disseminating
  information  and  providing technical assistance to county and municipal
  governments,  owners  of  agricultural  lands  and  other   agricultural
  interests.
4.   Upon   receipt  of  an  application  for  state  assistance,  the
  commissioner shall review the request, consult with the advisory council
  on agriculture and, within ninety days from the receipt  of  a  complete
  application,  make  a determination as to whether or not the application
  will be funded.
5. State assistance payments awarded to an applicant shall be used  in
  a  manner  which  does  not in any way unreasonably restrict or regulate
  farm  operations  in  contravention   of   the   purposes   of   article
  twenty-five-AA of this chapter.
6.  State  assistance  payments awarded pursuant to this section shall
  not exceed fifty thousand dollars to any applicant in any  fiscal  year,
  and  shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars to all applicants in
  any fiscal year.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAA - Agricultural and Farmland Protection Programs › 326 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations.

§ 326. Promulgation  of  rules  and  regulations.  The commissioner is
  empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations and to prescribe such
  forms as he or she deems necessary to effectuate the  purposes  of  this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAAA - Farmland Viability Program › 327 - Legislative Intent.

§  327.  Legislative  intent. The legislature hereby finds, determines
  and declares that the New York agriculture industry  has  a  substantial
  impact  on  the  overall  economic  health  and well-being of the state.
  Furthermore, state farms preserve approximately  7.7  million  acres  of
  open  space  as  working  landscapes,  thus  contributing to the overall
  quality of the state's environment. Preserving  farmland  as  a  working
  agricultural landscape provides open space benefits for all residents of
  the  state,  and  maintains  the  land as a natural habitat for animals.
  Properly  managed  farmland  has  been  demonstrated  to  be  the   best
  environmental  usage  of  land for watershed protection, so it is in the
  best  interest  of  the  state  to  maintain  agricultural   land.   The
  legislature  hereby  declares  that  in  order  to  ensure the continued
  economic viability of the agricultural industry,  and  to  preserve  the
  environmental  benefits  of  agricultural land use, the department shall
  create a farmland viability program.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAAA - Farmland Viability Program › 328 - Definitions.

§  328. Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms
  shall have the following meanings:
1. "Program" shall mean the farmland viability program.
2. "Agricultural product" shall mean any agricultural or  aquacultural
  product  of  the  soil  or  water,  including but not limited to fruits,
  vegetables, eggs, dairy products, meat and meat  products,  poultry  and
  poultry  products,  fish  and  fish  products, grain and grain products,
  honey, nuts, preserves, maple  sap  products,  apple  cider,  and  fruit
  juice.
3.  "Value  added" shall mean the increase in the fair market value of
  an agricultural product resulting from the processing of such product.
4. "Applicant" shall mean any  individual,  partnership,  association,
  cooperative,  corporation  or  limited  liability company that manages a
  farm operation as defined in section three hundred one of this  chapter,
  or  county  agricultural  and farmland protection board with an approved
  agricultural protection plan, or an agricultural cooperative as  defined
  in  section  one  hundred  eleven  of  the cooperative corporations law,
  applying for financial assistance under the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAAA - Farmland Viability Program › 329 - Farmland Viability Program.

§ 329. Farmland viability program. The commissioner shall initiate and
  maintain  a state farmland viability program within the department which
  is intended to improve the profitability and efficiency of participating
  farms. The program shall provide technical and financial  assistance  in
  the  form of matching grants to applicants for projects which contribute
  to overall farm profitability and sound environmental management.
1. The commissioner may award grants, within  available  funding,  for
  the following purposes:
a.  to  a  county  agricultural  and farmland protection board for the
  implementation of any component of its approved agricultural  protection
  plan which addresses improved farm profitability;
b.  to  an  applicant,  other  than a county agricultural and farmland
  protection board, for the development of a farmland viability plan or  a
  portion  of  such  a plan, which shall assess overall farm profitability
  and identify potential strategies for improved farm  profitability  such
  as    farm   expansion,   value   added   production,   diversification,
  environmental management, or marketing and promotional activities, and
c. to an applicant, other than  a  county  agricultural  and  farmland
  protection  board,  for  the  implementation  of  any  component  of its
  farmland viability plan which has been approved by the commissioner.
2. The commissioner shall consult with the college of agriculture  and
  life  sciences  at  Cornell university and the state advisory council on
  agriculture to identify  and  coordinate  available  resources  for  the
  farmland viability program.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-AAAA - Farmland Viability Program › 330 - Matching Grant Program.

