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Chapter 64
SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT
§ 64-1. Board of Directors. § 64-2. Applicability of statutes and
other laws.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Broome County Legislature 2-1-1972 as L.L. No. 1-1972.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
§ 64-1. Board of Directors.
A. The Board of Directors of the Broome County Soil Conservation District shall consist of
not fewer than five nor more than seven members, who shall be appointed by the
Broome County Legislature. This Board of Directors shall consist of two members of the
County Legislature, and the remaining members shall be persons who are not members
of the County Legislature, two of whom shall be practical farmers. One of these farmers
shall be appointed from a list submitted by the County Grange, and one of these farmers
shall be appointed from a list submitted by the County Farm Bureau. The remaining
members of said Board of Directors shall be appointed from the county at large and shall
represent the urban, suburban and rural nonfarm landownership interest. Whenever one
or both of the above-named farm groups lack formal county organization, the County
Legislature shall appoint members from the county at large in place of members from a
list of nominees from such lacking farm organization or organizations.
B. The two members of the Board of Directors of the Broome County Soil Conservation
District from the County Legislature shall be appointed annually. The other members
shall serve terms of three years each.
§ 64-2. Applicability of statutes and other laws.
In keeping with the intent and purpose of Resolution No. 115 (1944), duly adopted by the
Broome County Board of Supervisors and which created and established the Broome County
Soil Conservation District in accordance with the provisions of the Soil Conservation Districts
Law, all of the terms and provisions of the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Law of the
State of New York, Laws of 1964, as amended, except as hereinabove changed, modified and
superseded, shall continue to apply to, control and govern the creation, policy, organization,
powers, duties, operation and all other functions of the Broome County Soil Conservation
District.
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