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BILL TEXT:
STATE OF NEW YORK
2003-2004 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
June 18, 2003
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IN SENATE — Introduced by Sens. LITTLE, FARLEY, MEIER,
SEWARD — read twice and ordered printed, and when printed
to be committed to the Committee on Rules
IN ASSEMBLY — Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES —
(at request of M. of A. Sayward, Aubertine, McDonald, Butler,
Ortloff, Scozzafava, Townsend) — read once and referred
to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules and the executive
law, in relation to the statute of limitations for certain actions
commenced by the Adirondack park agency within the Adirondack
Park
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 212 of the civil practice law and rules
is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) To enforce certain violations of Adirondack park agency
rules and
4 regulations within the Adirondack Park. An action to enforce
violations
5 of the rules and regulations of the Adirondack park agency
within the
6 Adirondack Park shall be commenced by such agency within ten
years after
7 the discovery of such violation, or in the exercise of reasonable
dili-
8 gence should have been discovered by a public servant who has
the
9 responsibility to enforce such provisions.
10 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 813 of the executive law,
as added by
11 chapter 898 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
12 1. Any person who violates any provision of this article or
any rule
13 or regulation promulgated by the agency, or the terms or conditions
of
14 any order or permit issued by the agency pursuant to this
article shall
15 be liable to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred
dollars for
16 each day or part thereof during which such violation continues.
The
17 civil penalties provided by this subdivision shall be recoverable
in an
18 action instituted in the name of the agency by the attorney
general on
19 his or her own initiative or at the request of the agency
within ten
20 years of the discovery of such violation, or in the exercise
of reason-
21 able diligence should have been discovered by a public servant
who has
22 the responsibility to enforce such provisions.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION—Matter in italics (underscored)
is new; matter in brackets [-] is old law to be omitted.
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