§  330.  Matching  grant  program.  1.  Subject to the availability of
  funds, a matching grant program is hereby established to effectuate  the
  purposes  of  the  program.  Grants  to  applicants, other than a county
  agricultural  and  farmland   protection   board,   shall   not   exceed
  seventy-five  percent  of  the  costs  of  preparing  or  implementing a
  farmland  viability  plan  or  portion   thereof.   Grants   to   county
  agricultural  and  farmland  protection  boards for implementation of an
  approved agricultural protection plan shall not exceed fifty percent  of
  the cost of implementing such plan or portion thereof.
2.  Project  grants  shall be awarded on a competitive basis through a
  request for proposal process which shall set forth the standards for the
  selection process, the required project proposal format, costs  eligible
  for  funding,  project  implementation, reporting requirements, and such
  other provisions as the commissioner may deem necessary or beneficial in
  implementing the program.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-B - Abandoned Animals › 331 - Abandonment of Certain Animals.

§ 331. Abandonment  of  certain  animals.  An  animal  is deemed to be
  abandoned when it is placed in the custody of a veterinarian, veterinary
  hospital, boarding kennel owner or operator, stable owner  or  operator,
  or any other person for treatment, board, or care and:
1.  Having  been placed in such custody for a specified period of time
  the animal is not removed at the end of  such  specified  period  and  a
  notice to remove the animal within ten days thereafter has been given to
  the person who placed the animal in such custody, by means of registered
  letter mailed to the last known address of such person, or:
2.  Having  been  placed  in such custody for an unspecified period of
  time the animal is not removed within twenty days after notice to remove
  the animal has been given to the person who placed the  animal  in  such
  custody,  by  means  of  a  registered  letter  mailed to the last known
  address of such person.
3. The giving of notice as prescribed in this section shall be  deemed
  a  waiver  of any lien on the animal for the treatment, board or care of
  the animal but shall not relieve the owner of the animal removed of  his
  contractual liability for such treatment, board or care furnished.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 25-B - Abandoned Animals › 332 - Disposition.

§ 332. Disposition.  Any person having in his or her care, custody, or
  control any abandoned  animal,  as  defined  in  section  three  hundred
  thirty-one  of  this  article,  may  deliver  such  animal  to  any duly
  incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty  to  animals  or  any
  duly  incorporated  humane  society  having  facilities for the care and
  eventual disposition of such animals, or, in the case of dogs, cats  and
  other  small  animals,  to  any pound maintained by or under contract or
  agreement with any county, city, town,  or  village  within  which  such
  animal  was  abandoned.  The  person  with whom the animal was abandoned
  shall, however, on the day of divesting himself or herself of possession
  thereof, notify the person who had placed such  animal  in  his  or  her
  custody  of the name and address of the animal society or pound to which
  the animal has been delivered, such notice to be  by  registered  letter
  mailed  to  the  last  known  address  of  the  person intended to be so
  notified. If an animal is not claimed by  its  owner  within  five  days
  after  being  so  delivered  to  such  duly incorporated society for the
  prevention of cruelty to animals, duly incorporated  humane  society  or
  pound,  such animal may at any time thereafter be placed for adoption in
  a suitable home or euthanized  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of
  section  three  hundred  seventy-four  of  this  chapter.  In  no event,
  however, shall the use  of  a  decompression  chamber  or  decompression
  device of any kind be used for the purpose of destroying or disposing of
  such animal.