Title AGM, Agriculture & Markets

§ 148-c. Fruit pest management. Within the integrated pest management\nprogram there shall be established a fruit pest management program. Such\nprogram shall be conducted in such a manner to achieve the following\nobjectives:\n 1. establish current pesticide use patterns and th…

§ 148-d. Vegetable and potato pest management. Within the integrated\npest management program, there shall be established a vegetable and\npotato pest management program. Such program shall be conducted in such\na manner to achieve the following objectives:\n 1. determine the oc…

§ 148-e. Ornamentals pest management. Within the integrated pest\nmanagement program there shall be established an ornamentals pest\nmanagement program to include ornamental, turf, floriculture and\ngreenhouse crops. Such program shall be conducted in such a manner to\nachieve t…

§ 149. Enactment of compact. 1. The pest control compact is hereby\nenacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally\njoining therein in the form substantially as follows:\n PEST CONTROL COMPACT\n ARTICLE I\n Findings\n The party states find that:\n (a) In …

§ 15. Seal of department. The department shall have an official seal,\nto be prepared and furnished by the secretary of state, as provided by\nlaw. Such seal shall be used for the authentication of the orders and\nproceedings of the commissioner and for such other purposes as th…

§ 150. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Agricultural\nenvironmental management (AEM) program" means the program established in\nthis article to assist farmers in managing their farm operations in a\nway that protects the environment and helps maintain the economic\nviab…

§ 151. Agricultural environmental management program. There is hereby\nestablished within the department an agricultural environmental\nmanagement program to assist farmers in maintaining the economic\nviability of their farm operations while addressing environmental\nimpacts fr…

§ 151-a. Planner certification. There is hereby established a planner\ncertification program for the purpose of certifying individuals in both\nthe public and private sectors who are qualified by education,\nexperience, or examination to develop an AEM plan as defined in section…

§ 151-b. Education and training. The commissioner is authorized,\nwithin funds available, to provide education and training to prospective\nand certified planners in agriculturally related water quality and\nenvironmental issues; and training to participants in the program. The\…

§ 151-c. Program participation. Farm owners or operators shall be\ndeemed to be participating in the AEM program if they have documented in\na manner prescribed by the state soil and water conservation committee\nthat they are complying with program principles, standards, and\np…

§ 151-d. Local regulation. Nothing in this article shall preclude a\nlocal government from exercising any of its powers to enact, administer\nor enforce local laws or ordinances, provided that no local government\nshall exercise such powers in a manner which is inconsistent with…

§ 151-e. Coordination with the state pollutant discharge elimination\nsystem (SPDES) permit program. Nothing in this article shall limit the\napplication of title seven or eight of article seventeen of the\nenvironmental conservation law relating to point source discharges of\np…

§ 151-f. Program funds. The commissioner is authorized to accept for\ndeposit in an account within the miscellaneous special revenue fund\ncontributions from any source to support the purposes of this article.\n

§ 151-g. Confidentiality. AEM plans and on-farm surveys and\nassessments filed with the department or filed with or prepared by\ncounty soil and water conservation districts shall be considered\nconfidential and not subject to public disclosure, except such documents\nshall not …

§ 151-h. Report. The department, in conjunction with the state soil\nand water conservation committee, shall report annually to the governor,\nthe legislature and participating agencies on the progress of the AEM\nprogram, including an assessment of program effectiveness in achi…

§ 151-i. Rules and regulations. The state soil and water conservation\ncommittee and the commissioner are each empowered to promulgate such\nrules and regulations and to prescribe such forms as each shall deem\nnecessary to effectuate the purposes of sections one hundred\nfifty-…

* § 151-j. Agrivoltaics research program. 1. There is hereby\nestablished the agrivoltaics research program. The purpose of the\nprogram is to develop innovative science-based solutions to facilitate\nthe co-location of crops and photovoltaics while promoting the\nbiodiversity o…

