Establishes the marine life protection task force within the department of environmental conservation; directs such task force to determine the laws, rules and regulations providing protection to marine life in the marine and coastal district and assess the effectiveness thereof; requires task force to inventory and map the various species of marine life at the sites within the marine and coastal district, and determine whether such species need further protection; establishes the task force shall propose a marine life protection plan and a timetable for the implementation thereof to the commissioner of environmental conservation, governor and legislative leaders to assure adequate protection of marine life in the state; requires such plan to include proposed legislation; requires such task force to study the feasibility of municipal regulation of marine life reserves.
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Relates to the practice of professional geology.
Relates to the investment of funds to combat climate change to provide forty percent of overall benefits of spending on clean energy and energy efficiency programs, projects or investments in the areas of housing, workforce development, pollution reduction, low income energy assistance, energy, transportation and economic development to disadvantaged communities.
Prohibits enforcement of personal liability provisions against individuals in the event of default on a commercial lease, where the commercial tenant was restricted from operating under certain executive orders relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes a capped real property school tax rate for persons seventy years of age or older who meet the eligibility requirements for the enhanced school tax relief exemption.
Authorizes the district attorney bringing animal abuse charges to petition for the posting of security for the care of the abused animal on behalf of the impounding organization; authorizes all such petitions to be filed at or after the arraignment on animal abuse charges.
Prohibits the lease of state forests, wildlife management areas and unique areas for the purpose of gas production.
Provides that credits for excess electricity generated by customer-generators subject to net energy metering by an electric corporation or the Long Island power authority may be carried over indefinitely and used against any charges imposed by an electric corporation or the Long Island power authority when the customer-generator uses more electricity than such customer generates; provides for the accounting of credits once every 5 years and the electric corporation or Long Island power authority shall reimburse the customer-generator for the accumulated credits.
Relates to residency requirements for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; removes certain residency requirements for members of certain tribes and of the armed forces and organized militia.
Relates to enforcement of the freshwater wetlands law; requires restoration of areas adjacent to wetlands by those persons who, following procedures set forth in law, have been directed to cease violation and to restore the affected wetlands.