STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2819 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to specifying watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 10-g of section 198 of the town law, as added 2 by chapter 378 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 3 10-g. Watershed protection improvement district. After a watershed 4 protection improvement district has been established, the town board may 5 take such action as may be required to adopt plans and specifications 6 and enter into a contract or contracts, or take such other actions as 7 may be required, for the protection and restoration of groundwater, 8 surface waters, and drinking water quality as it may deem to be neces- 9 sary or desirable, including but not limited to stormwater treatment 10 projects [and], wetland construction, and preservation of development 11 rights. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05847-01-3