§ 18-56. Election to exercise local regulatory authority.

Pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law § 24-0501 et seq., freshwater wetlands act (Article 24 of the New York Environmental Conservation Law), the village shall fully undertake and exercise its regulatory authority with regard to activities subject to regulation under the act in freshwater wetlands, as shown on the freshwater wetlands map, as such map may from time to time be amended, filed by the state department of environmental conservation pursuant to the act, and in all areas adjacent to any such freshwater wetland up to 100 feet from the boundary of such wetland. Such regulatory authority shall be undertaken and exercised in accordance with all of the procedures, concepts and definitions set forth in Article 24 of the New York Environmental Conservation Law and Title 23 of Article 71 of such law relating to the enforcement of Article 24, as such law may from time to time be amended, with the following exceptions, additions and modifications:

(Code 1966, § 4½-31)

State law reference

Authority to adopt, Environmental Conservation Law § 24-0501.