N.Y. Agric. & Mkts. Law § 261

Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 456
Section 261 - Powers and duties of department

The department shall:

1. perform necessary activities to encourage the development and improvement of farmers' markets throughout New York state;
2. provide technical assistance to any public or private agency for the planning, financing or development of a farmers' market, which market may include facilities for first-instance processing, shipping, storage, and direct sales of farm and food products on a retail or wholesale basis;
3. provide grants, from amounts appropriated, for state assistance to farmers' markets, as provided under section two hundred sixty-two of this article;
4. collect, compile and publish economic information on farmers' markets in the state;
5. establish working relationships with interested individuals and organizations and cooperative extensions for the purposes of this article; and
6. compile listings of available funding resources for the development and/or improvement of farmers' markets within the state. The department shall periodically advise municipal corporations, regional market authorities, public benefit corporations, not-for-profit corporations and agricultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations law as to the availability of such information and shall provide such listings upon request.

N.Y. Agric. and Mkts. Law § 261