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New York Environmental Conservation Law Section 9-0705 - Regional Forest Practice Boards.Legal Research Home > New York Lawyer > Environmental Conservation > New York Environmental Conservation Law Section 9-0705 - Regional Forest Practice Boards.
§ 9-0705. Regional forest practice boards.
A regional forest practice board shall be established in each of the
forest regions provided for in section 9-0703. A regional forest
practice board shall consist of not less than three members from each
county within the forest region which has appointed its members but no
regional forest practice board shall consist of less than five members.
The members from each county shall be appointed by the chairman of the
board of supervisors of each county with the approval of the board of
supervisors, except in a county having a county president, a county
executive or other chief executive officer, and in any such county, such
president, county executive or other chief executive officer shall
appoint the members representing such county with the approval of the
board of supervisors of such county. In a county having an elected
legislative body the presiding officer shall appoint the members
representing such county with the approval of the legislative body. If
there is no presiding officer then the members representing such county
shall be appointed by the legislative body as a whole. One of the
members may be a member of the board of supervisors or of the elected
legislative body. At least two-thirds of the members shall be individual
owners or representatives of corporate owners of forest or farm woodland
in the county, except the members of the regional forest practice boards
representing Suffolk, Nassau, Queens, Kings, Bronx, New York, and
Richmond counties. At least two-thirds of the members of the regional
forest practice boards representing the above listed counties shall be
individual owners or representatives of corporate owners of forest or
farm woodland in the state. The chairman of the fish and wild life
regional board of a region encompassing a forest region and the chairman
of each soil conservation district within a forest region, or their
representatives shall be ex-officio members without vote. The term of
office of any supervisor or member of the county legislative body
appointed to a regional forest practice board shall be two years unless
he shall cease to be a member of the board of supervisors or county
legislative body within such two years in which event his membership on
the regional forest practice board shall expire on the date he shall
cease to be a member of the board of supervisors or county legislative
body. The term of office of the other members of a regional forest
practice board shall be three years. All terms shall commence on the
date of the approval of the respective appointments by the board of
supervisors or county legislative body. Any vacancy in the membership
of a regional forest practice board shall be filled in the same manner
as the original appointment for the balance of the unexpired term during
which such vacancy occurs. Any regional forest practice board shall be
deemed to be in existence and qualified to function when any county in
any such region shall have provided its representation. Each regional
forest practice board shall elect from its members, a chairman, a
representative and alternate representative to the state forest practice
board, and may elect a secretary and a treasurer. The term of each
officer shall be for three years. The regional forester or equivalent
department officer however may serve as secretary of the board if the
board so requests. A board of supervisors or county legislative body of
any county, may, by resolution, appropriate from county funds and pay to
each member of a regional forest practice board from such county all
expenses necessarily incurred by him in the execution of his duties as a
member of a regional forest practice board. Members of a regional forest
practice board shall be paid necessary travel expenses incurred in
attending meetings of the board. Such expenses shall be paid from moneys
appropriated to the department for travel and shall be paid on vouchers
certified by the chairman of the regional forest practice board upon
audit of the comptroller in the manner provided by law.
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