§ 151-l. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Soil health" means\nsoils that have the continuing capacity to function as a vital, living\necosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans. The benefits of\nhealthy soil include: supporting the production of food, feed, fib…

§ 151-m. Soil health initiative. 1. The department, in cooperation\nwith the state soil and water conservation committee, and other partners\nworking on soil health shall encourage agricultural producers in urban,\nsuburban and rural communities to improve and maintain the healt…

§ 151-n. Climate resilient farming initiative. 1. The department, in\ncooperation with the state soil and water conservation committee, and\nother partners working on climate resilient farming shall encourage\nagricultural producers in urban, suburban and rural communities to\nr…

§ 151-o. Soil health research. The commissioner shall make available\npractical information from soil health research to agricultural\nproducers in urban, suburban and rural communities with goals to:\ncontinue accelerating the percentage of farmers who actively utilize\nbest ma…

§ 152. Adulteration and sale of turpentine; notification of purchaser.\nNo person shall manufacture, mix for sale, sell or offer for sale under\nthe name of turpentine, spirits of turpentine, or wood turpentine or any\ncompounding of the word turpentine, or under any name or dev…

§ 153. Adulteration and sale of raw linseed oil. No person shall\nmanufacture or mix for sale, offer or expose for sale, or sell under the\nname of raw linseed oil, or any compounding of the name raw linseed oil,\nor under any name or device illustrating or suggesting raw linsee…

§ 154. Adulteration and sale of boiled linseed oil. No person shall\nmanufacture or mix for sale, offer or expose for sale, or sell under the\nname of boiled linseed oil any article unless the oil from which said\narticle is made be wholly the product of commercially pure linsee…

§ 155. Notice to be posted. No person shall engage in the sale of\nadulterated turpentine, adulterated linseed oil or adulterated boiled\nlinseed oil, in original packages or other than original packages,\nunless there are posted conspicuously in the room where such goods are\ns…

§ 156. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall\nnot be construed as prohibiting the manufacture or sale of any compounds\nor imitations mentioned in this article providing the requirements of\nthis article are otherwise observed.\n

§ 156-c. Farm products; official standards. The commissioner is\nhereby authorized and empowered, after investigation and public hearing,\nto establish and promulgate official definitions and standards for\ngrading or classifying, packing and labeling farm products, or any of\nt…

§ 156-d. Culls. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered,\nafter investigation and public hearing, to establish and promulgate\ndefinitions of "culls" as applied to farm products, or any of them; and\nto change such definitions from time to time.\n

§ 156-dd. Controlled atmosphere. No person shall sell or exchange or\noffer or expose for sale or exchange or transport for sale any fruits or\nvegetables represented as having been exposed to "controlled\natmosphere," "modified atmosphere," alone or with other words, or shall\n…

§ 156-e. Sales prohibitions. (1) No person shall sell, expose for\nsale or transport for sale farm products in open or closed packages, if\nthe package containing them or the label on them shall bear any\nstatement, design or device regarding such farm products which shall be\nf…

§ 156-f. Rules and regulations. The commissioner shall adopt and\npromulgate such rules and regulations generally to supplement and give\nfull effect to the provisions of this article, and specifically to\nregulate the marketing, packing, labeling and shipping of "culls," as he\…

§ 156-g. Seizure of misbranded, mislabeled or misrepresented farm\nproducts. Whenever the commissioner or his duly authorized\nrepresentative shall find that any farm product is misbranded,\nmislabeled or misrepresented within the meaning of this article, he may\nseize such prod…

§ 156-gg. Branding closed packages of potatoes. 1. No person shall\nsell, expose for sale, or transport for sale, potatoes in closed\npackages which are not branded or marked with the grade of the potatoes\ncontained therein in conformity with official standards and grades for\n…

§ 156-h. Food and farm products promotion. 1. The commissioner may\ndesign, determine and adopt official brands to be used on labels and on\npackages and containers to identify New York state food products and New\nYork state produced or landed aquatic products. The design of su…

