Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 456
Section 25-0405 - Payments for extractions from or filling in wetlands1. Any applicant for a permit to dredge, excavate, or remove soil, mud, sand, shells, gravel or other aggregate from any publicly-owned tidal wetland shall be required to pay to the public owner thereof such amount, which shall not be nominal, as the office of general services or its local equivalent body shall determine to be the value of the aggregate extracted. Any person aggrieved by such determination may seek judicial review pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules in the supreme court for the county in which the tidal wetland is located.2. Any applicant for a permit to dump, fill, or deposit any soil, stones, sand, gravel, mud, rubbish, or fill of any kind onto or in any publicly-owned tidal wetlands shall be required to pay to the owner such amount, which shall not be nominal, as the office of general services or its local equivalent shall determine. Any person aggrieved by such determination may seek judicial review pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules in the supreme court for the county in which the tidal wetland is located.3. Monies paid to the state under this section shall be used by the commissioner for preservation of the tidal wetlands.N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 25-0405