§ 156-i. Publicity fund. All moneys received by the commissioner from\nsources other than the general fund or federal funds in the exercise of\nthe powers and duties set forth in subdivisions two, two-a, two-b,\ntwo-c, five-a, eight, nine, ten, sixteen, eighteen and twenty-one o…

§ 157. Apples; closed packages; definition. The term "closed\npackage," wherever used in this article, shall mean a barrel, box or\nother container, the contents of which cannot be adequately inspected\nwithout opening it.\n

§ 158. Apples; adoption of grades; branding. The commissioner is\nhereby authorized and empowered, after investigation and public hearing,\nto fix and promulgate official standards for grading and classifying\napples packed or repacked within the state, and to change any of them…

§ 159. Sale of apples; presumption; rules and regulations. 1. No\nperson shall sell, expose for sale, or transport for sale, within this\nstate, apples in closed packages which are not branded as required by\nsection one hundred and fifty-eight and marked with the grade of the\n…

§ 16. General powers and duties of department. The department through\nthe commissioner shall have power to:\n 1. Execute and carry into effect the laws of the state and the rules\nof the department, relative to agriculture, horticulture, farm, fruit,\nand dairy products, aquacu…

§ 16-a. Food products containing nitrous oxide; packaging. The\ncommissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to require that all\nfood products containing nitrous oxide be offered for sale in tamper\nevident packaging. For the purposes of this section, the term "tamper\ne…

§ 16-b. Public awareness campaign regarding Lyme disease and other\ntick-borne diseases. The commissioner, in consultation with the\ncommissioner of health, shall develop and conduct a public awareness\ncampaign regarding Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. The\ncampaign…

§ 160. Standard evaporated apples; definition; sale of regulated. 1.\nEvaporated apples containing not more than twenty-four per centum of\nwater or fluids shall be considered standard evaporated apples.\n 2. No person shall buy for resale, sell, expose or offer for sale as\nand…

§ 160-a. Eggs; sale for food by grades or standards; consumer;\ndefinition. No person, and the term "person" in this statute shall\ninclude an individual, partnership, corporation or association, shall\neither as producer, wholesaler, commission merchant, jobber or retailer,\nse…

§ 160-b. Establishment of grades or standards. It shall be the duty\nof the state department of agriculture and markets to enforce the\nprovisions of this article and the commissioner of agriculture and\nmarkets is hereby vested with full power to establish forthwith and from\nt…

§ 160-c. Retail sale by grade or quality; fresh eggs; definition. It\nshall be unlawful for any person to sell, or offer to sell or expose for\nsale to a consumer any eggs intended for human consumption other than\nthose of his own production without notifying by suitable sign o…

§ 160-d. Sales; misrepresentation. No person shall sell or offer for\nsale, or advertise for sale, eggs for human consumption if the package\ncontaining them or the label on them, or any advertising accompanying\nthem, shall bear any statement or device regarding the eggs which …

§ 160-e. Making and filing of invoice. Every person, other than the\nproducer, in selling eggs to a retailer, shall furnish to such retailer\nan invoice showing the exact grade or quality of such eggs according to\nthe standards prescribed by the commissioner of agriculture and …

§ 160-h. Grapes; definitions. The term "package," wherever used in\nthis article, shall mean a basket, box or other container the contents\nof which can be adequately inspected. The terms "shipment," or "ship for\nsale," wherever used in this article, shall mean movement to mark…

§ 160-i. Grades or standards; establishment; sale. The commissioner\nis hereby authorized and empowered, after investigation, to establish\nand promulgate official standards of quality for grading, classifying\nand packing grapes packed or repacked within the state, and to chang…

§ 160-j. Marking requirements. Grapes in packages, if not definitely\nmarked as unclassified as hereinbefore provided, shall, prior to\nshipment, be marked in a plain and conspicuous manner with the name and\naddress of the person or association under whose authority the grapes\…